Zachem new leader of state business department

TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Rick Scott appointed Jonathan Zachem as Secretary of the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation on Tuesday. The department has been without a full-time leader since Ken Lawson left to become president and CEO of tourism-marketing agency Visit Florida in January.Zachem had been DBPR’s deputy secretary and previously served as chief attorney, then director of the agency’s Division of Pari-Mutuel Wagering. He also worked as in the prosecution […]