ROGAN DONELLY
PRESIDENT & CEO, TERVIS, SARASOTA
Tervis, celebrating its 75th anniversary, makes insulated drinkware. The company employs more than 450. Donelly was the company’s president for four years before becoming CEO at the beginning of 2021. Tervis is family owned and operated. Donelly’s father and grandfather also ran the company. “Tervis has always been a large part of my life,” Donelly says. “For show-and-tell at Outdoor Academy Middle School in Sarasota, I would bring in tumblers and explain the manufacturing process.”
| EDUCATION | Bowdoin College (BA), University of South Florida (MBA) |
| SOMETHING SURPRISING | As well as being an avid fisherman, I’m a master scuba diver and have gone diving in the waters of the U.S., Australia, the Bahamas, Indonesia, the Virgin Islands, Mexico and Cuba. |
| NEW HOBBY | At least four nights a week I end my days with hot yoga. |
| ADMIRES | Jeff Jackson, president and CEO of PGT Innovations. Along with being my corporate neighbor in our industrial park, he has been a great mentor to me as I started in my leadership roles. |
| SABBATICAL TOPIC | I would like to study under a marine biologist. |
| READING | Think Like a Monk, by Jay Shetty |