ARTHUR R. SAVAGE

PRESIDENT, A.R. SAVAGE & SON, TAMPA

The company includes A.R. Savage & Son, A.R. Savage & Son Advisory and Tampa Bay Ship Services. It provides ship agency logistics, compliance support and port calls management for its clients’ ships and cargo, plus ship mooring, waste removal, hold cleaning and other services to ships while in port. A.R. Savage & Son employs 45 full-time employees. This year, the company received a substantial investment from a multinational company, AGS Agunsa. This partnership extends its reach to ports in all of the Americas. Savage joined the company in 1984 and became president in 1997.

EDUCATION: Attended Hillsborough Community College and University of Tampa for two years.

READING: I have been re-reading some of Jim Collins's books, Good to Great and Built to Last, plus Patrick Lencioni’s Five Dysfunctions of a Team and The Ideal Team Player and Verne Harnish’s Scaling Up.

IF I WERE GOVERNOR
“Maintain the path of conservative fiscal management and law enforcement so we maintain our safe and affordable state. Create a commission to study growth management.”