New July Members! Advertising Brick Media Business Service Talinity Education St. Peter Claver Catholic School Entertainment Glazer Children's Museum Premier Martial Arts Tampa Food and Beverage 7th and Grove Health & Beauty You ...

Member News Bradley announced the firm was named to the list of "Frequently Recommended Law Firms" in the 2021 BTI Consulting Group report. Carlton Fields announced Alexa M. Nordman and Kai Su have joined the firm's Tampa office. Florida Poly's ...

Leaders Ready to Fuel a Post-Pandemic Education Ecosystem The transformational power of education not only uplifts individuals, it uplifts entire communities. Yet, as public schools innovated to meet the needs of students and families during the ...

Jill Witecki Director of Marketing & Community Relations, Tampa Theatre LT'14 Tell us, why LTA? As a PR and Marketing professional, I know that the No. 1 best promotion you can ever hope for is positive word-of-mouth. So it’s ...

Member News Florida Polytechnic University’s Data Science and Business Analytics Department has been named to an international list of the 10 Most Prominent Analytics Institutes 2021 by Analytics Insight Magazine. Imperium Data ranked #2 on ...

The Chamber's Key Votes 2021 is out! 

MBA Cohort Spotlights - July 2021 Congratulations to Cohort '19 member, Danny Persaud, MidFlorida Armored & ATM Services, Inc., on being named a finalist for the 2021 Small Business of the Year awards! The MBA Joint Cohort Luncheon was held ...

Member news for Jul. 20, 2021.

In response to the Department of the Air Force’s selection of MacDill Air Force Base (AFB) as a candidate location to host the next active-duty main operating base for twenty-four KC-46A Pegasus aircraft on May 13th, the Tampa Bay community ...

Cohort Spotlight Congratulations to Cohort 2021 Member, Ben Walker, Buyer's Point, for being featured on Amazon's Black Business Accelerator! Cohort 2022 Member, Ursella Slusher, Home Helpers Home Care, participated in the June 23rd hiring event ...

Congratulations to our 2021 Small Business of the Year Finalists! Outstanding Business Leader Rolfe G. Arnhym, Vistage Florida/Arnhym & Associates David Bailey, Southern States TOYOTAlift Jeff Gigante, Forbici Modern Italian Tim ...

Member News Imperium Data Networks has made the honoree list for the 2021 Tampa Bay Business Journal's Fast 50 Fastest Growing Companies in Tampa. Shumaker announced Associate Junior Ambeau has been selected for the first-ever Advancing Racial ...

Member News Crisis Center of Tampa Bay TransCare expands Baker Act transport to include Pasco County students. Florida Poly has received a new grant that will help the university connect and inspire more high school girls with an interest in STEM. ...

New June Members! Business Service CSI Companies Inc E-Assessments, Inc Sanibu Consulting Construction EnviroBuild, LLC Florida Climate Worx Gilbane Building Company Kimmins Contracting Corp Ridge Valley Exteriors Events, Conventions, & ...

Impacts of the Pandemic on the hospitality industry By Kristy Tozer and Jeff Chernoff We’ve heard the recent stories about hospitality industry’s disproportionate challenges throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. We spoke to three leaders in ...

Name: Rachel Feinman LT Class Year: 2018 Company: VP of Innovation, TGH InnoVentures at Tampa General Hospital Tell us, why LTA? I love the opportunity to spend time with my LT classmates and bond with folks from other classes. It also allows ...

Catalyst The Chamber held a very informative Public Policy Roundtable titled, “The Intersection of State and Local Education Policy” featuring Florida Department of Education’s Jacob Oliva, Chancellor of K-12 Education, and ...

The Importance of a Reliable Banking Partner for the Road Ahead Chris Kneer SBA Lending Division Head As the owner of a small, minority-owned business, we realize that you may feel overlooked by banks. According to the Small Business ...

The Tampa Bay Chamber is recruiting for its fifth cohort of the Minority Business Accelerator (MBA). This program helps Black and Hispanic business owners who are concerned with their lack of business growth and want to learn how to compete in the ...

Leadership Tampa, a program of the Tampa Bay Chamber, celebrated the graduation of 37 members of the class of 2021 on June 23, 2021, at the Yacht Starship in Tampa, FL. The 2021 class marks the 50th class to graduate from the nationally recognized ...

Member News Bradley announced that six attorneys in the firm’s Tampa office have been selected to the 2021 edition of Florida Super Lawyers as Super Lawyers or Rising Stars. Buyer’s Point is featured on Amazon’s Black Business ...

Member News Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP is pleased to announce that attorney John C. Hood has joined the Tampa office; Bradley attorney, Giovanni P. Giarratana, has been appointed to the Board of Governors of the Florida Bar’s Young ...

Let’s begin by saying that these three Leaders are worthy of their own dedicated piece. It was a fool’s errand to think that their accomplishments and approaches to Leadership Tampa and Collegiate Leadership Tampa could be properly ...

Steve Hayes, President & CEO LT Class Year: 2000 Visit St. Pete/Clearwater 1. Tell us, why LTA? Paul Catoe (LT 92) was my boss and he felt that it would be beneficial for me to get more involved in the community. He highly recommended the ...

Member News Axiom Bank has expanded its team with the hiring of Sul Hemani as VP, SBA Relationship Manager. Carlton Fields is pleased to announce that corporate and tax attorney William G. Najmy has joined the firm as an associate in its Tampa ...

Congratulations to our 2021 Small Business of the Year Semi-Finalists! Outstanding Business Leader Rolfe G. Arnhym, Vistage Florida/Arnhym & Associates David Bailey, Southern States TOYOTAlift Jeff Gigante, Forbici Modern Italian Tim Moore, ...

Q1 Impact Cohort '21 Metrics Summary $1 million+ Gross Sales 2 Jobs Created 5 New Corporate Contracts $175,000+ Secured New Capital 2 Strategic Introductions Made Cohort '22 Metrics Summary $1.5 million+ Gross Sales 29 Jobs ...

Member News Florida Polygraduate project aims to transform traffic in Brazilian city’Florida Poly‘s new Applied Research Center (ARC) has received full funding by the state Legislature. Greater Tampa Realtorssupport affordable ...

Member News Bradley announced that Chambers and Partners has highly ranked 108 of the firm’s attorneys and 34 Bradley practice areas in the Chambers USA legal industry referral guide. HCA Healthcare hospitals, free-standing emergency rooms, ...

In 2019, the Tampa Bay Chamber announced at the Annual Meeting that it would be rolling out a new program for college students in the area that will follow the Leadership Tampa experience and provide them with connections and insight into our Tampa ...