Leadership role
Steve Saladino of Tampa is the new president of the state association for the National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors (NAIF-Florida), a professional association based in Tallahassee, with 2,600 members statewide.
Saladino is owner and principal of Saladino Financial Group LLC, which has clients statewide, but primarily in north Tampa, Lutz and Land O’ Lakes.
Saladino served four years in the U.S. Army with the 82nd Airborne Division in the finance and accounting department. Afterward, he began a 26-year career in insurance and financing.
He earned the title of Life Underwriter Training Council Fellow, and as a moderator provided continuing education for The American College and the Florida Department of Financial Services.
He served as president of NAIFA-Tampa from 2006 to 2008, and is a 2008 graduate of NAIFA-Florida’s Leadership in Life Institute. In 2013, he became vice president of NAIFA-Florida.
For information, visit Naifa-Florida.org.
Award winner
RealReach Marketing President Jim Schaefer has more than 20 years’ experience in the homebuilding industry.
For the second year in a row, RealReach Marketing picked up an award at the Southeast Builder’s Conference, held in Orlando.
The Lutz-based company won honors for Best Website for their work with the Las Vegas-based builder, StoryBook Homes. In 2015, RealReach won for best YouTube video for a video on the Pasco County Parks, Recreation and Natural Resources Department.
The Southeast Builder’s conference features the building industry’s trade show, and attracts hundreds of builders, commercial contractors, public relations professionals, and media and advertising professionals.
Excel and Aurora awards are given in marketing and design to the best in the business in the southeast United States.
RealReach offers website design and web-based marketing to clients that include automotive, health care, contractor, and education sectors. The company’s niche is the new home building industry.
Fall mixer
The East Pasco Networking Group will have its 2016 Fall Mixer on Sept. 20 at 6 p.m., at IHOP, at 13100 U.S. 301 in Dade City.
Keynote speaker will be Amanda Markowitz of Sunrise Domestic Shelter in Dade City. Previous EPNG Standing Ovation Award Winners and past guest speakers also are invited.
The focus is on family more than business, so come out with family members.
There will be door prizes and a 50-50 drawing to benefit the Sunrise shelter. Door prizes can be donated for the event.
For information, contact the group’s chairman, Nils Lenz, at (813) 782-9491 or . Or, contact vice chairwoman, Vicky Jones, at (813) 431-1149 or .
Business forum
A Lunch N Learn Business Forum is scheduled for Sept. 15 from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., at The Greater Wesley Chapel Chamber of Commerce Don Porter Boardroom, at 6013 Wesley Chapel Blvd., Suite 105.
Guest speaker will be Charles J. Lewandowski, a certified financial planner, who will discuss how to maximize your company’s retirement plan.
The cost for the forum is $15 including lunch. Please RSVP by Sept. 14, as seating is limited.
For information, visit WesleyChapelChamber.com, or call (813) 994-8534.
Network luncheon
The North Tampa Chamber of Commerce will have a chamber network luncheon on Sept. 15 from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., at Beef O’ Brady’s, at 8801 Himes Ave. (at Himes Avenue and Busch Boulevard), in Tampa.
Order from the lunch menu or regular menu. Minimum payment of $5 is required if you don’t order food, and you must pay for your drinks.
A display table will be available for brochures, flyers and promotional items.
For information, email , or call Keller Williams Tampa Properties at (813) 864-6370.
Hispanic business luncheon
The Hispanic Business Leaders luncheon will be on Sept. 20 from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., at the Land O’ Lakes Community Center, 5401 Land O’ Lakes Blvd. The event is hosted by the Hispanic Business Leaders of the Central Pasco Chamber of Commerce. Meetings are conducted in English.
Guest speaker will be John Angelett of The Small Assisted Living Coalition, which provides senior care placement services.
The cost is $20 for chamber members and $25 for non-members, but $15 for members and $20 for non-members, if prepaid by Sept. 15.
Job fair
Mettler-Toledo Safeline and Eagle Product Inspection will have a job fair on Sept. 21 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., at 6005 Benjamin Road, in Tampa.
Mettler-Toledo officials recently announced plans to close operations in Tampa and Ithaca, New York, as the company expands and builds a $30 million manufacturing plant at Northpointe Village in Lutz. As many as 275 jobs, including transfers of current employees, are anticipated.
Job openings are field service engineers, project manager (X-Ray), dispatch coordinator, order entry administrators, CNC machinists, crating and shipping, fabrication supervisor, C# programmer, technical sales specialist, mechanical design engineer, service dispatcher/CSR, inside sales, welders, assemblers, shipping coordinator, mechanical engineer and regional sales manager.
