Steve Collins:  

After graduating from Robert E. Lee High School, I went on to earn a degree in Business Administration from the University of Florida, graduating in 1970 with a "rock solid" 2.4 GPA. My wife was still in school at Florida so I accepted a job selling insurance which was about the only employment opportunity I could come up with at the time. When I told my dad what I was doing he said, "Damn son, you went to college for 4 years to be an insurance agent?" That pretty well summed up my sentiments on the matter as well. Fortunately, the insurance industry was good to me and I went on to found my own Company, "The American Dental Plan." In 1979 I did an intra-state private offering memorandum, raised sufficient funds to meet the state's minimum capital and surplus requirements and received my Certificate of Authority to do business in Florida in January, 1980. I served as ...Expand for more