Consumer Products - Paul C. Porter, 48, resigned as president and CEO of Clean Shower, the rapidly growing Jacksonville maker of a patented no-scrub cleaner. He remains a major shareholder and member of the board of directors. Robert H. Black, Clean Shower co-founder and chairman, will assume many of Porter's responsibilities. Dale N. Garth was named acting chief operating officer. Garth previously was chief financial officer of Waban Inc., parent company of BJ's Wholesale Club, and Talbots Inc.
Rexall Sundown, the Boca Raton-based vitamin maker, promoted 14-year company veteran Nickolas Palin, 50, to the new post of senior executive vice president. He also retains his position as president of Sundown Vitamins, Rexall's flagship brand.
Tupperware Corp., the Orlando maker of food storage containers, tapped Gaylin L. Olson as president of Tupperware Latin America. He replaces Alberto Giovannini, who becomes president of Tupperware Argentina. Olson, 53, is a 30-year Tupperware veteran and was most recently senior vice president of emerging markets.
Government - President Clinton appointed Fort Lauderdale lawyer Mitchell Berger as chairman of the Student Loan Marketing Association, a government-sponsored enterprise owned by SLM Holding Corp. (Sallie Mae), a private corporation that is the nation's leading provider of student loans. Berger, 42, is active in Democratic politics and was a member of President Clinton's 1992 transition team. He is a founder of Berger Davis & Singerman.
Law - Former Florida Supreme Court Justice Stephen H. Grimes has returned to his legal roots as a civil litigator at the firm of Holland & Knight. Grimes, a 1987 Supreme Court appointee who turns 71 in November, retired as a result of Florida's mandatory retirement age for judges. In 1954 Grimes was the seventh lawyer ever hired at Holland and Knight back when the 700-plus lawyer firm was a one-shop outfit in Bartow. Grimes will work in the firm's Tallahassee litigation department.
Medical Products - Johnson & Johnson promoted Jesse R. Penn, 54, to be president of Cordis Cardiology, the division of Miami's Cordis Corp. responsible for cardiology-products manufacturing, marketing and other business operations in the U.S. He replaces J. Gary Jordan, who is leaving the company. Penn, a 26-year J&J veteran, most recently was Cordis' vice president of worldwide operations. He will relocate to Miami from Warren, N.J.
Real Estate - Viera Co. tapped Thomas A. Babcock as president of the Brevard County-based real estate company, developer of the new town of Viera. He replaces Joseph A. Duda, who remains as CEO. Babcock, 52, had been executive vice president of St. Lucie West Development Corp. since 1994. Earlier, he ran a business consulting company, Management Research & Assistance, and was vice president of Burg & DiVosta, a homebuilder in Palm Beach Gardens.
Retail - Stephen M. Knopik takes over as president of Bradenton-based Beall's Inc., which operates 215 Beall's Department Stores, Beall's Outlet Stores, Out and Out Gifts and Coral Bay stores in Florida, Georgia, Arizona and Alabama. He succeeds Bob Beall, who remains chairman and CEO. Knopik, 42, joined Beall's in 1984 and was most recently executive vice president.
Telecommunications - As part of the management reshuffling since the death last November of Cuban exile leader Jorge Mas Canosa, his company, MasTec Inc., named one of his sons, Juan Carlos Mas, 31, to be president of MasTec International. Another son, Jorge Mas Jr., succeeded his father as MasTec's chairman and CEO. MasTec International runs the company's telecommunications construction operations in the Caribbean, Latin America and Spain.
Able Telcom Holding, a West Palm Beach-based design, installation and maintenance company for voice, data and video networks, named Robert E. Dupuis as CEO and president. Dupuis replaces Frazier Gaines, who has been interim CEO since March when Gerry W. Hall left the company.
Telemundo Network, recently acquired by an investment group that includes Sony Corp., Liberty Media Group and investor Leon Black, named a new management team for the Hialeah-based Spanish-language television network. Peter Tortorici, 49, named CEO and president, is a former president of CBS Entertainment and an 18-year broadcasting veteran. Nely Galan, 34, takes over as president for entertainment. Most recently she was CEO and president of Galan Entertainment, a marketing and production firm which launched the Fox Latin American Channel. Alan Sokol, 39, previously senior vice president of corporate development for Sony Pictures Entertainment, was named COO. Rachel Wells, 35, Telemundo's new executive vice president for marketing, is a 10-year veteran of Sony. All will split their time between Los Angeles and south Florida.