Alex Sink turned a statewide election defeat into a new career: startup sage

One of her newest roles includes mentoring young tech entrepreneurs.

By Mark Gordon
| 6:00 a.m. April 20, 2018
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Mark Wemple. Alex Sink is chairwoman elect of Tampa Bay Wave, a startup support organization.

Finance

The journey from high-level banker to one of the state’s top elected officials to budding tech entrepreneur and startup rainmaker, for Alex Sink, started out at a quiet moment at home.

It came eight years ago, soon after Sink, onetime Florida president for Bank of America and the state’s elected CFO from 2007-2011, lost a grueling election to now-Florida Gov. Rick Scott. A Democrat, Sink came within 60,000 votes of becoming Florida’s first female governor.