Kent
Lemasters President / Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Lemasters has 30 plus years experience in
the theme, amusement, waterpark and family entertainment business
including 15 years as Vice President / General Manager of one
of the most successful water amusement parks in the world, Raging
Waters, San Dimas (Los Angeles), California, one of America's
premier water theme parks. Under Mr. Lemasters' leadership, the
park grew from a start up 300,000 attendance operations to a
50 acre park with annual attendance of over 749,000. Prior to
Raging Waters, Mr. Lemasters was Vice President / General Manager at Calaway
Park, Calgary, Alberta, a major regional amusement park and western
Canada's 1st major theme park.
Mr. Lemasters began his career in the family entertainment
theme park business as a management team member of the highly
successful Silver Dollar City (Herschend Family Enterprises)
regional family theme park in Branson, Missouri. He was also
on the Start-up management team for Dollywood, a Silver Dollar
City owned theme park project in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. He
was Director of Marketing and Sales with annual attendance
growth to over over 2.0 million.
Mr. Lemasters has had bottom-line responsibilities in all
areas of the park business including planning, financial, development,
operation and marketing of a variety of theme,
amusement and water parks. He resigned his position in January,
2000 as Vice President of Ogden Entertainment, California Parks
where he was responsible for overall management of Ogden's most
recent California acquisitions, Raging Waters, San Dimas, California
and Castle Park, Riverside, California, a 30 ride amusement park
and family entertainment center. Under Mr. Lemasters' leadership,
the parks grew to 1,200,000 attendance and 1,000 employees.