Aashish Patel, 33

Owner, Wooten’s Airboat Tours, Captain Jack’s Airboat Tours, Everglades City Motel

  • By Business Observer Staff
  • | 11:10 a.m. October 10, 2014
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Everglades City is a world away from Canterbury, the elite private school in Fort Myers where Aashish Patel was a standout science student.

Patel once won a science prize for testing different drugs on rat brains. “It gave me confidence that I could take on things beyond my years,” he says.

 

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