Claus Frimand
Senior Vice President
cfrimand@profungroup.com

Claus brings over 25 years of international leisure industry experience, including 15 years as an expatriate. Recently, 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.

As the VP of an  exhibition company, he was responsible for responsible for development, sales, logistics and sponsorship on a number of traveling exhibitions including an Egyptian exhibition in cooperation with The National Gallery of Art in Washington, a Samurai exhibition from Kunstkamera in St. Petersburg as well as development of several outdoor exhibitions.

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, NOC and IOC sponsors.

In 1991, he 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.