Brett Graff’s Mixed Company


Over 35 years ago, Larry Mendelson had two young sons and a plan. He’d treat his boys as business partners and one day they would be. His strategy was executed flawlessly.

Beginning at the ages of 6 and 8, the children spent their leisure time after school and on weekends working with their dad, looking at potential real estate investments and, later on, sitting in on high-level meetings. Today Mendelson with his sons Victor Mendelson and Eric Mendelson run Heico Corp., a technology-driven aerospace, industrial and defense business that Victor Mendelson identified as an investment opportunity while he was still in college.

We sat down with all three executives after work to learn about their formula for taking strong family values and creating from them solid financial ones…
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VIDEO: Feedback

SocialMiami was on the road, once again, asking questions to fabulous Miami personalities. In this edition of Feedback, we were at arteamericas at the Miami Beach Convention Center. The show was excellent, displaying the very best in Latin American art.

We caught up with arts patron Lourdes Jofre-Collet, Myra Wexler (aka Yo Momma), the Bass Museum’s Megan Riley, and Judy Holm, vice chair at Council for Art and Culture in Miami Beach.

Pictured: Myra Wexler

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SOCIAL Manny: Episode 77


Katherine Fernandez-Rundle, Irene Korge, Kick-off for Destination Fashion at The Villa by Barton G., James Ferraro, Nick Buoniconti, Dr. Barth Green, Micky and Madeleine Arison, Randy and Gigi Whitman, Swanee DiMare, Trish Bell, Norma Jean Abraham, Dave Barry at Dr. Seuss day at the Miami Children’s Museum, Miami International Film Festival, actor Robert Loggia, Commissioner Marc Sarnoff, Judy Drucker, Mike Eidson, Sue Miller, Annie Vazquez, DALI Miami at the Moore Building in the Design District, Lily Zanardi, Lea Black, Adriana de Moura, Alacran Tequila party at Soho Beach House, Arty Dozortsev and Alan Lieberman, Laura Buccelatti, Buzzy Sklar, Beau Beasly, Max Pierre, Michelle Pooch, Victoria Secret models Candice Swanepoel and Erin Heatherton at Mondrian South Beach

Pictured: Lauren Gnazzo and Annie Vazquez at the opening of DALI Miami at the Moore Building in the Design District

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