CEO group names new chair amid 2022 board slate

The new chair brings 20 years of experience to the role.

By Business Observer Staff
| 12:02 p.m. February 2, 2022
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SARASOTA — The Gulf Coast CEO Forum recently announced a new chair of the board.

Chad Campbell, the president of the Florida region at Sunwest Bank, was announced as the new chairman of the Gulf Coast CEO Forum board. (Courtesy photo)

Chad Campbell, the president of the Florida region at Sunwest Bank, takes the seat with 20 years of experience in commercial and middle-market banking. Sunwest Bank recently opened an office in Sarasota, the entrepreneurial business bank's first location in Florida.

The forum also named Doug Walters the new treasurer of the board. Walters is a managing shareholder at Walters and Associates, an accounting firm with offices in Bradenton, Sarasota and St. Petersburg. He brings over 27 years of experience to the board as a public accountant in the state.

The entire board for 2022 is listed below:

Harry Anand, CEO Emeritus
Chad Campbell, Chair
Allen Carlson
Patrick Del Medico
CJ Fishman
Pete Skokos
Molly Jackson
Michael Juceam
Ray Neff
Pete Peterson, Secretary
Maribeth Phillips, Governance
Doug Walter, Treasurer

The Gulf Coast CEO Forum is a networking organization for business leaders within the region, focused on providing relationships, ideas and solutions for CEOs through a speaker series, social functions and small group roundtable experiences.