Port Manatee recently promoted Denise Stufflebeam to senior director of business administration and finance and Virginia Zimmermann to senior communications manager. Stufflebeam has served since 2013 as Port Manatee’s director of business administration and finance; she joined the port in 1991 as information services assistant and subsequently received promotions to data processing manager and business manager. Zimmermann, meanwhile, joined Port Manatee in 2013 as public relations and marketing manager. Both Stufflebeam and Zimmermann will now report directly to Carlos Buqueras, the port's executive director.