Andres Boral, 34

Andres Boral, 34

While enrolled in the MBA program at Florida Gulf Coast University, Andres Boral had to put together a business plan. He created one for an engineering firm, drawing from his experiences working at a company where he had ideas for improvements but lacked the authority to execute them. That laid for foundation for him to launch his own firm in 2015.

“I always had a desire to start something on my own,” he says. “Writing a business plan [during his MBA program] was basically an indicator that the time was there for me to do it.”