Large Silicon Valley tech firm moves headquarters to region

Region's robust workforce helped sway Benny Czarny, and OPSWAT senior leaders.

  • By Business Observer Staff
  • | 6:00 a.m. January 15, 2021
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In wooing a Silicon Valley cybersecurity company to move its headquarters to Tampa, the region both swatted away heavy competition and a rebuffed a long-standing myth about the Sunshine State.

 

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