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By Times Staff Writer
Published November 7, 2005

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Gregg McGough has been named creative director at Roberts Communications, Tampa. McGough was creative director at PeakBiety, Tampa.

Gilbert K. Grass has been named senior vice president and chief information officer at the Bank of Tampa's Blanchard Center operations facility in Tampa. Grass was executive vice president/chief operations officer at First Community Bank of America, Pinellas Park.

Jeffrey Joseph Kramer has been named as a vice president of commercial lending at Regions Bank, Tampa. Kramer was vice president and relationship manager at Fifth Third Bank, Tampa.

CONSTRUCTION

Mike Moser has been promoted to president of the tower division at Taylor Woodrow, St. Petersburg. Moser was vice president of operations in northwest Florida.

Jamie B. Neilson has been named vice president and trust officer at Raymond James Trust Co., St. Petersburg. Neilson was vice president and trust officer at Coast Trust Co., Tampa.

David C. Lackmann has been named vice president and investment manager at Raymond James Trust Private Wealth Management, St. Petersburg. Lackmann was senior vice president and portfolio manager at Morgan Asset Management, a division of Regions Bank, Tampa.

Dr. Peter W. Blumencranz has been selected by the Association of PeriOperative Registered Nurses of the Gulf Coast of Florida to receive the 2005 Distinguished Innovative Surgeons Award. Blumencranz is being honored for his research in breast cancer and for advancements in lymphatic mapping and sentinel lymph node biopsy. Blumencranz is a surgical oncologist at Morton Plant and is medical director of Moffitt Morton Plant Cancer Care, Clearwater.

Gerald Davis received the Guardian ad Litem Community Advocate of the Year Award for the Sixth Judicial Circuit, given by the Florida Statewide Guardian ad Litem Office and the Office of the Governor for outstanding community advocacy for abused and neglected children of Florida. Davis is executive partner and practices in the areas of commercial litigation, creditor's rights and bankruptcy at the law firm of Holland & Knight, St. Petersburg.

Nathaniel L. Doliner has been elected to the board of trustees of the Florida Holocaust Museum, St. Petersburg. Doliner is a shareholder and chairman of the corporate practice group, and practices in the areas of corporate law, mergers and acquisitions and taxation at the law firm of Carlton Fields, Tampa.

The Florida State Fair Authority, Tampa, announces these appointments to its board of directors. A.D. "Sandy" MacKinnon, chairman of the board; and Robert Thomas, member. MacKinnon is chief executive of Yale Industrial Trucks, Tampa; and Thomas is president of Two Rivers Ranch, Hickory Hills Land Co., Crystal Springs Preserve and Balsam Gap Inc., all in Florida.

Mental Health Care Inc., Tampa, announces these appointments: Kim O'Brien, director of finance; and Julia Armstrong, public relations specialist. O'Brien was an assurance manager for Grant Thorton LLP, Tampa; and Armstrong was friends liaison in public relations for Hillsborough County Library Services.

EpicTide Inc., St. Petersburg, announces these appointments to its newly established solutions advisory board: James Clark; Chris Schellman, audit and compliance; Laura Kolkman , global health care organization IT administration; Andy Swenson, security services and commercial marketplace; and Richard Newman, information security and research. Clark is chief technology officer at EpicTide; Schellman is co-founder and executive vice president of SAS 70 Solutions Inc., Tampa; Kolkman is president of Kolkman & Associates LLC, Seminole; Swenson is director of security at Tribridge, Tampa; and Newman is assistant professor, computer and information science engineering at the University of Florida, Gainesville.

Steve Isler has been named eastern region sales director at Lagan Technologies, Maryland. Isler will be based in Clearwater and will be responsible for sales outreach in the eastern United States. Isler was vice president of sales for IC Intracom, Oldsmar.

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