Mike Sell

According to his Ballotpedia survey, Sell was raised in a Navy family, the son and grandson of sailors, and moved frequently as a child. He says he started working in high school at minimum wage.[3] He says he built a career in operational excellence, mostly in the U.S. healthcare industry, earning a Six Sigma Black Belt and an operational excellence certification, and that he led projects that saved more than a quarter of a billion dollars over about twenty years of working to fix broken systems.[3]

Sell says he founded a not-for-profit built on the belief that access to information is a right, and that he has developed diversity programs and volunteered in his community. He describes himself as a husband and father of three grown children.[3] The Florida Forward Party primary for the seat was canceled, and he advanced to the general election.[3] He received 0.6% of the vote to Aaron Bean's 50.2%, according to unofficial results reported by NBC News.[1]