Alex Sink

Chief Financial Officer of the Florida Department of Financial Services

Florida Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink is a dynamic financial and civic leader whose professional experience and community service have molded her into a champion for fiscal responsibility and accountability.

In 2006 Alex Sink was elected Florida’s Chief Financial Officer and is responsible for monitoring the state’s fiscal health and managing more than $74 billion in tax revenue coming in and out of state government annually. As a Cabinet officer, the CFO is one of four members of the Financial Services Commission who oversee the appointed commissioners of insurance regulation and financial regulation. As head of the Department of Financial Services, her mission is to help consumers with financial service issues, including banking, securities and insurance. CFO Sink also serves as State Fire Marshal.

For nearly 30 years, CFO Alex Sink has been a trailblazer in the financial profession, with her distinguished career culminating in the presidency of Florida’s largest bank, Bank of America. For seven years as president she managed more than $40 billion in customer deposits while supervising more than 9,000 employees in 800 branches and earning a reputation for credibility, integrity and fair dealing. Prior to her banking career, Sink was a mathematics school teacher in West Africa for three years.

CFO Sink’s accomplishments in the financial world have been complemented by her strong commitment to public service through civic and community leadership.

Governor Lawton Chiles appointed Sink to the Commission on Government Accountability to the People, where she helped lead efforts to make state government more responsive to the people of Florida. As vice chair of Florida TaxWatch, she was an advocate of fiscal responsibility in state government. She worked diligently for Florida’s children through her service on Gov. Chiles’ Commission on Education, the Hillsborough Education Foundation Board of Directors and as chair of Take Stock in Children.

Her record demonstrates her firm belief in public accountability, economic growth, fiscal discipline and a devotion to future generations of Floridians. A dedicated community leader, her civic involvements have included service with the Florida Chapter of the Nature Conservancy, Junior Achievement of West Central Florida, Beth El Farm Workers Ministry, Redlands Christian Migrant Association, and chairman of the board of the United Way of Hillsborough County.

CFO Sink grew up on a farm in North Carolina, earned a degree in math from Wake Forest and shares a home in Thonotosassa with her husband, Bill McBride. They are the proud parents of Bert, a freshman at Stanford University, and Lexi, a senior at Armwood High School.