The Gulf Coast Latin Chamber of Commerce has appointed officers for 2011. They include Chairman David Cumberland, CPA Associates; Vice-Chairman Joe Mercado, Community Coalition on Homelessness; Secretary Jason Fromi, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida; Treasurer Rosalia Holmlund, El Mariachi Loco; Past-Chairman Fermin Miranda, Fifth Third Bank; Director Patricia Castro, IBC Insurance; Director Jorge Chacón, Jorolco International; Director William English, Fifth Third Bank; Director Ervin Helmuth; Certified Health Coach; Legal Counsel Jim Delgado, Kallins, Little & Delgado Injury Attorneys.
Kim Kelly has been hired as area sales manager for Southwest Florida by 1st Choice Industries, a provider of construction, property management and business solutions.
Dick W. Woodall will manage the new small business unit for Bouchard Insurance’s Sarasota and Ft. Myers offices.
Sylvia Zimmerman has joined Michael Saunders & Co.’s southern Longboat Key office as an agent. She previously was with Prudential Palms Realty, where she was in that company’s top 2 percent of worldwide roster of agents and won its Chairman’s Circle and Legends awards.
Patricia Landsberg has joined the sales team at Terra Ceia Bay, representing Bay Club and Bay Pointe. She has been a successful agent for many high profile properties in Siesta Key, Longboat Key and Manatee County.
Financial adviser Thomas A. Esposito has joined the Raymond James Financial Services, Inc. office located at the First Federal Bank of Florida in Bradenton.
Steven Goldsmith has been promoted to chief technology officer at WAZAGUA, Inc.
Cihan Cobanoglu, associate professor of hospitality technology at the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee. has been named editor-in-chief of the only journal of hospitality and technology in the world.
The peer-reviewed journal covers topics by hospitality management experts, authors and scholars from around the world, including credit card security breaches, hotel website quality, and how technology is used by travel agencies.
