Jim Allan, broker associate with Florida International Business Brokers, has been designated a Certified Business Intermediary by the International Business Brokers Association.
IBBA is the world’s largest professional community of intermediary specialists. The business intermediary certification identifies experienced and dedicated business brokers.
Florida International Group has offices in the United Kingdom, Ireland and Budapest. Allan’s original career was in commercial banking in Michigan and Sarasota. He has been worked in business brokerage since 2009.
Brian Anderson, of Gulfside Homes, has been elected secretary of the Universal Design Coalition for a second consecutive term. The Universal Design Coalition is Sarasota’s local nonprofit focused on both universal design and on aging in place methods and products and educating the public on the beneficial aspects of universal design — allowing all age groups accessible housing.
Anderson has over 30 years of experience in product design and construction in multi-family, single family, master planned, commercial and retail environments. He has a master’s degree in land development and finance from New York University and is a National Association of Homebuilders Certified Aging in Place Specialist.
Since 1999, his company, Gulfside Homes, has been creating accessible, comfortable homes in Sarasota with universal design and aging-in-place techniques.
Meals on Wheels of Sarasota Inc. has elected David Harrold to its board.
Harrold is a principal at David Harrold Consulting, a business consulting and venture firm whose work entails long range plans, growth and new product planning and organizational studies.
He has also held senior executive positions with Sara Lee Corp., Hanes Corp. and General Mills.
WWSB, Sarasota’s ABC affiliate, has hired Matt Moldovan as director of sales for the station and its digital operations. He will guide ABC7’s sales vision and strategy and work across the Raycom Media Sarasota operation to identify and develop new business opportunities.
Before joining WWSB, Moldovan held key sales management roles as local sales manager in Charlotte, North Carolina, for the NBC affiliate WCNC, as well as the ABC affiliate WSOC. He also was senior account executive at the ABC Affiliate in Atlanta, Georgia, WSB-TV.
He started his broadcast television career as an account executive at the NBC affiliate WXIA in Atlanta. Moldovan graduated with honors from the University of Georgia with a bachelor’s in journalism.
A new Internal Medicine/Pediatrics specialist has joined Sarasota Memorial Health Care System’s First Physicians Group. Dr. Sarah Scarselletta has begun accepting new patients at FPG’s Internal Medicine and Pediatrics office in Osprey. She joins Dr. Rachel Dahlborg, Dr. Karen Hamad, Dr. Alan King, Dr. Jack Rodman, Dr. John Wassenaar and Dr. Joseph Yeh in that practice.
Board certified in internal medicine and pediatrics, Scarselletta has worked as an in-patient hospital and urgent care physician, providing a full spectrum of care for patients of all ages, in Northampton and Springfield, Massachusetts, since 2013.
She earned her medical degree at the University of Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in New York in 2009 and completed her residency in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at Tufts University/Baystate Medical Center in 2013. She is proficient in Spanish and has volunteered in medical education programs in Costa Rica and Prague
Mike Presciti has joined building envelope engineering firm IBA Consultants in the new position of regional vice president, Tampa Bay. David Handley has been hired as an inspector in IBA’s Tampa Bay office, in Bradenton.
Presciti is a state of Florida and ICC licensed building inspector with 24 years of experience. He joined the company in 1999. His accomplishments in Tampa Bay cover a wide array of projects, including Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Tampa, Tampa International Airport and Wyndham Clearwater Resort.
Handley has more than 10 years’ experience in commercial and residential new construction and remodeling. He holds a Master of Construction Management degree from Western Carolina University and is certified in PMP and LEED.
Bill Robertson, CEO and personal injury attorney for the Kirk Pinkerton PA law firm in Sarasota, recently sponsored a lunch-and-learn event by the Manatee Veterans Treatment Court. Held Sept. 22 at the Manatee County courthouse, the 85 people there included several judges, key personnel and staff from the state attorney’s office and public defender’s office.
Guests heard about post-traumatic stress disorder from Patrick Diggs with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and from three veterans about their personal journeys with PTSD.
Military service in Robertson’s family dates back to the Civil War, when his great-great-grandfather fought for the Confederacy in the 7th Tennessee Infantry.
The 12th Judicial Circuit Court of Florida’s Veterans Treatment Court is a court-supervised program coupled with intensive treatment and supervision for high risk-high need criminal offenders. It is designed for veterans charged with crimes whose substance abuse, mental illness or other problems may have made it more difficult for them to adjust to civilian life.
Robertson, a Sarasota native, represents clients throughout the state who have been injured or lost a loved one as the result of another’s negligence. He has more than 30 years of experience.
Attorney R. Craig Harrison has been selected as a Super Lawyer in the 2017 edition of Florida Super Lawyers in Estate and Trust Litigation. Harrison is board certified by the Florida Bar as an expert in wills, trusts and estates and has achieved the AV Preeminent Peer Review Rating from Martindale-Hubbell, the highest recognition possible in the legal industry for his professionalism and ethics.
Sarasota Memorial Health Care System has hired Dr. Kathryn Gard, a new OB-GYN physician and former FSU medical student.
She returned to SMH’s First Physicians Group Obstetrics and Gynecology practice in September, joining the practice where she completed her OB-GYN rotation during medical school five years earlier.
After earning her medical degree at Florida State University College of Medicine’s Sarasota campus in 2013, Gard completed a four-year residency in obstetrics and gynecology in June 2017 at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.
A junior fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and member of the American Medical Association, Gard’s research projects have focused on hormonal and nonhormonal therapy for vasomotor symptoms and advanced screening for Lynch syndrome in endometrial and colon cancer patients, as well as interspecialty consultation, cultural competency and other quality improvement initiatives. She is nationally certified in electronic fetal monitoring and neonatal resuscitation.
David E. Gurley, of the Sarasota law firm Gurley Vitale, was selected for the second consecutive year to speak at the 6th annual Florida Construction Law seminar, held Oct. 19-20 in Miami. The conference is geared toward attorneys/legal staff, contractors and subcontractors, design professionals, developers and landowners, architects and planners, real estate professionals, government officials and engineers.
Gurley spoke about “Insurance in the Construction Industry.” He is a sought-after authority and one of a small percentage of lawyers statewide to be board certified in construction law. Gurley Vitale specializes in construction law.
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Douglas J. Elmore, a shareholder at Williams Parker in Sarasota, has been appointed to the Board of Directors of Easter Seals Southwest Florida and the Easter Seals Southwest Florida Foundation.
Easter Seals offers care and services to children and adults with special needs so that they can enjoy access, opportunities and increased life choices.
Elmore is a trusts and estates attorney. He counsels individuals, families and institutions in estate planning, business succession, and estate and trust planning and administration matters. His masters in law in taxation, his law degree and master’s and bachelor’s degrees in accounting all are from the University of Florida.
State College of Florida, Manatee-Sarasota mathematics professor Altay Özgener has been appointed to the Halmos-Ford Award Committee of the Mathematical Association of America.
Özgener, president of the Florida Two-Year College Mathematics Association, begins a four-year term on April 1.
The Halmos-Lester Award recognizes articles of expository excellence published in The American Mathematical Monthly. Authors of four papers published during the prior year receive $1,000 during MAA’s Math-Fest events. In addition to selecting winners, the committee writes the accompanying citations.
The Sarasota Music Club recently elected its new board of directors, who will serve until 2019.
Mary Webb continues as board president; Jan Balazs is first vice president; Barbara Chertok is second vice president; Janet Jackson is secretary and treasurer; Charlyn Craver is communications secretary; and John Fischer is assistant treasurer.
At-large board members are Louise Baar, June Buck, Barbara Roth Donaldson, Wes Snyder and Dorothy Whaley.
Sarasota Music Club, founded in 1930 as an offshoot of the historic Sarasota Women’s Club, is the oldest organization supporting professional music performance in the Sarasota area and a long history of funding scholarships to support music education.
The board will oversee two years of professional musician performance programs as well as the organization’s participation in Suncoast Music Scholarships, a partnership with Artist Series Concerts of Sarasota.
Dr. Jeffery Fraser, Christine Robinson, Wayne Roberts and Vanessa Carusone have joined the Board of Directors of the SKY Family YMCA, in Sarasota. Fraser completed medical school at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine in 1995 and his residency at Munson Medical Center in 1998. He has been practicing for over 20 years, currently practices Family Medicine in Venice and is affiliated with Venice Regional Bayfront Health. Robinson received her law degree in 1999 from the University of Miami and worked as an assistant state attorney in the 11th Judicial Circuit from 1999 to 2001 and the 12th Judicial Circuit from 2001 to 2004. She was appointed to the Sarasota County Commission in 2010 and was elected in 2012. She now is executive director of the Argus Foundation. Roberts graduated from the University of Florida with a bachelor’s degree in 1979 and joined Nationwide Insurance. In 1983 he opened Roberts Insurance and has since been active within the community, serving on many boards, including the Venice Area Chamber of Commerce, United Way and Big Brothers Big Sisters. Carusone is a North Port city commissioner. She was elected in 2002, in 2006 and again in 2016. She fills the District 1 seat and serves as the commission’s vice-mayor. Carusone has been a strong supporter of local services, including expanded bus routes and a much-needed Health Department, Social Service Building and Children’s First. Fraser, Robinson, Roberts and Carusone join the newly elected officers: Board President Sheriff Tom Knight, Vice President Keith Farlow, Secretary Rita Bicknell and Treasurer Dorothy Korzen.
Erica Shea, chief business development officer for Shumaker Loop & Kendrick LLP’s Florida offices, has been selected as one of the Business Observer’s 2017 “40 Under 40.”
At Shumaker, Shea focuses on initiatives to grow and expand the companies of the firm’s clients, to bring new and engaging opportunities to the firm and to create greater client satisfaction. She has 13 years of experience in business development and client relations, previously working as a senior multimedia account executive at the Tampa Bay Business Journal.
Shea is membership chairwoman of the University of Tampa Board of Fellows, is a member of the Board of Trustees for Gracepoint Foundation and is on the executive cabinet for the 2018 American Heart Association’s Go Red for Women. She is a member of the current Leadership Sarasota County class and a recent graduate of Leadership Tampa 2017.
Dr. Marc H. Levy, neuro ophthalmologist at the Sarasota Retina Institute, recently was invited to participate in the Department of Ophthalmology’s Grand Rounds at the Moorfields Eye Hospital in London, England, and to lecture on new developments with the implantable miniature telescope, which treats patients with the advanced form of dry macular degeneration.
Levy is the principal investigator for the state of Florida in a new study inserting an intraocular telescope in patients who have previously undergone cataract surgery. This technique was perfected in London and Levy was the co-author in this initial study.