STEVE RIGGS
CO-FOUNDER, PARTNER-IN-CHARGE, CARR, RIGGS & INGRAM, DESTIN
Carr Riggs & Ingram has more than 2,300 partners and employees in 13 states, including more than 600 located in Florida. It’s a full-service CPA and consulting firm. “We are very active in our community and dominate the marketplace in NW Florida,” Riggs says. “I have led this practice unit for 27 years. We are also very active on the Pensacola campus of the University of West Florida ... Each fall I talk to junior and senior level students about the vast opportunities before them. I have hired staff accounts and mentored them to the partner level of the firm.”
EDUCATION: University of West Florida (BA)
IF I WERE GOVERNOR: Florida has many undocumented immigrants who live and work very hard in Florida. I would work to ensure those who are in Florida and who work, to be allowed an avenue to be a legal worker in this state.
READING: I read The Wall Street Journal cover to cover every day.
MENTORS: My early mentors were Neil Presser and Al LaFaye. They ran a positive, quality, growing CPA firm in Jacksonville and I learned so much from them on how to conduct myself as a professional.
