GARY L. SASSO
PRESIDENT & CEO, CARLTON FIELDS, TAMPA
Carlton Fields, founded in Tampa in 1901, now has more than 650 employees in 11 offices in six states. Sasso, who’s been CEO since 2006, clerked for Justice Byron R. White on the U.S. Supreme Court and worked at a boutique law firm in Washington, D.C., that represented many of the major labor unions in this country, including the AFL-CIO, the Steelworkers and the National Education Association.
| EDUCATION | University of Pennsylvania (BS, JD) |
| SOMETHING SURPRISING | Neither of my parents attended college. |
| FLORIDA ISSUE | Competing for talent |
| ALTERNATE CAREER? | I might be an anthropologist. |
| PHILANTHROPIC CAUSE | I chair the board of trustees of the Straz Center for the Performing Arts in Tampa. |
| FAVORITE VACATION | Touring Europe when our daughters studied abroad |