Florida SBDC at USF, Tampa
Specialty: Business Plan Financial Forecasts, Capital Access, Financial Analysis
Brad Owens grew up in South Carolina, and moved to Florida after graduating with a bachelor’s in business administration and sociology from Presbyterian College. He began his banking career with Barnett Bank where he completed formalized commercial credit training and served as a credit analyst before accepting his first role as a commercial lender. He moved his wife and two kids to Tampa in 1998 to go into the insurance industry selling employer-paid benefits of long-term disability and life insurance. His accomplishments in that industry including selling one of the largest disability and life policies in the state covering the faculty medical doctors and staff of the college of medicine of a state university.
