Suzie Boland specializes in strategic public relations to drive sales inquiries, build client brands and handle crisis communications, working with national, regional and local clients in the economic development, technology, professional services, healthcare, senior services, manufacturing and consumer products/services fields. She has more than 25 years of experience in marketing, communications and public relations, both as a marketing executive and an agency principal. A graduate of Leadership Tampa, she was founding advisory council chairman of STAR TEC (now Tampa Bay Innovation Center), where she is now a member of the board of directors and the advisory board; and was a founding board member of the Tampa Bay Technology Forum and TechVillage Tampa Bay incubator. She is a former board member and marketing vice chairman of the CEO Council of Tampa Bay and a former member of the board and communications chairman of the Association for Corporate Growth. She was named “2007 CEO of the Year for Marketing” by Tampa Bay CEO Magazine “2004 Tech Leader of the Year” by the Tampa Bay Technology Forum.