Jo-Lynn Brown 
The holiday season is kicking off at Tropicana Field as Enchant Christmas, an immersive holiday experience, transforms the home of the Tampa Bay Rays into a Winter Wonderland. Enchant Christmas is touted as the world’s largest Christmas maze and its appearance in St. Petersburg is the first in the Southeast United States. In addition to … Read more
St. Anthony’s Hospital, in St. Petersburg, plans to add a 90-bed patient tower as part of a $152 million expansion and renovation. The new tower will be built atop the existing three-story hospital building and includes 143,000 square feet that will be added to the hospital’s campus. The project includes renovations to the main hospital. … Read more
As a firm dedicated to meeting the short and long-term needs of our Accounting & Finance clients, one of the common asks we get from growing, entrepreneurial companies is to provide them with high caliber CFO talent. For those who haven’t yet sampled the “secret sauce” that has been a critical success factor for so … Read more
Crystal Morris is CEO of Gator Cases, in Tampa, a global leader in plastic music equipment cases and other types of cases.
Bridgette Bello, CEO and publisher of Tampa Bay Business & Wealth, interviewed Morris before an invitation-only audience at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg’s Kate Tiedemann College of Business. Here are some photos from the event.
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Valeri Marks has run eight businesses in her career, including in the telecom, data communications, online real estate, recruitment and health care industries. She prefers to go by Val, is passionate about mentoring, and philanthropy, and speaks openly about how much she loves her family and her amazing business network. Marks has been the CEO … Read more
More than 400 guests enjoyed “The Art of a Wish” at the 10th Annual Wishmaker’s Ball Tampa, presented by PNC Bank. Hosted at the Grand Hyatt Tampa Bay, guests bid on exclusive auction items and rocked out to a performance by Bret Michaels. In all, more than $420,000 was raised.
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The American Cancer Society’s inaugural Tampa Golf Classic tournament, at Avila Golf and Country Club, raised enough money to fund an American Cancer Society Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation Hope Lodge suite for a year. The American Cancer Society’s Hope Lodge provides free housing to cancer patients, and their caregivers, when they are receiving treatment at the Moffitt Cancer Center.
The Tampa Golf Classic plaque dedication ceremony featured a tour of the lodge, including the suite funded for the next year by the tournament.
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The Know Book and Tribe launched in St. Petersburg and Clearwater at Station House. The publication features and connects the area’s top leaders, creators and entrepreneurs. From St. Petersburg to Palm Harbor, women from all over Pinellas County formed a community with the mission to “Lift and Rise.” For more information or to find a complimentary copy of the Book, please visit Theknowtribe.com.
Photo credit: Luxe Light Images
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Lisa Faller is president of FKQ Advertising and Marketing, in Clearwater. Faller’s dad, Bob Faller, started the company in 1961 in Buffalo, New York. When it came time to open a Tampa Bay location, Lisa started at the agency full time. Most of FKQ’s clients are on retainer, with capitalized billings between $75 million and … Read more
Porter Smith serves as Tampa Bay market president for American Momentum Bank, a community bank with total assets of more than $1.7 billion. With more than 15 years’ experience in commercial banking, Smith leads the growth of the bank in the Tampa Bay area. He serves commercial business clients and real estate developers out of … Read more
