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  • By Beth Luberecki |
  • October 9, 2025
Zannon Garza, 39

40 Under 40 winner Zannon Garza is vice president of business development and executive director at DeAngelis Diamond and DeAngelis Diamond Foundation.

  • Class of 2025
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • August 12, 2021
Homeless advocate's past informs her vision

Antoinette Hayes-Triplett fights to help people, especially veterans, to stay off the streets.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • August 25, 2023
Local FPL exec fills predecessor’s role with aplomb

With the pandemic in its infancy in summer 2020, Devaney Iglesias took on a big task: taking over a high-profile position for a retiring FPL executive.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Laura Lyon |
  • August 23, 2024
Tech leader creates statewide women-empowering platform

Raechel Canipe is helping women find their way in technology — one Slack post at a time.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • January 7, 2026
Orthopedic surgeon is gold medal rower, was semipro soccer player

"It's amazing the places that sports have taken me," says Dr. Sara Simmons, who recently won a rowing event at a world championship in Spain.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • June 23, 2023
Dunkin' franchisee buys Tampa urgent care clinics, plans big expansion

Purple Square Management looks to have 280 locations under seven brands by the end of the year.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Andrew Warfield |
  • July 19, 2023
Longtime Sarasota attorney, pioneer in condo law dies at 91

A career-long fixture at Williams Parker, William Getzen also helped found the Argus Foundation.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 18, 2022
$480 million Fort Myers biotech firm names interim CEO

The appointment comes less than two months after the previous CEO’s resignation.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • March 25, 2023
University president to step down — eventually

The University of Tampa says its longtime president will leave in about 13 months, after his replacement is found.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • June 17, 2022
Symposium to reveal findings from series of resiliency studies

Tampa Bay Regional Planning Council's June 23 event will examine how key coastal areas can prepare for catastrophic flooding.

  • News
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • July 12, 2022
Buyers backing out of home sales nationally hit record numbers, three area cities top the list

A recently released report finds that rising mortgage rates are forcing people to back out of contracts for homes.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Steven Benna |
  • August 1, 2022
Transactions: July 19-25

A hospital's land deal with grocery giant Kroger highlights this week's transactions.

  • Transactions
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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • August 26, 2022
Hospital adopts technology in which its venture capital fund invested

AI-powered Enroute has resulted in big improvements to Tampa General Hospital's patient transportation system.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • November 23, 2022
Pinellas County man pleads guilty to PPP fraud, murder-for-hire charges

Alexander Leszczynski’s convoluted, high-profile scheme also included an attempt to exonerate himself with a fake pardon he claimed was signed by former President Donald Trump.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • January 9, 2023
Transactions: Jan. 3-9

A Sarasota apartment complex sale for $115 million leads the way in transactions.

  • Transactions
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 12, 2007
Doing it All

Mike Mott has parlayed a home-based tax preparation firm into a money management firm with several services.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • February 25, 2005
Guilty as Charged

Members of the Hillsborough Association for Women Lawyers learn stress-management techniques.

  • Law
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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • May 20, 2005
Chain Plans Tampa Expansion

A national budget hotel chain looks at the Tampa Bay area market.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 5, 2009
BIG Moves

A corporate executive who gave up a globetrotting careerfor something more entrepreneurial likes the transition so far.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 2, 2008
Relative Retirement

Promoting amusement parks in Dubai and China lured a Gulf Coast executive out of his boat.

  • Entrepreneurs
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