SPONSORS
2012 CEO COUNCIL FULL SPONSORS ARE:
THE TEAGUE FINANCIAL GROUP - NORTHWESTERN MUTUAL FINANCIAL NETWORK
The Teague Financial Group serves West Central Florida as the exclusive representative for the Northwestern Mutual Financial Network. The network office has more than $10 billion of life insurance in force, and more than 90 Financial Representatives serving clients from six offices in West Central Florida. Northwestern Mutual Financial Representatives work closely with clients to develop customized plans that help them meet long-term financial goals and objectives. We offer exclusive access to insurance products from Northwestern Mutual and an array of quality investment choices. Some of the services provided are Asset & Income Protection, Personal Planning, Education Funding, Business Planning, Investment Services, Estate Planning, Trust Services, Employee & Executive Benefits and Retirement Solutions. Years of helping customers plan for their futures and reach their financial goals, gives the Teague Financial Group the experience to analyze needs and examine the alternatives available. With access to a Network of specialists and an array of financial products and services, clients receive a personalized strategy to meet the needs and objectives. The Teague Financial Group recently moved to a new office located at 1511 North WestShore Blvd. Suite 500. The phone number is 813-875-2005 and the website is www.nmfn.com/teaguefinancialgroup.
VERIFIED LABEL, PRINT AND PROMOTIONS
Verified Label, Print and Promotions is a full service, single source provider for all the custom business consumables used in every company's daily operations and marketing efforts. They design, produce, distribute and manage every possible form of printing and logo promotional products. Their advanced software system provides our clients a custom web portal to search existing and new products, as well as place and track orders. This interactive portal also displays images of each item, pricing, current inventory, and order history. Verified brings a company-wide, management approach to all clients, large or small. They guarantee that each client gains significant improvements through single-source responsibility, streamlined operations, reduced procurement costs, and increased customer service. Visit www.verifiedlabel.com or email info@verifiedlabel.com
BRIDGELINE DIGITAL
Bridgeline Digital is a developer of an award-winning web experience management software suite and interactive business technology solutions that help customers leverage best in class web-based technologies to achieve their business objectives. The iAPPS Product Suite is an innovative SaaS solution that deeply unifies web Content Management, eCommerce, eMarketing, and web Analytics capabilities into the heart of websites, online stores, intranets, extranets or portals – enabling users to swiftly enhance and optimize the value of their web assets. iAPPS Content Manager is the recent winner of the 2010 CODiE Award for the Best Content Management Solution, globally. For more information, please visit www.bridgelinedigital.com.
CHILDREN'S BOARD OF HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY
The Children’s Board of Hillsborough County is here for you…Because of you! More than 20 years ago, our community’s citizens voted to invest a portion of their tax dollars to help children reach their fullest potential. Today, your Children’s Board is the leading voice and advocate for children and families across our community. Last year, your Children’s Board invested in up to 100 programs that touched more than 100,000 citizens. Your Children’s Board focuses on:
- Promoting Healthy Births: Helping thousands of women in our community deliver healthy babies.
- Improving School Readiness: Ensuring young children have access to supports needed to enter kindergarten ready to learn.
- Advancing School Achievement: Giving children the help they need – from after-school care to quality healthcare – to succeed in school.
- Helping Families Succeed: Offering families free access to services at our five Family Support and Resource Centers.
Who benefits? Taxpayers: realize a return on investment through self sufficient, successful families and safer schools and neighborhoods. Children and Families: receive seamless access to services across the entire system of care. Your Children’s Board also generates revenue for the community to help children and families. In the last five years, we’ve invested $35 million taxpayer dollars to generate $155 million new dollars into our community – a return on investment of over $4 for every new dollar directly benefiting children and families! Investing today means big payoffs tomorrow: Better students, Safer neighborhoods, a Productive workforce, and a More prosperous economy. To learn more about your Children’s Board, visit us online at
www.ChildrensBoard.org and get a free child’s admission to a popular local attraction.
GREENBERG TRAURIG Greenberg Traurig's Tampa office is home to a legal team focused on representing clients in a broad range of civil and criminal litigation, trial, and appellate practice in state and federal courts; alternative dispute resolution; environmental and land use law; labor and employment; construction, architecture, and engineering law; bankruptcy and creditors' rights; lending, federal and state taxation, and other financial matters; as well as business planning and transactions. The GT Tampa team is committed to providing practical legal counsel, promptly and efficiently, both to individuals and business organizations, from closely held companies to multinational corporations. GT's Tampa litigation practice encompasses international, multidistrict, class action, mass tort, and other complex litigation. We represent clients in a wide array of disputes involving environmental, land use, real estate, labor, employment, non-competition, trade secrets and other restrictive covenants, white collar crime, construction, intellectual property, bankruptcy and creditors' rights, taxation, and other business-related matters. In addition, we often assist clients with internal investigations involving alleged misconduct and defend enforcement actions involving federal, state, and local regulatory agencies. In both the civil and criminal areas, GT Tampa works with clients to develop and implement public relations and crisis management strategies. GT's firm culture is built on a strong tradition of community service. For more information, go to
www.gtlaw.com.
BLUECROSS BLUESHIELD OF FLORIDA
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida (BCBSF) is a leader in Florida's health industry. BCBSF is committed to improving the quality, accessibility and efficiency of health care for all Floridians. To this end, our corporate mission compels us to find real, meaningful solutions to some of the most critical health and social issues that face our state. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida has a unique role in advancing the health and well-being of Florida's citizens. Our purpose requires working for public policy that enables an excellent, efficient health system; affordable products and services; and protection for as many Floridians as possible. Today, as Floridians face a fundamental transformation in how health care is delivered, it is more important than ever that BCBSF help lead the way by enabling increased access and affordability, offering choices and simplicity, and partnering in our communities to serve the people of Florida. BCBSF and its subsidiaries serve more than 8.7 million people. Since 1944, the company has been dedicated to meeting the diverse needs of all those it serves by offering an array of choices. BCBSF is a not-for-profit, policyholder-owned, tax-paying mutual company. Headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, BCBSF is an independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, an association of independent Blue Cross and Blue Shield companies. For more information concerning BCBSF, please go to
www.bcbsfl.com.
CHERRY, BEKAERT & HOLLANDAs the Southeast's accounting and consulting Firm of Choice, Cherry, Bekaert & Holland, L.L.P. provides quality, cost-effective and value-added services to a diverse and successful client base by delivering the extensive industry specialization and service opportunities of a national firm, but with the accessibility, service continuity and level of personal relationship expected from a local business.
REFURBISHED OFFICE FURNITUREROF furniture has provided quality new and used office furniture in Tampa and beyond since 1991. ROF's commitment to quality and customer service has led to membership in Office Furniture Recyclers (OFR), an association comprised of 200 of the most highly renowned furniture remanufacturers in the country. ROF offers many services to help with office furniture needs, including moving and assembling new or used office furniture, and working to buy back furniture for replacement.
ALLTRUST INSURANCE
Alltrust Insurance is an independent insurance agency specializing in Group Health Insurance and all other employee benefits. The key word is independent. Clients are the only priority. We are their advocates. Their trusted advisors. Their source of candid, timely, un-biased information that allows them to make the right healthcare insurance decisions. It is our many years of experience, personal service, integrity and sound recommendations that have made us Florida's #1 employee benefits advisor. That's the Alltrust difference.
EVERBANK
EverBank, formerly Bank of Florida, is a story of constant motion: company growth and industry innovation. Every company has a story to tell. For the EverBank® Family of Companies, it all began many years ago in Jacksonville, Florida—recognized today as one of America's fastest-growing cities, a thriving financial center, and home to the corporate headquarters for EverBank and its Family of Companies. From the start, we've aligned with other industry leaders equally committed to exceptional service—those with a proven expertise in particular financial arenas. Equally central to our growth and success has been a willingness to evolve with the times and lead with the kind of entrepreneurialism that enables brilliant ideas to come to fruition and innovative, award-winning financial products and services to be brought to market.
EverBank Financial Corp is a privately held bank holding company now headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida. With approximately $11.5 billion in assets, $8.9 billion in deposits, approximately 2,000 employees, and over 700,000 customers nationwide, EverBank is one of the industry's fastest growing, high performing bank holding companies.
EverBank provides banking, investing and lending products nationwide directly to consumers and through a variety of businesses. EverBank has a 4-star rating from BauerFinancial. Banks rated 4 stars or more are considered "safe, financially sound and operating well above their regulatory capital requirements." In addition, EverBank has received numerous awards including Forbes and Online Banking Report's "Best of the Web," Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine's "Best Checking Account" as well as other servicing, banking, and technology honors.
OFFSITE TECH
Managing and maintaining an IT network can be costly, complex and labor intensive. To guard against computer downtime and technology problems, Offsite Technology Solutions has a comprehensive set of resources that proactively monitors, manages, and maintains the entire computer network with less downtime at a significantly lower cost than a company can do internally. Offsite Technology Solutions will manage as much of, or as little of, an IT network and support as needed (remotely and onsite). Solutions range from cloud computing in E-Solutions' (Tier 3 SAS 70 Type II certified) data center to full service sales and support for an entire network. They are experts in designing, deploying and maintaining an IT infrastructure. Their team of certified engineers use industry best practice standards for technical support, security, disaster recovery and data backup to provide the most reliable network available.
Advantica provides a variety of robust and flexible vision and dental care plans to commercial health plans, government sponsored health plans and employer groups, National provider networks consist of approximately 16,000 retail and independent optical locations, and more than 108.000 dental practices.
DALE CARNEGIE
Founded in 1912, Dale Carnegie Training has evolved from one man's belief in the power of self-improvement to a performance-based training company with offices worldwide. We focus on giving people in business the opportunity to sharpen their skills and improve their performance in order to build positive, steady, and profitable results.
Dale Carnegie's original body of knowledge has been constantly updated, expanded and refined through nearly a century's worth of real-life business experiences. The 160 Carnegie Managing Directors around the world use their training and consulting services with companies of all sizes in all business segments to increase knowledge and performance. The result of this collective, global experience is an expanding reservoir of business acumen that our clients rely on to drive business results.
Dale Carnegie Tampa Bay, the local franchise, is a performance based organization that has been highly awarded over the past years. They have received the Greater Tampa Bay Chamber of Commerce Small Business of the Year Award and have also received Territory of the Year award with Dale Carnegie and Associates, signifying excellence in instruction, market penetration and overall growth. Dale Carnegie Tampa Bay is committed to transforming potential into performance. Dale Carnegie Training emphasizes practical principles and processes by designing programs that offer people the knowledge, skills and practices they need to add value to the business. Connecting proven solutions with real-world challenges, Dale Carnegie Training is recognized internationally as the leader in bringing out the best in people.
VOLOGY DATA SYSTEMS
Ranked in the Inc. 5000 list of fastest growing private companies in the US for six consecutive years, Vology is a leading global technology solutions provider that serves tens of thousands of customers across 80 countries. Vology Data Systems has one of the industry's largest inventories of top quality new and pre-owned manufacturer products, including Juniper (Elite Partner) Cisco, Extreme Networks, Avaya, HP, Brocade, ShoreTel and F5 solutions. Vology Data Systems provides same-day and next-day shipping on most items as well as flexible purchasing and leasing terms. The company offers total IT asset lifecycle management expertise to help customers power their enterprises as their technology requirements evolve. Vology is headquartered in Tampa Bay, Florida with offices in Austin, Denver, Oklahoma, New Orleans, Sacramento and Syracuse. For further information, please visit www.vds.com.
SCHIFINO LEE ADVERTISING AND BRANDING
Schifino Lee is the one team in the Tampa Bay region that has helped create some of the most recognized brands in America. Our success stories include consumer brands, B2B brands, and non-profit brands. We Inspire Desire™ and make people believe in you.
This means we help you find the right way to express your brand, communicate with your audiences, and motivate customers to take action.
Whatever you need – a brand growing strategy, integrated advertising campaign, social media, Web site creation, promotional film, training presentation, sales collateral, or any other tool – we offer you proven experience and provide you with solutions for successful marketing communication.Schifino Lee has accomplished this for 20 years. Explore our work for clients like AT&T, Cott Beverages, and WellCare at www.SchifinoLee.com. Ask our clients to share their experiences. Connect with Schifino Lee and discover how we can Inspire Desire™ to grow your business.
2012 CEO COUNCIL SOCIAL SPONSOR IS:
SPRING SOCIAL AT TROY SIMPSON'S HOME:
ADAMS & REESE, P.A. - Member: Marilyn Healy
2012 CEO COUNCIL MEMBERSHIP MEETING SPONSORS ARE:
JANUARY:
Sirata Beach Hotel & Conference Center - Member: Gregg Nicklaus
FEBRUARY:
eLogic Learning - Member: Mark Anderson
MARCH:
Intelladon - Marc Blumenthal
APRIL:
Tampa's Lowry Park Zoo
MAY:
Gulf Coast Business Review
JUNE:
University of Tampa - Frank Ghannadian
JULY:
AUGUST:
No Meeting
SEPTEMBER:
Sirata Beach Hotel & Conference Center - Member: Gregg Nicklaus
OCTOBER:
Advantica , LLC
NOVEMBER:
DECEMBER:
