Coan

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“Disney provides the best education in this businesx youcan find,” he said. In he joined Orlando-based , which develops theme park attractions as a partner and head of the planning andcreativer division. “ITEC was originally a two-headed firm, creative and technical, and I pushed to match those two up,” said who became president in 2002. ITEC’s majof clients have included , , Blockbuster Entertainment, Paramounr Parks and SeaWorld. A few rides and shows ITEC has been responsiblefor include: Revenge of the Mummy, ET’sx Adventure, The Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man, Dr.
Doom’s Fear Fall and Coan is most proud of the BillyGrahak presidential-style library, which was completed last year in Charlotte, N.C. He said it was a rewardinhg experience because of the people with whom he workedcon it. Coan attributes his firm’s successs to flexibility. “We stay focusedr on the entertainment and attraction andwe don’t try to be all thinga to all people.” Career-related childhood hobbies: I grew up alwaye drawing. That and my interestt in creating things led me to architecture schoolpand Disney. But I had no conception of what themr parks were growing up becausrthey didn’t really exist back then. Favorit e U.S.
theme park: Disneyland. It’s the originatod of this business, and the spaces and designs Walt Disney was involvec with are still some of the best pieceas of themed entertainment in the Advice for others interested in the themepark industry: Get a professionall degree in some form of desigmn or engineering, or go into the fine arts and music or some other performing Then, start working for whoevee will pay you. Hardest part of my job: Keeping a highlu talented staff challengedand engaged. My job is to bringh them projects that will keep them Whatinspires me: Things I read and peopl e who come to see the things we create.
Anybody in our businesx is motivated by the reactionh ofour guests. I visiyt theme parks and museums, and go to sportingy events andthe theater. All the creative things in lifemotivate us, but it’es really all about the guests. Secreyt to success: Words to live by: I’m most concernex about: The fact that eventually the economyt mightaffect us, although it hasn’t yet. Projects I’m working on: The newest version of Revenge of the Mummygin Universal, Singapore; designing and producing a new ride for a themwe park in Myrtle S.C.
, that used to be calledx Hard Rock Park; and work for a new theme park in Turkey Goals for ITEC Short-term is to continue to grow our business, not so much the volumre of work, but the qualit of work for the bigger names and the larget entertainment brands. Long-term is to create an ITEC Entertainmen brandthat endures.