Consumer Products -- Jacksonville's Clean Shower, maker of the fast-growing, no-scrub bathroom cleaner, named William S. Elston as president. He replaces Paul C. Porter, who resigned in August. Elston, 58, was most recently the Ponte Vedra Beach-based managing director of Chicago's DHR International, an executive recruiting firm. Previously he was a senior executive for Steelcase Inc., a manufacturer of office equipment, and Frito-Lay.
Customer Service -- Precision Response Corp., a Miami-based customer service and telemarketing company, tapped Wesley T. O'Brien, 42, as president and COO. He replaces David L. Epstein, 34, who moves up to CEO. O'Brien joins Precision from Boca Raton's Trescom International Communications Corp., an international communications and long distance company. He previously held a series of executive posts at MCI Communications Corp. in Washington, D.C.
Economic Development -- SunTrust Bank of Central Florida President and COO Thomas H. Yochum, 54, was elected chairman of the Economic Development Commission of Mid-Florida for the 1998-99 fiscal year. The EDC serves the city of Orlando and Orange, Seminole, Lake and Osceola counties.
Education -- The Florida Board of Regents selected Anne Hopkins, provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, to replace Adam Herbert as president of the University of North Florida in Jacksonville. E.K. Fretwell has been serving as UNF's interim president since Herbert resigned to become chancellor of the State University System. Hopkins, 57, has a doctorate in political science from Syracuse University.
Engineering -- Orlando engineer Nicholas P. Guarriello, 49, takes over as president and CEO of R.W. Beck Inc., a Seattle-based global engineering and management consulting firm. Guarriello, most recently chairman of Beck's board of directors, will remain in Orlando. He joined Beck in 1977 after seven years with American Electric Power Company.
Law -- Broward County Civic Leader Sidney C. Calloway, 39, joined Shutts & Bowen as a partner in the Fort Lauderdale office of the 100-member international law firm. He moves from Heinrich Gordon Hargrove Weihe & James, also in Fort Lauderdale. At Shutts & Bowen's West Palm Beach office, real estate attorney Arthur J. Menor, 42, was named partner in charge. He replaces John White, who remains with the firm.
Real Estate -- After 32 years at Deltona Corp., Earle D. Cortright, 57, is out as president of the financially struggling Miami-based residential development company that, in its heyday in the 1960s and 1970s, sold thousands of residential lots to buyers from the Northeast U.S. Replacing Cortright as president is Chairman and CEO Antony Gram, 55, owner of 73% of Deltona's common stock.
Technology -- Arthur Andersen, the global accounting and management consulting firm, tapped Nancy Markle as Chief Information Officer for the U.S. She will be based in Sarasota at the firm's Technology Park. Markle, 56, was executive vice president and director of information services for California-based Home Savings of America near Los Angeles from 1994 to 1998 and previously was president of Information Technology Consultants, a private consulting firm in Palm Harbor, Florida. In 1996, Markle was named as one of Business Week's Top 100 Women in Computing.
Transmedia Network, the Miami discount dining card marketing company controlled by Sam Zell's Equity Group Investment, has recruited Gene Henderson as president and CEO. Before joining Transmedia, Henderson, 51, was president and CEO of DIMAC Marketing, a St. Louis direct marketing company owned until recently by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. Former Transmedia founder, Chairman and CEO Melvin Chasen left the company in 1998.
Telecommunications -- One month after the departure of Let's Talk Cellular & Wireless co-founder Nick Molina, the Miami wireless retailer named David H. Eisenberg as co-chairman and CEO. Eisenberg, 62, spent the past six years as chairman, CEO and president of Texas-based Chief Auto Parts, a chain of 560 auto parts stores acquired by AutoZone last summer.
Transportation -- Florida East Coast Industries tapped Robert W. Anestis, 53, as chairman, CEO and president of the St. Augustine-based railroad and real estate development company. He replaces Carl F. Zellers Jr., 66, who is retiring after 31 years with FECI. Since 1986, Anestis has been president and CEO of Anestis & Company, a Westport, Conn., financial consulting firm that has advised the major rail carriers in the U.S. and Canada.