Month: December 2022

Palm Coast, FL – December 16, 2022 – Coastal Cloud announced it has been recognized for excellence in digital transformation and innovation, contributing to job creation and economic sustainability. Coastal Cloud credits this achievement in part to its unique business model and core principles which attract diverse talent resulting in a company of over 44% women, a statistic that breaks the mold in technology consulting.

For this innovative work, Coastal Cloud was awarded the EFI Entrepreneur and Job Growth Award during its most recent Board of Directors meeting in St. Augustine.

Founded in 2012, Coastal Cloud is a Salesforce Multi-Cloud Expert Partner providing consulting, implementation and managed services for businesses, nonprofits, and the public sector. With a team of over 500 experts holding more than 1,200 Salesforce certifications, Coastal Cloud has also been recognized by Salesforce for the past 3 years as the only winner of the Customer Success Award out of 1900 partners worldwide.

“We focus on workforce development,” said Sara Hale, Coastal Cloud’s President and Co-Founder. “We are able to recruit great experienced talent, but we have also invested in growing talent. We now have a formal internship program that recruits from many universities, and this January we are kicking off an apprenticeship program to identify talent from diverse backgrounds.”

“We are honored to be recognized by Enterprise Florida with this award,” Hale continued. “We would not be where we are today without the incredible support that we have received in Florida, from CareerSource FlaglerVolusia, CareerSource Florida, the Florida Dept of Economic Opportunity, JAXUSA, JAX Chamber, GrowFL and Enterprise Florida. This state has proven itself to be a great place to start a business and we will be forever thankful that we chose Florida.”

About the EFI Entrepreneur and Job Growth Award 

The Enterprise Florida Entrepreneur and Job Growth Award was established by Enterprise Florida in 2019 to recognize Florida businesses that have created jobs and invested in communities across the state.

About Enterprise Florida

Enterprise Florida, Inc. (EFI) is a public-private partnership between Florida’s business and government leaders and is the principal economic development organization for Florida. EFI’s mission is to expand and diversify the state’s economy through job creation.

About Coastal Cloud

Coastal Cloud is a Salesforce Multi-Cloud Expert Partner that provides consulting, implementation and managed services to businesses, nonprofits, and the public sector. Founded in 2012, the company offers insight and expertise into a wide variety of industries, including communications and media, healthcare, high-tech, manufacturing, private equity and more. Coastal Cloud has earned a 5/5 customer satisfaction rating on the Salesforce AppExchange and is the #1 rated consulting partner on G2Crowd.com. Coastal Cloud attributes its success to a unique company culture, nimble expertise, and onshore-only teams. With a team of over 500 experts holding more than 1,200 Salesforce certifications, Coastal Cloud has been recognized by Salesforce for the past 3 years as the only winner of the Customer Success Award out of 1900 partners worldwide. For more information, please visit www.CoastalCloud.US.

San Jose, Costa Rica – December 1, 2022 – Gener8 LLC (“Gener8”), a portfolio company of Sverica Capital Management LP (“Sverica”), announced today that it has expanded its manufacturing footprint by launching a new facility in Costa Rica.

Gener8’s 30,000 square feet manufacturing facility is located in La Lima industrial Park in Cartago. The state of the art facility will enable high complex electromechanical instrument manufacturing in an ESD controlled environment and ISO Class 8 cleanroom.   

“Just as Gener8 has aggressively built a complete biotech instruments design services solution comprised of hardware, software and micro-fluidic cartridges, the Costa Rican site adds the last piece for a complete product life cycle solution – efficient, high-volume manufacturing. This is a compelling offering for our customers” said Jerry Jurkiewicz, Gener8 CEO.   

“We chose Costa Rica due to its wealth of technical talent, its eager and available work force, and its geographic and time zone proximity to our US operations. I’d like to thank the Costa Rican government and CINDE for creating such a business-friendly environment and for making the process of launching a site here so seamless,” Jurkiewicz added.

Manuel Tovar, the Minister of Foreign Trade stated, “Costa Rica is a regional leader in the sophistication of manufacturing processes with a proven track record. Thanks to this, Gener8 honors us with the decision to establish its first manufacturing plant outside the United States in our country. The investment will allow 60 Costa Ricans to have quality employment in the manufacture of electromechanical instruments. We are an ideal location for smart manufacturing industries, which operate with a high level of complexity and generate a wide range of products while contributing to the revitalization of the economy”.

“The arrival of Gener8 on national soil presents us with a great opportunity to go beyond activities related to designing and manufacturing highly complex instruments and boost the research and development of new technologies for medical diagnostics and clinical laboratory equipment. This result is a reflection of the huge efforts that we have made as a country in the last several years to turn into a world leader in attracting medical device companies, occupying fifth-place after powerhouses such as Germany, the United States, and France,” commented Jorge Sequeira, managing director of CINDE. 

Gener8 will employ 60 employees in the first 12 months with an aggressive growth projection in the coming years.

“The high complexity of instruments we design, and manufacture will bring exciting job opportunities for engineers and technicians with experience in mechatronics, systems integration and software testing” said Alfred Macha, Vicepresident of Costa Rica Operations, Gener8. 

About Gener8
Gener8, founded in 2002, is a leading provider of turnkey design and manufacturing services specializing in high complexity products, primarily for medical device and diagnostics applications. Gener8 maintains state-of-the-art facilities and a world-class engineering team with more than 40 PhDs spanning a multitude of disciplines, including electrical, mechanical, software, optical and systems engineering. For more information, please visit www.gener8.net.