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Governors Council

The EDC’s Governors Council provides a forum for leading Metro Orlando business leaders to discuss and provide suggested solutions to issues and opportunities impacting the region’s economic development activities. Participation in this Council includes the top executives from organizations that contribute more than $100,000 annually to the Metro Orlando EDC.
 
CNL is one of the nations largest privately held real estate investment and development companies. CNL has formed or acquired companies with more than $23 billion in assets, including hotel, retail, restaurant, seniors' housing and lifestyle properties. The world's largest casual dining restaurant company. Darden operates over 1800 restaurants including Red Lobster, Longhorn, Olive Garden, Bahama Breeze, Capital Grille, and Season's 52; lead each of it's market segments; employing nearly 180,000 people.
 
Located in Orlando; treat over 32,000 inpatients and 53,600 outpatients annually; 881-bed,owned and operated by Adventist Health System; with a network of physicians on 12 campuses; largest private, not-for-profit hospital and 2nd largest hospital in FL. Full Sail’s mission is to provide students with an innovative style of education, delivered by a staff of dedicated individuals, that addresses the career opportunities available in an ever-growing, constantly evolving industry.
 
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Development Co.		 Headquartered in Bethesda, MD, Lockheed Martin employs about 140,000 people worldwide and is principally engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture, integration, and sustainment of advanced technology systems, products and services.
 
Comprised of Orlando Regional Medical Center, Lucerne Hospital, Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children, Winnie Palmer Hospital for Women & Babies, M.D., Anderson Cancer Center Orlando, Dr. P. Phillips Hospital, South Seminole Hosp., Orlando Health Foundation.
 
Professional trade association serving 10,000 residential and commercial realtors in Orange and Seminole Counties. Activities include education, research and statistics, lobbying, fair housing practices, and ethics enforcement and arbitration.
 
Siemens Energy is the world's leading supplier of a complete spectrum of products, services and solutions for the generation, transmission and distribution of power and for the extraction, conversion and transport of oil and gas. Provides deposit, credit, trust and investment services to retail, business and institutional clients. Also provides mortgage banking, brokerage, investment management and capital markets services.
 
Development of 6,500+ acres zoned for residential, recreational, commercial and industrial use; golf course and custom homes and homesites in 550-acre country club community. A $1.1 billion multinational company; one of the world's leading direct sellers and a major supplier of food storage containers with premium products reaching consumers in more than 100 countries.
 
Metropolitan research university delivering a comprehensive program of teaching, research, and service; primary mission is to provide intellectual leadership through quality undergraduate and graduate programs. Number-one vacation destination in the world; four theme parks, two water parks, 20 resorts, five championship golf courses, Disney Wide World of Sports, Disney Cruise Line and the Downtown Disney area.
 
ZeroChaos is a full-service provider of high-quality contingent workforce solutions. They help companies optimize their contract labor force with automated, web-enabled delivery platforms that have saved our clients millions of dollars.