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South Florida' Best and Brightest Archive
Last updated on Sunday, May 1, 2011 (12:01:02 a.m. ET)

A list of all of the business and philanthropic leaders we have profiled since the inception of the feature appears below. If there is someone you would like to nominate for inclusion in a future edition of South Florida's Best and Brightest, please e-mail us the person's name, company, position, and any contact information you can provide. Due to the large number of submissions our office receives, we regret that we cannot reply to every inquiry.
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RADIO
Co-Host, "The Paul and Young Ron Show" (Big 105.9 FM)
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED: APRIL 2011
After more than two decades representing one-half of the market's most hilarious and irreverant morning drive-time radio show, Paul Castronovo's name quite literally has become synonymous with South Florida. He gives the punch lines on-air as good as he absorbs them ... Read More »
Pictured: Paul Castronovo (left) with co-host Ron Brewer
(Photo credit: "The Paul and Young Ron Show" / Big 105.9 FM)
MEDICINE
Professor & Chairman, UM Department of Neurological Surgery
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED: APRIL 2011
Before, way before, the likes of John Travolta ever piloted his shiny Boeing 707 into Port-au-Prince, and eons before Sean Penn could ever pinpoint the island of Hispaniola on a world map, there was Dr. Barth Green. It was 1994 when Green started Project Medishare for Haiti to provide ... Read More »
Pictured: Dr. Barth A. Green
(Photo credit: The University of Miami Miller School of Medicine)
TELEVISION
Weeknight News Anchor, WPLG Channel 10
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED: APRIL 2011
It could successfully and rather easily be argued that she would stand out as the preeminent newscaster in virtually any one of the nation's 210 media markets. The assertion that she is unrivaled in South Florida, by now, simply cannot be challenged. Especially, that is, in a place ... Read More »
Pictured: Laurie Jennings
(Photo credit: WPLG Channel 10)
ATTRACTIONS & ENTERTAINMENT
Goodwill Ambassador and Communications Director, Zoo Miami
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED: APRIL 2011
His work requires a unique dedicaton and vast knowledge, and he has enough of both to spare. On its official website, Zoo Miami calls him a "Goodwill Ambassador" as well as the facility's "Communications Director," but those labels hardly begin to fully describe ... Read More »
Pictured: Ron Magill
(Photo credit: Zoo Miami)
RESTAURANTS
Proprietor, The Forge Wine Bar & Restaurant
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED: APRIL 2011
Occupying a mere fraction of this space with the name of any one Hollywood starlet who has nibbled on the lobster-this or the foie-that at Shareef Malnik's iconic Forge restaurant would entirely miss the point of his inclusion in our "Best and Brightest" feature. For, despite ... Read More »
Pictured: Shareef Malnik
(Photo credit: Tara Ink Public Relations)
AUTOMOBILES
President, The Zinn Automotive Group
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED: APRIL 2011
He routinely has been outselling his peers for more than three full decades because of an unquestioned ability to think differently, to think smarter, than everyone else in the marketplace. To wit, look no further than Lexus of North Miami Beach, the crown jewel of his ... Read More »
Pictured: Craig Zinn
(Photo credit: Zucker Public Relations)

 
 
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