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Collaboratory welcomes new board members

By Staff | Feb 1, 2023

Collaboratory recently welcomed four new board members to their board of directors.

Rosemary Fllori, Khandyce Mosely, Shontra Powell and Lillie Rentz, C.M. are new board of trustees members.

Fllori is currently the executive director of the Glades County Economic Development Council. As the county’s Economic Development Officer, her main focus is bringing jobs to the area. She is also a member of the Southwest Florida CareerSource Workforce Committee and Florida Heartland Economic Region of Opportunity (FHERO). Fllori has worked in the nonprofit sector for over 20 years. She relocated to Glades County in 2020 and currently serves as Secretary of the Glades Education Foundation, a nonprofit whose mission is to promote excellence in public education. She is also a member of the Glades County Tourism Development Council. She earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Florida and a B.F.A. from Florida Atlantic University.

Mosely is a consultant and grant writer for the city of Fort Myers Police Department. Born and raised in Fort Myers, she is responsible for researching and producing applications for funding opportunities through all federal, state, and local grant agencies. She has a background in accounting, business development, accounts payable and receivable management, human resources policies, procedures, payroll, internal auditing, and grant writing. She also has her own consulting business that emphasizes grant writing and consulting, nonprofit building and fundraising, business training and development, and coaching. She holds an associate’s degree in accounting from Hodges University and a bachelor’s degree in management as well as an MBA from Keiser University.

Powell’s career includes leading General Electric Company (NYSE: GE) Y2k global property and casualty insurance preparedness delivering a global risk program leveraging six sigma methodologies and yielding perpetual annual savings of $30 million. She supported the transformation of GE Medical Systems to GE Healthcare with mergers and acquisitions. She also led Hertz Corporation (NYSE: HTZ) to rebuild global sales organization and go-to-market strategy post corporate relocation to Florida. In 2020, she recognized a business problem for commercial fleet owners and co-founded Red Zone Fleet Services, based in Naples, Florida. She has served on non-profit and for-profit boards since 1998, managing key issues such as board director succession planning, CEO performance management, CEO compensation planning, financial risk management, governance planning and social justice matters. She holds a bachelor’s degree in finance from Loyala University and an EMBA from Northwestern Kellogg School of Management.

Rentz is an airport management professional with a strong background in business, economic development and a successful working history in various public and private sectors. She joined Airglades International Airport (AIA) in 2016 and serves as the Airport Director. She oversees current airport operations and leads the charge for new on-airport developments. Prior to AIA, Rentz held leadership positions as the Program and Marketing Director for the Hendry County Economic Development Council. She attended Southwest Florida College where she majored in business management and marketing with a concentration in economic development. Rentz is fluent in Spanish and has received her distinguished certification as an American Association of Airport Executives (AAAE) Certified Member (C.M.). Rentz is a native Floridian and Hendry County resident, with respected ties and devotion to the local community.

ABOUT COLLABORATORY

Collaboratory is committed to coordinating the solving of all of Southwest Florida’s social problems on an 18-year deadline including homelessness, poverty, mental illness, racism, illiteracy and more. We plan to do this with the entire community working together including people of all ages, colors, abilities, beliefs and imaginations across all five counties. We’re committed to coordinating all of this on a massive scale, in the way NASA coordinated the hundreds of thousands of businesses, universities, institutions and people to get us to the moon in nine years. We’re not oblivious to people saying this is ridiculous, insane and crazy but we’re driven by the inspiration of all those great figures in history who have come before us to achieve things no one ever thought remotely possible. Steve Jobs’ observation sums it up for us: “The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.” We’re building the largest, most democratized living laboratory for community problem-solving in American history.

Collaboratory was founded in 1976 as the Southwest Florida Community Foundation. It has made over $96 million in grants since then and is home to more than 650 philanthropic funds. It is upon that legacy of a commitment to community we plan to fulfill on that mission at the level of its greatest expression. As Collaboratory, we will finish what we started.

To learn more and get involved, call 239-274-5900 or visit collaboratory.org.

Source: Collaboratory