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SFBW’s Human Resources Awards Brings Out the Players Who Populate South Florida’s Ladders of Success

They build careers and companies and lives. They are essential components of the machinery that makes the South Florida business community work; they indirectly help deliver the faces and personalities in this magazine, and thereby assist us in telling our stories—monthly in print, and every day online. This is the human relations industry.

At a glittering event space at Gulfstream Park that befitted the fashions and giddiness in the room, South Florida Business & Wealth celebrated the experts in the field who qualify as part of our extended family of stakeholders.

Alan Berger, vice president of human resources search at Steven Douglas and a friend of Lifestyle Media Group, joined SFBW editor-in-chief Drew Limsky and managing director Kim Sarni to pay tribute to the recipients of our 2022 Human Resources Awards. The honorees hailed from the worlds of law, education, insurance, marketing, government, professional services, technology and many other sectors essential to the continued growth of the tricounty region.

With such unprecedented churn, transition and dynamism in the workforce, personnel professionals are at the forefront of shaping what South Florida is becoming: a place of deep and varied expertise; home to a more sophisticated, educated talent pool; and a landscape marked by the increasing diversification that signals a maturing metropolis. The HR executives who convened that night have their fingers on the pulse of it all.

We would be remiss if we did not acknowledge the shadow of sadness that fell over the room as the assembled honored Oresme Gil Guerra, a giant in the HR industry who died tragically, with his wife Beatriz (known as Betty), in the Champlain Towers condominium collapse in Surfside one year ago. The vice president of talent and culture at Advenir Living was memorialized by his son Michael, who had followed his father into the HR field and spoke movingly of the sudden loss of his parents and the fullness of their lives. At SFBW, we honor their memory.

Photo by Eduardo Schneider

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Drew Limsky

Drew Limsky

Editor-in-Chief

BIOGRAPHY

Drew Limsky joined Lifestyle Media Group in August 2020 as Editor-in-Chief of South Florida Business & Wealth. His first issue of SFBW, October 2020, heralded a reimagined structure, with new content categories and a slew of fresh visual themes. “As sort of a cross between Forbes and Robb Report, with a dash of GQ and Vogue,” Limsky says, “SFBW reflects South Florida’s increasingly sophisticated and dynamic business and cultural landscape.”

Limsky, an avid traveler, swimmer and film buff who holds a law degree and Ph.D. from New York University, likes to say, “I’m a doctor, but I can’t operate—except on your brand.” He wrote his dissertation on the nonfiction work of Joan Didion. Prior to that, Limsky received his B.A. in English, summa cum laude, from Emory University and earned his M.A. in literature at American University in connection with a Masters Scholar Award fellowship.

Limsky came to SFBW at the apex of a storied career in journalism and publishing that includes six previous lead editorial roles, including for some of the world’s best-known brands. He served as global editor-in-chief of Lexus magazine, founding editor-in-chief of custom lifestyle magazines for Cadillac and Holland America Line, and was the founding editor-in-chief of Modern Luxury Interiors South Florida. He also was the executive editor for B2B magazines for Acura and Honda Financial Services, and he served as travel editor for Conde Nast. Magazines under Limsky’s editorship have garnered more than 75 industry awards.

He has also written for many of the country’s top newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Miami Herald, Boston Globe, USA Today, Worth, Robb Report, Afar, Time Out New York, National Geographic Traveler, Men’s Journal, Ritz-Carlton, Elite Traveler, Florida Design, Metropolis and Architectural Digest Mexico. His other clients have included Four Seasons, Acqualina Resort & Residences, Yahoo!, American Airlines, Wynn, Douglas Elliman and Corcoran. As an adjunct assistant professor, Limsky has taught journalism, film and creative writing at the City University of New York, Pace University, American University and other colleges.