Membership Highlights

JANUARY - FEBRUARY 2021

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Chair of the Board | Brian Barakat Barakat + Bossa, P.A. Chair-Elect | Ana Chaoui Grove Bank & Trust First Vice Chairman | Thad Adams The Allen Morris Company Treasurer | Sara Hernandez First Citizens Bank Parliamentarian | Addys Kuryla Florida Power & Light Immediate Past Chairman | Patrick O’Connell Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices EWM Realty Vice Chairman-Global Business Affairs | Deirdre Nero NERO Immigration Law, P.L. Vice Chairman-Community Affairs | Mike Lasley Northwestern Mutual - Coral Gables Vice Chairman-Business & Economic Development Carolina Rendeiro, Connect2Global Vice Chairman-Member Affairs | Lauren Dowlen Lowell International Realty Vice Chairman-Special Events | Darryl Rosenbaum Bigfoot Construction Vice Chairman-Gov’t & Legislative Affairs | Maria Garcia Kozyak Tropin & Throckmorton Trustee Council Chair | Eric Gros-Dubois EPGD Business Law Chairman’s Appointee | Martha de la Peña Rojas Florida Blue

BOARD OF DIRECTORS Ricardo Alberty, The Well Groomed Gentleman Steven Bradley, Clutch Burger Natalia Collazo, Miami Heat/AA Arena Chris Colston, Second Chance Credit LLC Amy Donner, Coral Gables Magazine Frank Fernandez, CenterState Bank Alex Fonseca, Apollo Bank Matthias Kammerer, The Biltmore Hotel Alina Menendez, American Airlines Cristina Miller, Intermedia Touch, Inc. Rene Negron, Equitable Advisors Elsa Powers, Doctors Hospital, part of Baptist Health South Florida Monique Selman, Albany Homes Construction Lillian Ser, Ser & Associates, PLLC Anabella Smith, Zyscovich Architects Efrain Sora, Sora Global Risk Advisors Cinthya Urena, City National Bank of Florida Myrna Vaca, UHealth Jessica Wilcox, J. Wilcox Consulting

EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS City of Coral Gables | Commissioner Patricia Keon City of Coral Gables | Julian Perez Business Improvement District of Coral Gables Coral Gables Community Foundation | Mary Snow The Beacon Council of Miami-Dade | James C. Kohnstamm

President & CEO Mark A. Trowbridge

77 Sport Bar Absolute Web Back Office Essentials, LLC Engineer Accounting LLC

Gensler

Hines

Liberty Extraction & Drying

Miami Alkaline Water

Pita Weber Del Prado Republica Havas/Havas House RM PACKAGING GRAPHICS LLC

Root Cause Method SnapDivorce LLC SUN4 INC Synergy Scribes Synovus Bank

The Franchise Consulting Company

The Reserve at The Plaza TUR KITCHEN

Urban Resource VIM Global Advisors

Zediker Law Firm ZenChange Marketing

*BOLD denotes new Trustee Member | *BOLD denotes new GEM Member

Please be advised that the annual process of electing Officers and Directors for our Chamber is now underway. The general membership of our Chamber has the opportunity to provide names of candidates to the Nominating Committee, as well as nominate members directly via a petition for Board membership. In order to be nominated directly, a member must submit his or her request to be added to the ballot by returning twenty-five (25) signatures of Chamber members in good standing to the Chamber office by Thursday, April 1st at Noon. Any submission from the membership will be added to the slate of nominees determined by the Chamber’s Nominating Committee and Board of Directors, led by Ana Chaoui of Grove Bank & Trust, our Chamber Chairman-Elect. a Chamber Board elections and member voting will be held in midMay, 2021 and you will receive your ballot electronically. Please contact the Chamber at (305) 446-1657 if you have any questions regarding this process. coralgableschamber.org | CHAMBER CONNECTION | March - April 2021