Big splash: The world's largest designer of water parks

In 1980 Geoff Chutter found himself "mortgaged to the underside of the nostrils", and the owner of a brand new water park.

The then 28-year-old had no previous experience of working in the world of giant water slides and swimming pools, but he thought it would be more fun than continuing to work as an ant. So he decided to build his own.

Geoff had previously spent five years employed by the auditing firm KPMG Canada, until one day he came across the country's first water park in the western province of British Columbia.

He was sent there on a work assignment, and he was immediately intrigued. "It had some basic component that I thought was hugely fun," says Geoff.

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