Jay Alexander – Chairman, InTown Publishing & Intown411.com.
Alexander is a South Florida businessman who founded InTownUSA Publishing in 2006. Intown411 is a totally integrated, interactive and pro-active medium designed by and for people who love attractions, restaurants, night life and shopping. Alexander also owns and operates pedicab companies in Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood, Miami, Washington, D.C., Boston, Newport R.I. and New York City.
Kevin P. Boyd – Owner of Boyd Public Relations and former managing editor, Hollywood Sun-Tattler.
Boyd enjoyed a 17-year, award-winning career as a newspaper reporter and editor for such major news providers as the Chicago Tribune Co., Knight-Ridder, Scripps Howard and United Press International. For the past 19 years, he has worked as a senior account executive and partner/owner at three prominent Florida public relations firms. During his public relations career, Boyd has represented companies and organizations regionally, statewide and nationally, for both privately-owned and publicly-traded companies, as well as educational and non-profit organizations. Boyd has served on Broward’s Charter Review Commission and is an elected officer and member of the board of directors of the nonprofit, nonpartisan legislative advocacy group Broward Days. He has done pro bono work, including fundraising, for a number of charities including the United Way of Broward County, Henderson Mental Health Center, Women in Distress of Broward County, American Cancer Society and Boys and Girls Club of Broward County.
William H. Frank – Certified Public Accountant
Frank is one of the foremost forensic accountants in the United States. He concentrates his firm’s practice on providing specialized professional services to attorneys and accountants involved in federal criminal trials for fraud, tax evasion conspiracy in tax fraud and commercial transactions, money laundering, and director and officer liability and corporate shareholder litigation. He has served as a consultant to the Federal Public Defender in South Florida, and to private white collar defense counsel, and has been appointed by the court as an expert in white collar criminal trials. Frank has national CPA firm experience in the areas of SEC auditing and taxes. He is a past chief financial officer at a major real estate and manufacturing company.
Lisa Gibbs – Senior Writer at MONEY magazine and former executive business editor of The Miami Herald.
Gibbs has covered a variety of personal finance topics since joining MONEY in 2009. As the Herald’s executive business editor, she supervised business coverage in print, radio and online. For two years during her tenure, the Herald’s Business section won a Best in Business award for General Excellence from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers (SABEW). Before the Miami Herald, Gibbs was an investing writer for MONEY, and covered South Florida for Florida Trend. She also was a reporter and editor for the Miami Daily Business Review, where she was a finalist for the Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism for a project analyzing Chapter 11 bankruptcies. Gibbs is on the board of SABEW and chairs the organization’s international committee, which is working on projects to promote business journalism excellence outside the United States. Born in Hollywood, she graduated from the University of Miami and is a 7th-generation South Florida native.
Florence Beth Snyder – First Amendment attorney and former Administrative Law Judge in the Southern District of Florida
Snyder is a former general counsel to Palm Beach Newspapers, Inc. Her media clients have included Miami’s Channel 7, USA TODAY, the Ft. Myers News-Press, the Independent Florida Alligator, and radio talk show host Randi Rhodes.
Snyder has chaired The Florida Bar’s Media Law Conference and Reporters’ Workshop, and is a past recipient of the Legal Aid Society of Palm Beach County’s Juvenile Advocacy Award. She was a Supreme Court appointee to the Board of the Florida Bar Foundation, and sits on the advisory board of the Bureau of National Affairs’ Media Law Reporter. She has served as a trustee of the Poynter Institute for Media Studies, a school for journalists which owns the St. Petersburg Times. She entered public service as an administrative law judge in 1999 and was later special counsel to the Secretary of the Florida Department of Children and Family Services. Snyder returned to private practice in June 2009. She concentrates her practice in assisting businesses, governmental entities and individuals in the development and execution of sound and sustainable business strategies. She lives in Tallahassee.
