By The News Service of Florida
Manuel Kadre, chairman of the University of Miami Board of Trustees and CEO of the luxury auto dealer Kollective Auto Group, has been named chairman of Governor-elect Byron Donalds’ transition team.
Donalds, a U.S. House member from Naples, said the team is “already working diligently to ensure that our administration arrives in Tallahassee fully primed to execute on our mission.”
Lieutenant Governor-elect Bryan Avila “and I campaigned and won on a clear agenda: make Florida more affordable, invest in Florida’s young people, and ensure that Florida continues to lead the nation with common sense governance and economic opportunity,” Donalds said in a released statement.
In addition to Kadre, Ryan Smith was named executive director of the team. Smith was chairman of the political committee Friends of Byron Donalds PAC, which spent nearly $150 million of the $155 million raised for the recent election.
Tarren Bragdon, a former state House member in Miami who oversees the Naples-based conservative think tank Foundation for Government Accountability, was named the transition team’s policy chairman.
Teresa Ressel, who was a deputy assistant secretary at the U.S. Treasury under President George W. Bush, is the team’s senior advisor.
Donalds is to be sworn in and take office on Jan. 5, 2027.
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