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Laden with 15th-century castles and
coastal cliffsides,
and his family are getting familiar
Situated along the northwest coast
his wife Jacklyn, and their three children
are settling into their recently purchased,
citizen for basically his entire life – his
father, John, was born in Ireland – life
has not always been green pastures and
quiet country living.
The real estate collapse of 2008-09
estate development business and circled
Gotcha Mobility, and worked tirelessly
to develop it. He took the electric
vehicle-based, ride-sharing company
to college campuses across the United
States.
million.
Now, he is jump-starting his new life in
the place where he spent his “transformative
years” – Jesuit High School.
exact kind of places they want to take
things from during high school and then
build on that for their next four years of
college.”
Masque provided a major avenue of
self-expression, and he also said the
mentorship of counselors such as
Charette and greatly impacted
him. His favorite faculty member was
his senior English teacher, .
“(He was) just such a caring person,
and so intelligent, and just had all of
the characteristics you would want to
duplicate in a teacher, for sure.”
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has realized how critical it is to support
education.
“Reinvesting in the education element is
more evident when you have kids, so
you start to see how that education can
he earned degrees in marketing and
small business management/entrepre-
that focused on adaptive reuse of the
city’s many historic buildings.
However, the real estate market crash
-
itable business, and he lost his entire
depressive state, a piece of advice from
his father helped him to move forward.
quoting his dad. “You get up and you go
the next day and try to get better.”
would spark his future success. Upon
a visit to his alma mater in 2009, he
saw that transportation for students
around town, especially at night, was
quite limited. He was surprised little
had changed since his time as a student,
and he decided to start a transportation
business that could help students.
He moved back to Tallahassee that year
to start Gotcha Mobility, and he sold the
idea of renting out electric cars and bicy-
introduced by a friend to his eventual
wife, Jacklyn.
Jacklyn, who had an English degree
sales before joining Gotcha full time. She
worked in sales, marketing, and accounting,
among other responsibilities, and
soon, Gotcha cars and bikes sprouted up
University.
The couple traveled the country
networking and growing Gotcha. They
eventually earned exclusive contracts
across the United States. In 2014, Sean
and Jacklyn headquartered Gotcha in
Knox (age 6), was born, soon to be
followed by another son, Penn (4), and a
daughter, Lyla (1).
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formed with the goal of helping start-ups
today’s Jesuit students.
listen to, and get to know other people.
If you can do that, you’ll be wildly
successful.”