{"id":153476,"date":"2026-05-29T09:45:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T13:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=153476"},"modified":"2026-05-29T09:45:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T13:45:38","slug":"successful-entrepreneur-turns-to-ucf-to-amplify-his-impact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/successful-entrepreneur-turns-to-ucf-to-amplify-his-impact\/","title":{"rendered":"Successful Entrepreneur Turns to UCF to Amplify His Impact"},"content":{"rendered":"

When corporate finance executive and entrepreneur Alex Hubenthal \u201913<\/strong> senses change on the horizon, he doesn\u2019t shy away \u2014 he leans in.<\/p>\n

At 16, he opened his first brokerage account in 2008, with his grandmother\u2019s help, during the Great Recession because he saw a market that had no place to go but up.<\/p>\n

When cloud accounting platforms were just starting to become viable in the early 2010s, he was an early adopter, eventually building a firm that served clients remotely.<\/p>\n

Now as artificial intelligence<\/a> (AI) reshapes the business landscape, Hubenthal decided to embrace this latest inflection point by enrolling in UCF\u2019s financial technology (fintech) master’s degree program<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cUCF is ready for every Knight who dares to lean in.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cUCF doesn\u2019t just educate you. It finds you. It amplifies who you are and prepares you to make a difference,\u201d says Hubenthal, who is from Elon, North Carolina. \u201cSometimes I\u2019m amazed that this small-town kid has ended up consulting with business leaders in boardrooms across the globe. Somewhere out there, another teenager is watching the world shift and feeling that pull. UCF is ready for every Knight who dares to lean in.\u201d<\/p>\n