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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 13, 2017
Jay Conroy, 39

President/Owner, Hydro-Dyne Engineering

  • Class of 2017
  • By Will Powell |
  • August 26, 2016
Campaign climb

Want to succeed at crowdfunding? Follow the two P's: planning and publicity.

  • Finance
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 10, 2014
Dan Stone, 37

Vice President of Franchise Development, Front Burner Brands

  • Class of 2014
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 10, 2014
Katie Gower, 35

Director of Business Development, Ed Taylor Construction

  • Class of 2014
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 16, 2015
Patrick Duggan, 37

Senior assistant general counsel, Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office

  • Class of 2015
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 16, 2015
Erika Nikla Quartermaine, 37

Judge, Sarasota County

  • Class of 2015
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 16, 2015
Sozon C. Vatikiotis, 34

CEO, Alltrust

  • Class of 2015
  • By Beth Luberecki |
  • July 31, 2015
'Everything's Possible'

Hands-on meets high-tech at a startup that created a unique kids building kit. The next goal: big-time sales and chain stores.

  • Entrepreneurs
  • By Mark Gordon |
  • October 2, 2015
Break it up

Knowing when to punt a model or strategy can be an excruciating entrepreneurial decision. Here's how a newbie did it.

  • Entrepreneurs
  • By Jean Gruss |
  • October 2, 2015
Intellectual Capital

Charles Grimes, a leading intellectual property attorney, relocated his firm's corporate headquarters to Bonita Springs from Connecticut. More are coming, he says.

  • Law
  • By Mark Gordon |
  • December 20, 2024
The Waffle Stop, Sarasota 'Elvis Ate Here' restaurant, to close by end of 2024

A Sarasota institution, The Waffle Stop, is closing after 74 years.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Louis Llovio |
  • January 22, 2025
Tampa synagogue, developer revamp plans for waterfront residential tower

Congregation Rodeph Shalom has agreed to cut the size of the a proposed condominium development in the hopes of swaying city leaders.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Louis Llovio |
  • November 26, 2023
East Manatee County apartment complex sells for $102 million

In the week's top commercial real estate news, more storage coming to Cape Coral, money for a housing study in Tampa and 412 apartments coming to Lee County.

  • Florida
  • By Louis Llovio |
  • July 21, 2025
Tampa family-run firm exits hotel business after 45 years

The Liberty Group sold the last six hotel in its portfolio ending an era that began in 1980 in Youngstown, Ohio.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Louis Llovio |
  • February 2, 2024
Sarasota's 'Annuity King' sentenced to 15 years for defrauding seniors

A federal judge in Tampa sentenced the 67-year-old agent for a scheme that stole millions from elderly clients.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Mark Gordon |
  • March 28, 2024
Done deal: $3.1 billion acquisition for PGT Innovations closes

Venice window and door manufacturer PGT Innovations, founded 44 years ago, is no longer publicly traded.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 2, 2007
Simply the Biggest

At MarineMax, all goals focus on growth, from spending on marketing to making daylong job interviews the norm.

  • Entrepreneurs
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 19, 2004
Bond Counsel & Deal Maker (Tampa edition)

Frank Fleischer, now part of GrayRobinson in Tampa, has worked as counsel on about $8 billion in public finance deals.

  • Entrepreneurs
  • By Brian Hartz |
  • April 14, 2020
Recently hired executive makes immediate shift to crisis mode

The coronavirus pandemic delivered one of the region's newest big-company CEOs, Frances Allen, a supersized jolt. She's already pivoted to Plan B.

  • Leadership
  • By Grier Ferguson |
  • August 16, 2019
Marketing executive who works with early-stage companies, firms in transition sees opportunity in area

Through agencies Brand Communication Design and Comunicano, Andy Abramson helps companies position their strategy to match their goal.

  • Strategies
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