About The Instructor
Charles Felix is the owner/publisher of the South Florida Hospital News and the Cannabis News. In more than 4 decades of achievement, Mr. Felix has demonstrated a wide-ranging expertise that includes business strategy, corporate finance management, labor relations and negotiations, management development and leadership, commercial real estate management, brand and image development, and government and regulatory affairs.
Charles Felix is the owner and publisher of South Florida Hospital News & Healthcare Report, a publication he founded in 2004. Within just one year of operation, the 40-page monthly newspaper quickly established itself as the premiere chronicle of the healthcare industry in South Florida. It now represents the only monthly healthcare newspaper available in South Florida.
A certified public accountant (CPA) and Certified in Financial Forensics (CFF). Mr. Felix earned a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, with a concentration in public accounting, from Bernard Baruch College in New York City. Mr. Felix's early career focused on commercial real estate management, specializing in multi-family construction and management in the Southeast. Mr. Felix then moved into sports management and franchise development, leading a growing and changing multiple-entity enterprise whose key business interests included three professional ice hockey clubs and three arenafootball2 teams with combined annual revenues of more than $8.2 million. During his tenure, Mr. Felix led the effort to bring the minor-league Atlanta Knights into the International Hockey League and, later, guided the franchise's move to Quebec City. He also helped create the Xtreme Football League, which later became arenafootball2. His aggressive marketing programs for the Pensacola Professional Hockey Club boosted annual revenues a whopping 400 percent and led the East Coast Hockey League (ECHL) in sponsorships in its first year of operations. Mr. Felix was voted ECHL Executive of the Year in 1998, and received the ECHL Team Marketing Award in 1997.
Active within both his profession and community, Mr. Felix has participated in numerous organizations and activities, and is presently on the Board of Directors of the South Florida Hospital and Healthcare Association and the South Florida Healthcare Executive Forum, and is the Past-President of the Rotary Club of Fort Lauderdale.