Robert A. Iger is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Walt Disney Company. He was named President of the company in 2000, and later succeeded the much embattled Michael Eisner who was stripped of his chairman’s title, as chief executive in 2005. He oversees one of the largest multi-billion dollar television, motion picture and media corporations and vacation destinations in the world.
He was born in New York in 1951, is married and has 4 children, 2 from a previous marriage. He graduated Magna Cum Laude and holds a BS in Communications from Ithaca College. His total annual compensation is over $2 million dollars.
Mr. Iger began his career as a weatherman and in 1974 joined ABC television as a studio supervisor and then moved onto ABC sports. He eventually became a senior manager and was instrumental in the merger of ABC with the Walt Disney Company. He has held various titles since the merger and has been a Director of the Walt Disney Company since 2000.
Called something of an enigma by his colleagues- “easy to like but hard to get to know, he is cool and circumspect, a deft politician”, he is a tough financial manager who since 2005 has delivered five consecutive years of double digit growth in operating income.
(http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/15/business)
Iger’s vision for Disney’s future: “Churchill balanced heritage and innovation,” Mr. Iger said at the black-tie premiere of “Alice in Wonderland.” “There are big lessons in that for Disney. Our brand is so powerful because of our heritage. But you’ve got to innovate, and not just in terms of what is new today but what will be new far into the future.”
(http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/11/business)
Works Cited:
(http://corporate.disney.go.com/corporate/bios/robert_iger.html)
(http://investing.businessweek.com/businessweek)
(http://topics.wsj.com/person)
(http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/11/business), Burns, Brooke
“Is Disney’s Chief Having a Cinderella Moment? “
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/15/business), Holson, Laura
“A Different Kind of Chief Executive at Walt Disney”
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