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April 14, 2020

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Up Close with Joe Mayer | Lockheed Martin

Aerospace, Economic Development, Entrepreneurship, Featured, Leadership, Manufacturing, Space Coast EDC, Up Close

For over a half century, Lockheed Martin has had a strategic role on the Space Coast helping usher forward some of the industry’s most futuristic builds, from the earliest manned missions, to landing on the moon and the exciting development...

March 4, 2020

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Sharon Dubois | U.S. Bookkeeping Company

Featured, Financial, Money, Up Close

When you consider that some 87% of white-collar crime involves embezzlement by a company’s bookkeeper or financial administrator, the need for third-party or outsourced financial management begins to come into focus. Often, the books of a small business or startup...

January 1, 2020

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Up Close with Wayne Ivey: Brevard County Sheriff

Profiles, Up Close

The correlation between safe and crime-free communities and economic growth is recognized worldwide. One of the chief advocates of that outcome is Sheriff Wayne Ivey. He has been described as colorful, engaged and certainly outspoken. His video encouraging citizens to...

October 3, 2019

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Up Close with Marcia Gaedcke

Business, Chamber of Commerce, Titusville, Up Close

A lifetime resident of Titusville, Marcia Gaedcke knows that the Space Coast is truly the “comeback king,” having recovered from the devasting job losses from the Space Shuttle retirement at the beginning of a national recession. As a passionate and...

September 3, 2019

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Up Close with Michael Ayers | Melbourne Regional Chamber of Commerce

Chamber of Commerce, Melbourne, Up Close

Michael Ayers has an impressive professional background, having served as chief of staff for three Florida state agencies and as director of government relations with Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute in Orlando. Today, as president and CEO of the...

August 1, 2019

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Up Close with Peter Cranis | Executive Director of the Space Coast Office of Tourism

Featured, Tourism, Travel, Up Close

Though the comeback of the space industry is news being shouted from the rooftops, and rightfully so, one sector that helped Brevard bridge the gap when the Shuttle program was retired was our tourism industry. Always a vibrant and engaging...

July 8, 2019

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UpClose with Dale Ketcham

50th Anniversary of Lunar Landing, Aerospace, Up Close

One of the more farsighted things the state of Florida did was recognize the strategic importance, in terms of geography and infrastructure, that Cape Canaveral and Kennedy Space Center’s 140,000 acres represented, and the future Florida could play in aerospace...

July 1, 2019

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The Advantages of Being Nimble and Innovative: Brian Fleming and Omega Medical Imaging

Healthcare, Profiles, Up Close

Often, large corporations – which may dominate a market sector like the medical imaging field, which includes computerized tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and radiography – are so large they are not able to adapt to new, even disruptive,...

May 6, 2019

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Upclose with Dana Kilborne | EDC of Space Coast Florida

Business, Economic Development, Space Coast EDC, Talent Pipeline, Up Close, Women in Business

Dana Kilborne served as the president and CEO of Florida Bank of Commerce from its inception. Under her leadership, it grew to 18 locations across the state before it was acquired by Sunshine Bancorp Inc. in an all- stock merger...

March 29, 2019

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UpClose with Randy Fine

Featured, Up Close

Most know Representative Randy Fine as a passionate new member of Brevard’s legislative delegation in Tallahassee and an outspoken proponent of cleaning up the Indian River Lagoon. What most do not know, is he started his first successful business to...

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