Bringing over 150 years of combined design experience, Summit’s seasoned designers have played key roles in the creation and implementation of many of the world's most successful experience environments.

Gordon Hoopes
Principal and Director of Design & Master Planning

A highly regarded theme park master-planner who served for 22 years with the Walt Disney Company as the lead master-planner for EPCOT Center, Disneyland Paris theme park and Walt Disney World. A few other Disney projects include; Splash Mountain Tokyo; the Star Tours attraction at MGM Studio Tour Florida; EPCOT’s Spaceship Earth; and Typhoon Lagoon Water Park. Gordon also led the design for the Music City River Walk development and worked on Coca-Cola Olympic City.

David Barron
Principal and Creative Director

Dave has played key creative roles on a great variety of themed environments and entertainment retail projects. He served the Walt Disney Company for 24 years directing 5 design offices in Florida and California that served Disneyland, The Disney Stores, and Walt Disney World. He Chaired the Disneyland Master Planning Team for 6 years. David was a key designer for the new Cerritos Library and is now providing the theme and exhibit environmental design for the Rancho Cucamonga Cultural Arts Center and the Environmental Learning Center for the City of Highland.

James Poole, AIA
Executive Architect

Former Chief Architect for Disneyland, Jim is directly responsible for the design of over half a billion dollars worth of entertainment architecture in Disney and other themed environments worldwide. He has been fortunate enough to complete successful projects for Caesar’s Palace, Lotte World, Paramount Parks, Hilton Hotels, Jerudong Park and Harrahs Casino, among many others. Jim’s work continues to delight millions of people every year all over the world.

George Wiktor
Executive Producer

As a Principal and Executive Producer at BRC Imagination Arts for 18 years, George was directly responsible for the development and implementation of major visitor attractions worldwide, such as corporate visitors centers, worlds fair pavilions, museums and theme parks. These projects include VW's Gläserne Manufaktür; Space Center Houston, NASA's visitor center for Johnson Space Center in Houston, and “Postcards” a 3600 film for Korean Airlines Pavilion at Taejon Expo 93. George recently served as President of the Themed Entertainment Association.

Patricia Newton
Signage and Graphic Design

After graduating from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, Patricia worked at Walt Disney Imagineering designing a variety of signage and graphics for Disney’s theme parks; including EPCOT Center, Walt Disney World, Tokyo Disneyland and Typhoon Lagoon water park. She went on to design signage & graphics for clients such as Space Center Houston, Sony, Universal Studios, Boomtown Resort & Casino and Walt Disney Imagineering. Patricia has also taught “Themed Signage & Graphics” at Art Center College of Design.