President's Message by Jose Hernandez
Facilities Director
Coca-Cola Florida
Happy Holidays! The Board would like to wish you and your families a happy and safe holiday season! We understand the commitment it takes to make a meaningful impact on Commercial Real Estate and appreciate all that you do for the organization and industry. This year we have a lot to celebrate as Tampa Bay continues to be a leader for Commercial Real Estate, Development, Leasing, and the migration of companies and its residents to our region is not slowing down. Spoiler alert, at our January meeting we will be discussing our market trends in various sectors with a great panel of experts, therefore you will not want to miss. With all this activity it is important that you take the opportunity to slow down and enjoy some time with your family and friends.
On November 3, 2022, BOMA Greater Tampa Bay hosted our annual TOBY Awards Gala. The event celebrated high performing properties and professionals. The event was filled with commemoratory, laughs, not in short of supply thanks to our emcee David Glickman. On behalf of this event, I would like to personally thank each member and their guests who attended the event for helping make this night a success and for cheering on your fellow colleagues. Six different properties received awards for their outstanding efforts and performance. In addition to our award-winning properties, we also celebrated our top performing professionals for Member of the Year in these following categories. Allied Member of the Year, Chris Ennest. Property Manager of the Year, Patrick Gehm. Engineer of the Year, Erik White and lastly the President’s Award Recipient, Ron Legare.
Furthermore, at the TOBY Gala on November 3rd, we swore in our new Board of Directors and Executive Committee. We are now proud to state we have five new Board members starting their initial two-year term on January 1, 2023. As with every Commercial Real Estate organization we know we will have some challenges ahead of us, but we also see endless opportunities. Our focus for BOMA Greater Tampa Bay in 2023 is to provide our members with best-in-class education, networking, and leadership opportunities in CRE. The Board is already hitting the ground running with great programing and networking opportunities for the first half of the year. We will continue to expand our programing for Emerging Professionals, revamp our educational offerings and Leadership Development programs. 2023 will be an exciting year for BOMA Greater Tampa Bay and you can expect outstanding collaboration between our new board members and veteran board members as we continue to focus on our membership experience. I hope you are as excited as we are!
I would like to take this moment to recognize my fellow Board of Directors, please take a moment to get to know them as well.
Executive Committee
President - Jose Hernandez, RPA - Coca-Cola Beverages Florida, LLC
Vice President - Patrick Gehm - Cousins Properties
Juniper Duffin Rodriguez - Treasurer - City of St. Petersburg (Colliers International Tampa Bay)
Sheryl Frick, RPA - Secretary - Ryan Companies
Melanie Barest – Executive Director
Directors
Diamond Asabi – Cushman & Wakefield of Florida
Michelle Betancourt – Red Coats
Steffanie Harris - Core Roofing Systems
Ally Hodges – Aderhold Roofing
Dianne Lipford – Avison Young
Venus Rodriguez – Banyan Street Capital
Tammy Roque – Highwoods Properties
Natalie Stoughton – Cushman & Wakefield of Florida
Katlin White – Cousins Properties
Advisory Council
Sandy Ballestra, RPA, CPM – Cushman & Wakefield of Florida
Carol Dunn – C.J Maintenance
Terri-Lynn Mitchell – Cushman & Wakefield of Florida
Denise Rue – Parmenter
Lynn Vilmar, RPA – Banyan Street Capital
Kent Walling, RPA – Cushman & Wakefield of Florida
Staff
Elaine Ruyle – Director of Meetings & Education
Shelli Menegos – Director of Membership & Accounting
