CEO Spotlights

CEO Spotlight – Rodney Lewis, Architects Lewis+ Whitlock

Rodney Lewis, AIA is a Principal and Co-Founder of Architects Lewis + Whitlock (ALW), a market-leading design firm established in Tallahassee in 2000. Rodney founded the firm with his partner Cam Whitlock after studying architecture together at Florida A&M University and working at other local firms for nearly a decade. The two shared a desire […]

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CEO Spotlight – Mike Akers, FLAG Credit Union

Mike Akers first stepped into the financial industry in 2003 and spent the next 16 years developing his knowledge and love for credit unions. He earned both an undergraduate and a Master’s degree from Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, and subsequently became a Community Development Certified Financial Counselor and a Credit Union Development Educator. […]

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CEO Spotlight – Tom Deison, Hancock Whitney

Hancock Whitney, one of America’s strongest and safest banks, is a 120-plus-year-old financial institution providing premier service throughout the Gulf South region. New to the organization, Tom Deison brings a fresh perspective as Hancock Whitney Tallahassee Market President. In his role, he provides leadership and management oversight for the bank’s three financial centers in the […]

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CEO Spotlight – Bennett Napier, Partners in Association Management

Partners in Association Management was founded by Bennett Napier in 1998, after a year of operating under a different business name in 1997. The firm has been a Chamber member for over twenty years. The company is a professional services firm; however, it’s a very specific niche. A good way to describe the business model […]

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Company Spotlight – Downs & St. Germain Research

Downs & St. Germain Research is a full-service market research firm located in Tallahassee, Florida specializing in developing marketing and strategic recommendations from survey results and focus groups. Downs & St. Germain Research traces its roots to 1981 when Phillip Downs, Ph.D., and John Kerr, D.B.A., formed Kerr & Downs Research. The firm changed its […]

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CEO Spotlight – Rowland Lamb, ColoneyBell

Rowland Lamb is a licensed Professional Engineer and President of ColoneyBell, Tallahassee’s oldest forensic consulting firm. Rowland was born in Valley, Alabama, raised in East Point, Georgia, and graduated from Auburn University in 1983 with a Bachelor of Civil Engineering. He is proud to say that Tallahassee has been his home since 1990. After 16 […]

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CEO Spotlight – Laura Johnson, Coton Colors

Influenced by a childhood immersed in the colorful culture of Old Miami and ingrained with the Southern charm of her current home in Tallahassee, Laura Johnson, an entrepreneurial artisan, founded Coton Colors by Laura Johnson in 1989. Like so many other entrepreneurs, Laura started her business in her garage. She hand-crafted products that were inspired […]

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