Never before have our innovators and entrepreneurs had as much opportunity as they do today.  The days of leaving Tampa Bay to be successful are over.  Our community is ready and willing to fund great ideas. Venture Catalyst connects investors, mentors and supporting organizations with the startups that will grow here and prosper here. This […]

In late January 2020, I attended the American Society for Microbiology annual biothreats conference. The plenary session with Dr. Anthony Fauci turned out to be his first public remarks on the novel coronavirus (nCoV2019), soon known as COVID-19. Most people in the room, some of us veterans of the war on HIV, understood there was a brutal […]

“Develop a small network of trusted informal advisors and mentors to be an independent sounding board as you address the challenges of this new role.” –Pete Mariani, CFO, Axogen Like many of his finance leader peers, Pete Mariani credits a senior operational role with helping him to plant both feet on the path to CFO […]