Industry Superstars

“I’m a serial entrepreneur in the banking space, brokering capital for companies that are looking for commercial money to either build buildings, or acquire developments or equipment, or unsecured capital,”

Director and EEO compliance officer at Florida Power & Light. Chair of the Florida Commission on Human Rights. President of Top Tier Leadership. Rita Barreto knows the ins and outs

The three-time University of Miami graduate (he holds a bachelor’s, J.D. and MBA ) moved to Miami from New Jersey in 1983, and never looked back. Over the course of

“Cybersecurity and cyberinsurance just came out probably less than five years ago,” says Fort Lauderdale-based Mike Gorham, executive vice president of Brown & Brown of Florida, Inc. — Fort Lauderdale,

Kim Ng remembers the moment. She was 8 years old and attending her first Major League Baseball game on a bright summer weekend afternoon. Ng recalls navigating the interior corridors

A young man in a perpetual hurry, Jared Moskowitz has been in public life for 15 years, and he’s only 40. Politics has always been in his blood. Born in

A true Miami native and managing broker/owner of Prestige Realty Group, Tony Rodriguez-Tellaheche has established himself as a leading real estate expert in the city’s most coveted neighborhoods. Inspired by

With more than 25 years behind him as a builder, Amicon CEO Adam Mopsick never stops. Born in West Caldwell, New Jersey, Mopsick moved to Boca Raton during high school,

The South Florida Institute on Aging has had a long history of empowering seniors, though the organization has operated under different names. Its current name dates from 2018, and CEO

A Jersey boy who was educated at Rutgers, Brian Hero has called South Florida home for 25 years. With the current and unprecedented migration from the Northeast, a white-collar influx

It’s been a long and circuitous road from Pete Carr’s itinerant childhood and education at University of Nebraska. The self-described “military brat” attended five grade schools and three high schools,

Kieran Bowers was born in the U.K., south of Manchester, “a place that not many people stop in.” It would be an understatement to say that the president of Swire