Profiles

The Board of Directors for Keep Florida Beautiful (KFB), one of the largest volunteer-based community organizations in the Sunshine State, has announced the appointment of Savanna Christy as Executive Director. Savanna came to KFB from the Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission in February 2019 and served as Program Coordinator, assisting with the daily operations...

Returning back to his roots, Dr. Mike Bertulfo recently opened Women’s Lift Lab in Downtown Gainesville to help women of all ages improve their health and become stronger. Mike is a clinical educator dedicated to improving wellness through increased knowledge and behavior modification… Before moving back to Gainesville, he worked in D.C. for five years...

Author and game developer Michael Tomaino is inspired to bring positivity in everyone’s lives. Helping others and making them feel valued has always been his passion.  On this week’s episode of the WHOA GNV Podcast, Michael opens up to hosts Collin and Michael about his journey to Gainesville and the impact he’s made in the...

On Sept. 1, renowned neurogeneticist Matthew Farrer, Ph.D., internationally recognized for his work on the genetics of Parkinson’s disease, will join UF Health, the University of Florida’s academic health center. Farrer will be named an endowed chair of the Norman Fixel Institute for Neurological Diseases at UF Health in Parkinson’s disease research and will serve...

Dr. David R. Nelson has been named senior vice president for health affairs at the University of Florida and president of UF Health, the university’s academic health center. The appointment is effective immediately, according to UF President Kent Fuchs. For nearly a year, Nelson — also a professor of medicine, assistant vice president for research...

Age is nothing more than a number to Robert Blok. At 76, he earned his Master of Pharmacy in Science degree from the University of Florida College of Pharmacy — earning the distinction of being UF’s oldest graduate among more than 8,000 students in the class of 2019. Blok and his wife, Kim, retired in...

ClaimFound Inc., a Gainesville-based internet company providing free software to help individuals and businesses find, process, and monitor unclaimed property, has officially launched its platform in Florida and is looking to aid in the return of hundreds of millions of dollars to Florida citizens. Unclaimed property encompasses a wide array of assets, from old utility...

When you think of the future, what do you envision? Jan Spence and Steve Garguilo see women entrepreneurs, leading with empowerment and action. Spence and Garguilo were the opening and closing keynote speakers, respectively, at the second annual Inspiring Women Leaders Conference. The second of the two-day conference, which was hosted by The Department of...

Alachua County is the home of startup incubators. So, it only seems fitting that Alachua County and the City of Gainesville have the infrastructure with the right resources and tools to enable entrepreneurs. That’s where the Santa Fe College Innovative Product Development Center (IPDC) comes in. The program was born when some of Santa Fe’s...

North Central Florida is predominately made up of tight knit agriculture communities where at any given moment you could get stuck behind a tractor on a quiet two-lane road. Yet, in 2016, The Warren Henry Auto Group​ decided to bring the luxury car dealership, Audi, to Gainesville. Up until then, the closest Audi dealership to...