Cover Stories

To underestimate her would be a big mistake. Big, huge, mistake.  Elaine Myrback doesn’t mince words. She’s not interested in following the status quo and she has no time for nonsense unless it’s intentional.  She loves a good bourbon and plays hip-hop songs throughout her in-home, surround-sound system.  She’s been buying real estate since she

The story starts with a man. He was homeless but not entirely hopeless, not yet, though he tried to be, on more than one occasion. But God had a plan. He always does.  This man had nowhere to sleep, he was struggling with a loss of unimaginable comprehension and an addiction formed to mitigate the

He could be called a boomerang surgeon.  Physician Jim Norman was a surgeon, quit practicing to pursue the dot-com boom of the 1990s and, later, returned to surgery. One might feel a career as a world-renowned surgeon, in the specialty of endocrine surgery, would be quite enough to round out one’s resume. But Norman is

He’s known as the “first” in a lot of publications and while he feels pride to hold such a label, he doesn’t let it define him or his business achievements – but that’s where the real story is. His determination, his intelligence and his exceptional ability to see a better way to do things is

Steve Frey has had a ‘meh’ opinion of the corporate world from an early age. He watched his father, after many years with an employer, experience a layoff and it stuck with him.  This inspired him to want to be an entrepreneur and not rely on corporate America to take care of him and his

She cruises around Clearwater in a Rolls Royce SUV with her custom “FASTer Way teal” interior, she captains her own boat and her family helped to fund the opening of a church. She doesn’t play around with goals or ambition. She’s not bothered by “haters.” She has more than 280,000 social media followers. She’s a

A lot has happened in the world of Brian Murphy since Tampa Bay Business and Wealth featured him on its cover in December 2018. His business, ReliaQuest, a cybersecurity firm, based in Tampa, has grown substantially, his company’s name is now featured all over the country, associated with one of the biggest college bowl games,

A look back at our June 2023 cover story, revisiting the Gonzmart family and the legacy that helped define Tampa’s dining scene.

The Galati family relocated from Westchester, New York, to Hollywood, Florida, in the late 1960s.  The matriarch of the Galati family, Anna Maria, was pregnant with the youngest of her five children. Michael Galati, the patriarch of the family, didn’t want to raise his children in New York and had always loved being near the

By 15 years old, Jorge Brea had already won a contest that led to him having one of his songs released commercially, via vinyl. It was a remix of an original song by an artist named DJ 43, entitled “No Tears.” There’s a distinction, he makes. He was making music, not “playing” music.  Brea began

Lisa Holland is intentional in how she describes her role at Sheltair, as chief executive officer and president, yes. But it’s still her parents’ business, not hers.  “It’s very much a family business. I work for a salary, just like everyone else there,” she says. This is the way Holland speaks about many things. Frank,

How Rick Brandt used acquisitions and a Tampa headquarters to scale a family ag business into a global company.