ATLANTA – Dolphins are still coming to the Georgia Aquarium in a major expansion this fall even as the world’s largest aquarium looks for its fourth president in five years, founder and board chairman Bernie Marcus said.
Anthony Godfrey announced on Tuesday that he was leaving as president of one of Atlanta’s top tourist draws, citing personal reasons. Both of Godfrey’s predecessors left for other opportunties.
Marcus, the Home Depot co-founder turned philanthropist, says he expects to name a successor soon and will hire someone committed to the aquarium’s missions of entertainment, education and research.
“This is the kind of opportunity that is pretty unusual,” Marcus told The Associated Press in an interview on Wednesday. “This is not like running a losing show. We don’t have any major, serious problems. It is not going to be hard to bring somebody in. We’re going to, probably in the next two weeks, be announcing somebody.”
Marcus declined to elaborate on the reason for Godfrey’s departure, which he said caught him off guard.