This fund was established in 2011 by Karl Flammer to support a professorship in the University of Florida Warrington College of Business.

Karl was a member of the Pi Kappa Alpha faternity and earned a bachelor’s degree in business from the University of Florida in 1953. He spent three years as an U.S. Air Force pilot and returned in 1956 to work for Honeywell, a conglomerate company that produces commercial and consumer products. He worked for Honeywell for over nine years before becoming a car dealer.

Karl is the president of Karl Flammer Ford and Flammer Ford of Spring Hill, FL. He is also the former owner of Flammer Viking Yachts, Inc.