The successes, sessions, and highlights of the Minority Business Accelerator for Quarter 1, 2024.

Drawing inspiration from the PezCo journey in the Minority Business Accelerator's Cohort '24, Black and Hispanic owned businesses are invited to attend the June 12th MBA Information Session at the Tampa Bay Chamber in Downtown Tampa. The 2-year ...

News Channel 8's "Back to Basics" Series featured Chamber Member Ice Cold Air May 15, 2024! The interview segment with franchisor Ashley Butler had her driving a car into the Daytime studio to teach the hosts how to change a tire. For six-and-a-half ...

When the Special Operations Forces Week was held in Tampa on May 6 - 10, 2024, Chamber Member company United One Communications was in the thick of it. The conference attracted 17,000+ attendees and 700 exhibitors to the Tampa Convention Center for ...

The USF Office of Supplier Diversity in partnership with Skanska USA is excited to announce recruitment for the 2024-2025 Mentor Protégé Program. The Tampa Bay Chamber is a proud community partner and will play a vital role submitting ...

Congratulations to Tampa Bay Chamber Members on winning the prestigious "Women Who Win" 2024 Awards by the Tampa Bay Business & Wealth Magazine! 17 categories in all and the new TBBW Icon Award! Women Who Win awards, created by TBBW Magazine, ...

"After over a decade in the health care industry, Lennise Germany was ready for a challenge. So, in 2014, Germany applied, interviewed, and was selected for a promotion at work. But as fate would have it, the job offer Germany looked forward to was ...

Canviiy will now be sold in 6,000+ retail stores nationwide with its expansion into Walgreens! Congratulations to our MBA '24 Cohort Member and its inimitable Founder & CEO, Sherrel Sampson. Canviiy CEO, Sherrel Sampson, says “The company ...

Now thru March 19, 2024 Tampa Bay Chamber's Chair of the Minority Business Development Accelerator Alumni is giving away hundreds of dollars in services, in exchange for food. Ashley Butler's creativity was featured on Fox 13 Tampa Bay, showcased by ...

Business Journals across the nation held the annual Mentoring Monday on February 26. Here at home, the Tampa Bay Business Journal selected 33 of the most influential businesswomen in our community to serve as mentors during its 11th Annual Mentoring ...

Babcox Media, serving the auto dealer, auto care and enthusiast industries, is sharing Ashley Butler's story with readers nationwide! The graduate of the Tampa Bay Chamber's Minority Business Accelerator 2021 Cohort is called a "Vehicle Care ...

Spectrum's News cameras visited Ortega Custom Cabinets, as part of their story on the $134,000 Grant from JPMorgan Chase to the Tampa Bay Chamber's Minority Business Accelerator. CEO Damaris Ortega, a graduate of the accelerator's 2023 Cohort, was ...

Chairing and Celebrating Diversity and Entrepreneurship: The Growth and Service Diversity of the 2024-2025 Class of the Tampa Bay Chamber Minority Business Accelerator I am excited to share the remarkable journey we are embarking on with the ...

The Tampa Bay Chamber's Minority Business Accelerator Receives $134,000 from JPMorgan Chase to Empower Growth and Economic Inclusion for Underrepresented Business Owners in the Region TAMPA, FL. - The Tampa Bay Chamber has received $134,000 from ...

Tampa Bay Business & Wealth Magazine has revealed this year's finalists for its Women Who Win Awards. Congratulations to the more than 30 finalists on this list with Chamber ties - more than 60% of the finalists! In all, 54 amazing women are ...

TBBJ Editor Alexis Muellner presented the Chamber’s newest cohort selected to the accelerator in his exclusive, “Tampa Bay Chamber’s Minority Business Accelerator Set to Build Capital, Scale and Sustainability for its 2025 ...

Florida Trend Magazine’s feature on “Rising Executives” profiled Tampa Bay’s own Sherrel Sampson. The career switch from corporate America to entrepreneurship was documented in the story creatively headlined ...

The Tampa Bay Chamber took the opportunity of its 138th Annual Meeting to look back at the moments and members who helped create milestones for our region. During a series of interviews filmed at Vū Tampa Bay, a group of Chamber Members came ...

In the December issue of Florida Trend, reporter Nancy Dahlberg spotlighted Chamber Member and alum of the 2022 Cohort of the Minority Business Accelerator, Tony Selvaggio. The native of Venezuela's story was featured in the Next Gen section. It's ...

The Tampa Bay Chamber’s Small Business of the Year Awards on November 16th marked the 43rd year of the awards. More than 500 guests were on-hand at the Seminole Hard Rock & Casino Tampa when SBOY history was made with its first winner from ...

The Tampa Bay Chamber proudly announced the winners of the 2023 Small Business of the Year Awards on November 16 at the Seminole Hard Rock & Casino Tampa. Congratulations to BoylenPoint Contender Dealership, named Startup Business of the Year; ...

Updated Post: November 16, 2023 - Paragon Cyber Solutions Wins SBOY 2023 - 5 - 20 employees category. August 11, 2023 – WFLA News Channel 8 reporter Linnie Suppall interviewed 2023 Small Business of the Year finalist Courtney Jackson after a ...

News cameras of ABC Action News visited the U.S. headquarters of MAS Global in Tampa to showcase the work of its Founder & CEO to increase the number of women and Latinas in the technology industry. The news coverage comes after Monica Hernandez ...

Jerel McCants, President of Jerel McCants Architecture, Inc., was honored by the American Institute of Architects in the Tampa Bay region! The graduate of the 2021 Cohort of the Tampa Bay Chamber's Minority Business Accelerator is the recipient of ...

October 19, 2023 - JP Morgan Chase selected Tampa Based MAS Global Consulting for its special coverage during National Hispanic Heritage Month in the Jacksonville Business Journal. MAS, founded by Monica Hernandez and in the Tampa Bay ...

Tampa, FL – For Monica Hernandez, Founder & Chief Executive Officer of MAS Global Consulting, Inc., living up to her company’s name is about more than brand alignment. The “Mas” in MAS Global is the Spanish word for ...

MAS Global’s Monica Hernandez: in 2024's Top 100 Most Influential Hispanic Technology Leaders October 3, 2023 – The Hispanic Technology Executive Council honored the nation’s most influential Hispanic tech executives selected from ...

September 18, 3023 - Attorney Edward Reyes, in the Chamber's Minority Business Accelerator 2024 Cohort, was interviewed on Tampa Bay's Morning Blend Show on safeguards to protect assets and ensure that your financial and physical assets are ...

September 15, 2023 – Radio Rumba Interview on Minority Business Accelerator ’25 Cohort – Spanish language radio interview with popular host SaryKarmen Rivera was done on the last Friday before applications are due for the Minority ...

The Tampa Bay Chamber is proud to partner with our Member companies of TECO and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to celebrate local businesses in the region! Once again, during the 2023 NFL Season of the Bucs, the "Business Game Changers" program rewarded ...