► Moffitt Cancer Center, a Tampa-based cancer research center, unveiled Speros FL as the name of its planned 775-acre global innovation center in Pasco County. ► The San Antonio Lumber Company, in San Antonio, Fl., is celebrating its 100th Year in business. ► Gulfside Elementary, in Holiday, launched telemedicine services, the first within Pasco County
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Black Dog Venture Partners announced a new partnership with Raze Fintech, a private fundraising platform, that will expand fundraising services to help entrepreneurs and businesses raise capital. As part of the partnership, Raze and Black Dog Venture Partners will host a webinar titled “Raze with Revenue,” on March 29, at 1:00 p.m., to explore how
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Michelle Delker, a chief financial officer, has launched a new financial services firm, The William Stanley CFO Group, in Tampa. Delker has nearly twenty years of experience in key finance roles and has spent nearly a decade in both publicly traded and private companies. She has worked with Bloomin’ Brands and Granite Services, a GE
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Elizabeth Dvorak is the chief executive officer for Workscapes. She began her career in commercial furniture in 1991, with a top furniture dealership in Atlanta, Georgia. Nearly six years later, she decided to go out on her own and founded Workscapes. She and her husband, Richard, purchased a dealership in Orlando and relocated there with
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Joanne LeBlanc began her career at Colliers in 2008, at the start of the Great Recession. At the time, Colliers was only hiring for a marketing position. LeBlanc accepted the position and used it as a steppingstone to learn the trade. In 2012, she moved into the brokerage side of the business and, in 2015,
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Ellison Construction, formerly EWI Construction, a construction management firm, in Tampa, has promoted Cory Ellison as president and added Brady Harris as the company’s new executive vice president and partner of the firm. Ellison has been with Ellison Construction since its inception, in 2007. He started as a project manager and, most recently, was chief
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The St. Petersburg Arts Alliance, along with its community partner Kahwa Coffee, revealed the second collaboration in a series that supports the building of the St. Petersburg Arts Endowment, through the sale of art-wrapped coffee canisters at every Kahwa for preorder online and in store available in all Kahwa locations. The latest artist is Glenyse
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To get a snapshot of what is happening in the Tampa Bay region, Tampa Bay Business & Wealth reached out to as many relevant economic development organizations as possible to ask them about wins, challenges and things that are exciting them in 2023. This is the second installment of “TBBW checks in with the EDCs.”
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Tradepoint Atlantic, a global multimodal logistics hub and industrial center, has approved a lease agreement with Tradepoint Tampa for 35 acres of land to build a trans-load warehouse distribution facility, at Port Tampa Bay. Under the terms of a 40-year lease agreement, Tradepoint Tampa will design, construct and operate an approximately 500,000-square-foot facility for the
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Community leaders, from organizations in the Tampa Bay area, are working together to build a home for a local family, in the Lealman community, in St. Petersburg. Habitat for Humanity of Pinellas and West Pasco Counties launched its second annual CEO Build, led by honorary Chairs Bill Brand, chief executive officer of Rue21 and Habitat
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In 1986, as one of few female students in her high school drafting class, Melissa Seixas joined Florida Power (later to become Progress Energy and then Duke Energy) in distribution engineering. After nearly four decades with the company, she has served in numerous roles with increasing leadership responsibilities. In February 2021, Seixas was selected to
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Bemetra Simmons is the president and chief executive officer of the Tampa Bay Partnership. Simmons previously served as the chief strategy and operations officer for United Way Suncoast, where she led core operations functions, including finance and information technology and community investment for a five-county region. In this role, she facilitated a COVID-19 emergency response
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