LEWIS BEAR Jr. ON TRIUMPH BOARD

Governor Ron DeSantis has appointed Lewis Bear, Jr. to the Triumph Gulf Coast board of directors. Triumph Gulf Coast is a nonprofit corporation that allocates funds recovered by the Florida attorney general for economic damages resulting from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Bear is the president and CEO of the Lewis Bear Company, a wholesale distribution business in Pensacola. He is a member of the University of West Florida board of trustees and the chair of the Pensacola-Escambia Promotion and Development Commission.