Leadership Tampa Bay has named their 2020-2021 board members. The organization named board members during their annual meeting at the Centre Club. Click through the gallery to see who will be leading the organization in the next year.[image_slider_no_space on_click=”prettyphoto” height=”300″ images=”9304,9339,9306,9338,9308,9309,9310,9334,9337,9313,9314,9315,9316,9317,9340,9319,9347,9321,9322,9323,9324,9341,9326,9342,9328,9329,9330,9343″]
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Kevin Kiermaier, a center fielder for the Tampa Bay Rays, was named 2020’s Dreammaker of the Year by the Children’s Dream Fund. Kiermaier was recognized at the organization’s virtual 2020 Dreammaker Luncheon for his work with the Kiermaier’s Kids program. With a $25,000 donation to the Children’s Dream Fund, Kevin Kiermaier, and his wife, Marisa,
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Patrick Ahern, Tampa Bay’s vice president of commercial banking at ServisFirst Bank, was appointed to serve as a member of the Hillsborough County Industrial Development Authority. The Authority provides financing of industrial projects that are beneficial to the community, including manufacturing plants and pollution and waste control facilities. Ahern will serve as a member through
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Tampa Bay Business and Wealth’s Tech Connect series is designed to bring together individuals that hold strategic leadership positions in the areas of technology and innovation, in the Tampa Bay area. These events provide an outlet for IT leaders to collaborate, discuss issues, exchange ideas and share insights, with an invitation-only audience. The discussion was
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Synapse and Tampa Bay Business and Wealth magazine teamed up for this one-hour session moderated by TBBW’s CEO and publisher, Bridgette Bello, via Zoom. The Panelists • Vera Anderson, legacy coach and growth strategist, Global Elements Consulting • Debbie Lundberg, author, speaker, strategist and performance coach, Presenting Powerfully • Jim Marshall, owner and president, Sandler
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While the world stopped and social distancing became the word of the summer, many Floridians were eyeing places they could travel by car to get out of the house while staying away from people. If you live in the Tampa Bay area, you can pick any resort that lines Pinellas County and not go wrong,
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For more than 30 years, the Community Foundation of Tampa Bay has been dedicated to making charitable giving easy, and impactful, throughout our region. It connects donors with nonprofit organizations, collaborates with philanthropists to create, and manage, foundations and invests, and distributes, endowments. When the coronavirus crisis hit, the Foundation mobilized its funding resources and
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As a pilot, Will Smith glances down thousands of feet and sees the big picture: people small as ants, neighborhoods arranged in tidy grids. The world has an order from this height, a predictable pattern. Not long ago, he’d arranged life that way too—building a family and a solid career. He was, in his words,
Read More►Solar Power World recognized the efforts of solar contractors across the United States in its 2020 Top Solar Contractors list, where Sarasota solar installer Brilliant Harvest earned a rank of 352, among companies from across the country, and 34th in Florida. ►Drinkware manufacturer Tervis, based in North Venice, launched wide-mouth water bottles which are now
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►Real estate investor, developer and operator Crescent Communities, in partnership with Native Development Group, closed on the land and commenced construction on the Lakeland North Business Center, a 299,241-square-foot speculative industrial facility in Lakeland. ► Watson Clinic added Paula S. Wibowo, a registered nurse practitioner who works alongside board-certified gastroenterologist Victor C. Nwakakwa at the
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► Ponte Vedra Inn & Club, a AAA Five-Diamond oceanfront resort in northeast Florida, engaged St. Petersburg-based Paradise Advertising and Marketing to publicize and promote its renovation project to global media outlets as the resort nears its centennial anniversary in 2028. ► Irina Nashtatik was named chief financial officer at Nicholas Financial, a consumer finance
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Much like everything else during the pandemic, college football has not been spared. The South Florida Bulls were scheduled to kick off the season this Saturday at Texas. The trip to the Lone Star State was to be followed by visits to Raymond James Stadium from Bethune-Cookman next Saturday and Nevada on September 19. However,
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