David Sweeney

PRESIDENT & CEO, RS&H, JACKSONVILLE

RS&H is a team of more than 1,500 architects, engineers, planners, environmental scientists and consultants serving the aviation, aerospace, defense, financial, health care, science and transportation sectors. Sweeney has served as CEO for the last nine of his 26 years with the company. The firm's RS&H Elevate Fund supports its employees by encouraging and funding volunteer and charitable activities focused on helping people and the environment, supporting children and youth programs and education.

EDUCATION: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (BS) 

IF I WERE GOVERNOR: My focus would be to strike the right balance of policy and strategy to continue to drive Florida to meet its full potential.

READING: Erik Larson’s The Splendid and the Vile is a compelling narrative of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz of World War II. 

MOTIVATIONAL MANTRA: Persistence, preparation, and hard work coupled with adaptability are the key characteristics to achieving success.

INSPIRING FLORIDIAN
“For her notable advocacy in the protection, preservation and restoration of the Everglades, Marjory Stoneman Douglas is quite inspiring.”