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When Laura Chiesman was named president of FirstWave Financial in January 2016, she had already spent 14 years helping the company grow and develop alongside founder Tom Kirk. She credits Kirk as a mentor and role model, citing his inspiring…
After earning her degree in communications and public relations, Erica Lemp knew her love for working with people would be a major factor when deciding on a career path. Once settling on the Space Coast, she went to work with…
Kathleen Register is the associate director for the IGNITE 360 Business Mentoring Program at weVENTURE at Florida Tech’s Nathan M. Bisk College of Business. The program facilitates mentor relationships between businesses and qualified local professionals, and provides a great deal…
“The waste services industry is highly competitive, and that’s the part of my role I enjoy most.” “Women, I believe, are naturally intuitive and pay close attention not only to what is being said, but also how it’s being said,…
Kari Tesenair has quietly risen through the ranks of Christian Care Ministry, a healthcare sharing organization headquartered in Melbourne. She joined the organization as an IT project manager overseeing such projects as the implementation of Electronic Data Exchange (EDI) for…
Alexandrea “Alex” R. Simser is a well-rounded business attorney whose practice focuses on all aspects of business law, from new business formations and intellectual property protection to growth through hiring and firing, mergers and acquisitions, business dissolutions and everything in…
MARTHA SCHOLZ Following a 25-year career in higher education at three national universities, Scholz began a second career as the founder and owner of Golf USA, a successful franchise retail golf store. Eleven years later, the business was sold and…
Sherry Acanfora-Ruohomaki is the CEO and owner of K9 Kampus, a luxury dog daycare and boarding facility located in Melbourne. K9 Kampus offers 21,000 sq. ft. of indoor playgrounds, luxury boarding suites, full-services grooming and a 3,300-sq.-ft. fully matted and…
As movie goers and critics are discussing the inspiring film “Hidden Figures,” based on the book by Margot Lee Shetterly which chronicles “the untold story of black women mathematicians who helped win the space race,” another group of equally- remarkable…
Larsen Motorsports None of this is just me! It’s all of us, together, working towards the same goals,” said Elaine Larsen, pointing around the cavernous, hallowed out complex that has evolved into Larsen Motorsports, part of Florida Tech’s Research and…