Debbie Steininger is a Senior Team Manager with Tastefully Simple. Debbie has been with Tastefully Simple for seven years and during that time has developed a large customer base, as well as training and motivating her team members to achieve success with their own home-based business. She is active in many local groups including The Hip Chicks of Brevard (President, 2007), The Business Integrity Group, Growing a Business Networking Group, and is Secretary for Intersil Toastmasters Club 2002. She is a volunteer with the Satellite High Soccer Booster Club and Satellite High Project Graduation. Debbie earned her Business degree from West Virginia Wesleyan College and in her spare time enjoys reading, walking and cycling.

Debra J Pavlakos is Senior Vice President, Commercial Lending for BB&T Bank in Brevard County. She has made a career of banking for over 30 years.

She presently serves on the board of Circles Care where she served as the finance Chairman for two years and Economic Development Commission of Florida’s Space Coast. She was Chairman of the Economic Development Commission of Florida’s Space Coast 1999-2000. A Graduate of the 1994 Leadership Brevard class. Debra has been involved in the Melbourne-Palm Bay Chamber, on the board of the Museum of Art & Science and Space Coast Early Intervention Center.

Debra is a native Floridian raised in Brevard County. She presently resides in Satellite Beach with her husband, John and daughter, Cortney. She attended Eau Gallie High School and Brevard Community College. She holds an Associate of Arts Degree from Brevard Community College.

Dr. Katherine Cobb is the Provost of the Melbourne Campus of Brevard Community College (BCC). She has held several positions including Provost of the Titusville/ Virtual Campus, Dean of Distance Learning, and Department Chair at BCC. Prior to joining the college, she had her own private law firm specializing in probate and bankruptcy. Her professional activities include being an appointed member of the Florida Community College Distance Learning Consortium and Governor Bush's Paperwork Reduction Task Force.

Kathy is an active member of the community; she served a two-term president of the American Cancer Society; a trustee, Chair of the Finance Committee, and Academic Review Committee of the Holy Trinity Episcopal Academy; Board member of Stetson University's College of Arts and Sciences; member of the Eau Gallie Rotary,  and member of the WE Initiative of the Melbourne-Palm Bay Chamber of Commerce.

Dustin Hodgkins is the Business Development Officer for Commercial Business Finance, a company that provides accounts receivable financing for growing companies.  Dustin has been a lender with CBF for over 4 years.  He earned his Bachelors of Science degree concentrating in Finance and a minor in Economics from Florida State University in 2004.

Dustin currently serves as the President of the West Melbourne Business Association and is also actively involved in the Melbourne Regional Chamber of Commerce.  Dustin is a native Floridian raised in Orlando and has lived in Brevard County for over 5 years. He presently resides in Indialantic Beach with his wife Morgan.

Laraine Schultz is Vice President and Branch Manager at Wells Fargo Advisors, LLC. She has been in the investment industry as a financial consultant since 1986 and joined A.G. Edwards & Sons in 1989. She works closely with each of her clients to develop a complete investment plan based on their goals and objectives. While doing so, she helps her clients understand and manage investment risk through proven strategies, such as asset allocation and diversification. Laraine received her designation as a Trust Specialist and also holds a registration as a general securities principal. She is active with various non-profit organizations within the community. She attended the Indiana University of Pennsylvania and graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration.

Michelle L. Naberhaus is a shareholder in the Melbourne office of GrayRobinson, P.A., a state-wide full service law firm.  Michelle graduated from the University of Florida, College of Law in 2000, and her practice is focused primarily on guardianships and estate and trust administration and litigation.  Prior to joining Gray Robinson, P.A., Michelle and her husband resided in Stuart, Florida, during which time Michelle ran her own law practice and served as an adjunct professor of Business Law at Florida Atlantic University.  In 2009, Michelle and her husband decided to relocate to the Brevard County to raise their children in the area where he was born and raised.

Since relocating to Brevard County, Michelle has been very active in her profession and in the community.  She is a member of the Florida Bar Association, currently appointed to serve on the Voluntary Bar Liaison Committee.  She also serves as a volunteer for the Justice Teaching Institute, an initiative of the Florida Supreme Court to bring civic education alive for the children of Florida.  She has served on the board of the Brevard County Association for Women Lawyers (BCAWL) and its parent organization, Florida Association for Women Lawyers (FAWL), whose mission is to promote leadership roles of women in the legal profession, judiciary and community at large.  For the past two years, she has actively served on various committees for FAWL, including the Membership Advancement & Promotion Committee, Communications Committee, and Legislative Committee. 

Outside of her practice, she serves as a guardian ad litem for abused and neglected children.  She is presently a trained volunteer of the Fostering Independence Program, focusing on teenage girls who are facing issues associated with aging out of foster care.  Michelle also serves on the Board for St. Gianna’s Center, a not-for-profit organization promoting the advancement of women’s health and related issues. 

Michelle and her husband live on South Merritt Island with their five children.  She believes that one of her greatest accomplishments has been balancing her family life with the demands of her profession and community involvement.  She is excited to be a part of the Women’s Business Center so that she is able to help other women realize their goals.

Steve Thomas is a named partner and patent attorney with the law firm of Hayworth, Chaney, & Thomas P.A., whose main offices are located in Melbourne, Florida, with satellite offices in Vero Beach. Mr. Thomas practices patent, trademark, copyright, and business law and chairs the Intellectual Property and Business Law division at the firm. He is a patent practitioner licensed to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Mr. Thomas is responsible for all intellectual property and business law matters at the firm. He is an active litigator in both federal and state courts.

Prior to joining the law firm, Mr. Thomas was employed by defense contractor Harris Corporation in Melbourne, Florida in a program management, technology development, intellectual property development, licensing, and systems engineering capacity. He held profit/loss responsibility at Harris Corporation for numerous defense contracts with industry leaders such as the Boeing Company, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon Company, and numerous others in the aerospace industry.

Mr. Thomas is a native Floridian and has been active in the Boys Scout of America with his four boys, two of whom are Eagle scouts. He holds electrical engineering and law degrees. Mr. Thomas was valedictorian of his law school class.

Tim Muth is the Director, Student Assessment in the College of Business at Florida Tech and teaches several undergraduate and graduate business courses. Previously, he spent over 25+ years in senior management positions with Harris Corporation and Intersil Corporation with extensive experience working with international customers and partners.

He earned his undergraduate degree from Florida State University and holds an MBA from Wake Forest University. Tim is married and has 2 children. He serves on the board of several local charitable, non-profit, and religious organizations.

Bobbie Dyer is Division President for Dyer Mortgage Group. She has 24 years mortgage experience and has been a Nationwide Top Producer with over $500,000,000 in home mortgage loan closings. In addition she is a National speaker and the recipient of numerous awards for production, management, and volunteerism.

Ms. Dyer has lived in Brevard County, Florida since 1989 and served on dozens of charitable fundraising committees. Currently she is on the Board of Directors for Junior Achievement of the Space Coast, Kerosene Lamp Foundation, and Women's Business Center at Florida Tech University; she is also actively serving on the Health First Foundation and Florida Tech Scott Center for Autism’s fundraising committee.

Carol M Craig is Founder/Owner of Craig Technologies, incorporated in 1999 and headquartered in Cape Canaveral, FL. As President and CEO, she leads a team of over 200 employees nationwide to provide innovative engineering and technical services to government and commercial clients.

Carol’s military experience includes active duty as a P-3C Orion Naval Flight Officer, specializing in Anti-Surface and Sub-Surface Warfare. She is currently a student of two PhD programs- Electrical Computer Engineering at the Florida Institute of Technology, and Industrial Engineering and Management Systems at the University of Central Florida.

Carol is very active in the community and serves on several boards including the Florida Tech College of Business Board of Overseers, University of Central Florida Foundation, Civilian Military Community Foundation, National Space Club Florida Committee, The Haven for Children, Children’s Home Society, Space Coast March of Dimes, Brevard Symphony Orchestra, Brevard Art Museum, and Junior Achievement of the Space Coast, among others.

In 2010, Carol was named a finalist for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award© in the technology category for the Florida region. Carol received the 2010 Space Coast Women’s History Award, and the 2009 Woman of Achievement Award from the Space Coast March of Dimes. In 2008, Carol was honored as the Entrepreneur of the Year by the Society of Women Engineers.

Carol is the proud mother to Danny (9), Gillian (7), and wife to CAPT John W. Craig, USN, a former F/A-18 pilot who now flies for JetBlue Airways and is a Naval reservist. Carol and John are founding members and active supporters of the Foundation for Prader-Willi Research (FPWR), since their son was born with Prader-Willi Syndrome in 2002. Carol is also involved with several churches where she sings in the choir, and plays hand bells and piano.