April 23, 2024

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Daytona Beach & Volusia County

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Must-Know Contacts

Boyd
Boyd
Bornia
Bornia
» George Anderson, hotel developer, tourism industry leader

» Manuel Bornia, president and COO of Daytona Beach International Festival, summer home of the London Symphony Orchestra

» Deborah Boyd, CEO of the New Smyrna Beach Area Visitors Bureau

» Robin Braig, president of Daytona International Speedway

» J. Hyatt Brown, chairman, Brown & Brown, No. 48 on Florida Trend’s list of the 150 biggest publicly traded companies in Florida and the sixth-largest such firm in the U.S.

» Richard Brown, president and CEO of Hayward Brown, an insurance company

Bruno
Bruno
» Frank Bruno, chairman of the Volusia County Council

» Bob Coleman, Florida Power & Light’s external affairs manager

» Bob Davis, president and CEO of the Hotel/Motel Association of Volusia County

Doran
Doran
Dinneen
Dinneen
» Jim Dinneen, manager of Volusia County

» Ted Doran, attorney, Doran, Wolfe, Ansay & Kundid

» Phil Ehlinger, interim director of the Department of Economic Development

Ehlinger
Ehlinger
Fifer
Fifer

» Jeff Feasel, president and CEO of Halifax Health

» Jayne Fifer, president and CEO of Volusia Manufacturers Association

» Alex Ford Jr., attorney, Landis Graham French

Ghyabi
Ghyabi

» Larry Fornari, chairman of the Halifax Area Advertising Authority

» Brian France, chairman of NASCAR

» Maryam Ghyabi, president of Ghyabi & Associates, traffic engineers, planners

Jaffe
Jaffe

» Mike Helton, president of NASCAR

» Mori Hosseini, chairman and CEO of ICI Homes and former chairman of Halifax Health

» Dick Jaffe, president of the Jaffe Corp., builder and developer

Kennedy
Kennedy
» John P. Johnson, president of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

» J. Lester Kaney, attorney, Cobb Cole

» Lesa France Kennedy, CEO of International Speedway Corp.

» Mark LaRose, president and CEO of Florida Hospital Memorial Medical Center

Libby
Libby
» Wendy B. Libby, president of Stetson University

» Charles Lichtigman, builder and developer

Lynn
Lynn
» State Sen. Evelyn Lynn

» Dennis McGee, director of the Daytona Beach International Airport

» Bill McMunn, president and CEO of Consolidated-Tomoka Land Co.

» Sharon Mock, president and CEO of the Daytona Beach Area Convention and Visitors Bureau

Poor
Poor
» Don Poor, director of the Ocean Center

» Rafael Ramirez, president and CEO of East Coast Community Bank

Reed
Reed

» Trudie Kibbe Reed, president of Bethune-Cookman University

» Jim Rose, attorney, Rice & Rose

» John Saunders, president of International Speedway Corp.

» Tom Staed, founding chairman of the Florida Tourism Commission

Triplett
Triplett
» Kent Sharples, president of Daytona State College

» Renee Tallevast, executive director of the West Volusia Tourism Advertising Authority

» Bishop Derek Triplett, community leader, Hope Fellowship Church

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