The hometown businessman watching the books.

Brad grew up here. As a student at Pine View School, he interned at Sarasota Memorial Hospital — a month in every department, from admissions to surgery — learning how a great hospital works from the inside.

While still in high school, he founded a four-store computer retail chain — the premier Apple and IBM dealer in Southwest Florida. He founded Sarasota County Teenage Republicans in 1981 and organized the Venice Beach renourishment effort, successfully lobbying state and federal governments.

At 25, Brad founded Tech:Time, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTME), the first company ever taken public in Sarasota County, growing it past $30 million in sales.

He later founded NetLine Communications, one of Florida’s first Internet providers — acquired by Comcast, where Brad launched the cable-modem era and installed the first cable modem in the world, right here in Sarasota. He ran for Congress in Florida’s 13th District in 1992.

In 1988, at 28, President Reagan appointed Brad a White House Fellow, serving as Special Assistant at the U.S. Treasury. His service continued under President George H.W. Bush, helping stand up the Resolution Trust Corporation — the agency that resolved the S&L crisis — alongside Alan Greenspan, Nicholas Brady, and Jack Kemp. Two presidents trusted him with the nation’s books. Now he watches the books of the hospital your family depends on — and charges you nothing for it.

Appointed by Gov. Jeb Bush to clean up the Florida Housing Finance Corporation, Brad ran $1 billion in annual housing programs — Florida Trend put him on its cover for the turnaround.

He was appointed to Florida’s state healthcare planning board, where he chaired the Ethics and Rules Committee; named by Gov. Rick Scott as a Trustee of New College of Florida; and serves on the SRQ Airport Advisory Board. He also served as Kansas Deputy Secretary of Commerce, 2018–2019.

Brad chaired the Audit, Compensation, and Governance committees of Odyssey Marine Exploration (NASDAQ) and served as Audit Chair of DOBI Medical, an early-detection breast-cancer diagnostics company. He served on the NASDAQ Ethics Committee and completed Harvard Business School executive education in public-company directorship. He has audited billion-dollar companies for a living. Today he applies that same scrutiny to one thing: making sure your hospital is there, strong and public, the night your family needs it.

Elected by Sarasota County voters in 2022, Brad is Treasurer of the Sarasota County Public Hospital Board and chair of its Investment Committee. He is an affordable-housing developer, a licensed contractor, an instrument-rated pilot, and a lifelong Sarasotan.