Christian is a senior member of the firm’s Entertainment and Recreation Practice Group. He has participated in a broad range of themed entertainment attractions and tourism economic development projects. He brings a wide background of experience and expertise to ERA assignments through his involvement in a variety of consulting assignments in the recreation and leisure area as well as his strategic planning experience in international theme park development.
Christian started out in ERA’s London office in 1997 after business school and transferred to the Los Angeles office in the summer of 1998. He conducts research and consulting studies for both public and private sector attractions, market and financial analysis, operations management, concept development, tourism and destination development. The role of attractions, museums and corporate visitor centers in tourism development and marketing has been an important element of many of his assignments. Christian has consulted for clients throughout the United States, Mexico and Latin America, Europe, Asia (Singapore, Malaysia, Japan, China, Hong Kong, Korea), Australia and the Middle East (Dubai).
Christian holds a Master of Science Degree in International Marketing and Management from the Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. In addition, as part of his masters program he participated in the MBA-program at the S.C. Johnson School of Graduate Management, Cornell University, New York.