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CEO Direct Program
Developing regional leadership is one of the Partnership’s core priorities and is the foundation of this organization. While investment dollars are vital, leadership is what will drive the success of our short and long-term objectives. CEO Direct is a program to ensure that we have the leaders engaged to reach our potential.
The CEO Direct program participants are chosen each spring through a nomination process. Participation will be limited to 20-25 business and community leaders from around the region. The overall time commitment for the participant is nine months and begins in May at our Super Regional Leadership Conference, where you will meet with the Partnership’s executive leadership and network with regional leaders not only from Tampa Bay but also from Central Florida.
Over the following months, participants attend a monthly program and tour (typically lasting 2 hours) of major regional economic engines that drive innovation, human capital, infrastructure and quality place – the four drivers of the Partnership’s Model For Prosperity. Throughout the year, we will educate and engage CEO Direct participants in critical regional economic development issues including the issues the Tampa Bay Partnership addresses and how; facilitate access between participants and the current, top leadership in the region; and foster opportunities for regional collaboration and strategic thinking.
The 2010 CEO Direct Participants:
- Mr. John Acosta, West Florida Area President, Regions Bank
- Mr. L. Ira Anderson, Partner, Crowe Horwath, LLP
- Ms. Melony Bell, Auditor/Candidate for Polk County Commission, State of Florida "DHSMV"
- Mr. Paul Bowdoin, Gulf Coast Area Manager, HDR Engineering, Inc.
- Mr. Peter Buczynsky, CEO, PharmaWorks
- Mr. Mark Catchur, Partner, Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP
- Mr. David Christian, Vice President, Verizon
- Mr. J. Kenneth Coppedge, Regional President, BB&T
- Mr. Christopher Flack, Executive Director - External Relations, Progress Energy
- Mr. Richard Gehring, Growth Management Administrator, Pasco County
- Mr. Andrew Hall, Area Director, Governmental Affairs, AT&T
- Mr. David Hamilton, County Administrator, Hernando County
- Ms. Mary Ellen Hogan, Attorney & Co-Director, Public Policy Group, Bryant Miller Olive
- Mr. Larry Ingram, Managing Partner, Phelps Dunbar
- Mr. Anthony Jones, Director, Pinellas County Community Development/ Executive Director, Pinellas County Housing Finance Authority
- Mr. Jack Kolosky, Executive VP/COO, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute
- Mr. Robin MacDonald, Strategic Account Executive, BlueCross BlueShield of Florida
- The Honorable Joe Meek, County Commissioner Citrus County
- Mr. Anthony Ong, Market President, Mercantile Bank
- Mr. Rick Piccolo, CEO, Sarasota - Bradenton Airport
- Mr. David Sessions, President, Willis A. Smith Construction, Inc.
- Mr. Byron Shinn, CPA, President & Managing Partner, Shinn & Company
- Mr. John Townsend, Vice President, T. Rowe Price Services
- Mr. John Wakefield , Senior Vice President, EcoAsset Solutions, LLC, a division of Lykes Bros., Inc.
- Mr. Alexander Young, President/CEO, United Way of Sarasota County
If you have any questions, please call Elisa DeGregorio, Director of Foundation and Leadership Programs, Tampa Bay Partnership at (813) 878-2208.
Past Participants
2009 CEO Direct Program
Eileen Boyle, President & CEO, Allegheny Franciscan Ministries; Selena Quick, Area Director, External & Legislative Affairs, West Florida, AT&T; David Pizzo, Market President, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida; Travis Wellman, VP Central/North Florida Aggregates, Cemex USA; Elias Nammour, Director, North America Int'l Trade Operations, Citi; Rod Irwin, Assistant City Manager, City of Clearwater; Mark Watson, Managing Partner, Deloitte; Art Erickson, President, Florida Lifestyle Communities; Jack Cox, President, Half Acre Construction; Maureen "Moe" Freaney, Bureau Director, Health & Human Services, Pinellas County; Duane Chichester, Publisher, Hernando Today; David Twiddy, Tampa Operations Manager, Jacobs; Mary Kelley Hoppe, President, MKH Communications; Bob McCann, Executive Vice President, The Nielsen Company; The Honorable Jack Mariano, Commissioner, Pasco County; Lawrence Ingram, Managing Partner, Tampa, Phelps Dunbar LLC; Colleen Burton, Executive Director, Polk Vision; C. Graham Carothers, Partner, Shumaker Loop & Kendrick; The Honorable Seth McKeel, House of Representatives, State of Florida; Gerald J. Seeber, General Manager, Tampa Bay Water; James Vett, General Manager/VP, Vanguard Advanced Pharmacy Systems; Michelle Robinson, Southeast Region President, Verizon; Julie Smith, VP External Affairs, Verizon; Tom Moseley, Pinellas County Area President, Whitney National Bank
2008 CEO Direct Program
Stacey Allaster, Sony Ericsson WTA Tour; Diana Baker, United Way of Tampa Bay; Michele Baker, Pasco County Government; Jeff Caponigro, Caponigro Public Relations; Nathaniel Doliner, Carlton Fields; John Emmanuel, Fowler White Boggs PA; Mark Fernandez, Tampa Bay Rays; Jonathan Fleece, Blalock Walters Held & Johnson, P.A.; C. Scott Franklin, Lanier Upshaw; Kevin Hourigan, Bayshore Solutions; Tommy Inzina, BayCare Health System; Michael Lewis, Progress Energy; Bruce Maduri, Genesis Communications; Brian Nicholas, Colonial Bank, Tampa Bay; J. Greg Ruthven, The Ruthvens, Inc.; Stephen Panzarino, TRO Jung/Brannen; Charles D. Riggs, III CPA, Carr Riggs and Ingram, LLC; Michelle Robinson, Verizon; Mickey Smith, Oak Hill Hospital; Jay B. (Trey) Starkey, III, Starkey Ranch; James M. Themides, Wachovia; and Rep. Will Weatherford, State of Florida, House of Representatives.
2007 CEO Direct Program
John Barger, Humana; Jeff Corbett, Progress Energy; John Couris, Morton Plan North Bay Hospital; Carlos del Castillo, Bright House Networks; Pat Duffy, Colliers Arnold; Marshall Goodman, Ph.D, USF - Lakeland; Gary Sasso, Carlton Fields; Malcolm Teasdale, Teasdale Worldwide; J. Todd Timmerman, Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP; John Watts, Wachovia Bank.
2006 CEO Direct Program
Alan Ciamporcero, Verizon Communications; Jeff Dunn, SunTrust Bank; Jeff Lyash, Progress Energy; Joe DeLuca, St. Petersburg Times; Tampa Bay Partnership Leadership Chair Rhea Law, Fowler White Boggs Banker P.A.; Kim Graham, Bank of America; Nathaniel Herring, Wachovia; Lindsey Jarrell, BayCare Health System; Joseph Kadow, Outback Steakhouse; and Peter Hobson, Pepin Distributing Company, John Schueler, Florida Communications Group.
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