Greater Boca Raton Chamber to present 2011 Business Awards May 19
BOCA RATON – The Greater Boca Raton Chamber of Commerce has announced the recipients of the 2011 Business Awards that will be presented at a luncheon May 19 at the Boca Raton Resort & Club,
The 2011 Small Business Leader of the Year is Marsha Rimokh, founder and managing director of Mathnasium.
The 2011 Business Leader of the Year is Jerry Fedele, president and chief executive officer of Boca Raton Regional Hospital.
The 2011 Business of the Year is U.S. Foodservice South Florida
The event will be held May 19 from 11:45 to 1:30 p.m. Tickets are $75 a person.
Rimokh founded Mathnasium learning centers in Boca Raton and Weston in 2009. They are math learning centers offering comprehensive remediation and enrichment mathematics education and tutoring to students in grades 2 ‐12.
She was previously founder and president of Aquarius International, Inc., an international corporate relationship marketing company specializing in strategic marketing events directed at corporate stakeholders including employees, customers and suppliers.
Rimokh has received a number of awards, is currently a member of the Spanish River High School Academies Advisory Board, president and alumnus of Leadership Boca Class of 2010.
U.S. Foodservice
Jerry Fedele has more than 25 years of health care experience as both a health care lawyer and chief executive officer. His expertise includes executive leadership, operations, quality and patient satisfaction improvement initiatives, physician recruitment and network development, clinical program development, strategic planning, insurance and law.
Fedele is credited with saving a major academic hospital and three community hospital affiliates from the largest health care bankruptcy in US history. At Boca Raton Regional Hospital, he led an initiative that resulted in operations improvement of $60 million over 18 months.
U.S. Foodservice operates at a new, 373,000-square-foot facility that sits on 20 acres in Boca Raton and features 283,832 square feet. of warehouse space, including:
- 39 loading docks
- 96,000square feet of freezer space
- 48,000 square feet of refrigerated space
- 100,000 square feet of dry space
Some 300 local employees work at the firm that distributes food and related products to more than 2,300 customers between Vero Beach and Key West, including restaurants, hospitals, hotels, schools, and governmental institutions.
