Board of Directors
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Laird Gann Executive Director, Melbourne Main Street |
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Peter Flotz As a resident of Melbourne Beach for more than 15 years, Mr. Flotz has seen the maturation of our community. As a board member of the Melbourne Main Street organization, he seeks to expand the visibility of Historic Downtown Melbourne both locally and to a tourist market. With his experience in urban planning and engineering, he offers a unique perspective on the emergence of a new Downtown Melbourne. Currently, he leads a development team building the first multi-family residential condominium project in Downtown, known as the Lofts at Waverly. He also serves the chair of the City of Melbourne’s Historic Preservation Board. |
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Beverly Sanders Information forthcoming |
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Tom Kasica A native Floridian, Tom was born in St Petersburg, Florida, graduated from Florida State University in 1975, with a Bachelor of Science, majoring in accounting. Tom has held a designation of Certified Public Accountant since 1977. Prior work experience includes two regional accounting firms prior to opening his own practice in 1985. Past community services include Board member and officer of Circles of Care, Cocoa Beach Area Chamber of Commerce, Florida Restaurant Association, Chairman of Boy and Girls Clubs of Brevard (1996-99) and Brevard Workforce Development Board (1995-97). Currently a board member and officer with Community Services Council. Hobbies include furniture and toy making and offshore fishing. Proud grandparent to three wonderful kids. |
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Joann Davis JoAnn is the MMS Design Committee Co-Lead busy coordinating the efforts of several successful projects: Facade Improvement, the west-end Gateway, Riverwalk, Entrance Features and Wayfinding Signage, to name a few. JoAnn is an Aerospace Engineering graduate from Penn State University and an X-Rocket Scientist for Lockheed Martin where she met her husband Bill Davis, an Electro-Optics Engineer, working together on several exciting space based missile defense programs in the 1980s. She took a personal leave of absence in 1988 to travel the world by bike and backpack, visiting 24 different countries and riding/trekking over 4000 miles. She rode her bike in Tiananmen Square before the tanks arrived, dove the Great Barrier Reef, rode a camel around the Egyptian Pyramids, and crossed the arctic circle at 4AM in broad daylight. |
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Alfonso Foster Alfonso is an accountant whose background includes US Air Force Accounting Supervisor, Comptroller for Symphony Health Services & President / CEO of Capital Accounting Services. He graduated from the University of Las Vegas with his Bachelor of Science in Accounting, and is highly involved with the Chamber of Commerce on the Educational Committee, Multi-Cultural Committee ad the Ambassador Committee. For Melbourne Main Street, his areas of focus are the Design Committee & Friday Family Fest. Alfonso is also part of the Small Business Development Group at BCC where he provides lectures and seminars for the new venture clinic. |
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Chuck Galy Information Forthcoming |
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LeAnne Hensley Information Forthcoming |
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Virginia LaPlante Information Forthcoming
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Mark Lewis Mark is a native Floridian who grew up in South Florida and in 1990 he sold a small business and moved to Melbourne Beach. Later he decided go back to school to study Film and upon graduating, Mark began working in the Cable Advertising business on the Production side writing and directing television commercials and later in the Media Planning side. In 1995 Mark founded Tight Line Productions, inc. when producing a Fishing Adventure Show Video titled “Ticket to the Other Side.” This opened up more opportunities for Mark to travel to many exotic locations to film and produce for many different video projects and television shows. Mark also managed his fulltime job working in TV advertising sales for TCI , AT&T and later Time Warner Cable. In 2000 Mark decided to take what he had learned in the corporate Advertising world and move Tight Line into a full service Advertising and Video Production Company. Although jumping into the water to film Sailfish in Panama or traveling to Hawaii to film the Hawaiian Island Billfish Tournament for ESPN are memories that will last a lifetime, these days Mark's focus is on running his advertising Agency / Video Production Company based in downtown Melbourne. |
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Dano LoPresti The Promotions Committee meets the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays of every month, 2:00pm at Matt's Casbah on the corner of East New Haven Avenue and Waverly Place. |
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Matt Nunges Chef Matt Nunges is the creative force behind Matt's Casbah. Drawing on his experiences of living and traveling around the world, Matt brings an eclectic, global inspiration to his cuisine. Matt was born in Abidjan on the Ivory Coast of West Africa. Matt’s childhood and teen years were spend traveling the globe as his father’s career in the Foreign Service took the family to live in Moscow, Taipei, Taiwan, Tanzania, East Africa, Costa Rica, Kenya, and New York City. Matt began cooking at a young age and many of his memories center of family, friends, and food -- from helping his Italian grandparents prepare pasta and homemade sauces as a boy, to squeezing squid as a teen in Africa, to working as a young chef in Thailand, to a recent dinner with his wife Rhonda and great friends under the stars on a hilltop overlooking Napa Valley. Before and after graduating from Johnson and Wales University in 1986 Matt cooked and traveled to broaden his culinary horizons, working in many of the fine dining restaurants in Brevard County as well as stints up north and Thailand. In 1994, with family backing, he opened Matt's Tropical Grill in Indialantic. Within two years he had moved to a larger space in Indian Harbor Beach, almost tripling the number of seats, while also purchasing the pub next door. Matt is also well known for his innovative catering and distinctive presentations, earning a reputation for the best food in Brevard. He began looking for larger space downtown in 2003 and the 2004 hurricanes forced him to close Matt's Tropical Grill and focus on his dream for the future. Matt's Casbah is that dream brought to life. |
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Dave Smith Information Forthcoming |
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Scott Widerman Scott graduated from the University of Central Florida in 1995. Then continued his education at Barry University School of Law, where he graduated in 2002. That same year, Scott was admitted to practice by the Florida Bar Association and the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida. Scott is known for his ability to research and litigate (and his better than par game on the golf course). Scott is experienced in handling complex litigation and negotiations, as well as in the areas of land use with recreation districts, homeowners associations, and other deed restricted communities. Scott is very active within the community, being affiliated with the Florida Bar, Vasser B. Carlton American Inns of Court and Delta Theta Phi Law Fraternity, in addition to being a member of the Cocoa Beach Area Chamber of Commerce and the Melbourne-Palm Bay Chamber of Commerce. |
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