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Appointments at Port Tampa Bay and Tampa General Medical Group highlight this week's Tampa Bay business Movers & Shakers

 
Port Tampa Bay announced this week that Jamal Sowell has been named director of special projects. [Handout photo]
Port Tampa Bay announced this week that Jamal Sowell has been named director of special projects. [Handout photo]
Published July 28, 2017

Government

Port Tampa Bay announced that Jamal Sowell has been named director of special projects. Sowell, a former member of the U.S.Marine Corps, will support internal, external and special projects, assist the executive team with management oversight and serve as a liaison on a variety of port business matters. Sowell, a sixth-generation Floridian from Orlando, was most recently involved with the Indiana Journal of Constitutional Design and Center for Constitutional Democracy.

Medical

Dr. Lucila Ramiro, an internal medicine physician at the TGH Family Care Center Kennedy since 1995, was recently appointed vice president of the Tampa General Medical Group, an affiliate of Tampa General Hospital. Ramiro has served as the group's primary care program director since 2012. In her new role she oversees two specialty offices, 14 primary care locations, and 101 primary care providers, specialists and advanced practice providers.She joined TGH in 1994 after completing her internal medicine residency at St. Luke's Medical Center in Cleveland. She received her medical degree at the University of Santo Tomas in Manila, Philippines, a master's in business administration from the University of South Florida.

Retail

Marc Cook has been promoted to senior vice president of client services and operations at Crossman & Co., one of the Southeast's largest retail leasing, property management and investment sales firms with offices in Orlando, Miami, Tampa, Boca Raton and Atlanta. He had been director of client services.

Real Estate

BGG, a national commercial real estate valuation, advisory and assessment firm, has named two real estate industry veterans to managing director of the firm's new offices in Tampa and Miami. BBG appointed Eric Hoening to serve as managing director of the Tampa office. Prior to joining BBG, Hoening served as director of valuation and advisory services at JBM Institutional Multifamily Advisors, a Tampa-based brokerage. Prior to that, he worked as a senior appraiser at Tropical Realty Services (now called Franklin Street Valuation Advisory).

Software

VIP Software, a national provider of integrated software solutions to property and casualty insurance companies, has added Thomas L. Thomas, Mike Mikurak and Mark S. Rangell to its board of directors. Thomas will serve as chairman of the board. Thomas was the first chief information officer for Dell Computer Corp. and 3Com Corp. He is currently managing partner of a private management consulting and investment business, T2 Partners. Mikurak retired from Accenture, Plc. with founder partner status as one of the original company partners who took the company into the public markets. Rangell currently serves as managing partner of Excellence, LLC, and a B2B growth strategy-consulting firm that he co-founded in 2011.

Engineering

Consulting engineering firm, RK&K announced that Michael Adams has joined the firm as a director in the Florida Transportation Operations based out of Tampa. A graduate of the University of Maryland with a bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering, Adams has spent the last 24 years in Florida leading many large-scale projects.

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