todd bennett
President and COO Deer Valley Resort
As President and COO, Todd oversees Deer Valley’s daily operations on over 2,000 acres of mountain terrain, including numerous inventive restaurants and an array of lodging properties. With hishighest priority placed on enhancing Deer Valley’s already renowned guest experience, come to be known as the “Deer Valley Difference,” across all resort offerings. As one of Park City’s largest employers, Todd leads a team of over 3,500 dedicated and talented individuals who specialize in intentional and seamless guest service at Deer Valley.
Todd is at the helm of Deer Valley Resort as it embarks on Expanded Excellence, a transformative collection of projects. This initiative includes more than doubling the skiable terrain, anchored by the new Deer Valley East Village, a vibrant Snow Park base transformation, and the revitalization of existing facilities. These projects aim to elevate the Deer Valley experience, maintaining its legacy of excellence while offering new adventures and amenities for future generations.
Todd grew up outside of Lake Placid, NY, and his career has focused on elevating guest experience through his time at The Walt Disney Company, Vail Mountain, and through the creation of the outdoor publishing company, Open Road Ski Company.
Todd spent nearly two decades at the Walt Disney Company, most recently serving as Executive Director of Product. In that role, Todd led a team of executives and planners charged with growing and optimizing the merchandise, food and beverage, space planning and the digital guest experience at the Disneyland Resort in California. His previous positions with the company included stints as General Manager, Disney California Adventure Park; General Manager of Downtown Disney, Parking and On-Site Sales; Director of Experience Design and Senior Manager of Membership Development/Season Pass. In these roles, he was responsible for developing the vision, strategy and execution for multi-hundred-million-dollar businesses serving millions of guests each year.
Todd began his career in the ski industry in 1999 in Colorado, spending several years at Vail Mountain overseeing resort operations, staffing and guest relations. Todd’s passion for ski and the outdoors led him to be a co-founder of an artist-focused outdoor media company, Open Road Ski Company, a direct-to-consumer publishing business that works closely with legendary ski map artist James Niehues, which led to The Man Behind the Maps, one of the best-selling ski books of all times.