Daniel James Scott serves as executive director of the Tampa Bay Technology Forum, the voice of tech in Tampa Bay, and on the board of directors for the Lions Eye Institute for Transplant & Research, the only combined eye bank and ocular research center in the world. Previously, Daniel’s work as founding associate director of the Entrepreneurship program at USF St. Petersburg earned him the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship’s “Outstanding Emerging Entrepreneurship Program” award and the Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship’s “Educator of the Year” award. Additional honors for his community leadership include being named the US Small Business Administration’s 50th Anniversary State of Florida “Business Advocate of the Year,” one of Florida Trend’s “Economic Impact Players,” and three-time Tampa Bay Business Journal “Up & Comers” recipient and Small Business Influencer Awards “Community Choice” honoree.