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Goliath J. Davis, III
ST. PETERSBURG, FL – The University of South Florida St. Petersburg will host a free entrepreneurial networking breakfast on November 17. Senior Administrator for Community Enrichment, Goliath J. Davis, III, will discuss the entrepreneurial vision for the City of St. Petersburg.
The event will be held in conjunction with Global Entrepreneurship Week 2010 and the City of St. Petersburg’s Entrepreneur Month.
Deputy Mayor Davis was born and raised in St. Petersburg and he joined the City’s Public Safety Agency in December of 1973 as a Certified Police Officer/Fire Fighter. He was certified as a police instructor in 1976, and was assigned to the department’s innovative Field Training and Evaluation Program in 1979. His assignments have included Patrol, Training, Vice and Narcotics, and Research and Development. In May of 1980, he was appointed Division Chief and assigned to the Training and Research Division where he managed a staff responsible for the training, research, and development needs of 600 departmental employees. Chief Davis was promoted to Deputy Chief in August 1984, at which time he managed the Services Bureau with the responsibility for budget, payroll, training, research, communications and records. On January 23, 1989, he was assigned to Deputy Chief of the Patrol Division with responsibility for three Patrol Districts, Traffic Section, Special Events, Crime Analysis Section and Field Training Unit. He was promoted to Assistant Chief of the Administrative Services Bureau on December 10, 1990, and was appointed Chief of Police on June 16, 1997.
Chief Davis retired from the St. Petersburg Police Department on October 5, 2001 and assumed the position of Deputy Mayor, Midtown Economic Development, City of St. Petersburg, having been appointed to that position in April 2001.
Deputy Mayor Davis was graduated from Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida, in 1973, with a B.A. in Behavioral Science. He earned a Master’s Degree in Criminal Justice at the University of South Florida in March of 1977, and a Doctorate in Criminology from Florida State University in 1984. He is also a 1993 graduate of Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.
Bill Jackson, associate dean of the College of Business at USF St. Petersburg and director of the Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Innovation Alliance at USF St. Petersburg, helps organize the breakfast.
“November will be a special breakfast for us, celebrating not only Global Entrepreneurship Week, but also St. Petersburg’s commitment to entrepreneurs,” Jackson said. “We are looking forward to hearing more from Dr. Davis about his, and the city’s, continuing vision for entrepreneurship.”
The event is open to the public, starts at 8 a.m., and ends at 9:15 a.m. Registration is open at http://seialliance.eventbrite.com/.
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