SPEAKERS

June 22, 2026

Richard George is a 1984 Business College graduate from the University of South Florida, Muma College of Business. Richard has been with Junior Achievement (JA) since graduation, celebrating 41 years with JA of Tampa Bay.

In 2005, JA Tampa Bay transformed its education, economic and community development through the building of the Bill Poe Family Junior Achievement Campus which includes the Muma JA BizTown learning experience in Tampa. These past 19 years, the organization has raised over $68 Million dollars to expand JAs workforce readiness, financial literacy and entrepreneurship programs, educating more than 1 million students. In 2018, Junior Achievement of Tampa Bay expanded its impact and campus through the opening 18,000 sq. ft. state-of-the-art, career and financial education facility, JA Finance Park presented by Truist.

Most recently, JA Tampa Bay has launched the second largest cohort of 3DE Schools in the US. Currently, 3DE is re-engineering public high school education within 6 Tampa Bay Area high schools.

Richard has been married to his wife Bridget for thirty years and has three children and one granddaughter.