Tampa Bay Tech Membership represents...
2+ million total employees
$500+ billion annual revenues
$2+ trillion market capitalization
Established in 2000, Tampa Bay Tech (formerly known as the Tampa Bay Technology Forum) is Florida's largest technology council.
Tampa Bay Tech has three strategic initiatives: Workforce, Marketing & Community. In addition, Tampa Bay Tech produces two flagship events every year: the poweredUP Tampa Bay Tech Festival and the Tampa Bay Tech Awards. In addition, Tampa Bay Tech organizes hundreds of interest-level gatherings per year in conjunction with our Board of Directors, Tech Executive Council, Tampa Bay Tech Software CEOs, Emerging Tech Leaders of Tampa Bay, RNG Tampa Bay, Meetup cooperative and community partners.
Mission: Empower Florida’s largest tech hub by collaborating with Tampa Bay’s largest and fastest-growing tech companies and their value-chain partners.
Vision: Tampa Bay is recognized globally as a leading tech hub.
Values:
- Leadership: We are visionary, progressive and forward-thinking.
- Collaboration: We are inclusive, open and relationship-focused.
- Storytelling: We are hard-working, actively engaged and fanatical about tech.
During 2018...
- We, together, made the second poweredUP Tampa Bay Tech Festival an even larger and more exciting event than last year, with 35 speakers and over 1,200 registered attendees.
- We, together, celebrated our 15th Annual Tampa Bay Tech Awards, honoring the best our community has to offer, including bestowing our 125th award, for Community Leadership and Dedication, to Tom Wallace with Florida Funders.
- We, together, produced, partnered on and/or sponsored over 780 total tech events, reaching 20,000+ attendees, and providing more than $175,000 in sponsorship to our regions students, startups and you, our members (promoted, in large part through the nation's first, regional Meetup cooperative). We, together, also launched peer groups for the region's Software Founder/CEOs and Emerging Tech Leaders.
- We, together, shared in excess of 6,000 pieces our members' content to more than 1.5 million sets of eyeballs, including through and with our newest media partner: St. Pete Catalyst.
- We, together, supported $5.9 million in regional technology workforce grant programs, hundreds of technology workers impacted by layoffs, 30+ H1B applications, dozens of academic advisory boards and the newly re-launched RNG Tampa Bay (for the region's in-house, corporate recruiters).
SPONSORS
Tech Data
Distributes microcomputer-related hardware and software products to value-added resellers and retailers. And Florida’s largest public company.
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Flexential
Peak 10 + ViaWest is now Flexential. There's a word for harnessing the power of human potential to create flexible solutions: Flexential, the power of people.
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Forsythe
Forsythe is a leading enterprise IT company, providing advisory services, security, hosting and technology solutions for Fortune 1000 organizations.
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AgileThought
AgileThought is a full-service custom software consulting firm, staffed by the absolute best professionals in the business.
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Microsoft
At Microsoft our mission and values are to help people and businesses throughout the world realize their full potential.
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Accenture
Accenture is a leading global professional services company providing a range of strategy, consulting, digital, technology & operations services and solutions.
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CCG
CCG offers business data and analytics solutions so you can make decisions for your business and lead with confidence.
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The Florida High Tech Corridor
The Florida High Tech Corridor is a technology rich region spanning 23 counties across the state, connected by three research universities: UCF, USF and UF.
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Hays
Powering the world of work with our recruiting expertise.
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Jabil
Jabil is your trusted innovation, engineering manufacturing & supply chain partner..
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JPMorgan Chase & Co.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. is a leading global financial services firm and one of the largest banking institutions in the United States , with operations worldwide.
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Nielsen
Nielsen knows what people watch, listen to and buy.
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Nutanix
Nutanix goes beyond hyperconverged infrastructure to deliver a software-defined enterprise cloud that can run any application at any scale.
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Salesforce
Build more meaningful and lasting relationships and connect with your customers across sales, customer service, marketing, communities, apps, analytics, and more using our Customer Success Platform.
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Vology
Vology is a Managed IT Services Provider located in Tampa, Florida; specializing in IT Hardware, Field Services, and Managed IT Services.
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2019 LEADERSHIP
EXECUTIVES
Chair: Kimberly Anstett, CIO, Nielsen
Vice Chair: Jason Warnke, Global Social Enterprise Lead - CIO Organization at Accenture, Accenture
Treasurer: Travis Milks, Partner, Stonehenge Growth Equity Partners
Secretary: Joe Southron, Partner, Four Rivers Law
Immediate Past Chair: Jeff Alagood, President, AgileThought
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Senton Pojani, AVP, AON
Jeremy Wilson, CIO, UMA
John Shedd, CIO, Arbitration Forums
Brad Silverman, Technical Program Manager, PwC
Virginia Lee, M&A Technology Lead, Nielsen
Joanne Persinger, Senior Vice President, Information Technology, Americas Region, Tech Data
Craig Hoss, CTO, GSP Companies
John Kuemmel, CIO, IRONMAN
BOARD MEMBERS
Adam Kreuger, PSCU
Ande Johnson, Jabil
Angelo E. Thalassinidis, South University
Brian Rimes, CCG
Bruce Philipoom, Raymond James
Candace Cavan, Salesforce
Chase Stockon, Panther International
Cheryl Kleiman, Flexential
Chris Barker, Gerdau
Chris Cate, Valpak
Chris Karlo, Mercury New Media
Chris Paul, Melitta
Dave Massey, Bealls
Ennis Alverez, Rooms To Go
Ed Schons, Florida High Tech Corridor
Gina Leigh Volmuth, Praxsys Group
James Stewart, St. Petersburg College
Jean Marc Perry, Bisk Education
John Bush, PwC
Katharine Kennedy, Microsoft
Kevin Aspergen, Florida Poly
Kevin Davis, KForce
Kris Katelman, Hays
Larry Whiteside, Greenway
Lori Diaz, Nutanix
Lynne Craver, Empath Health
Mathew Thomas, Malwarebytes
Matthew Mullarkey, University of South Florida
Pete Slade, KineticFuse
Raymond Correa, JP Morgan Chase & Co.
Regina Marrow, EY
Robert Hill, Check Point Software Technologies
Sable Davis, Forsythe
Saxon Baum, Florida Funders
Scott Caschette, Vology
Stanley Curtis, Pilgrim
Stephanie Davis, Catalina
Tammy Ferrante, Keiser University
Tanya Fickett, New York Life
Valerie McDevitt, University of South Florida
TEAM
CRO & Executive Director
As the Co-Executive Director, Jill is passionate about serving our partners who understand the critical role technology plays in Tampa Bay's economy.
"With a connected tech community, we see our workforce flourish, our student population inspired and engaged with local industry -- ultimately creating a place where we continue to attract national and global organizations who want to be a part of this innovative and thriving hub."
Having worked in advertising, marketing, technology and non-profit sectors, Jill has spent over 20 years as an executive-level leader building and nurturing rock-solid relationships with clients and partners.
In addition to her work in the tech community, Jill is the proud mom of two sons and a brand new stepson. She served for several years on the board of Carrollwood Day School’s Parent-Teacher Organization and is a current member of the Mother’s Club at Jesuit High School.
She served as co-chair of the Tampa Bay Partnership Marketing Council and is the current public relations co-chair of LAMPLighters. She is a proud member of the Boston University Alumni Association, having earned her Bachelor of Science from Boston University’s College of Communication. Go Terriers!
COO & Executive Director
In addition to Tampa Bay Tech, Daniel James Scott serves as treasurer of the board of directors for the Lions Eye Institute for Transplant & Research, the only combined eye bank and ocular research center in the world, and on the board of RNG Tampa Bay, the nation's only in-house corporate recruiters group.
Previously, Daniel’s work as founding associate director of the Entrepreneurship program at USF St. Petersburg earned him the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship’s “Outstanding Emerging Entrepreneurship Program” award and the Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship’s “Educator of the Year” award.
Additional honors for his community leadership include being named the US Small Business Administration’s 50th Anniversary State of Florida “Business Advocate of the Year,” one of Tampa Bay Times “10 Who make Tampa Bay Area’s Economic Outlook Brighter” and one of the Tampa Bay Business Journal’s “Power 100.”
Daniel received his Associate of Arts from Florida State University and his Bachelor of Arts, MBA and Master of Science from the University of South Florida.