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NAIOP NW FL Annual Economic Update

  • May 23, 2018
  • 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM
  • Pensacola Yacht Club - 1897 Cypress Street, Pensacola, Florida 32502

Registration

  • 1/2 page add in event program.
  • Includes lunch.
  • Table Sponsor includes a 1/2 page ad in program book and a table for 8.
  • Includes a table for 8, full page ad in the program, a display table at the event, and promotions prior, during, and after the event.


Annual Economic Update

Presented by Florida Department of Financial Services,
Jimmy Patronis and UWF's, Dr. Rick Harper


Meet Your Speakers:


Jimmy Patronis

Jimmy Patronis is a native Floridian born and raised in Panama City. He earned his associate degree in restaurant management from Gulf Coast Community College and a bachelor’s degree in political science from Florida State University. He is a partner in a family-owned seafood restaurant called Captain Anderson’s that will celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2017. His public service career began with experience as an intern in the Florida Senate and the United Kingdom’s House of Commons. Following his college graduation, Governor Lawton Chiles appointed him to the Florida Elections Commission, and he was later reappointed by Governor Jeb Bush.

He served in the Florida House of Representatives from 2006 to 2014, representing his hometown region in the Florida Panhandle. He was appointed to serve on Florida’s Public Service Commission, as well as the Constitution Revision Commission, which meets once every twenty years to propose changes to the state constitution.

He is recognized for outstanding leadership in his hometown of Panama City and throughout Florida. Committed to active civic engagement and business development, he has chaired the Greater Panama City Beach Chamber of Commerce’s Economic Development Council, served on the board of the Bay County Economic Development Alliance, the Salvation Army Advisory Board, the Bay County Chapter of the Florida Restaurant and Lodging Association, and as national president for the Florida Vocational Industrial Clubs of America. He is a former trustee of the Gulf Coast Medical Center, and former director of the Bay Medical Center’s Foundation and Gulf Coast Community College Foundation Board.

He was instrumental in the establishment of the Northwest Florida Beaches International Airport in Panama City and has served as chairman and a board member of Bay County-Panama City International Airport and Industrial District.


Rick Harper, Ph.D.

Dr. Rick Harper is an Associate Professor of Economics at UWF. He previously directed UWF's Center for Research and Economic Opportunity, and the Haas Center for Business Research. He also served as Senior Policy Advisor for Economic Development to the Florida Senate during 2013 and 2014. He earned his PhD in Economics from Duke in 1989 and has been on the UWF faculty since then.




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