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| 11/16/2018

› Interim JEA leader scores lower than competitors on skills, experience
A confidential assessment of the four finalists vying to become JEA’s next chief executive officer shows the utility’s interim leader, Aaron Zahn, scored the lowest among the candidates on several skill and leadership attributes, according to reports prepared by a private executive search firm.

› Owner of several Presidente supermarkets charged with bankrolling his fugitive father
A wealthy Miami Beach businessman has been arrested on allegations he secretly bankrolled his father — a former executive for a South Florida grocery chain who is wanted for a grisly murder and spent years as a fugitive overseas.

› Florida company pays $51.1 million for its fourth Colorado Springs apartment complex
A Florida company that acquires and manages apartment communities around the country is continuing its Colorado Springs buying spree, paying $51.1 million last week for a 310-unit complex on North Nevada Avenue.

› Miami's Arsht Center gets new CEO
A rare melding of musician, teacher, architect and virtuoso executive, the peripatetic Johann Zietsman was born and raised in South Africa under apartheid, but made himself at home wherever the arts offered him a chance to make things better.

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