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CFO Alex Sink Discussed Her Career As Florida CFO
ABOUT ALEX SINK
Florida CFO
Alex Sink
is using her three decades of business experience to get results for the people of the state, cutting wasteful government spending, cracking down on financial fraud and reforming state-contracting practices to hold government more accountable.
Sink is currently serving her first term as
Florida
’s CFO, having been elected statewide in 2006 – her first run for public office. As CFO, Sink oversees nearly 3,000 employees and an annual budget of $300 million in the Department of Financial Services. She is also a statewide elected officer of the Florida Cabinet.
For over two years, CFO Sink has been an outspoken watchdog, demanding accountability for
Florida
’s contracts with private companies – including putting a stop to Project Aspire, an $85 million over-budget and under-performing accounting program she inherited upon taking office. CFO Sink is also working to cut waste in her own department, such as saving taxpayers $2.2 million annually by consolidating consumer-hotline call centers.
CFO Sink stands out as an aggressive consumer advocate, launching initiatives like the Safeguard Our Seniors Task Force, created to protect older Floridians from financial fraud, and
Florida
’s Housing Help Initiative, which provides assistance to Floridians facing mortgage foreclosure.
Before her election in 2006,
Alex Sink
was a successful businesswoman, with 26 years of experience in the financial industry, culminating in her leadership of
Florida
’s largest bank. While establishing herself as a leader in the business community, Sink also used her business skills to help the state, serving as vice chair of Florida TaxWatch and appointed by Governor Chiles to the Commission on Government Accountability to the People.
CFO Sink has worked on behalf of
Florida
’s children through her service on Governor Chiles’ Commission on Education, the Hillsborough Education Foundation Board of Directors and as chair of Take Stock in Children. Her civic work also includes service in the Florida Chapter of the Nature Conservancy, Junior Achievement of West Central Florida and as chairman of the board of the United Way
of
Hillsborough
County
.
CFO Sink grew up on a farm in
Mt. Airy
,
North Carolina
, and earned a degree in mathematics from
Wake
Forest
University
. She resides in Thonotosassa with her husband,
Bill McBride
. They are the proud parents of Bert, a student and football player at
Stanford
University
, and Lexi, a student at
Wake
Forest
University
.
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