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TopRank Florida - Top 200 Private Companies

| 6/1/2010

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Harold Mills
Harold Mills is CEO of Florida’s largest African-American-owned business, ZeroChaos. [Photo: Gregg Matthews]
Chuck Sykes, CEO of Sykes Enterprises (Public No. 50), ran away with the 2010 vote as Tampa Bay’s top business leader in the St. Petersburg Times’ annual leadership survey of the business community. A Charlotte native and mechanical engineer by training, Sykes is the son of John Sykes, who founded the call center company. The younger Sykes took over as president and CEO in 2004 after working for the company since his youth. He chairs the Greater Tampa Chamber of Commerce and one day likely will lead the Tampa Bay Partnership economic development group. He’s active in other civic and philanthropic endeavors as well.

» Through innovative use of GPS, IT and other creative approaches, Miramar-based KIRA (Private No. 199), under president and owner Carlos Garcia, a Havana native, has turned itself into a high-tech, low-cost provider of facilities management. Result: A growth engine with 1,000 employees at military bases throughout the world and at government water plants and private industry sites. A University of Pennsylvania undergrad and Columbia MBA, Garcia has been a Hispanic Business Magazine Entrepreneur of the Year.

» Workforce management company ZeroChaos in Orlando (Private No. 31) is the largest black-owned business in Florida, according to DiversityBusiness.com, and the sixth-largest in the nation, according to Black Enterprise magazine. CEO Harold Mills, a Harvard MBA active in regional charities, recently won the top award given by the Staffing Industry Analysts’ group for industry-changing innovations.

» Marjorie “Midge” Seltzer, president of St. Petersburg-based Modern Business Associates (Private No. 65), chairs the National Association of Professional Employer Organizations. She, H. Britt Landrum Jr., president of Landrum Human Resources (Private No. 59) in Pensacola, and Abram Finkelstein, president of StaffLink Outsourcing (not ranked) in Plantation played key roles in this year’s healthcare overhaul and in working with Sen. Bill Nelson to protect the PEO industry, says Milan Yager, president of the National Association of Professional Employer Organizations.

» Co-founder Dr. Roger Medel not only created a standout physician practice company in his Mednax (Public No. 40), which focuses primarily in neonatal and maternal-fetal care and anesthesia, but also is well-connected, counting UM President Donna Shalala and Coral Gables healthcare entrepreneur Michael Fernandez as board members. — Mike Vogel

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