{"id":364737,"date":"2026-08-06T22:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T22:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/364737\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T22:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T22:50:09","slug":"seaworld-orlando-reveals-new-park-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/364737\/","title":{"rendered":"SeaWorld Orlando reveals new park president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/seaworldorlando.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SeaWorld Orlando<\/a> has a new park president. Brad Gilmour, park president of <a href=\"http:\/\/aquatica.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aquatica<\/a> water park and <a href=\"http:\/\/discoverycove.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Discovery Cove<\/a> day resort, will immediately add the theme park to his responsibilities, <a href=\"http:\/\/unitedparks.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">United Parks &amp; Resorts<\/a> announced Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBrad has consistently demonstrated the kind of leadership that puts our guests and our ambassadors first,\u201d Kyle Miller, co-chief operating officer of Orlando-based United Parks, said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis deep operational knowledge, combined with his proven track record across our Orlando parks, makes him exactly the right leader to guide our parks into their next chapter. I\u2019m confident our teams will benefit greatly from his leadership,\u201d Miller said.<\/p>\n<p>Gilmour, a graduate of the <a href=\"http:\/\/ucf.edu\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">University of Central Florida<\/a>, has been with the company for 23 years, starting at Discovery Cove in 2003. He has been park president of Aquatica and Discovery Cove since 2023.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Brad Gilmour, park president of Aquatica and Discovery Cove, talks Thursday about the 15-history of Aquatica water park and future projects for 2023.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"597\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/VZYZZB5TJZG27B65JF2TKVVIJY.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"14409\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dewayne Bevil \/ Orlando Sentinel<\/p>\n<p>Brad Gilmour speaks about the 15-year history of Aquatica water park in 2023. (Dewayne Bevil\/Orlando Sentinel)<\/p>\n<p>He replaces Jon \u201cJP\u201d Peterson, who had been SeaWorld\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/2023\/01\/27\/seaworld-promotes-8-executives-in-a-bid-for-more-growth\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">park president since January 2023<\/a>. His role before that was vice president of zoological operations for the theme park. Peterson left the company this summer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/2026\/06\/03\/expedition-2-0605\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Re-riding the revised Expedition Odyssey at SeaWorld<\/a><\/p>\n<p>United Parks operates 13 theme and water parks across the U.S. and in Abu Dhabi, including <a href=\"http:\/\/buschgardens.com\/tampa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Busch Gardens Tampa Bay<\/a> and the SeaWorld parks in San Antonio and San Diego. This week, the company announced that its second-quarter attendance has dropped 2.9% from a year earlier to 6.1 million guests. Its revenue was $483.3 million, a decrease of 1.4%, in that period.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/2026\/01\/31\/sentinel-150-tourism\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Orlando Sentinel 150: Tourists have long loved Orlando; Disney made it a whole new world<\/a><\/p>\n<p>dbevil@orlandosentinel.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SeaWorld Orlando has a new park president. 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