Brent Sembler

VP – The Sembler Companies

Founder and Chairman – Legends of Delta Lambda

Brent Sembler is Vice Chairman of The Sembler Company. Sembler is currently in his fourth decade of working with the company, founded by his father, Mel Sembler, in 1962. Since then, The Sembler Company has grown into an institution in the industry—developing more than 325 projects totaling more than 27 million square feet, and leasing and managing a portfolio of nearly 10 million square feet throughout the southeastern U.S. and Puerto Rico.

Brent Sembler takes on a wide array of active roles and responsibilities within the full-service real estate firm, which offers development/redevelopment, acquisitions, leasing, property management and other services.

Sembler has been a member of the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) since 1980, and is a founding member of the industry organization’s Florida Government Affairs Committee, on which he still serves. He is also a leader in political fundraising on the state and national stage, having led and served on dozens of successful Republican campaigns and fundraising committees. Currently, Sembler serves as a gubernatorial appointee to the Board of Trustees of Florida State University, a $2-billion public university. He is also Chairman of Legends of Delta Lambda, and serves on the Board of Gulf Coast Community Care. He is also a member of the Florida Council of 100, a business advisory council to the Governor of Florida.

On a local level, Sembler and his wife, Debbie, established a philanthropic fund administered through the Tampa/Orlando/Pinellas (T.O.P.) Jewish Foundation, Inc. that benefits numerous Bay Area charities. He is a past member of the Boards of All Children’s Hospital and Shorecrest Preparatory School’s Board of Trustees.

Born in 1957 in Dyersburg, Tennessee, Sembler earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Florida State University in 1980. He and Debbie have three children and one grandchild.

Source:  The Sembler Companies

Craig Mateer is CEO and founder of Bags Inc. He founded his first company in 1990, and in 2003, transformed his parking business into a hospitality, delivery and parking services firm with annual revenue in excess of $100 million. His firm’s services include remote airline check-in for passengers and their luggage; and baggage delivery from the airport to customers’ home, hotel or business. The company operates in more than 250 U.S. cities, completes more than 2 million valet transactions per year and handles more than 5 million checked bags annually.  Source:  Orlando Business Journal.  OBJ

Hubert Green

Pro Golfer – PGA Champion

Hubert Green. Hubert Myatt Green (December 28, 1946 – June 19, 2018) was an American professional golfer who won 29 professional golf tournaments, including two major championships: the 1977 U.S. Open and the 1985 PGA Championship. He was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2007.  Source:  liveabout.com. LiveAbout

Daniel Berger

Pro Golfer – Two Time Tournament Champion.

Did not play high school golf, instead competing on both the national and international levels while earning his academic diploma.  Daniel turned pro after two years at Florida State.  Dan’s father, Jay, is the former director of men’s tennis for the USTA, and has served as an assistant coach for the U.S. Davis Cup and Olympic tennis teams and was head coach of the 2012 U.S. Olympic tennis team.  If Daniel were not a professional golfer, he would be a professional tennis player.  Had his first hole-in-one at age 13. During off weeks, he enjoys spending time on his boat. Favorite quote is “Winning means you’re willing to go longer, work harder and give more than anyone else.”  Source:  PGA Daniel Berger PGA

NBA – Chief Medical Officer

JACE PROVO

Dr. Jace Provo oversees health care-related programs for the NBA, WNBA, and NBA Development League, designing and executing coverage for all events domestically and internationally, including NBA All-Star, Europe Live, China Games, Basketball without Borders, and the NBA Draft. Dr. Provo is the medical director for Basketball Operations, overseeing the NBA Basketball Operations health care policies and procedures, Human Resources, and Legal, and supervising the health care policies for front-office employees and players in all three leagues. He also is a key manager of the medical testing component of the NBA Draft Combine.

Dr. Provo’s other projects include developing the league’s concussion policy and designing, introducing, and executing the player electronic medical record and swine flu response manual. He also works actively with the league’s business development group to establish partnerships with leading health care companies, including SonoSite, an international leader in the production of portable musculoskeletal ultrasound equipment. In 2011, he coordinated the league’s first musculoskeletal ultrasound course for NBA team physicians at the NBA Draft Combine in Chicago.

He has worked as both a consultant and an employee for the NBA since shortly after the Barcelona Olympics in 1992.

Board certified by the American Board of Emergency Medicine, Dr. Provo is a Fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians and is a member of the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine.

Dr. Provo holds a master of health care management from Harvard, a fellowship in sports medicine from Hofstra Northshore/LIJ, a residency in emergency medicine from the University of Chicago, an M.D. from the University of Florida College of Medicine, and a bachelor’s degree from Florida State University.   Source: NBA. https://careers.nba.com/2015/08/18/dr-jace-provo/

Dr. Joe O’Shea ‘04: Rhodes Scholar, Student Body President and pledge class vice president.

John Moughan ’67 as a mercenary in Afghanistan in (19??) teaching the Mujahedeen how to direct mortar fire on the Russians.  John’s story was covered in Soldier of Fortune Magazine.