Alumni Profiles

Orange Bowl leader
*Thomas D. Wood Jr. ’83

Spring 2007

*Thomas D. Wood Jr. ’83Administrative management graduate Thomas Wood, president and chief executive officer of Thomas D. Wood and Co. of Miami, Fla., is the new president and chairman of the Orange Bowl Committee (OBC).

He’ll preside over the OBC for the 2007-08 Festival, which includes the Annual FedEx Orange Bowl, the Annual MetroPCS Orange Bowl Basketball Classic and the Orange Bowl Youth Football Alliance.

In addition to his leadership at Thomas D. Wood and Co., Wood is chief operating officer of Colliers Abood Wood-Fay Real Estate Group and president of the Strategic Alliance Mortgage Group.

Wood still finds time to serve in community and civic organizations including Alonzo Mourning Charities, UM Sylvester Cancer Research Center, Project Newborn — Infants in Need and American Cancer Society.