SeaWorld CEO and leadership

Q: Who is the CEO of SeaWorld?

The CEO of SeaWorld is Marc G. Swanson.

Q: Who is the founder of SeaWorld?

David Demott, George Millay, Ken Norris and Milton Shedd founded SeaWorld.

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SeaWorld CEO and executives

Executive Summary. Based on our data team's research, Marc G. Swanson is the SeaWorld's CEO. SeaWorld has 22,100 employees, of which 17 are in a leadership position.

Here are further demographic highlights of the leadership team:

The SeaWorld executive team is 29% female and 71% male.
62% of the management team is White.
12% of SeaWorld management is Hispanic or Latino.
10% of the management team is Black or African American.

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Name & TitleBio

Marc G. Swanson

Chief Executive Officer

David Demott

Founder

George Millay

Founder

Ken Norris

Founder

Milton Shedd

Founder

Dr. Christopher Dold

Chief Zoological Officer

Elizabeth Castro Gulacsy

Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer

G. Anthony Taylor (Tony)

Chief Legal Officer & General Counsel

Sherri Nadeau

Chief Human Resources Officer

Sherri Nadeau is a Chief Human Resources Officer at SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment, Inc. and Senior VP:Human Resources at TECH DATA CORP and is based in Los Angeles, California. She has worked as SVP and Chief People Officer at Connexity; Senior VP/Chief Human Resources Officer at Fidelity Natl Info Srvcs Inc; and Senior Vice President, Human Resources (M&A Project Role for PE firm) at CenturyLink Business for Enterprise. Sherri works or has worked as Senior VP:Human Resources at UberMedia Inc. She studied at Leadership Atlanta, University of Virginia, and Liberty University.

Charles Koppelman

Board Member

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SeaWorld founders

Name & TitleBio

David Demott

Founder

George Millay

Founder

Ken Norris

Founder

Milton Shedd

Founder

SeaWorld board members

Name & TitleBio

Charles Koppelman

Board Member

Scott Ross

Board Member

Thomas Tom

Board Member

SeaWorld leadership demographics

SeaWorld gender distribution in management team

The SeaWorld executive team is 29% female and 71% male.
SeaWorld is 56% female and 44% male company-wide.

Male

71%

Company-wide: 44%

Female

29%

Company-wide: 56%

SeaWorld executives by race

Management Team:

The most common ethnicity among SeaWorld executive officers is White.
62% of the management team is White.
12% of SeaWorld's management is Hispanic or Latino.
12% of the management team is Asian.

Company-wide:

White is the most common ethnicity company-wide.
53% of employees are White.
27% of employees are Hispanic or Latino.
11% of employees are Black or African American.

Management team
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What employees say about the executives at SeaWorld

Employee reviews

3.0

A zippia user wrote a review on Jun 2022

Pros of working at SeaWorld

Taking peoples orders and helping with their kids

Cons of working at SeaWorld

The supervisors where rude and disrespectful

SeaWorld benefits

Free admission to all seaworld parks

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4.0

A zippia user wrote a review on Sep 2021

Pros of working at SeaWorld

I liked working with the team members as a team.

Cons of working at SeaWorld

Management was not great

SeaWorld benefits

park discount

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Updated November 18, 2022

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