Location Miami, Florida, United States Regions Greater Miami Area, East Coast, Southern US Gender Female
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Tanner is responsible for research partner institutions and projects throughout southeast Florida. She has extensive experience executing the kinds of initiatives that propel companies more rapidly towards their strategic goals.
Prior to joining the Institute, as head of Tanner Growth, she worked with companies' leaders to identify
promising and strategically relevant new directions, formulate sound plans to move forward in those directions and to execute de novo launches, mergers or acquisitions, strategic alliances and joint ventures.
Previously, as Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and Chief Strategist for eDiets.com, Inc., a leading provider of online weight loss solutions, Tanner implemented a paradigm-shifting diet licensing initiative, launched the award-winning eDiets Meal Delivery portion-controlled nationwide fresh meal delivery service and accelerated the company's entry into the corporate hosted services market through the acquisition of Nutrio.com.
Previously, Tanner spent thirteen years on Wall Street as an equity analyst and portfolio manager for companies including Salomon Brothers and Fred Alger Management.
She then joined the successful turnaround team at Sensormatic Electronics Corporation, a global electronic security company, where she oversaw e-commerce and investor relations. She has made investments in and completed financings totaling hundreds of millions of dollars on behalf of public and private growth companies.
Tanner has served as both a state and a national board member of AeA, the leading U.S. technology trade association, and was a founding member and board member of New World Angels, a Southeastern angel investor group.
She was also a board member and Vice Chairman of the Enterprise Development Corporation of South Florida, a regional non-profit economic development organization that assists emerging science and technology companies.
In addition, she has taught entrepreneurship to individuals of all ages through organizations such as Boys & Girls Clubs of America, Florida Atlantic University and the Kauffman Foundation. A long-time resident of Palm Beach County, Florida, Tanner is a member of both Leadership Florida and Leadership Palm Beach County, organizations that train and promote state and community leaders.
