LCF Advisory Council

Past Chair

Aysegul Timur, Ph.D. is President of Florida Gulf Coast University; she is the institution's fifth president.  In her previous role at FGCU, Dr. Timur served as Vice President and Vice Provost for Strategy and Program Innovation, where she has worked since 2019.

Dr. Timur received her doctoral degree in Business Administration, majoring in Economics, from the University of South Florida, and both her Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees in Business Administration from the University of Istanbul.  Her areas of specialization include business policy and organizational development, quality and continuous improvement, health (especially pharmaceutical pricing), and international economics.  She is a go-to expert for workforce development and was recently honored by the Florida College Access Network as one of its first Workforce Education Innovators.  Before joining the University team, she held a variety of faculty and executive leadership positions in higher education, including full professor of economics.

MICHAEL  has served as board chairman of the Wynn Family Companies and President of Sunshine Ace Hardware in Naples, Florida since 2005.  Mr. Wynn is the past Chair of the board of directors of the Miami Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.  He is also a member of the board of directors for the Greater Naples Chamber of Commerce (past-chair), Leadership Collier Foundation (past-chair), Moorings Park Institute (Vice Chair), and the NCH Healthcare System (2nd Vice Chair.)  He is a member of the Florida Council of 100, a gubernatorial appointee on the Florida Gulf Coast University (FGCU) Board of Trustees and a member of the board of directors for Leadership Florida.  He is a proud graduate of Barron Collier High School and received a BS in business administration from the University of South Florida in 1997 and an MBA in business administration from Florida Gulf Coast University in 2005.  He was awarded Hardware Industry’s Top Gun Award presented by the National Retail Hardware Association in 2014, Finalist for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2014, 2017 FGCU Alumni of the Year, voted the 2017 Gulfshore Business Best Boss for a Large Company, Business Observer’s 2019 Icons of Business and awarded the 2019 Naples Daily News Outstanding Citizen of the Year. Sunshine Ace Hardware has been recognized by Gulfshore Business Magazine as a Best Place To Work in 2022 & 2023