{"id":4201,"date":"2009-01-01T08:47:30","date_gmt":"2009-01-01T16:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=4201"},"modified":"2009-01-01T08:55:06","modified_gmt":"2009-01-01T16:55:06","slug":"skaters-dad-new-general-manager-at-legoland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=4201","title":{"rendered":"Skater’s Dad New General Manager At Legoland"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Peter<\/a>Legoland<\/a><\/strong> is kicking off the new year with a new General Manager.<\/p>\n

The Resort today announced that long-time President and General Manager, John Jakobsen<\/strong> has left California to focus on the development of new LEGOLAND Parks and other corporate projects. Peter Ronchetti<\/strong> (pictured right) who has been the General Manager of Thorpe Park<\/a><\/strong> (one of the largest parks within the Merlin Entertainments Group<\/a><\/strong>) for more than six years, will step in as General Manager as of today.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ronchetti is more well-know in the skate world as 15-year-old vert skater Paul-Luc Ronchetti’s<\/a><\/strong> dad. The younger Ronchetti won the UK National Skateboard Championship<\/a><\/strong> in Vert last September.<\/p>\n

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\nLEGOLAND\u00ae CALIFORNIA RESORT RINGS IN
\nTHE NEW YEAR WITH NEW GM
\nPeter Ronchetti Steps into Lead Role for
\nLEGOLAND Park and SEA LIFETM Aquarium<\/p>\n

CARLSBAD, Calif. (Jan. 1, 2008) \u2013 The new year brings big change to LEGOLAND\u00ae California Resort in the shape of a new General Manager. The Resort today announced that long-time President and General Manager, John Jakobsen has left California to focus on the development of new LEGOLAND Parks and other corporate projects. Peter Ronchetti, who has been the General Manager of Thorpe Park (one of the largest parks within the Merlin Entertainments Group) for more than six years, will step in as General Manager as of today.<\/p>\n

LEGOLAND California Resort encompasses two attraction properties \u2013 LEGOLAND California, a 128-acre family theme park and SEA LIFE\u2122, a two-story 36,000 square-foot interactive aquarium geared specifically for children ages 2 to 12.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs you can imagine, being general manager of LEGOLAND California Resort is more than a part-time job,\u201d said Jakobsen, who has been splitting time as General Manager of all four LEGOLAND Parks and the recently announced projects in Dubai and Malaysia. \u201cMany exciting new things are on the horizon for LEGOLAND California and I have no doubt that Peter Ronchetti will be a great asset to the Resort during this time of growth and change.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ronchetti comes to LEGOLAND California from the U.K. with more than 20 years of management experience. \u201cThis is such an exciting time for me both personally and professionally,\u201d said Ronchetti. \u201cI look forward to the continued development of LEGOLAND California Resort as the number one destination for families with young children in North America and to living the \u2018California Dream\u2019 with my family.\u201d<\/p>\n

He is moving to Carlsbad with his wife Liz and their two sons, Paul-Luc (15 and a semi-professional skateboarder) and Jordi (13). Ronchetti will make his first public appearance as General Manager in February at the Resort\u2019s annual press conference.<\/p>\n

Jakobsen is now the Managing Director of LEGOLAND Parks and will be based out of Merlin Entertainment\u2019s corporate headquarters in Poole, England. He will continue to visit LEGOLAND California several times a year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Legoland is kicking off the new year with a new General Manager. The Resort today announced that long-time President and General Manager, John Jakobsen has left California to focus on the development of new LEGOLAND Parks and other corporate projects. Peter Ronchetti (pictured right) who has been the General Manager of Thorpe Park (one of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4201"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4201"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4205,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4201\/revisions\/4205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}