{"id":136,"date":"2020-12-07T13:43:02","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T13:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.eng.ufl.edu\/sarasota\/?page_id=136"},"modified":"2026-04-03T16:22:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T20:22:29","slug":"regional-director","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/sarasota\/about\/people\/regional-director\/","title":{"rendered":"Regional Director"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/sarasota\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/189\/2022\/02\/Al-Carlson-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/sarasota\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/189\/2022\/02\/Al-Carlson-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/sarasota\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/189\/2022\/02\/Al-Carlson.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Allen Carlson<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Email: <a style=\"line-height: 19px;\" href=\"mailto:acarlson@eng.ufl.edu\">acarlson@eng.ufl.edu<br><\/a>Phone: 941-217-5307<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:5px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Carlson joined the University of Florida\u2019s College of Engineering in May 2016. His role is to lead UF\u2019s Sarasota Innovation Station, an economic development and engineering education initiative in the Sarasota region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Carlson brings four decades of extensive senior management and leadership experience serving global manufacturing, fluid-power and motion-control companies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Carlson spent 20 years with Sun Hydraulics, the last 16 years as President and CEO. During this time, Sun transitioned from a privately held company to a public company (NASDAQ: SNHY). As a public company, revenue grew from $50M to $225M and with a market cap from $50m to $1.2B. Before joining Sun Hydraulics, Carlson served in various engineering, product management and sales assignments for Vickers, Incorporated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Carlson is a past member of the Board of Directors for Sun Hydraulics, MEC Inc., Tervis and HUSCO International. He is a regent at Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE) and a board member of American Torch Tip (ATTC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, Carlson was a member of the national visiting committee for the NSF-funded Florida Advanced Technical Education (FL-ATE); he was instrumental in launching the NSF and industry-funded CCEFP (fluid power research consortium); and is past chair for the Sarasota CEO Forum, the National Fluid Power Association (NFPA), MAPI presidents council and Junior Achievement (serving on both the local and regional boards).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Carlson is a graduate of the Milwaukee School of Engineering and the Advanced Management Program (AMP 157) at the Harvard Business School.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allen Carlson Email: acarlson@eng.ufl.eduPhone: 941-217-5307 Carlson joined the University of Florida\u2019s College of Engineering in May 2016. His role is to lead UF\u2019s Sarasota Innovation Station, an economic development and engineering education initiative in the Sarasota region. Carlson brings four decades of extensive senior management and leadership experience serving global manufacturing, fluid-power and motion-control companies. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2592,"featured_media":0,"parent":114,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/page-section-nav.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-136","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/sarasota\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/sarasota\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/sarasota\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/sarasota\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2592"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/sarasota\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/sarasota\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10097,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/sarasota\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/136\/revisions\/10097"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/sarasota\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/sarasota\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}