Greater Tampa Chamber announces finalists for small business awards

Three executives — Greg Celestan of Celestar Corp., Jon Yob of Creative Recycling Systems, Inc. and Karen Gillman of Intelligent Office — are finalists for outstanding leader of 2010 in the Greater Tampa Chamber of Commerce's 30th annual small business awards. The chamber also named 15 small businesses as finalists in three categories, based on number of employees.

Finalists in the five to 20 employee category are: Adcock Financial Group, Animus Solutions, Inc., Cases2Go, Vertical Integration Inc. and Wilder Architecture Inc.

Finalists with 21 to 50 employees are: INETICO Inc., Infinity Technology Solutions, IT Authorities Inc., New Identities Hair Studios of Tampa and RMC Property Group.

And finalists with 51 to 250 employees are: Celestar Corp., Network Synergy Group, Pender Newkirk & Company LLC, Shear Art Salon & Spa and VectorLearning.

Winners will be announced during an awards banquet on Sept. 24 at the Tampa Convention Center.