NELSON CASTELLANO

MANAGING SHAREHOLDER, TRENAM LAW, TAMPA

Castellano has served in leadership at Trenam, which has offices in Tampa, St. Petersburg and Sarasota, for more than 20 years. He has been active as a board member or executive committee member of the business incubators Tampa Bay Wave and Florida Venture Forum and is the board chair of Junior Achievement of Tampa Bay and incoming board chair of ZooTampa at Lowry Park.

EDUCATION: Florida State University (BS), University of Florida (JD)

FIRST JOB: My first job was during my fourth grade summer making 25 cents an hour! I worked in my Nano’s automobile body repair shop sweeping the shop floor which was a never-ending job since there was constant dust from sanding the cars before painting.

DREAM ALTERNATE CAREER: Assuming I am not limited based on my height or athletic ability, play point guard in the NBA!

HOBBY: Making pizza dough and sauce from scratch and cooking pizzas in my wood-fired pizza oven at my house.