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Business briefcase

People

By Times Staff Writer
Published February 21, 2005


AUDIO/VISUAL

Lenn Fraraccio has been named creative learning specialist for Audio Visual Innovations (AVI), Tampa. Fraraccio was a teacher at Shields Middle School, Ruskin.

FINANCE

Market Street Mortgage announces these promotions and appointments. Promotions: Rebecca Daly, senior vice president of administration in Clearwater; and Brian Livingston and Joe Matthews, branch managers of the West Shore branch in Tampa. Appointments: Christa Hubble, assistant vice president and risk manager of the production department in Clearwater. Daly was vice president of production administration; Livingston and Matthews were sales managers; and Hubble was assistant vice president of home equity policies and procedures for Chase Manhattan Mortgage, Tampa.

ProVise Management Group LLC, Clearwater, announces that Kimberly Adams has been elected chief financial officer and Eric Ebbert has been elected chief operating officer. Adams and Ebbert were senior vice presidents.

HEALTH CARE

Barbara Dolson has been promoted to director of account services for CHOICE Medical Management Services LLC, Tampa. Dolson was sales director.

Memorial Hospital of Tampa has announced its governing board members for 2005. Officers L. David Shear, board chairman; Roy N. Hellwege, vice chairman; and John Mainieri, board secretary. Board members are James L. Hanahan, J.P. LaCasse, Paddy Moses and Robert R. Sharp. Physician board members Dr. Hafeez Chatoor, Dr. Edward B. Kampsen, Dr. John P. Lippelman and Dr. Gilman Tyler. Shear is a partner at the law firm of Ruden, McCloskey, Smith, Schuster and Russell, PA, Tampa; Hellwege is president and chief executive of the Bank of Florida, Tampa Bay; Mainieri is chief executive of Memorial Hospital of Tampa; Hanahan is a retired vice president of Aon Corp.; LaCasse is senior vice president of CP Ships, Tampa; Moses is director of development for the Boys and Girls Clubs of Tampa Bay; Sharp is chairman of the board of AAA Auto Club South, Tampa; Chatoor is chief of staff of Memorial Hospital of Tampa and has a private practice in Tampa; Kampsen is an otolaryngologist and has a private practice in Tampa; Lippelman practices internal medical at his Tampa practice; and Tyler is a general surgeon with a private practice in Tampa.

LEGAL

David S. Hendrix has been elected to the Greater Tampa Chamber of Commerce board of directors and has been appointed legal counsel and ex officio member of the executive committee for 2005. Hendrix is a shareholder in the law firm of GrayRobinson, Tampa, where he practices in the areas of commercial litigation, banking, administrative and regulatory law, securities litigation and international business law.

Rhea F. Law has been elected to the board of directors of the Florida Council of 100. Law is president and chief executive of the law firm of Fowler White Boggs Banker, Tampa.

MANUFACTURERS

Godwin Pumps, Tampa, announces the following appointments and promotions. Promotions: John Gerelli, service manager; and Jed Church, operations manager. Appointments: Kevin Abernathy, sales engineer; and Jack Behring, mechanic. Gerelli was lead mechanic for Godwin's home office in Bridgeport, N.J.; Church was a dispatcher for Godwin's Connecticut branch; Abernathy was owner/operator of Cutting Edge Lawn Care, Polk County; and Behring was a marine mechanic for Galati Yacht Sales, St. Petersburg.

ORGANIZATIONS

The YMCA of Greater St. Petersburg announces the election of these members to its board of directors: Christopher R. Bell, Thomas J. Jerger, Melissa L. Mcleod and the Rev. Louis M. Murphy Sr. Bell is vice president of Mills & Murphy Software Systems Inc., St. Petersburg; Jerger is chief executive of Graphix Solutions, St. Petersburg; McLeod is senior vice president of investments at Smith Barney, St. Petersburg; Murphy is pastor of Mount Zion Progressive Baptist Church, St. Petersburg.

[Last modified February 19, 2005, 17:49:41]


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