DR. DAVID SCOTCH, 67 Executive director, Ballet Florida, West Palm Beach
Role: Joined Ballet Florida in July to lead administrative team. Ballet Florida, founded in 1986, is ranked among the top 20 dance companies.
Priorities: Grow the dance company's current audience beyond its 20,000 people a year. "I want everyone in south Florida to know about Ballet Florida."
Prior positions: Consultant with Bearingpoint, an international management and technology consulting firm; vice dean of faculty affairs at New York University School of Medicine, where he oversaw a $300-million budget and raised funds. "I would come to Palm Beach every year to say hello to our trustees."
Hobbies: Boating. Family: Wife, Barbara; two children, Jonathan, 40, and Peter, 38. Reading habits: Three newspapers a day: New York Times, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Wall Street Journal.
Music: Classical and "eclectic."
Degrees: M.D. from NYU School of Medicine; master's from Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management.