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Mark W. Fuller
Born
Salt Lake City, Utah
Alma materUniversity of Utah
Stanford University
OccupationCEO of WET

Mark W. Fuller is Co-Founder and CEO of WET, a design firm in Los Angeles, California that creates fountains featuring water, fire, fog, and lights choreographed to music. The New Yorker called him, "the closest thing the world has to a fountain genius"[1] and the experiential features designed by his company have helped to create some of the world's most well-known landmarks and attractions. They include the Fountains of Bellagio in Las Vegas, The Dubai Fountain in Dubai, Revson Fountain at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York, and the Cauldrons at the XXII and XIX Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City and Sochi.[2]

Early life and education

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Fuller grew up and attended elementary school in Salt Lake City, Utah. When he was in junior high, Fuller built his first successful permanent water feature, a three-foot- by-nine-foot pond, in his parents' yard in Sugar House, Salt Lake City which was followed by his first fountain. That first fountain, which was created with his grandfather, was a long concrete planter box next to the house and was powered by an old washing machine pump.[3]

As a teenager, Fuller built a miniature jungle cruise in the backyard for the family's goldfish, complete with lagoons, underwater tunnels and lights.[4] Fuller attended Highland High School, graduating in 1969.[3]

Fuller received his Bachelors of Science Degree in 1976 from the University of Utah and as part of his undergraduate thesis in Civil Engineering, Fuller developed a large-scale laminar-flow nozzle that has since been used extensively in WET’s water features.[5] Fuller received his Masters of Science degree in 1978 from Stanford University.[3]

Career

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Before founding WET, Fuller worked as an Imagineer for The Walt Disney Company, applying the technology he developed as an undergraduate, and had refined as a graduate student at Stanford, to create Disney’s “Leapfrog” fountain feature at Epcot Center.[6]

Fuller co-founded WET in 1983 with Melanie Simon and Alan Robinson, two former Walt Disney Imagineers, and the company now holds more than 50 patents. As of March 2016, the company employed 293 employees of various disciplines — designers, architects, engineers, scientists, cinematographers and others.[7]

He and his creative design firm have created more than 242 fountains in 20 countries.[2]

Awards and recognitions

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In 2010, Mark received the Themed Entertainment Association’s Thea Lifetime Achievement Award,[8] and was named one of Fast Company’s Most Creative People.[2]

In 2011, Fuller was featured in The New York Times’s "Corner Office" business feature[9], spoke at Salt Lake City’s first TEDx on the topic of "Design Disintegration"[10] and was inducted into the Utah Technology Council’s Hall of Fame.[11]

WET received the American Institute of Architects’s “Allied Professions Honor Award", a Los Angeles Architecture Award for Landscape Architecture[12][13] and Images of Universal Design Excellence Project Award. The company was been named one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies in 2010[14] and has been featured in Interior Design,[15] The New York Times,[9][16] the Los Angeles Times,[17][18] Wired, and CBS News Sunday Morning.[19]

In 2013, Fuller received an award from the Entertainment Industry Council for Discovery Channel’s The Big Brain Theory: Pure Genius, which was filmed at WET and which he Executive Produced.[20]

In 2015, Mark received an Honorary Doctorate of Engineering from The University of Utah.[21]

References

  1. ^ Seabrook, John (January 11, 2010). "Water Music: The Fountain Architect Who Gave Water a Voice". The New Yorker. Condé Nast Publishing.
  2. ^ a b c "Most Creative People in Business 2010". Fast Company. Fast Company. June 2010. Retrieved April 25, 2014.
  3. ^ a b c Jarvik, Elaine (Fall 2015). "A Big Splash: U alum Mark Fuller has earned worldwide renown for his spectacular fountains". Continuum THE MAGAZINE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH. The University of Utah. Retrieved November 22, 2016.
  4. ^ Jao, Carren (November 28, 2014). "Meet the Man Behind Some of the World's Most Famous Water Fountains". Entrepreneur. Entrepreneur Media. Retrieved November 22, 2016.
  5. ^ Berry, Richard. "It's Only Water: Vol. 9, Issue 32". CNC Machining. Archived from the original on 2007-12-20. Retrieved 2008-05-21.
  6. ^ Lester, Margot Carmichael. "Big Splash: November 4, 2002". Los Angeles Business Journal. Retrieved 2008-05-22. [dead link‍]
  7. ^ Crook, Jordan (March 15, 2016). "The story behind the most-recognizable fountains in the world". TechCrunch. Retrieved November 22, 2016.
  8. ^ "Recipients". Themed Entertainment Association. Retrieved April 25, 2014.
  9. ^ a b Bryant, Adam (April 17, 2011). "Corner Office: Mark Fuller — WET Design and the Improv Approach to Listening". The New York Times. The New York Times Company. NYtimes.com. Retrieved April 25, 2014.
  10. ^ "TEDxSaltLakeCity - Mark Fuller - Design DisIntegration". TED.com. Retrieved April 25, 2014.
  11. ^ "UTC Welcomes Stephen Jacobsen and Mark Fuller as Class of 2011 Hall of Fame Inductees". Utah Technology Council. Retrieved April 25, 2014.
  12. ^ Basulto, David (28 July 2010). "2010 Los Angeles Architecture Awards". Architecture Daily. Retrieved 1 August 2013. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  13. ^ "Port of Los Angeles Receives Excellence Award From The Waterfront Center". Port of Los Angeles. 26 October 2009. Retrieved 29 July 2013.
  14. ^ "Most Innovative Companies — Design". Fast Company. Fast Company. June 2010. Retrieved April 25, 2014.
  15. ^ Cohen, Edie (June 2010). "Shooting for the Stars". Interior Design. The Crown Publishing Group.
  16. ^ Pogrebin, Robin (August 26, 2009). "The Lincoln Center Fountain is Being Taught Some New Moves". New York Times. The New York Times Company. Retrieved April 25, 2014.
  17. ^ Satzman, Darrell (March 14, 2010). "How I Made It: Mark Fuller - A gushing combination of showbiz, engineering". Los Angeles Times. Tribune Company. Retrieved April 25, 2014.
  18. ^ Dunn, Samantha (May 2, 2010). "Fountain Head". LA Times Magazine. Tribune Company. {{cite news}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help)
  19. ^ "A Water Sculptor's Biggest Splash Yet". CBSnews.com. Retrieved April 25, 2014.
  20. ^ "Star Trek Into Darkness, World War Z, Big Bang Theory, NCIS, Elementary, Mythbusters, Big Brain Theory, Bones, Nova, Iron Man 3, Person of Interest, Grey's Anatomy, Director Bryan Singer Among Honorees for Annual Science, Engineering & Technology (SET) Awards" (PDF). Entertainment Industries Council. Retrieved November 22, 2016.
  21. ^ "WET DESIGN CEO, U GRAD TO RECEIVE HONORARY DOCTORATE". The College of Engineering at the University of Utah. Retrieved November 22, 2016.
 Not done No, I'm sorry, I can't accept this addition. This is not written from a neutral point of view. You really need to revisit this. In the opening paragraph, you jump straight into his company. It is better to state he is the CEO, end the sentence and then begin to explain why the company is notable. The quote from The New Yorker ought to be removed, this serves to entirely change the neutral tone of the article. You need to re-read the entire article as if you were an uninformed reader, and think to yourself, how can I make this neutral? Using words such as 'refined' does not help your case. I appreciate your effort, but COI editors face harsher criticism on their edits. When you have corrected this, re-open this request. All the best, st170e 15:54, 2 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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