Off the path

Executive: Sarasota Ballet Managing Director Mary Anne Servian. Servian ran a business brokerage firm in Sarasota in the 1990s with her late husband, Robert Servian. She was an executive with a software firm and a savings and loan institution in Pennsylvania before that. Servian served on the Sarasota City Commission from 2001 to 2007, and was mayor from 2005-2006. She's been with the ballet since 2010, and was named managing director in 2011.