BOB SWINDELL
PRESIDENT & CEO, GREATER FORT LAUDERDALE ALLIANCE, FORT LAUDERDALE
The Alliance and the Alliance Foundation are a nimble team of 21 people. The partnership brings together the county’s business community, Broward County, and the 31 municipalities for the purposes of diversifying the economy, ensuring economic vitality and growing high-wage jobs. Swindell has led the Alliance as CEO since 2009. Over the past decade, the Alliance and its partners, working directly with new and existing local businesses, have helped those businesses create or retain more than 30,000 jobs estimated to have generated more than 57,000 additional local jobs resulting in $2.1 billion in personal income and $10.7 billion in economic impact annually. The Alliance has received state and national awards for these results.
EDUCATION: Attended University of Florida
IF I WERE GOVERNOR: We should aspire to make Florida’s public education the best in the nation. The Florida Chamber Foundation in a recent study estimated Florida’s economy loses nearly $5.4 billion annually because of the childcare crisis. The result is almost $1 billion in lost state tax revenue. The state’s return on investment fixing this crisis would be significant and immediate.
