Steve Mensch, the president of Tyler Perry Studios, died after the plane he piloted crashed in Florida, according to multiple reports.

An earlier version of this obituary misspelled the title of one of Tyler Perry’s films. It is “Boo! A Madea Halloween,” not “Boo! A Medea Halloween.” Steve Mensch, a film executive in Georgia who pushed for state policies to support the industry and who was the president of Tyler Perry Studios,

Mensch was saluted as a strong advocate of the film tax credit that helped make Georgia popular with film studios.