Jim Seay is the President of Premier Rides, the preeminent roller coaster designer and manufacturer in the world. Seay was named President of Premier Rides in 1996 after joining the company in 1995 as Executive Vice President of Engineering.
Prior to joining the company, Seay was a project engineer for Hughes Aircraft. He shifted to the amusement ride arena in 1988 and spent the next seven years as an engineering and maintenance executive at Six Flags Theme Parks.
Jim Seay earned a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University and received his MS in Engineering at California State University, Long Beach.
The industry had gone through kind of a funk after the 9/11. We survived that. Fifty percent of my competitors went out of business after 9/11 because the amount of capital flowing into the industry went down. So we worked very hard. We survived. We had made it past that five-year entrepreneuri...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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