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Resort owner makes power list
Part-time Gulf Coast resident Sheila Johnson, who has been called America's first black billionaire and has also graced the cover of the Review, can now add something else to her resume: One of the most powerful black women in business, as judged by Black Enterprise magazine.
The list of 75 women, which was published in the magazine's Feb. 10 issue, is full of business and Corporate America titans, including Oprah Winfrey, the chief tax officer for Wal-Mart and a managing director at Goldman Sachs. Karen Mincey, the vice president of technology and the chief information officer at Tampa-based TECO, is also on the list.
Johnson co-founded the BET cable network with her now ex-husband Robert Johnson. She has since bought stakes in three professional sports teams and runs a hospitality and resort company. That firm, Middleburg, Va.-based Salamander Hospitality, bought the Innisbrook Resort and Golf Club in Palm Harbor in 2007.
Johnson has spent $60 million on the resort, including the purchase price and a series of renovation projects. (See Review, April 23, 2009.)
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