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Brewster Time B
rewster Bevis got his start in the policy and politics world by picking up bagels on the 19th floor of the Capitol and buying pantyhose for Katherine Harris. Now, a decade after joining the influential Associated Industries of Florida, Bevis, who was recently named the group’s President, is set to become its next CEO in 2022. Bevis joined AIF in 2011 as vice president of external affairs. Two years later, he was promoted to senior vice president of state and federal affairs. When AIF CEO and former President Tom Feeney announced his plans to leave the business group, Bevis emerged at the forefront of about a dozen staff members to replace the former Congressman and Florida House Speaker. “If it’s not me, then who else?” Bevis recalled asking himself.
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INFLUENCE Fall 2021
by renzo downey