The Florida Hurricane Network (FLHN) is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to helping Floridians prepare for, survive, and recover from the hurricanes and tropical storms that regularly impact our beautiful state.

Our mission is to provide timely information about these calamities and provide a forum through which Floridians can share vital information with each other in times of emergency.

FLHN was founded in 2004 and is supported by private and corporate donors throughout Florida.

About William Lovin, President and Executive Director

An industry recognized expert in the field of digital communications technology, William Lovin played a seminal role in the development of modern telecommunications systems. In the early 1980s, Mr. Lovin helped develop the first systems that carried voice and computer data simultaneously on the same network. Lured by the early promise of the Internet, Mr. Lovin moved to Florida in the 1985 to help found Internet Systems, Corp. in Sunrise, FL. There, Mr. Lovin helped design and implement some of the basic systems and software that makes today's Internet work.

Returning to Texas several years later, he helped design and develop ACT! - the most popular Customer Relationship Management (CRM) program ever written. Returning again to Florida in 1994, Mr. Lovin focuses on helping technology-based companies with complex financing, business management, and market development tasks.

Mr. Lovin lives in Deerfield Beach, Florida and Dallas, Texas.

About Peter Murphy, Director

In his home state of New Hampshire, Peter Murphy made political history with his election to the House of Representatives as the first member of his party from his district since pre-Civil War days. The youngest State legislator in the U.S. at that time, he went on to serve as a city councilor and Lt. Governor nominee. He is included in the Dictionary of International Biography and Who's Who In American Politics. He authored the first consumer protection law in the nation and was a prolific member of the Constitutional Convention in the Granite State, sponsoring several successful amendments to the State constitution. As a social services administrator, he created many innovative programs for children and youth.

He is currently involved in television and media, working with, among others, the Fischler School of Nova University. Rounding out full professional and political careers, Mr. Murphy appeared alongside Alan Arkin and Donald Pleasance in the Emmy-award winning political thriller The Defection Of Simas Kudirka.

Mr. Murphy lives in Melbourne, Florida.

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