It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.

Cohen holds several degrees from the University of Florida. He stayed on briefly as a co-chairman of the board of directors. Cohen's interest was sparked in his youth accompanying his father to racetracks in New York and spending summers as a young man betting on horses at the Calder racetrack.

Alan Phillip Cohen (October 5 1954) is an American businessman best known for his ownership of the Florida Panthers hockey team and his founding of several pharmaceutical companies. He and his wife Karen live in Weston Florida.