The CEO Council of Tampa Bay, Inc., incorporated in December, 2001, as the PREMIER CEO ORGANIZATION in Tampa Bay. Prior to its incorporation, the Council of Growing Companies Tampa Bay Chapter was founded in 1992 by a group of local CEOs.

Past Chairs include:

• Fall, 1992-Clay Biddinger; Sun Financial Group
• Fall, 1993-Robert Sharp, AAA Auto Club South
• Fall, 1994 and 1995- Marc Moore, Payroll Transfers
• Fall, 1996-Allen L. Garrett, Vision Car, Inc
• Fall, 1997-Tom Wallace, Waldec
• Interim 1998-John West, System One Technical
• 1999- Randy Overfield, BAGT
• 2000- K.C. Craichy, VitalCast.com and LivingFuel.com; through December 31.
• Through this period and into the incorporation, Guy King III, M.E. Wilson Company, led the new organization until December 2003.
• Karen Arnold, Storr Office Environments, served as chair for 2004
• Chris Peifer, Tice Financial, for 2005
• Dean Akers, Ideal Image, for 2006
• Kevin Hourigan, Bayshore Solutions, for 2007
• Andrew Cohen, Vertical IT Solutions, for 2008

As the CGC, membership grew from 20 to range from 60-80 most years.  As the CEO Council of Tampa Bay, we have gone from 60 members at the beginning of the new organization, to about 140-150 members at any given time, now. Our growth is representative of the growth of "small business" in Tampa Bay, which makes up 90 - 98% of all businesses here.

The need for second-stage companies to exchange information is critical to the learning curve of the CEO in charge.  Our goal is to fulfill that need well into the future by providing RELATIONSHIPS, IDEAS and SOLUTIONS.