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EXECUTIVE: Kristina Vorndran, who goes by KJ, is on the financial planning team at Allegiant Private Advisors in Sarasota. She was born in the United States, but moved with her family to Germany when she was a baby. Vorndran, 23, has dual U.S. and Germany citizenship, and her family moved backed to the U.S. when she was growing up.
DIVERSION: Auto motorsports-kart racing. Sometimes called karting, it's an open-wheel, four-wheeled vehicle that's essentially a high-end, souped-up racing version of an amusement park go-kart. Some racing karts cost up to $200,000 and hit speeds of 160 mph. Karting is often a precursor to higher-level motorsports, such as Formula One, and racing icon Michael Schumacher is among the racers that got his start in karting.
WHEELS UP: Vorndran is the first and only female U.S. Grand National Karting Champion, a designation she won in 2011 when she was 17. Vorndran has been in competitive racing since she was 13, but has scaled back in recent years to focus on her financial services career. She's driven four-stroke cycle engine karts that turn faster, she says, than Ferraris and Maseratis.
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