TAMPA — The 911±¬ÁÏÍø Muma College of Business announced today the
25 Under 25 Award honorees for the 2025-2026 academic year.
The annual program, presented this year by The Bank of Tampa, recognizes the college’s
top business students who excel in academics, leadership, professional development
and community service.
This year's class is made up of first-generation college students, dual-degree seekers
with perfect 4.0 GPAs, multilingual immigrants with a heart for community service,
and founders on their way to becoming tomorrow’s CEOs.
Scott Gault, market president at The Bank of Tampa, meets with the 25 Under 25 Award honorees.
With their stories of achievement and perseverance as varied as their resumes, one
thing is certain: These business students have made their mark in the USF classroom,
in the Tampa Bay community and beyond.
Kiley Barton sold over 1,500 boxes of Girl Scout cookies for three consecutive years.
The business advertising major interned at One Heart Worldwide, creating content to
support maternal and neonatal healthcare in rural Nepal.
John Byrne completed four internships in three years, with two stints at Fortune 500
companies. He graduates in May, a full year ahead of schedule, and starts a full-time
job as a commercial banking analyst in June.
Danh Nguyen put his supply chain management lessons to work by redesigning a process
workflow system at Feeding Tampa Bay, saving over 100 pounds of food from the trash
every day and getting more food to families.
Maria Ortiz and Isabela Gilberti are former Olympians, having competed in the Colombian
Math Olympics and the Italian Philosophy Olympics, respectively. Elena Mere, a business
analytics and information systems major on the St. Petersburg campus, is a third-generation
Bull working to support veterans on campus and in the community.
Finance major Nathan Wilkie co-founded USF's Future Business Leaders of America chapter
and serves in the Florida Army National Guard as a paralegal specialist where he reviews
legal documents and helps ensure due process for fellow soldiers.
The other accomplished honorees are Jack Shepherd, João Dapper, Leo McClellan, Adrea
Wilson, Christian Schmidt, Marina Richter, Jim Phan, Austin Jones, Alora Rankin, Kailee
Edwards, Matthew Major, Humberto Campos, Kaitlyn Christiano, Eddie Schmid, João Vitor
Dalla Zen, Lauren Gonçalves, Elena Spall, and Riley England.
