An Evening with the former Governor of the state of Florida Jeb Bush - “An update on the US business and political climate, healthcare policy & the upcoming mid-term elections”
Monday 21st June 6:30pm, Mayfair

Jeb Bush is currently the President of the consulting firm Jeb Bush and Associates and a Senior Advisor to Barclays Capital. He is on the boards of Tenet Healthcare Corporation, Angelica Corporation, Rayonier, Inc, Empower Corporation and CorMatrix Cardiovascular, Inc. In civic and charitable affairs, Bush is the Founder and Chairman of the Foundation for Excellence in Education, the Foundation of Florida’s Future and Honorary Chairman of Volunteer USA.

Previously, Jeb was the 43rd governor of the state of Florida, serving from 1999 through 2006. He was the third Republican elected to the state’s highest office and the only Republican in the state’s history to be re-elected. Governor Bush remained true to his conservative principles throughout his two terms - cutting $20 billion in taxes, vetoing more than $2.3 billion in earmarks and reducing the state government workforce by more than 13,000. His limited government approach helped unleash one of the most robust economies in the nation, creating 1.4 million net new jobs and improving the state’s credit ratings on Wall Street. To further strengthen the economy, Bush launched a strategic plan to diversify the state’s economy. After securing the second campus of the renowned Scripps Research Institute, an international leader in biomedical breakthroughs, Florida’s life sciences industry began to flourish with several more leading research institutes moving to the state. During his two terms, Bush championed major reform of government programs. In education, Florida raised academic standards, required accountability in public schools and created the most ambitious school choice program in the nation. After gaining permission from the federal government, Florida launched Medicaid Reform to improve quality and control the rising cost of the $16 billion state-federal partnership that pays for the healthcare of 2.2 million poor, disabled and elderly citizens. The state also launched and accelerated restoration of America’s Everglades, the largest project of its kind in the world, to save the habitat of 60 threatened and endangered species and provide a long-term supply of drinking water for eight million people in South Florida.Bush earned a bachelor’s degree in Latin American studies from the University of Texas at Austin. He moved to Florida in 1981, where he started a real estate development company with partner Armando Codina.

If you would like to attend please RSVP to Sara Nori

sn@picapital.co.uk

020 7529 5656