Palm Beach Renegades A handful of young entrepreneurs is shaking up the status quo and taking the island by storm.
By Michelle M. Havich | photography by MICHAEL RAVENEY
The setting is not atypical of a dinner party in Palm Beach—a beautiful table is set up by the pool of a gorgeous beachfront home, under a clear night sky dotted with stars. The group that gathers around this table, however, is a bit different from the traditional blue-blazer crowd. Forget Stubbs & Wootton slippers; this crowd is wearing flip-flops, if they’re wearing shoes at all. This is the next generation of Palm Beach trailblazers—young, successful, and out to prove they are different than generations before, but no less driven to succeed. The group 100 PALM BEACH ILLUSTRATED
includes designer Amanda Strong Boalt, model Bettina Anderson, developer Steve Myers Jr. and Rick Moeser, vice president of Christie’s Great Estates. Up from Miami are real estate developer Michael Capponi and his girlfriend, jewelry designer Anna Mixon. Capponi, who has been traveling back and forth setting up relief efforts in Haiti, says he comes up to Palm Beach to get away from the hectic Miami scene, and to unwind. He picked the perfect night to do just that. The unofficial leader on this night under the stars is Spencer Antle, the founder and
Toasting the good life (clockwise from left): Meryl Villacorta, Steve Myers Jr., Jenna Marra, Anna Mixon, Michael Capponi, Linda Uribe, Rick Moeser, Benton Bohannon, Shannon Walton, Bettina Anderson, Spencer Antle, Amanda Strong Boalt