Cover Stories

It all started as a hobby in her own, small, apartment kitchen. Jordann Amatea had started the Paleo diet and needed to find something to sate her sweet tooth cravings. At age 30 she is CEO of Base Culture, based in Clearwater, a massive healthy baked goods empire that stretches to 10,000 retail stores with

If this year was a movie, it would have everything. Horror, comedy, tragedy … it would be an Oscar winner, no doubt. Down the road, we will look back and have a different version of this experience in our heads. But for now, it’s still fresh, not to mention ongoing. TBBW wanted to do something

Haley Crum is one of those rare stories. She was born in Dunedin, raised in Clearwater, and still lives, works and plays here to this day. She was raised in a close family and her dad was joined by her grandfather and in establishing Great American Temporary Services, a staffing and payroll firm in Clearwater,

It’s challenging to get Jim Myers to take credit for much. He’s a humble man who was raised in St. Petersburg, met his wife at what is now the TradeWinds Island Resort while he was in college and has been with Crown Automotive since 1990. A champion of education, a mentor and sometimes a father

Tampa Bay Business and Wealth has reached its second birthday. And, wow, what a year. Back in September 2019, no one could have predicted that in six months the world would shut down, but we marched on. In 2020, we produced three issues from home, conducted interviews via Zoom and moved our popular networking series

The year was 2008. A young couple in Bradenton, who had met while working in the mortgage industry, was about to hit rock bottom. As the United States real estate bubble burst, so did theirs. Amber Duncan found herself in a humiliating situation. She was in line to get her Women, Infants and Children’s card.

Vincent Jackson is probably known to most as a former Tampa Bay Buccaneers wide receiver. What they may not know is that he owns five restaurants. Two in San Diego, one in Las Vegas, Cask Social Kitchen in Tampa and now his passion project, the Historic Manhattan Casino in St. Petersburg. He is also co-founder

Stu Sjouwerman is pragmatic in all that he does. He’s a man who looks for evidence and tries to always keep two feet planted firmly on the ground. “Ethics is what you do when no one is looking,” Sjouwerman says. Born in Amsterdam, Holland, he was the oldest of four siblings and a self-proclaimed uninterested

Jane Mason was raised to be an effective communicator and was intrinsically curious from an early age. People that know her can attest to that fact.  Mason, founder and CEO of eMason, doing business as Clarifire, says the recent COVID-19 pandemic sent a message to companies around the world, which was, ”If you don’t think

You might hear an accent when talking to Joe Johnson. Born in the United States, he spent his formative years in Brazil and, to this day, he carries a slight Portuguese twang to some of his words. It’s a breezy day in February at his home in Bradenton when he recounts the story of his

There’s a unique character trait that Bobby Harris, founder and CEO of BlueGrace Logistics in Tampa, looks for in new employees—an affinity, and love, for animals. “It’s typically a person that has a tendency to be more compassionate than others,” Harris told Tampa Bay Business & Wealth magazine during an interview in his home on

Monica Hernandez often took four buses to go to and from school in Medellín, Colombia. She comes from humble beginnings, with education always being a primary focus in her life. So receiving a full academic scholarship to one of the best private colleges in her home country, the Universidad EAFIT, not only seemed like just