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LENNISE GERMANY
Livy O’s Culinary Services
Lennise Germany is the CEO of Livy O’s Catering, a multi-award winning, family owned and operated organization, that provides food made with love. From humble beginnings of selling dinners from the trunk of the family car in 2014 to servicing the 2021 NFL Super Bowl #GoBucs, Lennise is not slowing down. As one of the Tampa Bay Area’s most sought after caterers Livy O’s has established partnerships throughout Florida to provide exclusive banquet catering services, performs school meal services, and Express Café locations throughout the Bay Area. Lennise has been featured on national T.V. networks and a keynote speaker.
Lennise is a wife, mother of 6, a board member and community leader. Her servant leadership produces generational change. Lennise utilizes her personal testimony of domestic violence and sexual abuse, to help others discover their life’s purpose. Her motto is she can do anything, until she can’t.
Livyos.com 813.494.0820 @Livyoscatering
LIZETTE RIVERA
Roasted Whisk
Lizette Rivera grew up watching her Cuban-born Mom, Rose, run two small businesses out of her home. Through her, Lizette learned what a good work ethic was. Rose met and married Lizette’s Puerto Rican father Wilfred Rivera in New Jersey. Together, they made a wonderful life in the land of the free, ultimately settling their family in Tampa, Florida. After college, Lizette worked her way up in the corporate ranks after 20 years in the insurance industry. In 2015, she decided to do a complete 180 and started Chef Inspired Popcorn. With the challenges of COVID also came a great new opportunity and Roasted Whisk was launched in 2020. Currently, it enjoys a rapidly growing, loyal fan base and is studying new product additions such as decaffeinated coffees, select teas, and even soaps and lotions that smell like coffee as she prepares to take Roasted Whisk nationwide.
