{"id":299816,"date":"2026-05-04T22:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T22:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/299816\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T22:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T22:38:09","slug":"theme-park-executive-leads-center-for-entertainment-and-hospitality-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/299816\/","title":{"rendered":"Theme Park Executive Leads Center for Entertainment and Hospitality Management"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"800\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Jime-Lake.jpg\" class=\"attachment-story-main-image size-story-main-image wp-post-image\" alt=\"Jim Lake, lecturer in management\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/>Jim Lake, lecturer in management\t\t\t\t\t\t&#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 href=\"https:\/\/business.fullerton.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" data-newtab-processed=\"true\">College of Business and Economics<\/a>, is the new leader of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/business.fullerton.edu\/engagement\/entertainment-hospitality-management\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" 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 href=\"https:\/\/business.fullerton.edu\/news\/story\/theme-park-executive-jim-lake-is-the-new-head-of-the-center-for-entertainment-and-hospitality-management\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CSUF Business News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; Jim Lake, lecturer in management &#13; &#13; After a career of leadership in the Southern&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299817,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-299816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}