Only days into his job as president and CEO of Visit St. Pete/Clearwater, Steve Hayes is beginning to work on a strategic plan to continue the Pinellas County tourism agency’s success.
St. Petersburg-based startup Lunchpool spent 2019 spreading its message about the dangers of what it calls the “desktop dining epidemic,” a phenomenon that has more and more young professionals eating alone at their desks. In 2020, the startup is helping Tampa Bay professionals combat that epidemic by starting the year on a better, more connected foot with its Jan. 8 virtual networking event, Break Tampa Bay.
There was always something different about the Outlaws. In the 1970s battle for Southern Rock supremacy, the Outlaws were always a bit more melodic, their songs more lyrically literate, and they blended their heavy-riffing guitar attack with complex three-part vocal harmonies.
The founders of Lunchpool are starting a movement to take back lunchtime. They're in the process of building an app to defeat the “desktop dining epidemic,” a cycle that keeps professionals stuck at their desks - in front of their screens and away from other humans.
Dubbed the “king of cashmere” by The New Yorker, Brunello Cucinelli is the founder of the eponymously named fashion house that is well-known for making luxury cashmere sweaters (and more than $450 million a year in revenues). He started his company in 1978, and, now 61, he lives in Solemeo, Italy, with his wife and two children.
