► Empath LIFE (Living Independence for the Elderly), a member of Empath Health, held its grand opening celebration, at 5414 Beaumont Center Blvd., in Tampa.
► Nationwide employment law firm Jackson Lewis P.C. promoted Amy K. Recla to principal of the firm’s Tampa office.
► Bay Food Brokerage, in Tampa, named Nicki Crespo as director of fresh meat and private label.
► Tampa’s Shumaker Partner Stefan Beuge was selected to join the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity 2024 Fellows Program and Associates Krystina Garabis and Marcus Miller were appointed to the LCLD 2024 Pathfinders Program.
► Shumaker Associate Sean P. Bevil received the Hillsborough County Bar Association Young Lawyers Division’s Outstanding Young Lawyer Award.
► Berkeley Preparatory School’s Family Service Council is proud to, once again, host a meal-packing event with U.S. Hunger. At the event, 250 students and parents will come together to help Tampa families in need on Sunday, January 21, from 10 a.m. to 12:15 p.m in the Dimmitt Gymnasium on campus at 4811 Kelly Road, Tampa, FL, 33615.
► Toronto-based biometrics security company BioConnect has acquired Silent Partner Technologies, a Tampa-based software company.
► OXH Gallery, in collaboration with Tempus Projects, an art gallery and space for the visual arts community, located in Ybor City, is celebrating the grand opening of a new exhibition titled “Manifold,” curated by OXH Gallery Founder Odeta Xheka.
► Feeding Tampa Bay released its 2023 annual report, showing the nonprofit distributed 91 million pounds of food, in 2023, providing 87,164,346 meals to those in need.
► Stacey Brandt, executive vice president and chief administrative officer of Tampa General Hospital, was named one of 60 “Hospital and Health System Chief Marketing Officers to Know in 2023” by Becker’s Hospital Review and was the only CMO in the West Central Florida region to earn this recognition.
► Berkeley Preparatory School, in Tampa, named the Lasher Center for Business and Entrepreneurial Studies following a $1.4 million gift from Karessa and Stuart Lasher.
► Tampa Fire Chief Barbara Tripp was recognized by the Leadership Tampa Alumni Association with its Parke Wright III Award at its 2023 Annual Meeting, at the Bryan Glazer Family JCC.
► Shumaker Associate Sean P. Bevil received the Hillsborough County Bar Association Young Lawyers Division’s Outstanding Young Lawyer Award.
