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› Kennedy Space Center: New Gateway attraction looks at space travel, stays flexible
An upcoming addition to the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex will have a forward-looking focus that’s flexible as space exploration evolves. Gateway: The Deep Space Launch Complex is set to debut March 21. It will include futuristic spaceflight simulations and relics but will be able to deal with developments, Therrin Protze, the attraction’s chief operation officer, said during a hard-hat walk-through of the 55,000-square-foot building this week.
› JTA names Frazier senior VP, chief operating officer
The Jacksonville Transportation Authority hired Rock Region METRO executive Charles D. Frazier as senior vice president and chief operating officer. Frazier will join Jacksonville’s bus and mass transit provider after serving as CEO at the North Little Rock, Arkansas-based METRO system, according to a news release Dec. 2.
› ‘Wrong direction’: Report reveals investment shortfall for female, minority Miami tech company founders
For all the success Miami tech has experienced the past year, it continues to suffer a deficit in support of female- and minority-owned — especially Black-owned — businesses. And now there are data to back up the claims tech investors’ support of these groups is falling short. Aire Ventures, the new nonprofit from former Venture Cafe Miami executive director Leigh Ann Buchanan, released a report that says despite its progress, Miami’s tech ecosystem continues to throw up barriers to equitable access to capital.
› Tech exec turned nonprofit CEO Derrick Chubbs to head Second Harvest Food Bank
A one-time tech executive who left the corporate world to “do more” has been chosen to lead Second Harvest Food Bank, taking over the critical $181-million-a-year operation from longtime CEO Dave Krepcho, the charity announced Friday. Derrick Chubbs, the five-year president and CEO of the Central Texas Food Bank, that region’s largest hunger-relief agency, will start at Second Harvest Jan. 3 after being tapped by a national search committee to replace Krepcho, who is retiring.
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