| Notable Past Events and Speakers Prior to 2016 |
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Barry Alpert
Senior Vice President of Investments, Raymond James
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Al Austin
Chairman, Austin Companies and US. Base Closing Commissioner |
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Mayor Rick Baker
Mayor of St. Petersburg
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Bob Basham
President & Chief Operating Officer of Outback Steakhouse |
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Dick Beard
Former Florida Managing Partner, Paragon Group
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Senator Michael S. Bennett
District 21 |
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Frank Borkowski
Chancellor, Appalachian State University, and Former President of University of South Florida
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Mayor Bob Buckhorn
Mayor of Tampa |
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Governor Jeb Bush
Governor of Florida
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Dominic M. Calabro
President and CEO of Florida TaxWatch
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Finn Caspersen
Chairman, Beneficial Corp.
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Sam Chandan, PhD, FRICS
Global Chief Economist and Executive Vice President at Real Capital Analytics and Adjunct Professor of Real Estate at the Wharton School |
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Herb Cohen
Author of negotiating books and renowned negotiator
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Joe Collier
President, Mainsail Lodging & Development |
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Thomas Corcoran
Chairman, FelCor Lodging Trust
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William E. Crenshaw
CEO of Publix Super Markets, Inc. |
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Jack B. Critchfield
Former Chairman, Florida Progress Corporation, and Former President, Rollins College
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Congressman Jim Davis Representative
United States Congress
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Mark Dotzour
Chief Economist Real Estate Center at Texas A&M University
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Anthony Downs
Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
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John Ehrlichman
Director, Law Companies Group, Inc.; and Former Counsel to President Nixon
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Dr. Henry Fishkind
President, Fishkind & Associates
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Mayor Bill Foster
City of St. Petersburg
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Sandra Freedman
Former Mayor of Tampa |
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Judy L. Genshaft
President, University of South Florida |
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Congressman Sam Gibbons
Former Representative, United States Congress |
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Bo Godbold
President, Raymond James Financial, Inc. |
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Richard Gonzmart
co-owner & President of Columbia Restaurant Group |
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Ken Good
Tampa Palms’ Developer |
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Mayor Dick Greco
Mayor, City of Tampa; DeBartolo Senior Executive |
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Mayor Frank Hibbard
City of Clearwater |
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Al Hoffman, Jr.
CEO, WCI Communities, Inc. |
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Paul M. Homan
President, First Florida Banks, Inc. |
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Mayor Pam Iorio
Former Mayor of Tampa |
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Tom James
Chairman & CEO, Raymond James Financial, Inc. |
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Bob Martinez
Former Florida Governor, Formal Federal Drug Czar and Former Mayor of Tampa |
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Senator John McKay
President, the Florida Senate |
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Rich McKay
Former General Manager, Tampa Bay Buccaneers; General Manager, Atlanta Falcons |
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Robert Merck
Senior Managing Director and Head of Real Estate Investments, MetLife |
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Peter H. Monroe
President, Oversight Board of Resolution Trust Corporation
Chairman & CEO, National Real Estate Ventures (NREV) |
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Rick Nafe
Executive Director, Tampa Sports Authority |
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Frank Newman
Chairman & CEO, Eckerd Corporation
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Gary Prosterman
President at DSG, Inc. |
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Lane Ramsfield
Vice President of Real Estate, Port Tampa Bay |
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Ron Rotella
Executive Director, Westshore Alliance & Special Consultant to the Mayor of the City of Tampa |
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Willard G. Rouse III
Chairman, CEO and President, Liberty Property Trust |
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David Ruberg
Chairman, President & CEO, Intermedia Communications, Inc. |
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Charles Rutenberg
Chairman, Rutenberg Corporation |
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Jeff Saut
Managing Director, Equity Research, Chief Investment Strategist,Raymond James & Associates |
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Jeffrey H. Schwartz
President, Vizional Technologies, Inc. |
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Steven M. Seibert
Secretary, Florida Department of Community Affairs
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Melvin Sembler
U.S. Ambassador to Italy (and formerly to Australia and Nauru) and former Chairman of the Board of The Sembler Company |
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Alex Sink
President, NationsBank of Florida |
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Sean Snaith, Ph.D.
University of Central Florida’s Institute for Economic Competitiveness |
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Robert Strudler
Chairman, U.S. Home Corporation |
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Charles E. Sykes
President and CEO of Sykes Enterprises, Inc.
Chair of the Greater Tampa Chamber of Commerce |
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John Sykes
Chairman, Florida 2012, Inc. |
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William S. Taubman
Executive Vice President, The Taubman Company |
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J. Ronald Terwilliger
Chairman Emeritus, Trammell Crow Residential ; Chairman of the Board, Enterprise Community Partners, Inc.; Vice Chairman, Enterprise Community Investment, Inc.
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A. Bronson Thayer
Chairman, First Florida Banks, Inc. |
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Keith White
President, Reinhold P. Wolff Economic Research, Inc.
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Jack Wilson
Chairman, The Wilson Company & Superbowl XXXV Task Force
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