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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