► Lake Michigan Credit Union was a finalist in the 2023 Tampa Bay Alliance of Merger & Acquisition Advisers’ Deal of the Year Award for its merger with Pilot Bank. (Pictured above)
► Patrick Liang has been appointed as president and chief executive officer of Cristo Rey Tampa Salesian High School.
► Sharon Leite, previously the CEO of The Vitamin Shoppe, has been named CEO of Ideal Image in Tampa.
► Bank of Central Florida celebrated the opening of its Tampa location at 1 N Dale Mabry Hwy Suite 110, Tampa.
► Mainsail Lodging & Development, in Tampa, promoted Emily Engelman as restaurant general manager for Epicurean Hotel and Joanna Drissi as food and beverage general manager at the newly opened Residence Inn Tampa Wesley Chapel.
► Shumaker lawyer Andrew S. Ballentine, from Tampa, has been elected to a three-year board term for the Central Florida Bankruptcy Law Association board of directors.
► TD Bank named Mercedes Taylor as retail market manager for the Tampa Bay region.
► Shumaker Advisors, in Tampa, promoted Celeste Schettino as assistant director of operations.
► Tampa General Hospital and the Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute are working in a collaborative partnership to build a proton therapy center in the academic medical center’s Medical and Research District downtown.
► Johnson, Pope, Bokor, Ruppel & Burns named J.D. Zarate a partner in the firm’s litigation group, in the Tampa office.
► Older Lundy Koch & Martino has merged with the law office of Philip A. McLeod, with Philip A. McLeod taking the role of counsel in the firm’s family law department.
► Lindsey M. French will be joining Older Lundy Koch & Martino’s family law department.
► Timothy C. Garding will be joining Older Lundy Koch & Martino’s commercial litigation department.
► To expand its footprint in Brazil, Visit Tampa Bay announced Aviareps as its new representative office in the market for marketing and public relations.
► Adams and Reese appointed Chantal Pillay as partner in charge of the firm’s Tampa office.
► Laura Woodard was named a partner
with Zelen Communications, a Tampa-based firm.