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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
August 30, 2023 – Apple Newsroom – Minority Business Accelerator Alum Tony Selvaggio is one of twelve entrepreneurs in the nation, and the only one from Florida, that Apple has selected for its Impact Accelerator. This is part of the ...
Tampa Bay Business & Wealth Magazine – Managing Editor Jo-Lynn Brown spotlighted the Chamber’s Minority Business Accelerator being recognized at the World Chambers Congress in Switzerland this summer. In the interview, Avril Stinson, ...
August 1,2023 Tampa, FL – When Avril Stinson stepped onto the stage of the International Chambers of Commerce World Chambers Competition in Geneva, Switzerland, her heart was pounding extra hard with a combination of gratitude and jitters. The ...
Floyd Freeman, MBA Cohort 2023, was profiled for his work in the construction of the new Judy Genshaft Honors College at USF. Freeman is a graduate of the USF College of Engineering (Class of 96) and 27 years later his company, CableLytics, ...
Business Accelerator 2024 Cohort’s Sherrel Sampson was spotlighted by the Moffit Cancer Center Endeavor digital newsletter, which sees on average more than 116,000 unique visits per month. Congratulations to Sampson, Founder of Canviiy, LLC. ...
MBA Info Session Set for June 30 Since 2017, the Chamber’s Minority Business Accelerator has been working with Black and Hispanic owned small businesses, helping entrepreneurs access financial capital and increase their networks of potential ...
Learning Spanish Can Benefit Your Organization By Lyl Polanco, Director, Spanish Consultants and MEP Cohort ’23 Participant As the Tampa Bay area continues to grow and attract a diverse population, many organizations are recognizing the ...
“Today helps. Every day helps,” said Raoul Thomas, Founder & CEO of Milena International, Inc. during a program break May 19th at the Chamber office. “I learn new things to help scale my business every time.” The ...
Congratulations to MBA Cohort ’22 participant David Delancy, President, One Day Came Inc. and MBA Cohort ’23 participant Charles Jackson, President/CEO, Mijan Construction on graduating from the Build with Us @ Suffolk program! ...
For more than 20 years, I've witnessed the power of relationships. Not just any relationship, but the "right," and I'd even venture to say, "divine" relationships. The right relationships should expand your network and your net worth. The right ...
MBA Cohort Spotlights - April 2022 Congratulations to '22 Cohort member, Tony Selvaggio with eSmart Recycling for being accepted into the Stanford Latino Entrepreneurship Scaling Program! '20 Cohort member, OHC Environmental Engineering, ...
MBA Cohort Spotlights - March 2022 Cohort '21 member, Jerel McCants, Jerel McCants Architecture Inc., was featured by FOX 13 Tampa Bay. Check it out here Cohort '22 member, Lennise Jackson-Germany, Livy O's, is hosting a Pre-Mother's Day ...
United One Communications’ (UOC) Story: United One Communication (UOC) was conceived in 2015 by Carl Chaisson with the vision of being the preferred trusted global leader in integrating information technology with innovative solutions to ...
MBA Cohort Spotlights - September 2021 2022 Cohort member, Tony Selvaggio with eSmart Recycling, has shared his thoughts on equality of opportunity in today's world and the Minority Business Accelerator program. Congratulations to Tony ...
MBA Cohort Spotlights - February 2022 Congratulations to 2020 cohort member, OHC Environmental Engineering, on securing two new projects, the TECO Big Bend Power Station and the McIntosh Power Generating Station. Cohort 2023 had a great session ...
MBA Cohort Spotlights - October 2021 Suffolk Construction hosted the MBA joint cohort session for October at their office. View Suffolk's diversity initiatives here. “We thank you for your partnership— Our team truly enjoyed ...
MBA Cohort Spotlights - November 2021 Congratulations to Cohorts '20 and '21 on completion of the Minority Business Accelerator Program! Pictured: Cohort '20 Chair, Colette Glover-Hannah, Founder, Hannah's Shoebox, Envision Construction Services, ...
MBA Cohort Spotlights - December 2021 Congratulations to Cohort 2022 member, Lennise Germany, Livy O's, on being featured in The KNOW Women of Tampa Bay! Congratulations to 2021 Cohort member, Shaun Womack, Versa Tile & Marble, Inc., on being ...
MBA Cohort Spotlights - January 2022 Two Minority Business Accelerator Cohort participants, Matcon Construction Services, Cohort '19, and One Day Came Inc., Cohort '22, landed on the Tampa Bay Business Journal's Largest General ...
Historically clients have purchased electronic security systems to protect their organizations from unforeseen external circumstances. What is not widely known is that companies of all industries and sizes operating around the world lose 5% of ...