March 18, 2024

Amy Keller

Florida Trend Executive Editor • akeller@floridatrend.com

Amy Keller

Amy Keller is executive editor of Florida Trend and oversees the magazine’s editorial department. Keller was named to the post in February 2024, after previously serving as interim executive editor and managing editor. She first joined the magazine in 2005, after more than a decade covering Congress as a reporter for Roll Call newspaper. During her two stints at Florida Trend, she has covered everything from state politics to the legal arena, education, technology and health care. She has won numerous journalism awards, including a first place Green Eyeshade Award in 2022 from the Society of Professional Journalists for public service in magazine journalism for her in-depth look at cryptocurrency. The same year, she won a Green Eyeshade for general news writing for her profile of Florida Trend’s 2021 Floridian of the Year, Lift Orlando. Keller’s writings have also appeared in Salon, The New Republic, Broadcasting & Cable magazine, REALTOR Magazine, the Atlanta Jewish Times, the Detroit Jewish News and other publications. Keller graduated from The Ohio State University in 1994 with a bachelor’s degree in journalism.

Articles by Keller:

Driver's Seat
Pursuing a career in transportation made sense to Michelle Maikisch, a ninth-generation Floridian who grew up in a family of engineers and farmers in Cottondale, a rural town in the Florida Panhandle. Her father was an engineer for the State Road Department, the predecessor to the Florida Department of Transportation. Other family members also worked for the transportation department. “I've just about been around transportation my entire life,” she says.
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Food Chain
Looking for ways to drive more foot traffic to a Kissimmee flea market he purchased in 2015, Nadeem Battla met with Syd Levy, who once owned Flea World in Sanford. Levy told him that people went to Flea World for the food, and they stayed for the shopping, says Battla.
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Custom-Made
Peter Quinter doesn't spend much time behind a desk. On any given day, the trade attorney might be at a port warehouse, aboard a freighter or inside a Boeing 747 helping clients deal with import or export hiccups and advocating to get their shipments back on track.
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Economic Engine
Brightline's upcoming train service to Orlando is providing an economic boost to Central Florida. The company's $100-million vehicle maintenance facility — dubbed Basecamp — will employ 100 workers, and the train carrier has partnered with Siemens USA (which manufactures its trains), railroad contractor Herzog and Valencia College to create a curriculum to train students for careers as train mechanics.
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A Clean Start
For decades, the five-acre site at the eastern edge of downtown Naples was littered with rundown metal buildings once used as warehouses and car repair shops. It was an area where street crime flourished.
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Boardroom Boost
Home remedy
When Randy Gibson landed in Tampa General Hospital last year with sepsis and an E. coli liver infection, his doctors gave him a choice: He could remain in the hospital to get treated, or he could receive treatment at home. Gibson opted to go home.
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Post-Merger Manager
Steve Fisher, a 20-year veteran of Central Florida's banking industry, joined Truist in 2021 as the area's middle market banking lead and became regional president last September when Sandy Hostetter retired from the position.
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Setting goals
Hatch says many athletes still seek guidance and advice from him on everything from estate planning to real estate deals. “They say, ‘Hatch, can you take a look at this and let me know if this is on the up and up?' And I never charge anything because I've seen some of my friends and ex-teammates taken advantage of.”
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Business in a Box
Ben Gaskill and Dan Doromal, both veterans of food service manufacturing, founded Everest Ice & Water Systems seven years ago. Their Apopka-based ice machine company has sold almost 1,000 of its patented ice vending machines, and Gaskill predicts they'll double sales this year.
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