Awards & Recognition
The Lee Health Foundation has named long-time Southwest Florida patient advocate Kathy Tolentino as its 2025 Phoenix Award winner at the nonprofit’s annual Cancer Care Hero Awards celebration. The Phoenix Award recognizes a community member who, through education or development of new resources, has contributed to reshaping cancer care in the region. Tolentino, director of…
LQ Commercial is honored to announce that the company has been named as a 2024 Top Leasing Firm and a Top Sales Firm in Southwest Florida by the CoStar Group, Inc. Four LQ “Crew” members were acknowledged as overall top producers: Managing Principal, now 23-time winner & only broker in SWFL in 2024 to be…
SCORE Southwest Florida is honored to receive the SCORE District Chapter of the Year Award for outstanding performance in 2024. The award recognizes SCORE Southwest Florida for exceptional growth in the services provided to local entrepreneurs. SCORE Southwest Florida has been a part of the local small business community for 50 years. In 2024 the…
Goldstein, Buckley, Cechman, Rice & Purtz has become Goldstein, Buckley, Cechman, Rice, Purtz, Smith & Smith, a new name reflecting the next generation of leaders for the 62-year-old Southwest Florida law firm. Christopher J. Smith, managing partner, along with his wife, firm partner Andrea Smith, have been the face of the firm for the past…
The Advertising Federation of Southwest Florida has awarded Spiro & Associates’ media director, Don Gross, with the distinguished Silver Medal Award at the 2025 American Advertising Awards. This prestigious honor, presented on Feb. 21 at the Millennial Brewing Company in the city of Fort Myers, recognizes individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the advertising…
Vanderbilt Country Club of Naples, Florida, was recently named a finalist at the 59club USA’s second annual Service Excellence Awards, which honors golf country clubs in the United States. Held in conjunction with Orlando’s PGA show, the January 23 event brought the golf industry together to recognize the country’s finest service providers. Tim Miller, General…
John R. Wood Christie’s International Real Estate announced that President Corey McCloskey has been recognized as #29 among the country’s 57 top women executives on the 2024 Swanepoel Power 200 list. The list, a subset of the Swanepoel Power 200 ranking, acknowledges women leaders who hold the most power in the residential real estate industry. In…
Baker Senior Center Naples, a nonprofit organization that provides comprehensive programs and social services for seniors and their families in Collier and southern Lee counties, has named Jim Sernovitz as its sixth annual Volunteer of the Year. The award was presented during Baker Senior Center Naples’ 13th Annual “Evening for Better Tomorrows” fundraising event on…
The Naples Airport Authority announces that Ken Warriner, Senior Director of Finance and Administration, has received the prestigious 2024 Risk Management Professional of the Year award in the Small and Non-Hub Airport category by Airports Council International- North America. This recognition highlights his exceptional leadership in managing risk and ensuring operational resilience at the Naples…
Heart, Body & Mind Home Care, a non-clinical, personal home care agency, has earned the National Council of Certified Dementia Practitioners Memory Care Seal of Excellence. The designation recognizes Heart, Body & Mind Home Care’s commitment to providing exceptional dementia care and advancing industry standards as part of the Memory Care Excellence Network (MCEN). “We…