CONSULTING -- San Francisco-based IPSA International, a security consultant firm, has named Marc A. Cabrera managing director and head of its Miami/Latin America regional office. Cabrera was most recently managing director of Miami-based Pinnacle Partners, an investment banking firm.
LAW -- Amelia "Mel" Rea Maguire has been named a partner in Miami-based Steel Hector & Davis' corporate securities and finance group. Maguire most recently headed up Holland & Knight's client development and partnering program.
MANUFACTURING -- Angelo S. Morini, founder of Orlando-based Galaxy Nutritional Foods, has resigned as vice chairman and president. He will remain a director. The company, which manufactures alternative dairy products, did not announce a replacement.
PROFESSIONAL STAFFING -- Tampa-based Kforce, an online staffing firm, has named Derrell E. Hunter CFO. Hunter was most recently president of Greenville, S.C.-based iOnosphere, a telecom company. He replaces Bill Sanders, who remains COO of Kforce.
TECHNOLOGY -- Steve Quehl has been named president and COO of Melbourne-based Identitech, a producer of management software. Quehl was most recently an executive with Newton, Mass.-based Marcam Solutions, also a software company. He replaces Kerry Gilger, who will remain CEO.
Dwayne Ingram has been tapped as IBM's Florida senior state executive. Ingram was most recently vice president of travel and transportation for IBM and replaces Steve Evans, who retired in September. IBM has 4,000 employees in Florida.
UTILITIES -- Progress Energy Florida has promoted Jeff Lyash to senior vice president/energy delivery for Florida, a new position. Lyash takes on the new role following a blow to the energy company by Winter Park residents, who voted to buy out the utility's Winter Park operations.
OBITUARY
William C. Cramer GOP Pioneer
William C. Cramer, who in 1954 was the first Republican from Florida to be elected to Congress since Reconstruction, died Oct. 18 from heart problems. He was 81.
Cramer grew up in Largo and St. Petersburg, where he attended St. Petersburg Junior College before joining the Navy during World War II. After the war, Cramer earned a bachelor's degree from the University of North Carolina and a law degree from Harvard in 1948.
Cramer was the first Florida House GOP minority leader in the early 1950s from Pinellas County and quickly earned favor with local Republicans. He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1954.
By 1964, Cramer had become second-in-command to Gerald Ford on the Republican Conference. In 1970, he left his House seat to run against Lawton Chiles for a U.S. Senate seat and lost. C.W. "Bill" Young, the Largo Republican who is now chairman of the U.S. House Appropriations Committee, took over Cramer's vacated spot in the House.
Cramer never ran for office again but remained active in the Republican Party and practiced law in Washington, where he was often called to help several Republican administrations. Cramer returned to Pinellas County in the early '90s, continued to practice law and was a member of several local organizations.