South Florida CEO back issues from October 2005:
Go forward, move ahead.(EDITOR'S NOTE)
Oct 01, 2005; ... When I started laying the groundwork for this Cuba issue of the magazine and the executive opinion poll that it's based on, people told me I was crazy. Why did I want to wade into the messy and often vitriolic politics between the United States and Cuba? Why risk angering the ...
More than a business benefit: for free trade to succeed, company leaders must take an active role in communicating its benefits to all the communities it affects.(CHIEF EXECUTIVE OPINION)
Oct 01, 2005; ... The Dominican Republic-Central America-United States Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA) is the largest free trade agreement signed by the US in more than a decade. It eliminates barriers on US exports to Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua, ...
Another new name for the Panthers' arena.(SPORTS)
Oct 01, 2005; ... When hockey fans return this fall to watch the National Hockey League's Florida Panthers, they will notice that the home arena's name has changed--again. Fort Lauderdale-based BankAtlantic Bancorp Inc. in September assumed the naming rights for the 7-year-old, 20,000-seat arena in Sunrise, ...
The new meaning of "home port".(CRUISE)
Oct 01, 2005; ... Although Carnival Corp. had to shut down cruises from New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the Miami-based company has made the proverbial lemonade from lemons. In a controversial $192 million, six-month deal, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is leasing three ships ...
South Florida by numbers.(QUICK TAKES)
Oct 01, 2005 ... Traveling the US with its "eBay Day Small Business Tour," San Jose, Calif.-based Internet auctioneer eBay Inc. recently paired with ACNielsen to study the site's online entrepreneurs. A sampling of how South Florida measures up on the Web. --AC <Pre> E-BAY INDUSTRY ...
Sumitomo Corp.(BIG DEALS)
Oct 01, 2005; ... Sumitomo Corp. of Japan plans to buy publicly traded Palm Beach Gardens-based tire maker TBC Corp. in a cash and debt ...
In condominium conversion news: Miami-based The Exodus Group LLC and Vision Investment LLC paid $61.3 million for the 368-unit Isles at Sawgrass in Sunrise.(BIG DEALS)
Oct 01, 2005; ... In condominium conversion news: Miami-based The Exodus Group LLC and Vision Investment LLC paid $61.3 million for the 368-unit Isles at Sawgrass in Sunrise. Beach Hill Development LLC of Miami and ...
LNR Property Corp.(BIG DEALS)
Oct 01, 2005; ... In what the buyers claim is South Florida's largest open-air shopping center deal in 2005 Miami Beach-based LNR Property Corp. sold the Westfork Plaza ...
AgU Entertainment Corp.(BIG DEALS)
Oct 01, 2005; ... AgU Entertainment Corp. of Lauderdale Lakes sold its 23-acre property and 4-acre ...
Baha Mar Development Co. and Cable Beach Resorts and Crystal Palace Casino Inc.(Executive Changes)
Oct 01, 2005 ... Baha Mar Development Co. and Cable Beach Resorts and Crystal Palace Casino Inc. have named Bryan Guillot chief marketing officer. Based in Plantation, Guillot will oversee the sales and marketing team for the ...
Relation Serve Media, Inc.(Executive Changes)
Oct 01, 2005 ... Ohad Jehassi has been named chief operating officer of Fort Lauderdale-based Relation Serve Media, Inc. Jehassi was ...
Union Charter Inc.(Executive Changes)
Oct 01, 2005 ... Miami-based private investment firm Union Charter Inc. named David A ....
Pavlik Design Team.(Executive Changes)
Oct 01, 2005 ... Pavlik Design Team named Sven Pavlik CEO. Pavlik formerly served as the Fort ...
Starmark International.(Executive Changes)
Oct 01, 2005 ... Starmark Media Center, headquarters for Dania Beach-based Starmark International named Jennifer L. Miller CFO and corporate counsel in a newly created position. Miler comes ...
Vince Castro, 29.(Next Gen)
Oct 01, 2005; ... Current Position: Chief Marketing Officer, BenTrust Financial Background: Born in Cuba, Castro came to the United States at age 5, during the 1980 Mariel Boat Lift. After high school, he took a job with a firm that later became Neighborhood Health Partnership Inc., eventually ...
Michael R. Mendez, 26.(Next Gen)
Oct 01, 2005; ... Current Position: Business officer at JDM Partners LLC Background: Mendez graduated in 2002 from Florida International University with a degree in history, and joined JDM, a Doral-based financial advisory firm, soon after. Mendez was promoted last October to business officer, ...
Sydnei Terry, 34.(Next Gen)
Oct 01, 2005; ... Current Position: Group division vice president for marketing communications, Mayor's Jewelers Inc. Background: The Chicago-area native and University of lllinois graduate joined Mayor's in July of 2000, and was part of the team that turned the company's finances around. She was ...
Julie Greiner: "this is a hands-on business and the customer votes every day.".(IN PLAY)
Oct 01, 2005; ... The Player: Julie Greiner, 51. Latest Play: In August, Greiner took the reigns as chairman and CEO of the 61-store Macy's Florida division, replacing Timothy M. Adams, who is now chairman and CEO of Macy's Home Store. Background: The retail veteran has been with ...
Donna Abood: "we're able to grow in a fast way by acquiring Colliers, but still able to operate the company in a way that we know works.".(IN PLAY)
Oct 01, 2005; ... The Player: Donna Abood, 46, CEO of Colliers Abood Wood-Fay Real Estate Group LLC Latest Play: Expanded Coral Gables-based commercial real estate broker and manager Abood Wood-Fay with the Sept. 1 purchase of Fort Lauderdale-based Colliers South Florida LLC. Abood is now the ...
The best of both worlds: Pontiac's new product combines the best of a sedan and an SUV.(THE GM EXPERIENCE)
Oct 01, 2005 ... Why sacrifice comfort for style and features? The 2006 Pontiac Torrent taps into the desire for a mid-size vehicle with car-like agility and SUV capability and versatility. The Torrent, an all new Pontiac product introduced at the 2005 Los Angeles auto show, may be compared to ...
Built to expand: a land crunch should be no problem for homebuilder Technical Olympic after its recent acquisition of Transeastern Homes.(REAL ESTATE)
Oct 01, 2005; ... In an industry where image and brand name can help drive up revenue, Technical Olympic USA Inc. (TOUSA) may be the biggest homebuilder you have never heard of. The single-family homebuilder is the nation's 10th largest, according to an annual ranking by financial services firm ...
Corporate education: Boca entrepreneur Philip Morgaman gets into the business of global education, hoping to usher in a new era of for-profit schooling.(EDUCATION)
Oct 01, 2005; ... It should come as no surprise that a man who graduated from college at the age of 19 would have a passion for education. But Philip Morgaman is looking to take that passion global, and he has $100 million in backing to do it. Morgaman, a Boca Raton-based entrepreneur (he is CEO ...
Protecting the "buffer zone": Southcom's leader looks to the future as he attempts to find and encourage stability in Latin America.(INTERNATIONAL)(Interview)
Oct 01, 2005; ... Gen. Bantz "John" Craddock is the commander of the Doral-based United States Southern Command, a post he assumed in November 2004 after serving as the senior military assistant to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. Southcom has nearly 1,800 employees around South Florida and is ...
So long, Steel ...: Steel Hector & Davis is giving up its esteemed identity in a bittersweet deal. Will South Florida's legal landscape ever be the same?
Oct 01, 2005; ... South Florida has lost another local icon, one of the last vestiges of "white shoe" old Florida. Steel Hector & Davis LLP, once a legal power-house and the longtime embodiment of South Florida's highend homegrown legal industry, the place where the region's elite turned for legal counsel, ...
Cuba on the horizon: South Florida business leaders gauge the impact of a free-market Cuba--post-Castro: one of the largest, most extensive surveys of South Florida business leaders uncovers widespread optimism that a free Cuba will have a positive economic impact on our area.(FREE-MARKET CUBA)(Cover Story)
Oct 01, 2005; ... AMERICANS HAVE HAD A LONG FASCINATION WITH CUBA, ONE THAT CLIMAXED DURING THE 1940s AND 1950s, WHEN EVERY MONTH THOUSANDS TRAVELED BY PLANE AND BOAT THE 90 MILES SOUTH FROM KEY WEST TO BASK ON THE ISLAND'S PRISTINE BEACHES OR SIP RUM AND COKES WHILE TAKING IN SHOWS AT HAVANA NIGHTCLUBS. ...
Hamilton C. Forman: the pioneer.(Legends of South Florida 2005)
Oct 01, 2005; ... The term powerbroker evokes images of bold men in Armani pinstriped suits who drive luxury cars to lavish office suites filled with symbols of success. But one of South Florida's original powerbrokers breaks the mold with a straw hat, an economy car and a modest home office filled with ...
Robert "Budd" Kneip: the scholarly business activist.(Legends of South Florida)
Oct 01, 2005; ... Robert "Budd" Kneip's friends have a running joke about his vocabulary: It is so vast you need to tote a dictionary to the boardroom to translate. But there is one word the scholar-turned entrepreneur and civic activist has a little trouble with--legend. Kneip still remembers an ...
Sister Jeanne Marie O'Laughlin: the nun on the run.(Legends of South Florida)
Oct 01, 2005; ... It is not every day you meet a nun whose license tag reads "Hugs1" and whose sentences are punctuated with an endearing "honey." But then again, there is only one Sister Jeanne Marie O'Laughlin. A few hugs here and a few "honeys" there--along with bulldog tenacity and a refusal ...
Don Shula: building a winner.(Legends of South Florida)
Oct 01, 2005; ... Spend an hour talking with Don Shula, and one thing becomes clear: whether it is the X's and O's of a professional football game or vying for the best hand during a poker game, the man is obsessed with winning. "I'm a natural-born competitor," says the 75-year-old former Miami ...
Sanford L. Ziff: full-time philanthropist.(Legends of South Florida)
Oct 01, 2005; ... A little more than 10 years ago, the area of North Miami Beach that would become the Michael-Ann Russell Jewish Community Center resembled a ghost town. It was 1994, and the area was so deserted that the center's executive director, Gary J. Bomzer, says he "was literally ...
Watery clash: what happens when a key industrial waterway also becomes prime residential land? How condos and commerce are mixing--not always smoothly--on the Miami River.(the Miami River)
Oct 01, 2005; ... Once perhaps one of the least-known industrial thorough-fares in South Florida, the Miami River has in the past few years come upon a sort of Renaissance. Boasting some of the last parcels of waterfront property in the area, suddenly it is in high demand for residential development. But ...
Dear community partners, a message from the project director.(Transportation Leadership Awards)
Oct 01, 2005; ... Once again we are pleased to present our Transportation Leadership Awards. It is truly a great honor to recognize the many great efforts of South Florida's leading businesses and community leaders, especially during these changing times. I think that it is fair to say that all ...
Transportation leadership achievement award: Jose Abreu: an individual who has been a strong advocate for positive solutions to South Florida's transportation challenges in relationship to traffic congestion, parking issues, air quality concerns and economic vitality.(Transportation Leadership Awards Honorees)
Oct 01, 2005 ... As the former Secretary of the Florida Department of Transportation appointed by Governor Jeb Bush on March 5, 2003, Jose Abreu worked tirelessly to make travel in Florida safer and more efficient. Under his leadership, the department fulfilled its mission to provide a safe transportation ...
Transportation leadership awards honorees.
Oct 01, 2005 ... Wheels in Motion Award: Municipality, local government entity or government agency, which has taken a leadership role in reducing traffic congestion, improving air quality and or developing innovative programs to promote commuter transportation options. * City of ...
Online service matches commuter and business transportation needs.(Transportation Leadership Awards)
Oct 01, 2005 ... Let's see ... that's more than $25 per week for gas, $50 per month for parking and, let's not forget the costly proposition of replacing tires, air-conditioning and other repairs. With miles of tri-county roadway to navigate, commuting in South Florida can certainly take a toll on one's ...
Commuter Challenge got thousands to say no to high gas prices.(Transportation Leadership Awards)
Oct 01, 2005 ... South Florida Commuter Services (SFCS), the regional commuter assistance program funded by the Florida Department of Transportation, challenged South Florida businesses and employees to participate in Clean Air Month activities with an official "Commuter Challenge." This first time effort ...
Challenge of champions.(DOWNTIME)
Oct 01, 2005; ... With his body cold to the touch and his eyes rolling back into his head, Frank McKinney lay in the backseat of a van, holding his wife's hand. At mile 50 of a 125-mile ultramarathon journey across California's Death Valley desert, he was in the midst of his first mental and physical crash ....
Destination: Art Basel Miami Beach.(EXECUTIVE TRAVEL)
Oct 01, 2005; ... Tis the season to see and be seen. Art Basel Miami Beach makes its fourth appearance at the Miami Beach Convention Center Dec. 1 through 4, bringing with it a world-renowned collection of 20th and 21st century art, more than 30,000 patrons and countless VIPs, parties and gatherings. Here's ...
Tasting the Island: immigration patterns and excellent access to the right vegetables, herbs, spices and cuts of meat have made South Florida the best place in the world to enjoy Cuban food. We talked to four of the area's most well known chefs to find out their favorite places to eat Cuban.(EXECUTIVE DINING)
Oct 01, 2005 ... LA CARRETA RESTAURANT When the craving strikes for authentic Cuban cuisine, Ortanique on the Mile Chef Cindy Hutson heads for La Carreta Restaurant on Calle Ocho in Little Havana. The landmark is among Miami's most well-known Cuban eateries. The name La Carreta, which translates ...
Recalling the spirit of Cuba.(WINE & SPIRITS)
Oct 01, 2005; ... Rum as we know it today is believed to have originated in Barbados, and was originally produced largely in the pre-Revolutionary War American Colonies. But it was the Bacardi family--immigrants to Cuba from Spain--who made the drink famous around the world, and their namesake company is ...
Power clicks.
Oct 01, 2005 ... NAMES & FACES: Florida's Children First; SFCEO Future Forum series; Rotary International; United Way Kick-Off; Uptown Lofts 1) The South Florida chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsels' "One Night Under the Sea" co-chairs Caren Snead Williams, vice president and chief ...