Miami native Vanessa Grout is an attorney, real estate investment manager for the real estate arm of Vector Group Ltd. (a NYSE company), and new President of Douglas Elliman Florida. She signed on with the 100-year-old real estate brokerage last year. Although real estate giant Douglas Elliman is a New York-based real estate firm, the […]

Livingston, New Jersey’s very own, Ralph Pagano, may be best known for his determined work on Chef Gordon Ramsey’s hit reality competition, “Hell’s Kitchen”, making it all the way to the finals, earning the position of Runner-Up, but these days, Chef Ralph Pagano is known as one of the most successful chefs in South Florida, […]

rederic Dechnik is the founder, co-owner, and Chief Operating Office for the Webster, the expansive tri-level luxury boutique in Miami Beach. The store features some of the hautest designers in fashion including Jimmy Choo, Givenchy, YSL, and Marc Jacobs. The boutique is also home to the acclaimed Parisian restaurant, Caviar Kaspia and frequently holds special […]

Chef Dewey LoSasso is a New Jersey native who humbly started his culinary career making pizzas as a child in his family’s home pizza kitchen. A graduate of the Culinary Institue of America, LoSasso came to South Florida in the 1980s and was a founding member of the era’s Mango Gang, a group of bold […]

John R. Keeler came up with the idea for Blue Star Foods over fifteen years ago, in his own Miami kitchen. Since that time, the company has grown into the leading crabmeat company in the United States, and has even expanded into Europe and Asia. The company produces an average of over seven million pounds […]

Patrick Tardieu is the co-founder and CEO of luxury line Bogosse alongside brother Fabrice Tardieu. A native of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, before founding Bogosse, Tardieu traveled the world as professional soccer player. He was captain of the Senior National Soccer Team of Haiti and the first Haitian player signed to a United States major soccer team. Upon moving […]