Stuart Rogel President & CEO, Tampa Bay Partnership

Stuart L. Rogel is the President & CEO of the Tampa Bay Partnership. Founded in 1994, the Tampa Bay Partnership markets the entire seven-county, 4,200-square-mile area of west central Florida that includes the metro communities of Tampa/ St. Petersburg/ Clearwater, Sarasota/Bradenton and Lakeland.

Before coming to the Tampa Bay Partnership in 1994, Stuart was the Regional Director for the Florida office of Charles River Properties, a full-service real estate development, management and investment company. Prior to that, he served
as Assistant City Manager and Economic and Community Development Director for the City of Miami Beach, where he was responsible for guiding that community through its dramatic revitalization.

Stuart currently serves on the Board of Directors for Enterprise Florida, the state of Florida’s public-private partnership for economic development, the Tampa Bay Technology Forum and the Tampa Bay chapter of the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties. He also serves nationally on the Urban Land Institute’s Public-Private Partnership Council and as an advisory board member of ULI’s Florida Initiative on Regional Cooperation. He is Past Chair of the ULI’s Tampa Bay District Council and Past President of the Florida Economic Development Council.

He received his bachelor’s from Lake Forest College and his master’s in Urban and Regional Planning from George Washington University