A few years ago, as chief executive of IMRglobal in Clearwater, Satish Sanan landed atop a list of highest-paid executives in Florida.
Those days are long gone. IMRglobal was bought out by a Canadian tech company and its Clearwater operation phased out this year.
Yet Sanan still appears on lists of the elite.
For his prowess at breeding race horses at his Padua Stables farm near Ocala, the India-born Sanan has turned up on a Sports Illustrated list of the "101 Most Influential Minorities in Sports."
The 55-year-old software entrepreneur-turned-horse breeder placed at No. 99, two notches above high school basketball phenom LeBron James.
SI gave Sanan kudos for growing his stable to nearly 250 horses and producing two Breeders' champions since entering the business in 1997.
"In the sport of kings," the magazine enthused, "Sanan . . . has a kingdom like few others."
