Meet Our Team

William Kohn is a former resident of Chicago and later Avon, CT before settling in Lighthouse Point in 2008. During the Vietnam era, he served in the US Army for almost 5 years, most of that time in Germany. He has a masters of engineering from the University of Illinois where he majored in energy engineering.

After four years as an engineer, William moved to the world of investments where he worked at Merrill Lynch and Oppenheimer for four years. In 1986 he moved to Connecticut where he was a principal at Micro Engineering Solutions until 2000. After a stint as a restaurant owner (something he recommends trying if you want to quickly lose an extra million or so), he renewed his focus in investments and ultimately in health insurance in 2005.

Priscilla Ribeiro was born in Rio De Janeiro Brazil and moved to Florida in 1994.

She holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science. Priscilla is bilingual speaking both English and Portuguese.

Priscilla has successfully served as an executive assistant/manager with various companies in South Florida. She excels in organizational management, ability to tackle projects that result in efficiency, and ultimately creates greater profitability.

Priscilla is the team leader of Florida Health Agency’s Brazil team. She loves helping Brazilian clients understand the differences of health insurance in the United States versus what they were used to in Brazil. Helping others is a passion of hers that also extends to her service in the community. She is active in her local church and serves as the Vice president of the Chorus Booster club at her daughters’ school. She has a passion for global mission projects and travel.

She is happily married and has two daughters.

Gio was born and raised in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. She also lived in Canada for 4 years before making the drastic move from the cold regions to the heat of South Florida and then got married. In Brazil she worked for 18 years organizing large corporate events.

Gio loves to travel, has a passion for organization and is very detail-oriented.

As a key team member of Florida Health Agency, she serves as an agent, project manager and customer support specialist. She is bilingual and speaks both English and Portuguese. With that gift she is able to tremendously help both our English speaking clients and our Brazilian community.

Gio has a kind heart which makes client satisfaction her greatest reward. She goes out of her way to help, knowing that when a client is happy with her service, it makes her day complete.

Thaíza Peotta is our creative writer and marketing specialist that helps Florida Health Agency connect with new and existing customers. She is a digital nomad aspirant. Her best skills include user experience design, inbound marketing, strategic planning and growth hacking. She loves creating different ways to serve people with information and sharing life experiences.

She was born in São Paulo, Brazil in 2000 and has lived in Florianópolis, Brazil since 2018. She’s also busy pursuing a bachelor’s degree in Information Science. Thaíza speaks English, Portuguese and Brazilian’s Sign Language.

When she’s away from the internet, she loves to discover new places and meet new people. Thaíza serves as toddler’s teacher and as event planner manager at Florianopolis House of Prayer, her local church.

Rafaela Kwiatkowski (Rafa) is our IT programming specialist that helps Florida Health Agency create and configure their website and other software implementations for their staff, in addition to new and existing customers. Her expert skills include computer programming and digital platforms support. Plus she is always focused on learning more!

Rafa was born and lives in Santa Catarina, Brazil. She has a bachelor’s degree in Information Science in one of the biggest universities in Brazil. She speaks English, Portuguese, Spanish and a bit of French. She also has professional experience in start-ups and data driven environments.