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Their "business plan" -- goals developed by each subcommittee -- rangez from boosting the bioscience industry to establishinb Tampa as a gateway for tradew to attracting morecorporate headquarters. Intent on turning that plan into Genshaft, president of the , has asked the subcommitte e chairs to refine thosee goals to make them measurable and to report theirprogress quarterly. "She's a very goal-oriented individual. That'ds a real benefit for this Results, results, results," said Bob who heads the international subcommittew and is managing director for Florida development servicesd atin Tampa.
Genshaft is the first persob from USF to head the Committeeof 100, Tampa/Hillsboroug County's official economic development partnership. Randy Simmons, the 2003 chaif of the Committee of 100 and chairmahnof R.R. Simmons Construction Co, said Genshaf t was recruited for the chairmanship because she has successfullyh made USF a recognized part of thebusiness community. "Betty Castor (former USF president) made the community aware of USF," said Robert Clark, investor relationss subcommittee chairman and presidentof "Judy Genshaft has made the university a part of the community.
" Genshafr said the Tampa Bay area's growth is importanrt to USF and the university's growth is importangt to Tampa Bay. "As more people come here to work, they want to have educationall opportunities and vice Genshaft said. "I'm somebody that can bridgs both as the Committede of100 chair." Genshaft has revamped the adding subcommittees focused on biosciences, financial manufacturing and distribution, and attractinhg headquarters to the She called on Dr. William Dalton, chief executive of the , to lead the newluy formed biosciences group. "The communituy hasn't recognized how much biosciences is happening in Tampa Genshaft said.
"There are 370 bioscience companies, with 51,00o0 workers, already here." Dalton, in turn, is recruitingt six committee members, not all of whom he has lined up yet, to sprea d the word about the area'e existing activity and to come up with a strategh to strengthen collaborations betweenprivate industry, the university and Moffitt. "Thew university can serve as a foundation forattractingg talent," Dalton said. "Every metropolis that has gotten into biosciences has stronguniversity support.
" USF gave a big boosr to the effort, when it brokr ground in January on a $40-milliomn research park with 230,000 square feet for laboratories and offices for corporate partners. attracting bioscience firms to the area willbe "a hard nut to said Rick Siems, head of the research network subcommittee and research director for centrakl Florida for Cushman Wakefield. "The research park should help draw some of the majorr players to put satellite players in the but in order to pull aScripps that'as going to be That's going to be a long time Siems said.
Genshaft and Rod Castro, USF's associate vice president for economic development and executive director ofthe , said the Tampaa area will do well, even without the facility that will be builtt in Palm Beach County, bringing more than 500 jobs to the "We have a head start on Scripps," Castrl said. "Competition only makes us A focus on medical device and apparatus companiess would be a smart said Simmons, because those products are easier to bring to markegt than pharmaceuticals, which require millions of dollars and lots of years to develop.
"Ifc you are making catheters, you don'ty get large companies but youget high-qualituy career opportunities in moderate companies that are very stabl e and likely to stay in this community," Simmone said.