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Education - Terry Mullins, 50, takes over July 1 as dean of Jacksonville University's Davis College of Business. He replaces Thomas James, interim dean since Hassan Pordeli stepped down last year to return to teaching. Mullins, who holds a Ph.D. from the University of Houston, has spent 27 years in academia and was most recently business dean at the University of Evansville in Indiana.
Entertainment - Jacksonville's St. Joe Corp. tapped Disney veteran P. Michael Reininger, 37, to be senior vice president and general manager of its new entertainment development division. He will oversee two entertainment projects - a venture with the National Football League to build and operate NFL entertainment centers and St. Joe's 33% stake in Entros, a Seattle company that creates interactive games. Reininger, most recently vice president of product development for the Disney Cruise Line, joined Disney Development in 1986.
Law - Prominent Holland & Knight lawyer/lobbyist Martha Barnett was selected by the National Law Journal as one of the 50 most influential women lawyers in America. She is the only Florida attorney on the list. Barnett, 50, a tax specialist in the firm's Tallahassee office, is in line to lead the American Bar Association in 2000.
After 14 years as chief executive officer of one of south Florida's oldest and largest law firms, David McIntosh, 51, is back in the job market. McIntosh, a CPA tapped by West Palm Beach's Gunster Yoakley Valdes-Fauli & Stewart in 1984 to become the first non-lawyer to run a major Florida law firm, says he's simply ready to do something different. In addition to the dozen or so "institutional, corporate and entrepreneurial" offers pitched to McIntosh so far, some friends have half-seriously suggested he'd make a good running mate for gubernatorial candidate Jeb Bush. Says McIntosh, a Republican-minded registered Democrat, "I don't think that's in the cards."
John M. Hogan, 38, chief of staff to U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno, will return to Florida next month to join the Miami litigation office of Holland & Knight. Hogan, who followed Reno to the Justice Department in 1993, says the offer appealed to him because the firm's national practice will allow him to keep his D.C. ties while returning to the city where he began his law career in 1977. "I wanted to go home," Hogan says. His practice will focus on civil litigation and white-collar criminal defense.
Real Estate - Veteran architect and real estate executive Perry Reader was named vice president and general manager of the Celebration Company. He will oversee business operations and further development of Celebration, Walt Disney Co.'s planned community in Osceola County. Reader, 48, was vice president-Orlando of Atlantic Gulf Communities and spent eight years, from 1989 to 1996, at Viera Company in Oviedo.
Services - Payroll Transfers (PTI), a fast-growing Tampa employee-leasing firm, tapped Thomas Wajnert to be chairman, president and CEO. Marc Moore, who with partner Mel Klinghoffer sold PTI to an investor consortium two years ago, steps down as president and will become vice chairman. Wajnert, 54, is a 30-year veteran of the financial services industry and a founding officer of AT&T Capital Corp., which he took public in 1993 and three years later took private in a management buyout.
Technology - Autonomous Technologies, an Orlando developer of laser instruments for vision correction surgery, promoted Chief Operating Officer Richard C. Capozza to be president. Capozza, 56, joined Autonomous in 1995 after a decade at Pilkinton Barnes Hind, a worldwide maker of contact lenses and contact lens products.
Transportation - Auburndale's MD Transport, an affiliate of Comcar Industries trucking company, recruited Michael Hagen as president. He replaces Merrill Foutz, acting president since former MD President Jeff Collins moved to vice president of sales for Comcar. Hagen, 39, has 17 years of trucking experience, most recently as a vice president with Burlington Motor Carriers.
William Miller Jr. takes over as chairman of the board for the Greater Orlando Aviation Authority, which administers Orlando International Airport and Orlando Executive Airport. He replaces Bob Hattaway, who stepped down as chairman, but will remain on the board. Miller, 45, is a certified public accountant with Orlando's Moore Stephens Lovelace PA, a CPA and management consulting firm.
Utilities - Florida Progress Corp. elected Richard Korpan as chairman. He replaces Jack B. Critchfield, 65, who retires June 30 after seven years in the post. Korpan, 56, joined the St. Petersburg-based utility holding company in 1989 and was promoted to president and CEO in June 1997. Florida Progress' largest subsidiary is Florida Power, an electric utility that serves 4.5 million customers in 32 counties.
