NEWS: Orange County Names the Senior Vice President of Walt Disney World Resort to Economic Task Force

Earlier this week, Mayor Jerry Demings of Orange County in Florida (where most of Disney World is located) expressed a desire to begin assembling an economic task force to begin figuring out how to eventually start reopening businesses.

At the time, Demings hoped to add executives from Orlando’s theme parks to the task force, expressing interest in hearing their expertise on the subject. Today, Demings unveiled the Economic Task Force for Orange County, revealing that it includes several Theme Park Executives on the list.

The group consists of nearly fifty individuals, representing a variety of business fields including hotels, small businesses, local hospitals, and theme parks. Thomas Mazloum, senior vice president of Walt Disney World Resorts and Transportation Operations, will be among the team, which also includes executives from Universal Orlando and SeaWorld.

In a statement, Demings shared that, “These are some of the best and brightest minds in our community, and the public-private Task Force will come up with recommendations to reopen Orange County using the most safe and sensible avenues possible.”

With the first meeting planned for the morning of Wednesday, April 22nd, the task force hopes to meet to work on way to reopen the county, which may include a phased approach. Earlier today, former Walt Disney Company CEO, Bob Iger, was named to a similar task force for the state of California.

If you would like to watch the meeting, it will be streamed on Wednesday, April 22nd at 9 AM on the Orange County website.