{"id":66935,"date":"2015-06-24T12:01:55","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T16:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=66935"},"modified":"2015-06-25T10:20:48","modified_gmt":"2015-06-25T14:20:48","slug":"orlando-magazines-2015-most-powerful-list-includes-ucf-leaders-alumni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/orlando-magazines-2015-most-powerful-list-includes-ucf-leaders-alumni\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlando Magazine’s 2015 Most-Powerful List Includes Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½ Leaders, Alumni"},"content":{"rendered":"

Several Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½ leaders and successful alumni were named this week to the Orlando<\/em> magazine 2015 list of the 50 most powerful people in the region.<\/p>\n

The 12th annual list is made up of leaders in politics, business, education, sports, health, philanthropy and other fields.<\/p>\n

Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½ President John C. Hitt earned the No. 4 ranking, following Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer; attorney, businessman and philanthropist John Morgan; and Lars Houman, president and CEO of Florida Hospital and Florida Division Adventist Health System.<\/p>\n

Under Hitt, who has been president since 1992, Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½ has become the nation\u2019s second largest university with about 61,000 students. The magazine praised Hitt for leading the effort in October of breaking ground with industry and government partners on the Florida Advanced Manufacturing Research Center in Osceola County, a $270 million project to develop sensors for assorted electronic devices. Hitt also received the Historical Society of Central Florida’s 2015 John Young History Maker Award for lifetime achievements making a historic impact on the community.<\/p>\n

Others with Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½ roles named to the list were:<\/p>\n

  • No. 9 \u2013 Harris Rosen, hotelier and philanthropist. The founder of Rosen Hotels & Resorts has seven hotels, and Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½\u2019s Rosen College of Hospitality Management was developed in part because he donated the initial $18 million in money and land for the campus that opened in 2004. Rosen is a former member of the Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½ Board of Trustees.<\/li>\n
  • No. 12 \u2013 Alex Martins, CEO of the Orlando Magic. Martins sits on the Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½ Board of Trustees and earned an MBA from Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½ in 2001. He is a member of the College of Business Administration\u2019s Hall of Fame and serves on the Dean\u2019s Executive Council for the college.<\/li>\n
  • No. 26 \u2013 Marcos Marchena, managing shareholder, Marchena and Graham. Marchena, general counsel for the Greater Orlando Aviation Authority, is a member of the Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½ Board of Trustees and chairman of the Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½ Finance and Facilities Committee, working to maintain affordable tuition and fees for students. The university presented him with its 2013 Service to Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½ Award.<\/li>\n
  • No. 40 \u2013 Dr. Deborah German, Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½ vice president for medical affairs and founding dean of the College of Medicine. Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½\u2019s medical school opened in Lake Nona in 2009 and enrollment has grown tenfold in the past six years. By 2016-17 it expects to be educating 480 physicians-in-training.<\/li>\n
  • No. 43 \u2013 Rich Maladecki, president\/CEO, Central Florida Hotel and Lodging Association. Maladecki is in his 18th year as head of the CFHLA, and is a Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½ adjunct in business.<\/li>\n

    In addition to alumni Martins and Marchena (College of Sciences, Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½ Class of 1982) several other Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½\u00a0graduates are on the top-50 list:<\/p>\n

  • No. 5 \u2013 Barbara Jenkins, Education, \u201983,\u00a0\u201986 and \u201996, Orange County School Superintendent.<\/li>\n
  • No. 10 \u2013 George A. Kalogridis, Sciences, \u201976, president of Walt Disney World Resort.<\/li>\n
  • No. 15 \u2013 Rasesh H. Thakkar, Business Administration, \u201984, senior managing director of Tavistock Group.<\/li>\n
  • No. 44 \u2013 Patty Sheehan, Art, \u201987, Orlando city commissioner.<\/li>\n
  • No. 46 \u2013 Dick J. Batchelor, Sciences, \u201971, business and political consultant, and advocate for children\u2019s causes.<\/li>\n

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