Kyle Hooker
Kyle Hooker serves as Executive Chairman of Tibbetts Lumber Co. LLC and Cox Lumber Ltd. Additionally Kyle serves and Chairman and President of Village Square Ltd. (one of the Tibbetts Family's grocery and real estate entities in the Cayman Islands) and co-manager of a family-owned real estate holding company. In addition, he is involved in the management and oversight of the family's real estate, investment, development projects, government and industry relations and operating business entities in the U.S. and the Cayman Islands. Kyle entered the Family's lumber business in 2003 and prior to the sale to The Home Depot in 2006 he served as general manager of three locations in the Orlando/Central Florida region for the former Cox Lumber Co. Over the past nine years Kyle has become a partner in several Tennessee private equity ventures specializing in real estate brokerage, residential development and new home construction, and commercial property development and management. Kyle serves as a director of Cayman Brac Power and Light Utility Company, serves as Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees of The Episcopal School of Knoxville, and has served on various non-profit boards. Kyle played collegiate baseball at the University of Kentucky, holds a Bachelor's Degree in Business Management from Maryville College and a Master of Business Administration from the Haslam College of Business at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He also holds a FAA commercial pilots license. Kyle spends much of his work life in Florida and the Cayman Islands but he and his wife currently reside in Knoxville, Tennessee with their three children. He is originally from Atlanta, GA and holds dual citizenship in the Cayman Islands where his family extends several generations. Kyle spends his free time boating, golfing, jet skiing, scuba diving and coaching his children's baseball, soccer and football teams and hopes to get back into aviation recreationally in the future.
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