Peak 10's Curtiss starting new venture

Debra Curtiss, who helped build the Tampa office of Peak 10 into a local data storage power, has left the firm to re-launch her own company.

The move is bittersweet, Curtiss says. “I'm at the point where I'm ready to go,” she tells Coffee Talk, “but I have mixed emotions about leaving my team.”

Curtiss is one of the leaders of the tight-knit Tampa-area technology community. She won the Tampa Bay Technology Forum's 2010 Outstanding Leadership Award late last year, in an event sponsored by the Business Review. Curtiss is a past chairwoman of the organization. (See Business Review, Nov. 19.)