Pace maker: Entrepreneur gets back to basics

A health scare prompted a successful executive to rethink his priorities — and what he wants his next business to represent. One key: empathy for customers.

By Brian Hartz
| 6:00 a.m. November 9, 2018
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Mark Wemple. Doug Pace founded Stonehill, a Tampa-based performance management consulting firm, in 2016 after suffering a massive stroke.

Entrepreneurs

Doug Pace and Kevin Hourigan reached dizzying heights of success with their Tampa-based digital marketing firm, Bayshore Solutions.

In 2004, the company received a prestigious Partner of the Year award from Microsoft, and in 2014, after growing 60% over three years, it cracked the Inc. 5000 list, with $7.9 million in annual revenue. Satellite offices in Denver, Miami and Europe followed, and Bayshore’s workforce swelled to more than 120. Hourigan and Pace did so well they bought out other investors in the company.