Gulf Coast Builders Exchange Welcomes New Chair

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The Gulf Coast Builders Exchange (GCBX), a not-for-profit trade organization, recently hosted its 65th annual installation and awards dinner and welcomed a new chairman and board members. Paul Stehle, co-owner of Climatic Conditioning Co. and immediate past chairman, passed the gavel to Kevin Hicks, the 2017 GCBX chairman and CEO of Gator Grading and Paving. Brett Raymaker, project manager at Willis A. Smith Construction, Inc., was installed as a new three-year term board member, and six were reinstalled to the board, including Russ Bobbitt, an insurance agent with Purmort & Martin Insurance Agency; Mark Freeman, president of McIntyre Elwell & Strammer General Contractors, Inc.; Hicks; Chuck Jacobson, co-owner of Aqua Plumbing & Air; Brian Leaver, senior vice president of Tandem Construction; and Lemuel Sharp III, CEO of Sharp Properties, Inc.

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