Executive recruiting firm wins key area CEO assignment

Helping find a new president and CEO for the Tampa Bay Partnership is a full-circle moment for St. Pete executive recruiter Tina Winner.

Her firm, Winner Partners, was recently selected to find the replacement for Rick Homans, who is retiring from the Partnership in November. Homans was chosen for the top spot at the organization in 2015, and Winner was part of a group that helped recruit him for the position when he was at the Tampa EDC. Winner Partners, coming of a successful search for the CEO of Visit Phoenix, edged out some of the nation’s best-known and established recruiting firms to win the Partnership assignment, according to a statement.