{"id":365381,"date":"2026-08-07T15:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T15:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/365381\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T15:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T15:42:11","slug":"brad-gilmour-named-park-president-of-seaworld-orlando-aquatica-orlando-and-discovery-cove-amusement-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/365381\/","title":{"rendered":"Brad Gilmour named Park President of SeaWorld Orlando, Aquatica Orlando and Discovery Cove \u2013 Amusement Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Brad-Gilmour-Headshot.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"553\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Brad-Gilmour-Headshot.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31965\" style=\"width:263px;height:auto\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ORLANDO \u2014 SeaWorld Orlando, Aquatica Orlando and Discovery Cove today announced that Brad Gilmour has been named Park President of all three properties, effective immediately.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gilmour has 23 years of experience with the company, having begun his career at Discovery Cove in 2003. He has since held multiple leadership roles across SeaWorld, Discovery Cove and Aquatica, and has served as Park President of Discovery Cove and Aquatica Orlando since 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBrad has consistently demonstrated the kind of leadership that puts our guests and our ambassadors first,\u201d said Kyle Miller, Co-Chief Operating Officer, United Parks &amp; Resorts. \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<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gilmour is active in the greater Orlando community, serving on the Board of Directors for Special Olympics Florida and the Board of Directors for Visit Orlando. He is a graduate of the University of Central Florida.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gilmour succeeds Jon \u201cJP\u201d Peterson who most recently served as Park President for SeaWorld Orlando. \u201cWe are grateful for JP\u2019s contributions,\u201d added Miller.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO \u2014 SeaWorld Orlando, Aquatica Orlando and Discovery Cove today announced that Brad Gilmour has been named Park&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365382,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140],"class_list":["post-365381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}