Bridgette Bello, CEO and publisher of Tampa Bay Business & Wealth, interviewed Omar Soliman, CEO and co-founder, and Nick Friedman, president and co-founder of College Hunks Hauling Junk and Moving, and Trash Butler, in front of a sold-out audience at the Centre Club. View the gallery to see photos from the event.
Jean Paul Guilbault, or “J.P.” as he’s often called, is CEO of Community Brands, a provider of cloud-based software to associations, nonprofits, faith-based groups and K-12 schools. With 2,000 employees serving over 100,000 clients in 30 countries. The St. Petersburg company is on track to exceed $500 million in revenue in 2019 and was recently … Read more
Jean Paul Guilbault, or “J.P.” as he’s often called, is CEO of Community Brands, a provider of cloud-based software to associations, nonprofits, faith-based groups and K-12 schools. With 2,000 employees serving over 100,000 clients in 30 countries. The St. Petersburg company is on track to exceed $500 million in revenue in 2019 and was recently valued at $3.5 billion.
Bridgette Bello, CEO and publisher of Tampa Bay Business & Wealth, interviewed Guilbault in front of an invitation-only audience at The Columbia in Tampa.
Vick Tipnes is the CEO of Blackstone Medical Services, a national medical device company headquartered in Tampa. The company has made the Inc. 5,000 list for the last two years, ranking 1,750 out of 5,000 companies, based on growth of 355 percent in the last three years. It’s now one of the country’s largest providers … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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, … Read more
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 … Read more
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, … Read more
