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Mills is CEO of VMD Ventures, which focuses on enabling aspiring entrepreneurs who create technologies and tech-enabled services that create new market spaces.
Yeargin is CEO of Correct Craft, which manufactures fishing, utility and recreational boats and operates watersports parks.

Names of others with UCF roles:

Thad Seymour Jr., former interim president of the university, who retired earlier this year. He previously oversaw development of the UCF Downtown campus and was a senior vice president of Tavistock Development, where he led strategy and development for Lake Nona Medical City.
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Brian Butler is a board member of the UCF Foundation and president and CEO of Vistra Communications in Tampa.

Other UCF alumni at organizations in Orlando and around the state:

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