{"id":2401681,"date":"2026-05-04T16:18:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T16:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2401681"},"modified":"2026-05-04T16:18:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T16:18:14","slug":"theme-park-executive-leads-center-for-entertainment-and-hospitality-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/theme-park-executive-leads-center-for-entertainment-and-hospitality-management\/","title":{"rendered":"Theme Park Executive Leads Center for Entertainment and Hospitality Management"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"banner-image\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"banner-caption\">Jim Lake, lecturer in management<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>After a career of leadership in the Southern California theme park industry, Jim Lake, lecturer in management at Cal State Fullerton\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/business.fullerton.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-newtab-processed=\"true\">College of Business and Economics<\/a>, is the new leader of the\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/business.fullerton.edu\/engagement\/entertainment-hospitality-management\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-newtab-processed=\"true\">Center for Entertainment and Hospitality Management<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Lake\u2019s career has included 30 years at Disneyland, beginning as a ride operator and culminating as general manager of Disneyland Park and coordinating the theme park\u2019s post-COVID reopening. During the course of his career, Lake also oversaw nine Boomers amusement park locations across Southern California, and most recently served as president of Sea World in San Diego for nearly three years, helping to coordinate the current focus toward rescue and rehabilitation of injured marine life as well as a stronger theme park experience.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/business.fullerton.edu\/news\/story\/theme-park-executive-jim-lake-is-the-new-head-of-the-center-for-entertainment-and-hospitality-management\">CSUF Business News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n\t\t\t\t<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source news.fullerton.edu \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#13; &#13; &#13; Jim Lake, lecturer in management &#13; &#13; After a career of leadership in the Southern California theme park industry, Jim Lake, lecturer in management at Cal State Fullerton\u2019s College of Business and Economics, is the new leader of the\u00a0Center for Entertainment and Hospitality Management. Lake\u2019s career has included 30 years at Disneyland, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2401682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2401681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Theme-Park-Executive-Leads-Center-for-Entertainment-and-Hospitality-Management.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2401681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2401681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2401681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2401683,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2401681\/revisions\/2401683"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2401682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2401681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2401681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2401681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}