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Based out of Pensacola, Florida, principals Scott Sallis and Dean Dalrymple each have more than 20 years experience in architecture, interior design, and master planning. They apply their expertise in an open studio environment to provide a collaborative, hands-on approach to every project. Their ability to interpret the specific vision of each client has resulted in a positive word-of-mouth reputation and growing portfolio of repeat and referred customers. By focusing on elements that are beautiful, useful and necessary, Dalrymple | Sallis Architecture creates the right environment to fit your business or lifestyle. Learn more about what we do
From the initial meeting to the house-warming party or ribbon cutting, every client receives individual attention from a carefully selected project team. Our principal architects work hand-in-hand with all the professionals involved in your project to ensure a seamless transition through each phase into product completion. Listening to each client is the foundation of our process. Combining this with our use of the latest technology creates our competitive advantage to delivering beautifully executed projects. View some of our work
Bob Bennett
This blog focuses on the economic future of Northwest Florida by providing insight into little known facts and innovative concepts to stimulate discussion and progress.
The demographics of the counties can be found at the Northwest Florida Forward website.
ROBERT R. BENNETT
Summary
A dynamic global executive with 50 years of experience in establishing a broad range of energy and environmental related projects in over 70 countries. His principal strength is in developing implementable plans to establish new projects and companies in early adopter technologies.
Mr. Bennett is adept at building consensus among diverse groups. Throughout his career he has worked with groups with extremely varied backgrounds and cultural values. He gains public acceptance by working well with government, regulators, the public, and special interest groups to define vision and expectations guided by his personal discipline and integrity. He is adept at achieving conflict resolution and unifying a diversity of goals, views, and objectives. By adapting to local interests and involving the affected community in the decision processes he is able to motivate people to act in a coordinated fashion.
Mr. Bennett has served on 15 Boards of Directors in seven countries. He has hands-on experience in localization, technology transfer, restructuring, project financing, and business practices as they relate developing energy and environmental projects. Mr. Bennett has received six U.S. patents, 13 U.S. provisional and has published four papers.
ABOUT 1 MILLION CUPS
Based on the notion that entrepreneurs discover solutions and engage with their communities over a million cups of coffee, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation developed 1 Million Cups in 2012—a free program designed to educate, engage and inspire entrepreneurs around the country. Through the power of volunteers, 1 Million Cups has grown to more than 180 communities.
As a program of the Kauffman Foundation, 1 Million Cups works with entrepreneurs, empowering them with the tools and resources to break down barriers that stand in the way of starting and growing their businesses. Mr. Kauffman believed it was a fundamental right for anyone who had a big idea to be able to bring it to life—and we’re here to fulfill that mission.
OUR CULTURE
Diversity, equity and inclusion are key to the success of our programs. Nationwide, 1 Million Cups communities aim to present an inclusive and supportive front door to their local entrepreneurial ecosystems. These qualities are essential for 1MC to fulfill its mission to educate, engage and connect entrepreneurs with their communities. And they are too essential to leave to chance as the number of 1MC communities continues to grow.
ABOUT THE KAUFFMAN FOUNDATION
Founded by Ewing Marion Kauffman, the Foundation is driven to provide uncommon ways to create opportunities and connect people to the tools they need to achieve success, change their futures and give back to their communities. We believe that if you have an idea, you have a fundamental right to start a business to make it a reality.
We also believe that opportunity lies in the fields of education and entrepreneurship. Our team is based in Kansas City and made up of connectors and doers who dream big, solve problems with the communities we serve and take calculated risks to drive results.
Kelly Reeser
Kelly Reeser serves as the Director of Entrepreneurial Development for FloridaWest Economic Development Alliance. In this role, Kelly is tasked with supporting our region’s high-growth entrepreneurs with both startup and growth strategies. She accomplishes this goal by managing the Gulf Coast Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship- an innovation and technology-based incubator, partnering with local entrepreneurs to host Startup Weekend Pensacola, ITEN Wired and by coordinating entrepreneurial efforts with community partners.
Kelly currently serves on the Board of Directors for Junior Achievement and The Global Corner, and is a member of the International Business Innovation Association. She was a member of the Leadership Pensacola Class of 2013 and also serves as a volunteer with middle school students at Olive Baptist Church.
Kelly holds a Master of Arts degree in Development Management & Public Policy from Georgetown University and bachelor degrees in Spanish & Latin American Studies from Southern Methodist University. She is a native of Pensacola, an avid traveler and loves being a mom—she enjoys spending time with her husband, Chris, daughter, Evangelina, and baby boy, Elliot.
Jim Rhodes
Jim has actively participated in the planning of the annual ITEN Wired Summit since 2012 and is in his 5th year serving as its director.
He is a native of Pensacola and a graduate of Tate High School and the University of West Florida, where he received his degree in finance. He moved to Charlotte, NC in 1997 with a goal of furthering his career in banking, but later developed a passion for information technology. Upon graduating ECPI College of Technology, he officially entered into the world of IT in 2001. After working several years as a network engineer, he and his family relocated back to Pensacola in 2007.
Jim has been employed by AppRiver since 2008 and currently manages the mobile solutions team which provides mobile device support for a global customer base of almost 300,000 users. He also serves as an advisor to the board of directors for IT Gulf Coast and as a board member for Innovation Coast.
He is married and has two sons. He enjoys golfing, kayaking, and fishing.
ABOUT 1 MILLION CUPS
Based on the notion that entrepreneurs discover solutions and engage with their communities over a million cups of coffee, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation developed 1 Million Cups in 2012—a free program designed to educate, engage and inspire entrepreneurs around the country. Through the power of volunteers, 1 Million Cups has grown to more than 180 communities.
As a program of the Kauffman Foundation, 1 Million Cups works with entrepreneurs, empowering them with the tools and resources to break down barriers that stand in the way of starting and growing their businesses. Mr. Kauffman believed it was a fundamental right for anyone who had a big idea to be able to bring it to life—and we’re here to fulfill that mission.
OUR CULTURE
Diversity, equity and inclusion are key to the success of our programs. Nationwide, 1 Million Cups communities aim to present an inclusive and supportive front door to their local entrepreneurial ecosystems. These qualities are essential for 1MC to fulfill its mission to educate, engage and connect entrepreneurs with their communities. And they are too essential to leave to chance as the number of 1MC communities continues to grow.
ABOUT THE KAUFFMAN FOUNDATION
Founded by Ewing Marion Kauffman, the Foundation is driven to provide uncommon ways to create opportunities and connect people to the tools they need to achieve success, change their futures and give back to their communities. We believe that if you have an idea, you have a fundamental right to start a business to make it a reality.
We also believe that opportunity lies in the fields of education and entrepreneurship. Our team is based in Kansas City and made up of connectors and doers who dream big, solve problems with the communities we serve and take calculated risks to drive results.
RHINO NATION David Hash with Continuum Consulting and Kendall Jones with Local First Arizona
Continuum Consulting was founded in 1997 by high-end IT specialists working for contract companies. There was a need and opportunity to improve IT specialist and contractor relationships. Continuum was founded on the principles of delivering high quality service and products to ensure a successful experience for both the clients and contractors. As an Arizona IT recruiter and software producer, our client base includes national corporations and local small businesses. With our integrity, professional attitude and commitment to service, we sustain happy clients and employees.
It’s often said that entrepreneurs are born and not made, and that certainly holds true for David Hash. Starting when he was a teenager, David has been a visionary, creating customized solutions for businesses to improve efficiencies and increase revenue opportunities. Across his career, he has spearheaded three business ventures covering a range of expertise areas including manufacturing, project management, product development, e-commerce, and staffing and recruiting. His longest-running success story is Continuum Consulting, whose staffing specialists adeptly match IT and finance professionals with leading companies to build win-win relationships.
A true leader, David is not one to be tied down by conventions – or even a desk. He is often spotted across the Valley at networking events, constantly creating new partnerships and alliances to advance his business development efforts. When he assumed presidency of Continuum Consulting in 2005, moving from his position as board member and owner, he began to inject his energy and management style into the company. By forecasting the upcoming shift in economic conditions, David was able to craft a strategic plan to weather the storm and emerge even more successful on the other side. Keenly aware of his strengths and limitations, David surrounds himself with a talented team that is able to interpret, support, and execute his initiatives. If there isn’t a picture in the dictionary next to the definition of entrepreneur, there should be – of David Hash.
Follow Continuum Consulting on LinkedIn and Facebook.
Local First Arizona is a nonprofit organization that celebrates independent, locally owned businesses. They support, promote and advocate for a strong local business community and raise public awareness of the economic and cultural benefits provided by strong local economies. Local businesses contribute to a sustainable economy for Arizona and build vibrant communities we’re all proud to call home.
Kendall Jones is the Community Outreach Manager for Local First Arizona. She is an ASU Alumna, Public Allies Alum, and bridges the two communities of education and social justice through her work everyday. Kendall sees strength in collaboration and is committed to bringing equity to every Arizonan.
Follow Local First Arizona on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
ABOUT RHINO NATION
Rhino Nation is a growing community of influential entrepreneurs and small business owners that share a common trait, they don’t walk, they don’t run, they CHARGE to their destiny. We acknowledge and celebrate their business expertise, leadership and fearless attitude to be victorious in their goals. Rhino Nation is committed to making powerful connections and providing enhanced exposure to broaden the reach and promote the extraordinary talents of our community members.
ABOUT YOUR SPONSOR
Rhino Online Strategies & eCreativity helps you free up your precious and limited time, as a business owner, to do what you do best….running and growing your business. Michelle Faust and her team partner with you to identify your content and marketing needs and provide you with fresh, innovative, dynamic copy that will effectively reach your target market, leading to increased customer engagement, a higher conversion rate, and increased sales.
Great content becomes the seeds of a bountiful business harvest, so you can cultivate and grow your business. We take the time to personally understand you and your company’s purpose, so your marketing message reflects who you are and speaks directly to your target market. Let us join you as part of your team. We’ll partner with you to develop powerful messaging strategies.
We strive to create an expansive mindset through education, marketing content and access to a talented team of business consultants. Our mission is to deliver cutting edge entrepreneurial support by providing engaging targeted messaging along with online business education, ancillary business services, and enhanced exposure.
Michelle has an extensive background in sales, marketing and public speaking, primarily in the pharmaceutical industry. When she left her corporate career, she shifted into the entrepreneurial world, combining her experience, talents and passions to reinvent herself. As a marketer and copywriter, Michelle thrives on discovering what motivates people into action and what their key emotional triggers are. Michelle and her team create powerful and targeted messaging that improve conversion rates and increase sales. Michelle loves to connect people through the power and beauty of the written word. her passion is helping people create a road-map to success, so they can fulfill their dreams and live their destiny.
For more about Rhino Online Strategies & eCreativity find them at www.rhinostrategy.com, on Facebook and LinkedIn.
Guns To Hammers is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that provides our wounded veterans with Americans With Disabilities (ADA)-compliant remodeling and renovation services, making their homes easily accessible, helping them live independent and manageable lives.
After founding H-Towne & Around Remodelers, Inc., a successful remodeling company in Houston, Texas, founder, JR Smith, decided to redirect his time, money and energy toward this mission. As a former U.S. Marine, coupled with some guilt that he was able to leave the USMC unhurt and able-bodied (unlike many), JR feels he has a huge sense of responsibility to his wounded brothers and sisters who are now living at home — many of them in need of various home improvements.
Your donation will help make this happen, sponsoring veterans across the United States, transforming homes — opening doors and possibilities — to our veterans who need it most. Many of our veterans made huge sacrifices to protect our freedoms — it’s our responsibility to ensure they are never left behind. Donate, today.
From initial concept through final delivery, Good Foundations, Inc. works with you to produce beautiful, functional home plans that address your custom home wants and needs. We’ve created a “one-stop shop” environment to produce custom floor plans based upon your vision and local requirements to get your project permitted. This holistic approach to creating home designs eliminates common communication gaps that can cause project delays, construction errors and feature omissions. Good Foundations, Inc. provides multiple touch points throughout the process of designing your home to ensure you have the information you need to make critical decisions about your new home plans.
Our experienced team composes original floor plan solutions designed around your lifestyle. The professional custom home designers at Good Foundations, Inc. live and work in the Pensacola area and create original blueprints and construction documents for our communities. We explain the process of designing modern house plans that meet construction and permitting requirements in Northwest Florida. Our team provides answers to your questions and concerns about building a custom home, proactively addressing design, engineering, and permitting issues before they become problems. Give us a call when you’re ready to start talking about designing your dream home.
Culinary Fight Club brings the passion of a high-energy kitchen and the thrill of a timed competition for you to enjoy. No two events are the same, with new teams and themes every month, we promise you’ll come back for seconds.
Culinary Fight Club is a national organization that hosts live cooking competitions. At each event, attendees watch as contestants from home cooks to executive chefs race for their pantry in 45 seconds. Contestants get to choose from 15 provided ingredients. From there, contestants have 60 minutes to create the most gourmet dish that represents their take on our monthly theme. The audience and judges vote and decide on a winning dish.
Aside from being an incredibly fun event, Culinary Fight Club events exclusively give back to the 501(c) (3) non profit organization Fight2Feed, an organization that partners top restaurants with food trucks to provide service and support to hungry men, women and children in our communities.
We wouldn’t be where we are today without our amazing partners. These organizations have not only provided an amazing cooking experience for everyone to enjoy, but they’ve helped our cause and our partnership with Fight2Feed.
FoodieLife is a foodie based network, website and streaming TV site, that connects viewers to the back of the house stories and life style and the passion of Chefs and Foodies. Foodielife.TV strives to be your best behind the scenes inside scoop when it comes to food, hospitality and the lifestyles of those who live it. We are commited to telling the stories and sharing the traditions. Foodielife is inspiring and empowering locals by embracing history, storytelling, and culture through food. Foodielife.TV is distributed to more than 12,000 unique web users monthly, since launching in 2014. Based in Pensacola, FL, Foodielife.TV has a growing international presence with its concept “You Say Tomato.”
Sherry Moore is the Market Manager for Manpower covering Pensacola, Mobile and Ft Walton Beach. She has been with Manpower for 34 years and started as a temp employee after being laid off from a previous employer. She fell in love with the company and pursued a full time position within the company. She hasn’t looked back since!
Bethany Lauren is a Pensacola native and is the Marketing Director for Digital Now printing company as well as the co-founder and Marketing Director for DeLuna Winery and Court of DeLuna event space. She is passionate about Powerful Women of the Gulf Coast because as a single mom, she believes in promoting and encouraging other hard working women who want to achieve success in their own companies.
Margie Kalaluhi has been into health since 1976, when she graduated from Pensacola Junior College with a degree in Dental Hygiene, joining the United States Army in that year and serving honorably for 4 years, after which she learned several different healing modalities, including Reconnective Healing with Eric Pearl, the LifeLine Technique with Dr Darren Weissman, and the Body Code with Dr Bradley Nelson. She is also a PTSD intervention practitioner and uses one or a combination of these techniques to assist her clients in dealing with any problems they might have, whether in body, mind, or spirit. She is an intuitive holistic practitioner who is passionate about life and loves to help those who come to her with an open mind and a sincere desire to help heal themselves.
Kolleen Edwards Chesley has 25 years of experience in the financial services industry and spent the majority of her career as a financial advisor. In that role, Kolleen was responsible for finding her own clients and quickly learned the value of networking, networking, and even more networking. It was in 2004 and during her sales career that she, along with two other professional business women met for lunch with the purpose of helping to motivate each other after Hurricane Ivan had blown through our area and changed not only the physical landscape of the area, but also impacted the business landscape as well. Out of that lunch was born what is now a thriving not-for-profit organization for business women.
Kolleen currently serves full-time as the Founding Director of what was originally called Women’s Business Lunch and is now known as Powerful Women of the Gulf Coast. The organization advocates a culture of confidence building, lifelong learning, collaboration, empowering others and a spirit of charitable giving.
The mission of Powerful Women of the Gulf Coast is to promote, advance and improve women in business and the organization accomplishes these in a number of different ways.
Contact directors@powerfulwomengulfcoast.com for more information or visit our website at www.powerfulwomengulfcoast.com or Facebook at “Powerful Women of the Gulf Coast” for all of our meeting information.
