CEO Connect

Brian Butler is the president and CEO of Vistra Communications, a full-service marketing, communications and consulting agency that provides a range of integrated marketing, communications and management support services to corporate and government clients. Vistra is an SBA 8(a) and Certified Service, Disabled Veteran – owned Small Business. Butler has also served in the Homeland

Monica Eaton-Cardone is an international entrepreneur, speaker, author and industry thought leader. With a career spanning multiple industries and many companies, most of her own making, she ended up making a name for herself in Agile (project management) technologies with a dispute mitigation and loss prevention firm.  Specifically, she targets chargebacks and chargeback fraud—the $300

Ben Heldfond is a self-described serial entrepreneur. Through his company, Heldfond Holdings, he invests in a wide variety of companies. Some of them he has an active role in, either through management or the board of directors, while with others, he is a silent, private-equity investor. Heldfond Holdings started as a real-estate company that operates

Brian Murphy is the CEO and founder of Reliaquest, a global company that is based in Tampa. Reliaquest leverages a discipline called security model management to help security organizations build individualized security models that evolve over time to address their changing needs. By combining existing tools and technologies with Reliaquest’s proprietary technology, people, and process,

Sponsored by   Jeff Gigante is one of Tampa’s busiest restauranteurs, with eight restaurants under the Ciccio Restaurant Group, which he helped establish in the Bay area, employing more than 1,300 workers. Gigante also has a long list of philanthropic endeavors, including work with Train Up First and the Children’s Cancer Center. His newest endeavor

Sponsored by Punit Shah has put his mark on Tampa Bay as a hotel developer, and now he has spread his reach to South Florida as part owner of the Miami Marlins. Shah is CEO of The Liberty Group in Tampa, which is building the 213-room Hilton Hotel and Starbucks Coffee in Tampa’s Channel District,

David Pizzo brings a wealth of health care business savvy to Tampa Bay. In his current role as Florida Blue’s market president for the west Florida region, he’s responsible for 14 counties along the gulf coast spanning from Hernando to Collier.  In addition to being responsible for roughly one million members for the state’s largest health insurer, last year he helped bring $4