New Cedar Fair CEO has fresh outlook on fun

Ouimet aims to innovate while honoring past


Sunday, 01 April 2012


Walking along Cedar Point amusement park's Midway and arriving at a spot where a new light-lasers-and-fireworks show will entertain guests this June, Matt Ouimet, Cedar Fair LP's ebullient new chief executive officer, can no longer contain himself.

"Isn't that a great view?" he says, gazing across a plaza where a large video screen has been removed to reveal the towering Millennium Force roller coaster bathed in the sunlight of a cloudless blue sky.

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