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Lisa Brady, 37 Ms. Brady has been President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company since November 14, 2022. Before that she served as a director of the Company since November 2021. Ms. Brady brings more than a decade of experience in the entertainment, leisure, and hospitality industry with executive-level experience in strategic planning, mergers and acquisitions, investor relations, financial modeling, and real estate development. For the decade proceeding her joining the Company, Ms. Brady served in a variety of leadership roles of increasing responsibility with Cedar Fair Entertainment Company (“Cedar Fair Entertainment”), an owner and operator of regional amusement parks and water parks, complemented with resort, hotel and recreational properties, including investor relations, strategic planning, M&A activities, resort and adjacent development and implementation of key growth initiatives, from October 2012 to October 2022. In addition, Ms. Brady and her husband own several small businesses, including a kayak outfitter, a boutique hotel and a transient property management company which have provided valuable and unique experience developing, operating and optimizing commercial efforts on a smaller scale. Prior to joining Cedar Fair Entertainment, Ms. Brady was a sell-side analyst at KeyBanc Capital Markets, Inc., a corporate and investment bank providing capital markets and advisory solutions, covering the fitness, leisure and hospitality sector, from July 2008 to October 2012. Ms. Brady graduated summa cum laude from Penn State University and received the John Zahniser Female Scholar Athlete Award. Ms. Brady is qualified to serve as a member of the Board based on her breadth of experience and background in finance and capital markets, investor relations, strategy and real estate development.
Todd R. White, 61 Mr. White is the Chief Financial Officer of the Company. He was appointed the Chief Financial Officer of the Company in May 2013 and has served as a Director of the Company since January 2014. Prior to joining the Company, from 1992 through 2011, Mr. White was an executive with The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company (“ScottsMiracle-Gro”) in a variety of corporate as well as business group financial management roles, and served most recently as its Vice President, Global Controller from 2005 through 2011. During his tenure at ScottsMiracle-Gro he played a critical role in several acquisitions, including due diligence and business integration. He also played a key role in when ScottsMiracle-Gro implemented the requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Mr. White was with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP in Cincinnati, Ohio from 1986 to 1992. He received a B.A. in business administration from The Ohio State University and an MBA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Mr. White is qualified to serve as a member of the Board based on decades of experience in corporate accounting, financial strategy, acquisition due diligence and integration and SEC reporting.
Charles Kohnen, 56 Mr. Kohnen has served as a Director of the Company since October 2010 and has a diverse business and public service background including experience with planning and executing management strategies for turnaround companies. Mr. Kohnen was appointed to serve as interim Chairman of the Board of Directors in February 2024. Mr. Kohnen was Managing Partner of Kohnen Realty Co., a real estate and stock investment company, from 1998 to 2006. Mr. Kohnen served as a member of the Managing Member Board of Teller’s of Hyde Park, Ltd., a privately held signature restaurant located in Cincinnati, Ohio, from 2006 to 2019, serving as Board Chair from 2013 to 2019. Throughout his professional career, Mr. Kohnen has actively served as a leader in various management and advisory capacities to non-profit organizations impacting Ohio’s Miami Valley, including his election as President of CYO-Greater Dayton from 2011 to 2018. Currently, Mr. Kohnen serves on the board of one non-profit organization. He has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Calvary Cemetery Association since 2013. Located in Dayton, Ohio, Calvary Cemetery is an historic, nationally known organization which recently has been recognized as national runner-up of the 2023 American Cemetery Excellence Award. From the start of his tenure as a board member, Mr. Kohnen has served on Calvary’s Finance Committee, becoming its Chair in 2016. The Finance Committee is a standing committee which oversees an investment portfolio that has grown in value to be well in excess of $25 million and takes the lead on financing capital projects. He also currently serves as a member of the Executive Director Search and Capital Build Committees which are both ad hoc committees. Mr. Kohnen earned a Bachelor of Science degree in General Business from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Mr. Kohnen is qualified to serve as a member of the Board based on his financial and investment knowledge combined with his small business leadership experience.
Dale Van Voorhis, 82 Mr. Van Voorhis has served as a Director of the Company since March 2009 and as the Chairman of the Board of Directors from 2011 until February 2024. Mr. Van Voorhis served as the Company’s interim President and CEO from June 1, 2022 until November 14, 2022. Mr. Van Voorhis served as the Company’s CEO from January 2011 through May 2022. Mr. Van Voorhis was re-appointed to our Board in March 2009 and served as the Company’s Chief Operating Officer from March 2009 until January 2011. Mr. Van Voorhis previously served the Company in various management and Board roles from December 2003 through December 2006. In addition, Mr. Van Voorhis has been the President of Amusement Business Consultants, Inc., an amusement industry consulting company, since its inception in 1994. Mr. Van Voorhis was President and CEO of Funtime Parks Inc. (“Funtime”) from 1982 until 1994. Funtime consisted of three parks in New York and Ohio, and they generated total attendance of 2.6 million visitors in 1993. Funtime sold the three parks for $60 million in 1994. Mr. Van Voorhis has over 55 years of experience in the amusement/entertainment industry. Mr. Van Voorhis is qualified to serve as a member of the Board based on his long career operating within the industry.
Jeffery Lococo, 67 Mr. Lococo has served as a Director of the Company since May 2006 and was appointed Secretary of the Company in January 2011. Mr. Lococo has over four decades of experience in brand development, product programming and management of theme parks, resorts, and entertainment destination facilities. Mr. Lococo began his career in operation, sales, and marketing with the Marriott Corporation. Mr. Lococo was with Six Flags Entertainment Corporation (f/k/a Six Flags Theme Parks, Inc.) (“Six Flags”), Premier Parks, LLC and Funtime for a combined total of 18 years, from 1983 to 2001. During his time with Six Flags, Mr. Lococo served as Vice President General Manager of Wyandot Lake and later Geauga Lake Amusement Park. As Vice President of Development, he led the project management team for the launch of Six Flags Ohio. Mr. Lococo joined Great Wolf Resorts Inc. in March of 2000 as General Manager of Great Wolf Lodge Sandusky, Ohio, and was later promoted to Corporate Vice President of Resort Operations and Marketing where he was instrumental, as part of the corporate management team, in the brand development and building the Great Wolf Resort Portfolio to eventually result in the successful IPO in late 2004. As a minority partner and COO of Sawmill Creek Resort he successfully led the turnaround of the company and eventual sale to Cedar Fair Entertainment Company. Mr. Lococo has been the President and owner of Lococo Company LLC, an industry-leading consulting firm in the amusement and hospitality industry segment since 2006. In the role as consultant, he directed the marketing and management rollout of some of the industry’s largest destination development startups such as Wilderness at the Smokies, Jay Peak Resort hotel and waterpark, Camelback Lodge and Aquatopia indoor waterpark. Mr. Lococo is currently the lead consultant to the Hall of Fame Village, Gameday Bay indoor waterpark, adjacent to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio. Mr. Lococo is qualified to serve as a member of the Board based on his extensive experience, industry knowledge and marketing expertise.
Rick Ruffolo, 55 Mr. Ruffolo has served as a Director of the Company since November 2021 and was appointed Chairman of the Strategic Growth Committee in May 2022. Mr. Ruffolo has over three decades of consumer goods, specialty retail, marketing, innovation, and executive leadership experience. Over the last thirteen years, as CEO & President, Mr. Ruffolo has led the successful turnaround, growth, and exit of several private equity-backed portfolio companies where he also served on their respective Boards of Directors. Since 2018, Mr. Ruffolo has served as the CEO & President and board member of private equity backed Phelps Pet Products, a manufacturer of pet food and treats. From 2011 until 2018, Mr. Ruffolo’s service included Sensible Organics, CR Brands, Enviroscent and H2O Plus Beauty, and he has been a board member of Enviroscent since 2012. In the first twenty years of his career, Mr. Ruffolo held brand management roles at blue-chip consumer goods companies including The Procter & Gamble Company, S.C. Johnson & Son Inc. and Nestlé Purina, as well as senior executive roles leading the brand, marketing, and innovation departments at specialty branded retailers Yankee Candle and Bath & Body Works, Inc. where he received multiple patents including for the multi-billion dollar Wallflowers home fragrance business. Mr. Ruffolo is a dual citizen of the U.S. and Italy, was an NCAA Division I athlete, and graduated summa cum laude in marketing and business administration from the University of Dayton. He received his MBA with honors from Washington University in St. Louis. Mr. Ruffolo is qualified to serve as a member of the Board based on his wide range of business, operations, and strategic planning experience, his marketing expertise, and his experience working with both publicly traded and private-equity backed portfolio companies.