Florida Funders announced that Saxon Baum, Ryan Whittemore and Michael Kadow have been promoted to partner. Baum previously was vice president of investor relations. As a partner, he will continue to oversee investor relations and will also focus on scouting founders and startups. Whittemore is the former chief investment officer at Florida Funders, where he
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The groundbreaking for Speros FL will officially kick off construction of the 775-acre Pasco County campus on January 20. The campus will be used for the future of revolutionary cancer treatment, and research, and will feature 16 million square feet of lab, office, manufacturing and clinical space, according to a statement. The name, Speros, is
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The Pagidipati family, of Tampa, plans to bring the world’s largest triceratops ever discovered to the Glazer Children’s Museum this Spring. The Pagidipati family purchased Big John, as he was called at an auction in 2021, for nearly $8 million with the intention of bringing the triceratops to Tampa for the public to enjoy, according
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Darryl Shaw will lead the Florida Aquarium’s upcoming $40 million capital campaign, called Sea Change. The campaign is the Aquarium’s largest since opening, in 1995. Last year, the Aquarium unveiled plans for a major expansion that includes several new experiences, one of which is an outdoor California sea lion habitat. “The Florida Aquarium is a
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Jerry Telson has been named chief operating officer at Sweetheart Ice Cream, in Tampa. Sweetheart Ice Cream is a concessionaire of major brands like Ben & Jerry’s, Breyer’s, Good Humor and Magnum, just to name a few, to retailers throughout the west coast of Florida. The company has now expanded its offerings to include dairy
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BDG Architects and Parker Walter Group are merging firms that will expand their multi-family team and capabilities in other industries including hospitality and the retail marketplace. PWG, and its Sarasota team, will join BDG Architects which has six offices throughout the Southeast and is headquartered in Tampa. “This partnership will benefit our clients and our
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FlyUSA and Paradise Ventures has received the approval from Clearwater City Council to build a fixed-based operator management and real estate development project for Clearwater Airpark. The proposal includes plans to build a new, state-of-the-art FBO and terminal facility and new hangars to attract higher value tenants. In addition, the concept includes plans to relocate
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The first movie created about the founding days of Amazon is set to air on January 24 and Nick Friedman, a Tampa resident, and co-founder of College Hunks Hauling Junk & Moving, is back in front of the camera. Spanglish Media recently produced the upcoming movie “Bezos,” a biopic following Jeff Bezos’s founding days of
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The inauguration of Rhea Law, as the University of South Florida’s eighth president, will take place on Thursday, January 19. USF students, faculty, staff, alumni and residents in the Tampa Bay community are invited to participate in the day’s activities. The highlight of the inauguration is an investiture ceremony, scheduled for 1 p.m. in the
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Jonathan D. Fleece has been named President and chief executive officer of Empath Health and its affiliate programs, effective January 12, 2023. Fleece was most recently Empath Health president, as well as president and CEO of Tidewell Hospice, a member of Empath Health. This transition follows the retirement of previous CEO Rafael J. Sciullo. Fleece
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► The Polk County Board of Commissioners approved Hezedean A. Smith as the new Polk County Fire Rescue chief. (Pictured above) ► Watson welcomed two additions to its team of medical providers—a registered nurse practitioner, D’Aishia Burgess, who works alongside board-certified pulmonology specialist physician Naem Shahrour from Watson Clinic Main, at 1600 Lakeland Hills Blvd.,
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► Fat Point Brewing plans to open a new location, in Sarasota, at University Town Center. (Pictured above) ► Gulfside Bank, in Sarasota, named Robin Scorsone as assistant manager. ► The Bay Park Conservancy, the nonprofit responsible for bringing a bayfront gathering place, in park form, to Sarasota Bay, named Tony Gamelin as chief financial
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