27th Annual FAU Business Leader of the Year Event on Wednesday, Jan. 30
MEDIA CONTACT: Jim Hellegaard
561-319-2233, jhellegaard@fau.edu
BOCA RATON, Fla. (January 28, 2019) – Florida Atlantic University’s College of Business will host the 27th annual Business Leader ofthe Year breakfast on Wednesday, Jan. 30 at 8 a.m., at the Boca Raton Resort & Club, 501 East Camino Real, in Boca Raton. This year’s program celebrates the accomplishments of Fabiola “Fab” Brumley, Bank of America’s market president in Palm Beach County.
Members of the media are welcome to attend. Photography and video are allowed.
As market president, Brumley serves as Bank of America’s enterprise leader in Palm Beach County, working across the region to connect Bank of America’s business lines to deliver integrated financial services to individuals, families and businesses. She also leads Bank of America’s corporate social responsibility work in the region, which leverages the capabilities of the company to help partners, people, communities and a broad client and customer base more effectively address a wide range of issues.
In addition to her market president role, Brumley is the Southeast Region Business Banking executive for Bank of America Merrill Lynch, responsible for a seven-state region in the southeastern U.S. Business Banking serving small to mid-sized U.S. companies with $5 million to $50 million in annual revenues. Since beginning her career in 1982, Brumley has served in a variety of roles, including controller, chief financial officer, commercial lender, client manager, market manager and market executive. She has also held the position of Palm Beach County president since April 2007.
Since 1991, FAU’s College of Business has presented the Business Leader of the Year award, honoring the work of outstanding contributors to the overall business climate of the southeast region of Florida and the state. Brumley joins other honored recipients of the award, including Colin Brown, Heiko Dobrikow, Naren Gursahaney, Jeff Stoops, Jordan Zimmerman, Wayne Huizenga, Jim Robo, Mike Jackson, Ronald Assaf, Alexander Dreyfoos, Jim Moran, Carl DeSantis, Pat Moran, Jeb Bush, and Alan Levan.
For more information, visit business.fau.edu/business-leader-of-the-year/.
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About Florida Atlantic University
Florida Atlantic University, established in 1961, officially opened its doors in 1964
as the fifth public university in Florida. Today, the University, with an annual economic
impact of $6.3 billion, serves more than 30,000 undergraduate and graduate students
at sites throughout its six-county service region in southeast Florida. FAU’s world-class
teaching and research faculty serves students through 10 colleges: the Dorothy F.
Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, the College of Business, the College for Design
and Social Inquiry, the College of Education, the College of Engineering and Computer
Science, the Graduate College, the Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College, the Charles E.
Schmidt College of Medicine, the Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing and the Charles
E. Schmidt College of Science. FAU is ranked as a High Research Activity institution
by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The University is placing
special focus on the rapid development of critical areas that form the basis of its
strategic plan: Healthy aging, biotech, coastal and marine issues, neuroscience, regenerative
medicine, informatics, lifespan and the environment. These areas provide opportunities
for faculty and students to build upon FAU’s existing strengths in research and scholarship.
For more information, visit www.fau.edu.