Monday, August 25, 2008

Disney Updates Corporate Officer Bios

Sometime in the last month or so the Disney Corporate site has been updated with new information about the Corporate Management Team.  You can see the main page here.

So if you are interested in who's who at the top of Disney, how long they've been with the company, where they came from, etc.  This should be your first stop.

For instance, there are some web sites that don't like Jay Rasulo much (they call him an Eisner era suit).  Well, it might be true that Jay came to the company during the Eisner era, if you check Jay's bio you'll find that it was pretty early in Eisner's reign as Jay has been with the company over 20 years (that puts him in the mid-80's for those who are math challenged)!  Likewise, he is widely credited with being instrumental in the work of 'saving' Disneyland Paris, since he was the Chairman and CEO of that little holding company we talked about some weeks back that controls DLP.

You'll find that Bob Iger has 4 kids, the head of corporate finance has a BS in Biology, the corporate strategy guy has a BS in Mechanical Engineering from MIT, the head security guy used to for 'the Arnold' (that's the Governator to you and me), and that the head of the Internet Group was formerly director of business planning for Consumer Products.

So it just goes to show you that you can get anywhere in life with just about anything if you put your mind to it!

And to which I say, 'Amen!'.

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