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NSU H. Wayne Huizenga School of Business and Entrepreneurship 2004 Entrepreneur Hall of Fame: Ramón A. Rodríguez

NSU H. Wayne Huizenga School of Business and Entrepreneurship 2004 Entrepreneur Hall of Fame: Ramón A. Rodríguez

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Let’s be realistic. You’re not going to make a tremendous amount of money in public accounting, in virtually any of the service industries. In you want to hit the home run, you have to do something beyond it. — Ramón A. Rodríguez

Inductee Biography

Ramón A. Rodríguez has served as a director of the Company since February 2022. Mr. Rodríguez has served as the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Cable Insurance Company, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, a property, and casualty insurer focused on the commercial automotive market, since April 2021. From January 1999 until April 2020, he served on the board of directors of Republic Services, Inc., Phoenix, Arizona, a solid waste company listed on NYSE, including serving as the Chairman of the Board. From 2009 to 2015, he served as a director of Alico, Inc., Fort Myers, Florida, a holding company with assets and related operations in agricultural and environmental resources, including citrus, sugar cane, cattle, land, and wildlife management listed on NASDAQ.

In addition, Mr. Rodríguez was the President and Chief Executive Officer of Madsen, Sapp, Mena, Rodríguez & Co. (an accounting firm acquired by Crowe Horwath in 2006) from 1971 to his retirement from public accounting in 2009. He is also a former Chairman of the Florida Board of Accountancy as well as a former President of the Florida Institute of Certified Public Accountants. He was a founder, Treasurer, and a director of DME Corporation, a manufacturing company in the defense and aerospace sector, from 1975 to 2009. Mr. Rodríguez also served as a director of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) from 2015 to 2021. Mr. Rodriguez earned a B.S. in Accounting from Florida Atlantic University. He has also completed the Owner/President Management Program at Harvard Business School.

Original Date

2004

Date Digitized

8-9-2024

Keywords

Alico, Inc., agricultural resources, B.S. in Accounting, Cable Insurance Company, casualty insurer, cattle, Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer, citrus, commercial automotive market, Crowe Horwath, defense and aerospace sector, director, DME Corporation, environmental resources, Florida Atlantic University, Florida Board of Accountancy, Florida Institute of Certified Public Accountants, Fort Lauderdale, Fort Myers, founder, Harvard Business School, land, Madsen, Sapp, Mena, Rodríguez & Co., manufacturing company, money, NASDAQ, NYSE, Owner/President Management Program, Phoenix, property insurer, Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), public accounting, Ramón A. Rodríguez, Republic Services, Inc., retirement, service industries, solid waste company, sugar cane, Treasurer, wildlife management

Disciplines

Business | Education | Higher Education

Original Format

VHS

Run Time

00:08:58

Repository

NSU Archives, Nova Southeastern University

NSU H. Wayne Huizenga School of Business and Entrepreneurship 2004 Entrepreneur Hall of Fame: Ramón A. Rodríguez

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