Family business executive navigates major career change

With a background in finance and education, Kelly Hendry never expected to take over her father’s dredging and ship-repair company. Yet she’s risen to the challenge with bold and fresh ideas.

  • By Brian Hartz
  • | 5:00 a.m. April 25, 2023
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Kelly Hendry became president of Tampa-based Hendry Marine Industries Inc. in 2019.
Kelly Hendry became president of Tampa-based Hendry Marine Industries Inc. in 2019.
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Kelly Hendry’s business career, starting in 1983, follows a logical path for about two decades: assistant investment officer at First Florida Bank, various positions with Merrill Lynch Capital Markets, executive recruiter with a consulting company.

Around 2005, her resume gets, shall we say, interesting.

 

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