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Florida executives making music

Guitar Hero
Jen Boronico, 40
President, CEO / Boca Tanning Opportunities
Coconut Creek

In addition to her day job overseeing the training of more than 200 employees and managing marketing and finances at Boca Tanning Opportunities, Jen Boronico is also a regional commentator for boxing and mixed martial arts on FightZone TV and manages and plays lead guitar for Pandia, a well-known cover rock band in south Florida. "I try to strike a balance between work and fun and live a life that is as stress-free as possible in this day and age," she says. "If you have a creative outlet you enjoy and you can make money at that, it's a beautiful thing."

Jen Boronico
Jen Boronico

Her routine: "I'm mom to a 7-year-old little angel, which is my most rewarding job. I wake up with my daughter, get her to school, go about my Boca Tanning day — meetings, conferences, visiting stores — then I pick up my daughter at 4, spend time with her until around 9, and then I'm off and running to a performance with the band or commentating."

Energy boost: Boronico attributes her boundless energy to a consistently healthy lifestyle. "I've spent 25 years in the gym, three or four times a week — it's just part of my lifestyle. People there know me as the 'pull-up girl' because the first thing I do when I get there is 30 military-style pull-ups."

Rock and hip hop: "I'm the lead guitar player, but they give me the mic for one song a set. I like hip hop, so I love to rap Kid Rock — that's my favorite thing."

Opera on the Fly

Lisa Murray, 37
CEO / Quintessentially Aviation
Miami

As CEO of Quintessentially Aviation, which specializes in private jet charters, aircraft sales and management, Lisa Murray ensures that operations run smoothly at all 62 of the company's offices worldwide. She loves the job, but growing up in Ireland, her dream was to become an opera singer. "I wanted to take it the full route, but my mum wouldn't let me," she says. "I think she was afraid that if I rejected traditional studies in favor of music, I'd be penniless down the road."

Lisa Murray
Lisa Murray [Photo: Dave G. Kelly]
Still, Murray joined all the musical societies she could while in college, performed in musicals like "Oliver Twist" and even trained at the Dublin Conservatory of Music.

Wedding notes: She sang opera at her own wedding in Capri, Italy, two years ago.

Starstruck: During their honeymoon, she and her husband, Sean, stopped by their hotel bar one day during the Venice Film Festival. George Clooney, who was in the bar, went up to the piano and started singing "Memories." "I told my husband, 'This is the only opportunity I'll ever get to sing with George Clooney.' So I stepped up and joined him."

On the iPod: "I love everything, but I'm really embracing country music since I got to the U.S., like Carrie Underwood and even Lady Antebellum. I'm not much into reggae, though."