DANIEL CANE
CEO, MODERNIZING MEDICINE, BOCA RATON
Health care technology company Modernizing Medicine employs more than 1,000. Before co-founding Modernizing Medicine, Cane founded Blackboard while an undergraduate at Cornell University. Blackboard went public in 2004 and was later sold for more than $1.6 bilion. In 2018, Cane helped establish the Cane Institute for Advanced Technologies at A.D. Henderson/FAU High.
| EDUCATION | Cornell University (BS) |
| Would Change about Florida | I would change the false perception that Florida’s education system isn’t exceptional. We have amazing and affordable schools. |
| New Hobby | I’m trying to learn the ukulele, but I’m really not gifted at musical instruments. |
| Reading | Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures, by Merlin Sheldrake |