Daniel James Scott serves as Executive Director of Tampa Bay Tech, representing Florida’s largest and fastest-growing tech hub; as Executive Sponsor on the Board of Directors for RNG Tampa Bay, the region’s largest in-house, corporate recruiters group; and as Treasurer of the Board of Directors for the Lions Eye Institute for Transplant & Research, the only combined eye bank and ocular research center in the world. Previously, Daniel’s work as Co-Founder of the USF System’s undergraduate Entrepreneurship program earned the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship’s “Outstanding Emerging Entrepreneurship Program” award and him the Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship’s “Educator of the Year” award. Additional honors for Daniel’s community leadership include being named the US Small Business Administration’s 50th Anniversary State of Florida “Business Advocate of the Year,” one of Florida Trend Magazine’s “Economic Impact Players” and a four-time Tampa Bay Business Journal “Up & Comers” honoree.