NASSAU, Bahamas, May 18, 2020 – United States President Donald Trump has announced his intention to nominate entrepreneur and philanthropist William A Douglass as US ambassador to The Bahamas, The Tribune reported on May 18.
Mr Douglass, of Florida, founded K2 Advisors in 1994 and managed it for more than two decades before selling it to Franklin Templeton Investments in 2012. Earlier in his career, Mr Douglass was managing director of Caspian Securities LLC. He also was a managing director for Tiedemann International Research, for whom he first managed their office in Tokyo, Japan, and then co-managed their United States business in New York.
Mr Douglass has close ties to The Bahamas and has been visiting Eleuthera since 1962. He is the grandson of Pan Am founder and South Eleuthera resident Juan Trippe, who died in 1981.
Several years ago, Mr Douglass financed a $200,000 recreational basketball/volleyball court and rock climbing facility at the Wemyss Bight Primary School. After Hurricane Dorian, he made an appeal for Bahamians to receive US temporary work permits in order to recover from the storm. . See full story in The Tribune at http://www.tribune242.com/news/2020/may/18/douglass-named-us-ambassador/
