Mark Fuller

Mark W. Fuller is president and CEO of WET, a fountain and water feature design firm in Los Angeles, California. The experiential water features designed by his company can be found at landmarks around the world. Early life and education Fuller was born and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah. While he was in junior high school, he built a small pond in the backyard of his parents' house. Fuller first visited Disneyland when he was fourteen, and was inspired to expand the fish pond with lagoons and underwater tunnels, using an old washing machine pump. He credits that as his first fountain, built with the help of his grandfather and lit by lights using tomato juice cans. He would later recall "Here I was, fooling around with a hundred-and-twenty-volt current, in water, but nobody seemed concerned." After graduating from Highland High School in 1969, Fuller attended the University of Utah, majoring in civil engineering, which he chose because "it's the broadest [engineering discipline] and gives you a smattering of all the other types". At Utah, Fuller also took an honors program with so many liberal arts classes that it took him an extra year to graduate, in 1976. Fuller nearly obtained a second degree in theater from Utah. He had started attending theater classes to meet actresses, but stayed on to develop stage effects, including an altar that spewed fireballs on command for a production of Agamemnon. After graduating from Utah, Fuller went on to attend graduate school at Stanford University, where he took several project design courses that gave him "a deep appreciation of form" and worked "blue-collar" jobs during the summers, graduating in 1978. Fuller received an honorary doctorate from the University of Utah in 2015.