Claus brings over 25 years of international leisure industry experience to ProFun. He was the European Director at Grant Leisure and worked on a number of theme park projects including: Parc Phoenix in France, Holzstadt in Germany, Tivoli in Copenhagen, Pixi Parc in Switzerland and Parques Reunidos in Spain, Italy, France and Belgium.
Claus worked at Expo 2000 in Hanover as Senior Consultant, working for the Operations Division in charge of logistical and operational issues such as capacities, visitor flow and site analysis.
Additional mass–attendance event experience included acting as the Deputy Chief Operating Officer at Swiss Expo '02, where he started up the Ticketing, Guest Services, Security, Maintenance and Operations departments, along with master–planning and design review of 40 pavilions. As Head of Operations, his mandate included the co–ordination of the first Olympic Spirit center in Munich, supervising the design and planning, implementing the operational procedures, merchandise product line and store lay–out and negotiations with the International Olympic Committee and NOC sponsors.
In 1991, Claus joined Disneyland Paris and spent six years in various key management roles during the development, opening and post–opening of the theme park, latest as Director of Operations with overall responsibility for Parking, Ticketing, Guest Relations, Shop Operations and the Park Duty Managers program.
Most recently, Claus served as General Manager for Ferrari World Abu Dhabi overseeing all pre-opening and on-going management of the project on-site leading to a successful grand opening celebration in December 2010.
Contact Claus at cfrimand@profungroup.com