{"id":4085,"date":"2007-04-01T10:17:11","date_gmt":"2007-04-01T14:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/?p=4085"},"modified":"2017-06-29T09:33:31","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T13:33:31","slug":"2007-entrepreneurship-hall-of-fame-inductees-will-be-honored-on-may-16th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/2007\/04\/2007-entrepreneurship-hall-of-fame-inductees-will-be-honored-on-may-16th\/","title":{"rendered":"2007 Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame Inductees will be honored on May 16th."},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 90px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Margarita M. Gonzalez\" src=\"http:\/\/business.fiu.edu\/newsletters\/BusinessNetworks\/2007\/04\/images\/mgonzalez.jpg\" alt=\"Margarita M. Gonzalez\" width=\"90\" height=\"114\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Margarita M. Gonzalez<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame will be celebrating its 8th annual Luncheon and Induction Ceremony on Wednesday, May 16, 2007, at Parrot Jungle Island<strong>. <\/strong>The Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame inductees were selected by a panel of judges representing the business community and previous honorees.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Margarita M. Gonzalez (BBA \u201806)<\/strong> President and CFO of AccuBanker, will be inducted as the &#8220;Founder,\u201d an alumnus\/ae of Florida International University\u2019s College of Business Administration who is a founder and key member of a start-up team.\u00a0 To receive the award, the individual must have at least five employees, have been in operation for a minimum of five years, and have had significant revenue and profit growth over the last five years.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 90px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Antonio L. Argiz\" src=\"http:\/\/business.fiu.edu\/newsletters\/BusinessNetworks\/2007\/04\/images\/argiz.jpg\" alt=\"Antonio L. Argiz\" width=\"90\" height=\"114\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Antonio L. Argiz<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Antonio L. Argiz (BBA \u201874)<\/strong>, managing partner, Morrison, Brown, Argiz &amp; Farra, LLP., will be inducted as the &#8220;Builder,\u201d awarded to an alumnus\/ae of the College of Business Administration whose company must have been in operation for a minimum of ten years and have had significant revenues and profit growth.\u00a0 The individual must have been instrumental in the growth of an established business.<\/p>\n<p>The 2007 South Florida Entrepreneur of the Year award, given to a non-alumnus\/ae, will be presented to <strong>Miriam Lopez<\/strong>, chairman and CEO of TransAtlantic Bank. She is an outstanding entrepreneur and contributing member to South Florida\u2019s entrepreneurial community.\u00a0 She serves on Florida International University\u2019s Board of Trustees.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 90px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Miriam Lopez\" src=\"http:\/\/business.fiu.edu\/newsletters\/BusinessNetworks\/2007\/04\/images\/mlopez.jpg\" alt=\"Miriam Lopez\" width=\"90\" height=\"114\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Miriam Lopez<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The event also will recognize winners of the New Venture Challenge, the college\u2019s business plan competition organized by the Eugenio Pino and Family Global Entrepreneurship Center.<\/p>\n<p>The Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame is the college&#8217;s largest alumni event each year, bringing together more than 500 alumni and other local business leaders. Please save the date\u2014Wednesday, May 16, 2007\u2014and join us for this year\u2019s themed event, \u201cThe Rhythm of Entrepreneurship\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame will be celebrating its 8th annual Luncheon and Induction Ceremony on Wednesday, May 16, 2007, at Parrot Jungle Island. The Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame inductees were selected by a panel of judges representing the business community and previous honorees. Margarita M. Gonzalez (BBA \u201806) President and CFO of AccuBanker, will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[154,813,3303,1701,1922],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4085"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4085"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28686,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4085\/revisions\/28686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}