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Mr. Smith has served as President of Jan Smith and Company, a commercial real estate and business investment firm, since 1978. Mr. Smith is also the managing general partner of River Bend Road, Ltd., and a Director and President of Travel Associates, Inc. and of Jan Smith and Company. Mr. Smith serves on the Board of Directors of SunTrust Bank/Gulf Coast and the Board of Governors of the Florida Chamber of Commerce, and is also the Chairman of the Campus Board of University of South Florida's Regional Sarasota/Manatee Campus, and a member of the University of South Florida Foundation Board of Trustees. Mr. Smith is a past member of the Board of Directors of GTE of Florida, Inc., a publicly-held company, the Advisory Council of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, the Board of Directors of the United States Chamber of Commerce, the Board of the National Chamber Litigation Center, the National Advisory Council of the U.S. Small Business Administration, the Board of Directors of the Florida Chamber of Commerce Management, Inc., the Florida Education Governance Reorganization Transition Task Force, the Nominating Council of the Public Service Commission of Florida, the Florida Council on Economic Education, and the Manatee County (FL) Independent Insurance Agent Association, and he previously served as a Delegate to the White House Conference on Small Business and to the Small Business National Issues Conference. He is a past Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Manatee Community College in Florida, and of the Manatee County (FL) Chamber of Commerce, and is an inductee of the Tampa Bay Business Hall of Fame.
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