Bryan Desloge is President and CEO of Desloge Home Oxygen and Medical Equipment which has been in business since 1992. Desloge Home Oxygen and Medical Equipment is a multi-million dollar business that specializes in providing the best equipment and service available in the North Florida area. According to Desloge, "We are an independent provider and our focus has been, and will continue to be, the best possible care for the patient." Brian is 44 years old, has 4 children, and is an active church member. His community involvement includes: Leadership Tallahassee, Leadership Florida, Jim Moran Institute, Continuum Care, Capital Coalition on Aging, Capital Area Chapter American Red Cross, Tree House and more.

Dr. Lloyd Fernald is a Professor of Management at the College of Business Administration, University of Central Florida (UCF), in Orlando, Florida. He earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering from the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland; Master of Science degree in Personnel Administration from the US Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California; and Doctorate of Business Administration from The George Washington University in Washington, DC. He instructs in the areas of Human Resource Management and Organizational Behavior, teaches a graduate course in Creative and Innovative in Management and was a Case Supervisor (Associate Director to Ron Rubin) for the Small Business Institute at UCF for five years. He is a Past President of the Small Business Institute Directors Association (SBIDA); Past President of SBDA Region IV (Southeast United States), Past President of the International Council for Small Business (ICSB); and a Fellow in the International Council for Small Business (ICSB), US Association of Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE), and Small Business Institute Directors Association (SBIDA). He is on the Strategic Analysis Committees for both the on the ICSB and USASBE and served on the Steering Committee of the International Small Business Congress (ISBC) for three years. He also is a member of the Florida SBDC Network Board of Directors, Past Chair of the City of Orlando Human Relations Board, and Past Project Manager in establishing the National Entrepreneur Center in Orlando, Florida. Commencing in 1997, he has been the US Representative on the International Advisory Group of Experts (INAGE), an ad hoc committee tasked to establish and oversee the Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Training and Certification of Small Business Counselors Program. As a result of this experience, the University of Central Florida College of Business Administration (CBA) was awarded the sole rights to implement the Program in the US. He now serves on the Professional Standards Committee, which is tasked to oversee the APEC-wide implementation of the Program. A separate entity, the Institute of Certified Business Consultants (ICBC) has been established within the CBA with Dr. Fernald as the Director. He also is a member of the American Association of Physician Specialists (AAPS) National Orthopedic Surgeons Certification Board. Appointed in 2000, he was recently reappointed for a third two-year term. He has served four years on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Small Business Management, six years on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Management Systems and has been guest editor for several other national and international small business journals, including Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice. His research interests are primarily in the area of entrepreneurship and small business, creative and innovative management, and the relationship between creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship. His articles have been published in the Journal of Business and Entrepreneurship, Journal of Gaming & Simulation, Journal of Creative Behavior, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Journal of Small Business Management, the Journal of Private Enterprises, several periodicals and numerous conference proceedings.

David Hurley has lived in Hillsborough County for over 25 years, and has been an active member in both the business and civic community. A Licensed Land Surveyor in both Florida and Indiana, he is currently President and CEO of Landmark Engineering & Surveying Corporation. In 1984, Landmark had revenues of $342,000 and grew to $1,700,000 in 1986. Landmark was recognized for its growth and business practices by the SBDC in 1986. Today, Landmark has more than seventy employees and over $4,000,000 in revenue. David’s professional involvement includes the American Congress on Surveying & Mapping, Builders Association of Greater Tampa, Florida Association of Cadastral Mappers (Charter Member), Florida Society of Professional Surveyors & Mappers, Indiana Society of Professional Land Surveyors, National Federation of Independent Business (Florida Chairman since 1999), National Society of Professional Surveyors, Tampa Bay Society of Professional Surveyors & Mappers and the West Coast Land Surveyor's Association (Past President). David lives in South Tampa with his wife, Beverley, and enjoys spending time with his children and grandchildren.

Tom Keon is the Dean of the College of Business Administration at the University of Central Florida in Orlando. He received his PhD from Michigan State University in Management. Prior to this, he attended Bentley College (BSA), Suffolk University (MEd), and Babson College (MBA). His administrative positions began at the University of Missouri where he served as Department Chair and Associate Dean. He has also served as Associate Dean at Florida Atlantic University and as Dean at Southern Illinois University – Carbondale. His research has appeared in Human Relations, Organizational Behavior and Human Performance, Organization Studies, Journal of Applied Psychology, and Journal of Business Ethics.

Todd G. Kocourek serves as President, CEO and General Counsel of Florida First Capital Finance Corporation, reporting to the board of directors. Based in the corporate offices in Tallahassee, he has direct management responsibility for all personnel, operational, corporate, marketing and legal matters for the company. Kocourek joined Florida First Capital as its General Counsel and, in 1998, was named President/CEO. He is a member of the SBA North Florida Advisory Council, Vice-Chair of the board of the Florida Export Finance Corporation, the Past Chair of the International Law Section of the Florida Bar.

Louis E. Laubscher is the Senior Director of Capital Development for Enterprise Florida. He is responsible for overseeing programs aimed at helping Florida businesses and entrepreneurs gain access to capital. He serves as President of Florida Development Finance Corporation (FDFC), the state authorized issuer of Enterprise Bonds, which is a tax-exempt Industrial Revenue Bond program designed to be affordable for smaller borrowers. He serves on the board of directors of Florida Black Business Investment Corporation and Florida Aerospace Finance Corporation, which companies along with FDFC, Florida First Capital Finance Corporation and Florida Export Finance Corporation from the Florida Financial Network, a consortium that cooperates to pinpoint resources and expertise to best serve business borrowing needs. He also oversees the Capital Access Plus Program, a loan guarantee program for technology companies, and Cypress Equity Management Corporation, which is the general partner in a venture capital limited partnership. Louis served as a senior lender and senior administrative officer in Central Florida banking for over 25 years. He holds a BA degree from Principia College and an MBA degree from the University of California at Berkeley.

Ed Linsenmeyer graduated from the Illinois Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Science degree in physics. He then attended the University of Florida where he was a John C. Slater Graduate research fellow in the Quantum Theory Project, a joint program with Uppsala University, Sweden. After obtaining a Master’s of Science degree and being admitted to candidacy for the PhD, he taught at the Santa Fe Community College, Gainesville Florida. In 1981, he came to the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Panama City, Florida. During his first assignment, he served as the Project Leader for writing the first US Marine Corps Master Plan. He then went on to serve as the Lead Project Engineer for Exploratory Development Programs in Air and Sea Mine Countermeasures (MCM). He served a year at the Office of Naval Research as a Technical Area Manager in Mine Warfare, returning to Panama City to manage the MCM Exploratory Program. During this time, he also won an international award from the Technical Cooperation Program for contributions in the development of mine burial prediction models. For the last decade, he has served as the Manager of the Coastal Systems Station Office of Research and Technology Applications. In that capacity, he has served on a variety of offices of the Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) for Technology Transfer: these include FLC Program Chair, Member at Large to the FLC Executive Board, Deputy Regional Coordinator of the Southeast FLC, Regional Coordinator of the FLC, Vice-Chair of National FLC, and He is currently the Chair of the National Federal Laboratory Consortium. He has been active in the DOD Technology Transfer Integrated Project Team (TTIPT) serving on both planning committees and a lecturer on CRADAs. As a Navy ORTA, he has also lead the team to revise the Navy’s Standard CRADA and development of the Navy CRADA Handbook. He has been recognized by the FLC having received both the regional and national FLC Laboratory Representative of the Year Awards (1995). He has been involved with the Navy’s Small Business Innovation Research program since 1983. He serves as a board member of the Bay County Small Business Incubator, and on the State of Florida Small Business Development Centers Advisory Board.

Dan Regelski is the Regional Director of the SBDC at Florida Gulf Coast University. Dan worked for two years as a certified business analyst at Edison Community College prior to starting up the program at FGCU. Dan has over twenty years of business experience in operations management and other executive level responsibilities for several major food cooperative chain stores, mostly in the Northeast. Dan has taught core business courses on many different levels: the continuing education level, for three different community colleges, and two universities, currently teaching marketing for FGCU. At FGCU Dan, has worked to pool the efforts and expertise of the local SCORE Chapters combined with many professional volunteers to offer business counseling to those entrepreneurs just starting up or those who plan to grow their business. Dan grew up in an entrepreneurial environment where he was taught the meaning of working in and on a business working with his father and brother in a large Agri-business venture. Dan has an undergraduate degree in Biology and Chemistry from Alliance College and a MBA with concentration in Management from the University of New Hampshire. Dan and his family reside in Cape Coral.

Keevin D. Williams is Vice President of the Florida Black Business Investment Board, Inc. (FBBIB). In this capacity, Williams’ primary responsibility is to manage the lending/ financing functions and administer the loan portfolio of the Florida Black Business Support Corporation (FBBSC), a wholly-owned subsidiary of the FBBIB. Williams also handles the marketing and external affairs functions of the FBBIB, which include representing the FBBIB before the Florida Legislature. Prior to joining the FBBIB, Williams served as Vice President of Government Affairs & Insurance Division of the Florida Bankers Association (FBA), in Tallahassee. In this capacity, Williams represented banking and insurance interests before legislative and regulatory bodies in Tallahassee and Washington, DC. In 2000, he created the Insurance Division of FBA, a division of banking and insurance executives brought together to advance the financial services industries through advocacy and education. As a result of his work with the Insurance Division, Williams was elected Vice President of FBA. A native of Tampa, Williams earned a BA from the University of South Florida (1993) and JD the Florida State University College of Law (1997).