Reminder: Bob Iger Promised Diversity in Disney’s Executive Ranks by 2021
Company’s former CEO and newly-minted executive chairman, when asked directly about his largely male, all-white executive leadership team.
In the Times interview, Iger admitted diversity “was lacking” in his C-suite. There are 13 roles that report directly into the office of CEO at Disney, some of the names are regonizable: Chief creative officer of the Walt Disney Studios Alan Horn and his co-chair Alan Bergman, Walt Disney Television chairman and Disney Media Networks co-chair Peter Rice, International and Direct-to-Consumer chairman Kevin Mayer, and ESPN president James Pitaro.
“It will certainly continue throughout the rest of the company — this is not something that is a side project, this is not something that is peripheral or in any way tangential to what we do. We want to represent our audience, the way our audience looks, feels, sounds and is. And as a result, we take this very seriously,” said the source, quoting Chapek. .
On the film side, high-profile leaders include studio global distribution chief Cathleen Taft, Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy, Marvel Executive Vice President of Production Victoria Alonso, Searchlight Pictures co-head Nancy Utley, Walt Disney Animation Chief Jennifer Lee, and Fox Family head Vanessa Morrison. In television, Dana Walden wields considerable power as Disney Television Studios chairman.
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