Roger Wayland

Roger Wayland (born August 21, 1945) is an American retired businessman, He was the founder of M.E. Company which was a Memphis-based amusement park company from 1983 to early 1996.

After his company went bankrupt, he worked at Premier Parks (later Six Flags in 1998/1999) from 1996 to 2022.

Early life
Wayland was born on August 21, 1945, in, but he is raised in.

Business career
Wayland is a former employee of Anderson Amusements in (founded by Richard Anderson in 1978). After he left the company in Missouri in 1982, he moved to Memphis where he got his own amusement park company named Memphis Entertainment Company (later M.E. Company in 1993) and founded in 1983.

But in early 1996, M.E. Company went bankrupt, Wayland was heartbroken over the company that he created going bankrupt, he has no chance of creating another amusement park company because he won't have enough money to start his own amusement park company, so in the summer of that year, he started working with Premier Parks (later as Six Flags in 1998/1999).

On December 23, 2022, he announced his retirement from working at Six Flags because of his prostate cancer. and moved back to Denver.

Personal life
Wayland met his wife, Sharon Wayland Parker when she worked at M.E. Company in 1983. They were married in 1985. The couple has 2 children: a son Josh Wayland (born July 19, 1987), and a daughter Kelly Wayland (born May 21, 1990).

In late 2022, Wayland was diagnosed with prostate cancer.

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