Gregory Celestan
CEO, Celestar, Tampa
Celestar provides consulting and intelligence support to the U.S. government on national and global threats. The company employs 145. Celestan says his final assignments in the military “gave me crucial experience in the intelligence space. When I finally retired from the Army, I started Celestar with a dream and $50,000 on a credit card.
| EDUCATION | U.S. Military Academy (West Point) (BS), University of Washington (MA) |
| SOMETHING SURPRISING | I was a huge Bruce Lee fan growing up. I watched all his movies and also practiced martial arts. |
| ADMIRES | Oscar Horton, CEO of Sun State International. He has a very successful company and is active in all aspects of our community but does it quietly and never concerns himself with taking credit. |
| READING | Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb |