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Tonya Elmore
Tonya Elmore joined CTC - Tampa Bay Inc. as its first executive director in February 2003. Her responsibilities include managing the STAR Technology Enterprise Center, a new manufacturing/technology accelerator that is located at the Young-Rainey STAR Center in Largo. Under her leadership, STAR TEC has grown to 20,000 square feet, houses eight early-stage companies and has graduated one client. STAR TEC has been recently recognized as one of the Region’s Biggest Tech Stories by the Tampa Bay Business Journal. Previously, Elmore was vice president of membership development and small business enterprise at the Greater Tampa Chamber of Commerce. Tonya oversaw all membership activities, including recruitment, retention, special events and small business development. Tonya also managed the Chamber’s Venture Capital Task Force. Before she was promoted to vice president, Tonya served as a senior project manager with the Committee of One Hundred, the Chamber’s economic development arm. In this role, she marketed Tampa/Hillsborough County as a premier business destination to the decision makers and CEOs of corporations across the country. Tonya played an instrumental role in the relocation or expansion of 17 companies to the Tampa area, resulting in the creation of more than 5,500 jobs within the community. She also managed the Committee of One Hundred’s High Technology Committee. Ms. Elmore serves as a vice-chair for the Florida Business Incubator Association. She has been named as among the top twenty technology leaders in the Tampa Bay region for two consecutive years. Tonya received her Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville and in 2002 completed an executive MBA from the University of South Florida where she had the opportunity to study the Cuban economy first hand in Havana.
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