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• 2025 Membership Renewal

  • Start
    24-Aug-2024
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    8:00 PM
  • End
    31-Oct-2024
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    11:30 PM

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  Dear Gulf Coast CEO Member,

  The Gulf Coast CEO Forum is growing, and we want to thank you for being a part of our leading organization. Your participation has been invaluable, and your engagement has greatly enriched our community of leaders.

  This past year, we've been thrilled to offer a variety of enriching experiences designed to support your professional growth and connect you with fellow executives. Our speaker meetings have featured industry-leading experts who have shared insightful perspectives and strategies relevant to today's business challenges. The roundtable groups have provided a platform for in-depth discussions, allowing you to explore solutions and ideas collaboratively. Additionally, our social events have fostered relationships and offered a chance to network with fellow members.

  As we look forward to 2025, we are excited about the opportunities and events we have planned. We hope to continue providing you with the resources that will enable you to build relationships, generate ideas and formulate solutions.

  To ensure that you continue to enjoy the benefits of our community in the coming year, we kindly ask you to confirm your membership renewal for 2025. The membership dues for 2025 have increased slightly to $2035.00, which is allowing us to bring you even bigger speakers in the year ahead. Your continued participation is not only appreciated but also essential to the ongoing success of the Gulf Coast CEO Forum. Please confirm your membership by clicking on the "register" below.  

  Have you considered being a sponsor? Limited spots are available for your company to gain exposure to over 120 CEOs at our events and be prominently featured on our webpage.

  Thank you once again for your dedication and significant contributions throughout 2024. Your involvement has been instrumental in our success, and we look forward to another successful year with you.

  
  

  With gratitude,

  
  

                              
  

                                      

  Doug Walters                                   Rene Hebda

  Chairman, Board of Directors             Executive Director

  
  

  
  

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• Scott Augenbaum: Cyber Security

  • When
    16-Oct-2024
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    7:30 AM - 9:00 AM
  • Location
    Sarasota Yacht Club: 1100 John Ringling Blvd, Sarasota, FL 34236

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  Cyber Security 

  
  

  After joining the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in the New York Field Office in 1988 as a support employee, Scott Augenbaum became a Special Agent in 1994 and was assigned to the Syracuse, New York Office, where he worked domestic terrorism, white collar and hate crimes, and all computer crime investigations. In October 2003, he was promoted to Supervisory Special Agent at FBI Headquarters, Washington D.C in the Cyber Division, Cyber Crime Fraud Unit, and was responsible for managing the FBI's Cyber Task Force Program and Intellectual Property Rights Program. In 2006 he was transferred to Nashville, TN and managed the FBI Memphis Division Computer Intrusion/Counterintelligence Squad in Nashville, TN.

  Over the past three decades, he responded to thousands of Cyber Crime incidents and provided hundreds of computer intrusion threat briefings with the goal of educating the community on emerging computer intrusion threats and how to not to be the victim of a data breach. In January 2018, he retired from the FBI and he shares his knowledge base to provide a unique training experience. He will scare you and make you laugh and provide you with a number of no-cost quick fixes to prevent you and your organization from becoming victims.

  Scott Augenbaum earned an MBA at American Sentinel University in Information Technology, and a Masters Certificate in Information Security Management from Villanova University and has earned six General Information Assurance Certifications (GIAC).
  
  

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• Member Fall Social

  • When
    24-Oct-2024
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    5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
  • Location
    State Street Eating House| 1533 State St, Sarasota, FL 34236

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  MEMBERS ONLY FALL SOCIAL

  It's time to celebrate fall! Join us for lite bites, cocktails and conversation at our Members Only Happy Hour on Thursday, October 24th from 5:30-7 pm.

  State Street Eating House| 1533 State St, Sarasota, FL 34236
  

  RSVP Required | Limited Availability | Members Only

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• Bob Marsh: Increasing Company Sales

  • When
    13-Nov-2024
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    7:30 AM - 9:00 AM
  • Location
    Sarasota Yacht Club: 1100 John Ringling Blvd, Sarasota, FL 34236

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  Increasing Company Sales

  
  

  Speaker and leadership expert Bob Marsh spent his career as an entrepreneur and sales leader. Bob has been an executive and CEO at two category creating companies, has raised millions in venture capital, sold two companies, and has won and grew business from some of the top brands in the world.

  In addition to keynote speaking, Bob is an active Chief Revenue Officer of ImpactEleven, which is the industry's leading professional speaker development company.

  In 2022 Bob was selected as Selling Power's CRO of the Year, and as one of the Top 25 Sales Experts to Learn From by Demandbase. As a speaker and thought leader, Bob has spoken at industry leading events including Dreamforce, SaaStr, Sales 2.0, and HubSpot's INBOUND and been published in Inc., Entrepreneur, SellingPower, Fast Company, and the Harvard Business Review.

  
  

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• Annual Holiday Party

  • When
    05-Dec-2024
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    6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
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    The Founders Club; 3800 Golf Hall Dr. Sarasota, FL 34240

  
  

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• Alan Stein Jr.: Raise Their Game: How to Improve Your Leadership Performance, Impact and Influence

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    11-Dec-2024
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    7:30 AM - 9:00 AM
  • Location
    Sarasota Yacht Club: 1100 John Ringling Blvd, Sarasota, FL 34236

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  Raise Their Game: How to Improve Your Leadership Performance, Impact and Influence

  

  Alan Stein, Jr. teaches proven strategies to improve organizational performance, create effective leadership, increase team cohesion and collaboration, and develop winning mindsets, rituals, and routines.

  In his corporate keynote programs and workshops, Alan shares real-world lessons, illustrated by powerful stories, so that every audience can immediately put new ideas into action. He has a passion for helping organizations create high-performance cultures, and his clients include American Express, Pepsi, Under Armour, Starbucks, Charles Schwab, Orangetheory Fitness, and numerous college athletic programs such as Penn State Football and UConn Men’s Basketball.

  An acclaimed basketball performance coach, Alan spent 15 years working with the highest-performing athletes on the planet (including NBA superstars Kevin Durant, Stephen Curry, and Kobe Bryant). He transfers that knowledge to reveal how leaders and teams can utilize the same approaches in business that elite athletes use to perform at a world-class level.

  The strategies from Alan’s books, Raise Your Game and Sustain Your Game, are implemented by corporate teams and sports teams around the country. His inspirational words are featured on a 12-foot mural outside the Penn State Football Training Center, so that players run past it on the way to practice every day.

  
  

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