Steven Dooner

Steven has spent the past 45 years developing, operating, and rescuing concepts and companies in this industry. Beginning in the late 1970’s at CEC (Chuck E. Cheese) where he personally helped open dozens of locations, Steven left the company when it had amassed 100 locations in just five years. He helped arrange the acquisition and turnaround of Malibu Grand Prix from Warner Communications where he increased same store sales 39% the first year. He helped develop the Club Disney, ESPNZone, and DisneyQuest concepts at Disney (he would later return to Disney to help oversee the expansion of the Tokyo park). He has helped build theme parks for Disney, Universal Studios and others. He has increased same store sales and turned around concepts like Malibu Grand Prix, Discovery Zone and others. He also served as CEO of Sega GameWorks after acquiring the company in 2010.