One Liners Hillsborough: TD Bank, Mainsail Lodging and more

►Berkadia arranged $43.13 million in acquisition financing for Mezzo at Tampa Palms (pictured above), a 340-unit garden style
property in Tampa.

►Office Evolution, a coworking franchise, will open a second office on Harbour Island in downtown Tampa.

►Nadine Baez was named vice president of research and commercialization for SynDaver’s global government business unit in Tampa.

►J. Logan Murphy, a shareholder at Hill Ward Henderson, has been elected chair of the American Bar Association’s young lawyers division for the 2019–20 term.

Aakash Patel (Center)

► Aakash Patel, founder and president of Elevate, was named businessman of the year by the Indo-US Chamber of Commerce in Tampa.

►Fintech, a Tampa-based business services provider for the beverage alcohol industry, named Dan Gaertner chief technology officer.

►The Lung Health Institute, in Tampa, named Sara McLear its director of clinical operations.

►GrayRobinson shareholder Elizabeth DeConti was elected to the United States Tennis Association’s Florida Foundation board of directors.

►XBiotech (NASDAQ: XBIT) named physician Seth Forman, founder of Tampa’s ForCare Clinical Research and ForCare Medical Group, as chair for the company’s eczema study.

►Ray Sandelli was named to the National Association of Industrial and Office Parks’ Tampa Bay chapter’s hall of fame for 2018.

►The University of Notre Dame’s Stayer Center for Executive Education is launching an online Women in Leadership course powered by Tampa-based Bisk Education.

►American Momentum Bank in Tampa named Steven Hoschak its Small Business Association business development officer.

Tampa-based Mainsail Lodging and Development added to its management team at the Karol Hotel in Cleawater, including general manager Adam Duffey, senior sales manager Lindsey Ferguson and catering sales manager Amanda Ratliff.

►First American Bank opened a wealth management office in Tampa, led by Tyler Iller, director of client advisory; David Lackmann, director of investment management; Ken Roberts, senior client adviser’ and Christian Fram, portfolio manager.

Abner Cañizares

►TD Bank named Abner Cañizares senior relationship manager of commercial lending for the Tampa and St. Petersburg markets.

►Bunker Labs, a national nonprofit organization for veteran entrepreneurs, opened its Tampa chapter.

►Pursuant Capital bought Patio Products Manufacturing, a Tampa company that manufactures aluminum screen doors and accessories.

►Lucia E. Garsys was appointed chair of the Urban Land Institute’s Tampa Bay district council for 2019-21.

►Patrick “Colin” Rice has joined the Tampa office of Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick as an associate in the real estate and land use and zoning practice group.

►Colliers International Tampa Bay named Jesse Morgan as associate for office services.

►Dunn & Co., a full-service branding and advertising agency with offices in Tampa and London, promoted Kamden Kuhn and Katharine Bonnet to managing director roles.

►Bradley Crocker has joined Quarles & Brady’s litigation and dispute resolution practice group as an attorney in its Tampa office.

Tampa dentist Juliet Bulnes-Newton, a sleep apnea expert at Sleep Apnea Solutions Tampa, recently became an American Board of Dental Sleep Medicine diplomate.

►University Area CDC completed its first two Sound and Secure Housing units, which is a part of a project that provides lease-to-purchase homes in the economically troubled Tampa community.

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