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Marc G. Swanson has served as Chief Executive Officer since May 2021. Prior to that, he served as Interim Chief Executive Officer from April 2020 to May 2021. Prior to that, he served as Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of the Company from August 2017 to April 2020, except for from September 2019 to November 2019 when he served as Interim Chief Executive Officer. Prior to that, Mr. Swanson had served as Chief Accounting Officer from 2012 to 2017 and served as Interim Chief Financial Officer from June 2015 until September 2015 and as Interim Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer from August 1, 2017 until his permanent appointment later that same month. Previously, he was Vice President Performance Management and Corporate Controller of SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment from 2011 to 2012, the Corporate Controller of Busch Entertainment Corporation from 2008 to 2011 and the Vice President of Finance of Sesame Place from 2004 to 2008. Mr. Swanson holds a bachelor's degree in accounting from Purdue University and a master's degree in business administration from DePaul University and is a Certified Public Accountant.

Byron Surrett has served as Chief Park Operations Officer - Non-Florida Parks of the Company since January 2023. Prior to that, Mr. Surrett served as Park President of SeaWorld San Antonio, Discovery Point, and Aquatica San Antonio since 2018. Prior to that, he served as Vice President of Operations of SeaWorld San Antonio, Discovery Point, and Aquatica San Antonio from 2014 to 2019 and Vice President of Merchandise for SeaWorld San Antonio from 2008 to 2014. Prior to that, he served as Vice President of Park Operations for SeaWorld San Diego from 2005 to 2008; for SeaWorld San Antonio from 2003 to 2005; and for Sesame Place Philadelphia from 1999 to 2003. Prior to that, he served as Vice President, Culinary for Sesame Place Philadelphia from 1995 to 1999. Prior to that, he served as Director of Revenue for Adventure Island from 1989 to 1995. Mr. Surrett began his theme park career at Busch Gardens Tampa and progressed through various roles of increasing responsibility with Busch Entertainment Corporation from 1976 to 1989. Mr. Surrett is on the boards of San Antonio Chamber of Commerce (since 2020); Texas Travel and Tourism (since 2021); and San Antonio Symphony League Program (Chair, since 2020). Mr. Surrett holds a bachelor's degree from the University of South Florida. As of January 1, 2026, Byron Surrett transitioned from the role of Chief Park Operations Officer - Non-Florida Parks to another role at United Parks & Resorts Inc.

Effective as of September 22, 2026, the Board of Directors of the Company elected Kyle Miller as the Company's President. Kyle R. Miller has served as Chief Parks Operations Officer - Florida Parks of the Company since January 2023. Prior to that, Mr. Miller served as Park President of SeaWorld Orlando, Discovery Cove, and Aquatica Orlando since 2018. He served as Vice President of Culinary Operations of SeaWorld Orlando, Discovery Cove, and Aquatica Orlando from 2016 to 2018, and Director of Merchandise Revenue Operations for SeaWorld Orlando, Discovery Cove, and Aquatica Orlando from 2007 to 2012. Mr. Miller began his theme park career with Busch Entertainment Corporation and progressed through various roles of increasing responsibility at multiple parks of the Company from 1995 to 2018. Mr. Miller has served as a board member of Visit Orlando since 2019.

James (Jim) W. Forrester Jr. has served as Interim Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of the Company since November 2025. Prior to that, Mr. Forrester served as the Company's Senior Vice President, Finance since November 2024. Prior to that he served as the Company's Interim Chief Financial Officer from January 2023 to November 2024, and Vice President, Finance for SeaWorld Orlando, Aquatica Orlando and Discovery Cove from February 2019 to January 2023. Prior to that, he served as Vice President of Operations, Finance, Human Resources and Revenue Management for ICON Orlando 360 from October 2017 to February 2019. Additionally, Mr. Forrester has more than two decades of theme park finance and operations experience including at the Walt Disney Company, Walt Disney World Resort, and Hershey Entertainment & Resorts, among others.

Timothy Hartnett has been a director of the Company since December 2020. Mr. Hartnett has served as Chief Executive Officer of New Roc Management, a consulting firm focused on providing asset management and operational services and advice to a high net worth family since 2018. Mr. Hartnett has also served as Chief Executive Officer of White Fall Advisors, a consulting firm focused on providing financial and operational advice to various entities since 2016. From 2013 to 2016, Mr. Hartnett served as the Chief Executive Officer of HRS Management, a family office. Prior to that, Mr. Hartnett served as a Global Private Equity leader and held various other roles of increasing responsibility at PricewaterhouseCoopers during his tenure from 1998 to 2013. Mr. Hartnett received a B.A. in Accounting from Boston College, an M.B.A. in Finance from Columbia Business School and is a Certified Public Accountant (inactive).

Scott Ross has been a director of the Company since November 2017 and has served as Chairman of the Board since July 2019. Mr. Ross is the Founder and Managing Partner of Hill Path Capital LP, a private investment firm. Prior to founding Hill Path, Mr. Ross served as a Partner at Apollo Global Management LLC (Apollo), a firm he joined in 2004, where he was responsible for leading private equity and debt investments in the lodging, leisure, entertainment, consumer and business services sectors. Prior to that, Mr. Ross was a member of the Principal Investment Area in the Merchant Banking Division of Goldman, Sachs & Co. and a member of the Principal Finance Group in the Fixed Income, Currencies, and Commodities Division of Goldman, Sachs & Company. Mr. Ross was employed by Shumway Capital Partners from August 2008 to September 2009. Mr. Ross previously served on the board of directors of Diamond Eagle Acquisition Corp., Great Wolf Resorts, Inc., EVERTEC, Inc. and CEC Entertainment, Inc. (parent company of Chuck E. Cheese's and Peter Piper Pizza). Mr. Ross currently serves on the boards of directors of Dave & Buster's Entertainment, Inc. and ONE Group Hospitality, Inc. Mr. Ross graduated magna cum laude from Georgetown University in 2002 with a B.A. degree in Economics and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

William Gray has been a director of the Company since December 2014. He currently serves as Co-Founder and Executive Director of Hulls Highway Consulting, a Connecticut-based consulting company, which he co-founded in 2011. Mr. Gray has been a Senior Advisor to The Blackstone Group Inc. since 2010. Mr. Gray served as Co-Chief Executive Officer and Vice Chairman of Ogilvy North America of Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide from 2005 to 2009. Mr. Gray served as the President of Ogilvy Mather Advertising New York from 1997 to 2005. He joined Ogilvy & Mather, Inc. in 1978 as an Assistant Account Executive. Mr. Gray served on the boards of Crocs, Inc. from 2018 to 2020, Harleysville Group Insurance from 2007 to 2011, HealthMarkets, Inc. from 2013 to 2019, the board of trustees of The Century Family of Mutual Funds from 2006 to 2018 and the board of directors of Zinio Publishing Group from 2011 to 2014. He has also been a trustee of the New York Public Library since 1997. He received his MBA from the University of Virginia's Darden School and a BA from Harvard College.

Kimberly Schaefer has been a director of the Company since December 2020. Ms. Schaefer has served as Chief Executive Officer of RP Illusions, an educational and entertainment company, since April 2024. Ms. Schaefer served as Chief Executive Officer and a director of Alpine Acquisition Corporation, a Delaware blank Check company from February 2021 until January 2024. Ms. Schaefer served as the Chief Executive Officer of Two Bit Circus, Inc., an experiential entertainment company, through January 2024, previously serving as President from 2017 to 2019 and as a consultant from 2015 to 2016. She has also served as an Advisor to Alpine Consolidated since 2018. From 2009 to 2015, Ms. Schaefer served as Chief Executive Officer and a director of Great Wolf Resorts, Inc. Prior to being appointed their Chief Executive Officer, Ms. Schaefer served as Chief Operating Officer/Chief Brand Officer from 2005 to 2008. Ms. Schaefer has served on the boards of Hall of Fame Resort & Entertainment since July 2020 and Luxurban Hotels Inc. from March 2024 until December 2024. Ms. Schaefer formerly served on the board of Education Realty Trust from 2016 to 2018. Ms. Schaefer graduated from Edgewood College with a B.A. in Accounting and is a Certified Public Accountant (inactive).

James Chambers has been a director of the Company since June 2019. Mr. Chambers has been a Partner at Hill Path Capital LP, since 2016. From 2009 to 2016, Mr. Chambers was a Principal at Apollo where he worked on a wide range of transactions across a variety of industries. Prior to Apollo, Mr. Chambers was an analyst in the Consumer Retail Group in the Investment Banking Division of Goldman Sachs & Co. Mr. Chambers has served on the board of directors of Dave & Buster's Entertainment, Inc. since December 2020 and the board of directors of ONE Group Hospitality, Inc. since May 2024. Mr. Chambers has previously served on the board of directors of Great Wolf Resorts, Inc., CEC Entertainment Inc. (the parent company of Chuck E. Cheese's), Principal Maritime Tankers Corp. and Principal Chemical Carriers, LLC. Mr. Chambers graduated from Duke University in 2007 with a B.A. in Political Science and a Certificate in Markets and Management.

Nathaniel J. Lipman has been a director of the Company since January 2024. Mr. Lipman served as Executive Chairman of CX Loyalty Holdings, Inc. (CX Loyalty), formerly known as Affinion Group Holdings, Inc. from 2012 until November 2015, and as President and Chief Executive Officer from October 2005 (when CX Loyalty was formed through the purchase of assets from Cendant Corporation (Cendant) by a coalition of certain selected management from Cendant Marketing Services Division and Apollo Management L.P.) to 2012. Mr. Lipman served as Senior Advisor to CX Loyalty until March 2024. Mr. Lipman joined Cendant in June 1999 as Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and Strategic Planning. After a series of increasing responsibilities in business development and marketing, Mr. Lipman served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Cendant's domestic membership business, Trilegiant, from 2002 to April 2004, and served as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Cendant Marketing Services Division from April 2004 to 2005. Prior to that, Mr. Lipman served as Executive Vice President, Strategic Development of Planet Hollywood, Inc. from 1996 to 1999. Prior to that, Mr. Lipman served as General Counsel of House of Blues Entertainment, Inc. from 1995 to 1996. Prior to that, Mr. Lipman served as Senior Corporate Counsel of The Walt Disney Company from 1993 to 1995. Mr. Lipman began his career as Corporate Associate at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom from 1989 to 1993 where he focused on mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance. Mr. Lipman also serves on the boards of Trusted Media Brands, Inc. since 2018, Apollo Aligned Alternatives, Inc. since June 2022, Attain Finance Holdings Corp. since June 2024, and Dave and Buster's Entertainment, Inc. since June 2025. Mr. Lipman also served as an Observer to the board of directors of PLBY Group, Inc. from 2022 to 2023. Prior to that, Mr. Lipman served as Chairman of the board of directors of FTD.com in 2021 and previously serving as a Senior Advisor to FTD.com from 2019 to 2021. Mr. Lipman also served on the boards of Diamond Resorts International, Inc. from 2017 to 2021, Apollo Strategic Growth Capital II, Inc. from 2021 to 2023, Redbox Automated Holdings, LLC from 2016 to 2021, Exela Technologies, Inc. from 2017 to 2019, Walker Innovation, Inc. from 2013 to 2019, Novitex Enterprises, Inc. from 2013 to 2017, Evertec, Inc. from 2010 to 2013, Walker Digital Holdings, LLC in 2013, RDA Holdings, Inc. from 2013 to 2018, and Netmarket Group, Inc. from 2000 to 2003. Mr. Lipman also served as a Special Advisor to Upside Travel Group, LLC from 2016 to 2017 where he was a founding member of the board of managers from 2015 to 2016. Mr. Lipman received his B.A. from UC Berkeley and his Juris Doctorate from UCLA.

Neha Jogani Narang has served as a director of the Company since November 2019. Ms. Narang was most recently the interim Chief Marketing Officer for Roblox Corporation, a global platform for immersive experiences and user generated content where she led marketing from 2021 through March 2024. Prior to that, she served as the Chief Marketing Officer at Hello Mobile, Inc. d/b/a True, an early-stage private social app, from November 2020 through April 2021 and continued to serve as an advisor to the company until August 2021. Ms. Narang also founded G2M Consulting, LLC where she has been supporting companies as a marketing expert and fractional Chief Marketing Officer since 2018. Prior to that, Ms. Narang was a marketing leader at Facebook from 2011 to 2017, where she most recently led Global Developer Marketing and Consumer Product Marketing. Prior to joining Facebook, Ms. Narang was a consultant at The Boston Consulting Group from 2010 to 2011 and was a consultant at Cornerstone Research from 2005 to 2008. Ms. Narang holds a Master of Business Administration from Stanford University Graduate School of Business and a bachelor's degree from University of Southern California. Ms. Narang also serves on the Board of Directors of the Boys and Girls Clubs of San Francisco, a nonprofit organization.

Aayushi Dalal has been a director of the Company since June 2025. Ms. Dalal is a Managing Director at Hill Path Capital LP, where she focuses on private equity, public equity, and credit investments in the leisure, entertainment, and consumer sectors. Prior to joining Hill Path in 2021, Ms. Dalal was a Vice President in the Technology, Media & Telecommunications Group within the Investment Banking Division of Goldman Sachs, where she began her career as an Analyst in 2013. Ms. Dalal holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from Emory University and an MBA from the Yale School of Management.

Dr. Christopher (Chris) Dold has been our Chief Zoological Officer since April 2016. Prior to that, Dr. Dold served as Vice President, Veterinary Services from October 2009 until April 2016 and Senior Veterinarian at SeaWorld Orlando from October 2005 to September 2009. Prior to joining the Company, Dr. Dold was a National Academies-National Research Council Postdoctoral Clinical Fellow with the US Navy Marine Mammal Program and completed a University of California-Davis Internship in Marine Mammal Medicine and Pathology at The Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito, California. Dr. Dold has held memberships in the American Veterinary Medical Association, International Association for Aquatic Animal Medicine, European Association for Aquatic Mammals, and the American Association of Zoo Veterinarians. Dr. Dold received a Bachelor of Science degree in zoology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his doctorate in veterinary medicine from the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine.

Kevin Connelly became the Company's Chief Accounting Officer in August 2025. Prior to becoming the Company's Chief Accounting Officer, Mr. Connelly served as the Chief Financial Officer, Chief Operating Officer, and Senior Managing Director of Appreciation Homes, LLC, a real estate securities company, from June 2019 to January 2025. From September 2018 to May 2019, he was President of Capview Partners, LLC / EBA EverStar, LLC, a real estate investment and management firm formed through a Fortune Global 500 company's acquisition of Capview Partners, LLC, where he had served as Chief Financial Officer and Managing Director since April 2014. Mr. Connelly previously held senior finance and accounting positions with DSM Nutritional Products Ltd, Martek Biosciences Corp, Aether Systems, Inc., Storage USA, Inc., and Integrated Health Services, Inc., after starting his career at KPMG. Mr. Connelly holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in accounting from James Madison University and is a Certified Public Accountant in the State of Maryland.

Thomas Kelly has been the Chief Legal Officer, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary since January 2026. He leads the Company's legal function as well as its external affairs team, including governmental affairs and community affairs. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Kelly was a partner at the Kasowitz LLP law firm from 2017 to 2025 and an associate from 2008 to 2017, where he practiced complex commercial litigation. He holds a bachelor's degree in English from Columbia University and juris doctor degree from Northwestern University - Pritzker College of Law.