The Walt Disney Company (DIS)

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The Walt Disney Company

500 South Buena Vista Street
Burbank, CA 91521
United States
818 560 1000
https://www.thewaltdisneycompany.com

Sector(s): Communication Services
Industry: Entertainment
Full-time employees: 171,600

Key executives

Name	Title	Pay	Exercised	Year born
Mr. Robert A. Iger	CEO & Director	11.27M	34.87M	1951
Ms. Christine Mary McCarthy	Sr. EVP & CFO	7.92M	5.25M	1955
Mr. Horacio E. Gutierrez	Sr. EVP & Gen. Counsel	6.75M	N/A	1965
Ms. Kristina K. Schake	Sr. EVP & Chief Communications Officer	3.19M	N/A	1971
Mr. Paul J. Richardson	Sr. EVP & Chief HR Officer	2.59M	N/A	1966
Ms. Diane Jurgens M.B.A., BSEE, MSEE, MBA	Exec. VP of Enterprise Technology & Chief Information Officer	N/A	N/A	1962
Ms. Alexia Skouras Quadrani	Sr. VP of Investor Relations	N/A	N/A	N/A
Ms. Alicia Schwarz	Sr. VP & Chief Compliance Officer	N/A	N/A	N/A
Mr. Ronald L. Iden	Sr. VP & Chief Security Officer	N/A	N/A	1947
Mr. Brent A. Woodford	Exec. VP of Controllership, Financial Planning & Tax	N/A	N/A	1963

Amounts are as of 31 December 2022, and compensation values are for the last fiscal year ending on that date. Pay includes salary, bonuses, etc. Exercised is the value of options exercised during the fiscal year. Currency in USD.

Description

The Walt Disney Company, together with its subsidiaries, operates as an entertainment company worldwide. It operates through two segments, Disney Media and Entertainment Distribution; and Disney Parks, Experiences and Products. The company engages in the film and episodic television content production and distribution activities, as well as operates television networks under the ABC, Disney, ESPN, Freeform, FX, Fox, National Geographic, and Star brands; and studios that produces films under the Walt Disney Pictures, Twentieth Century Studios, Marvel, Lucasfilm, Pixar, and Searchlight Pictures banners. It also offers direct-to-consumer streaming services through Disney+, Disney+ Hotstar, ESPN+, Hulu, and Star+; sale/licensing of film and television content to third-party television and subscription video-on-demand services; theatrical, home entertainment, and music distribution services; staging and licensing of live entertainment events; and post-production services by Industrial Light & Magic and Skywalker Sound. In addition, the company operates theme parks and resorts, such as Walt Disney World Resort in Florida; Disneyland Resort in California; Disneyland Paris; Hong Kong Disneyland Resort; and Shanghai Disney Resort; Disney Cruise Line, Disney Vacation Club, National Geographic Expeditions, and Adventures by Disney, as well as Aulani, a Disney resort and spa in Hawaii. Further, it licenses its intellectual property to a third party for the operations of the Tokyo Disney Resort; provides consumer products, including licensing of trade names, characters, visual, literary, and other IP for use on merchandise, published materials, and games; operates a direct-to-home satellite distribution platform; sells branded merchandise through retail, online, and wholesale businesses; and develops and publishes books, comic books, and magazines. The Walt Disney Company was founded in 1923 and is based in Burbank, California.

Corporate governance

The Walt Disney Company’s ISS governance QualityScore as of 1 February 2023 is 2. The pillar scores are Audit: 7; Board: 1; Shareholder rights: 4; Compensation: 7.

Corporate governance scores courtesy of Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS). Scores indicate decile rank relative to index or region. A decile score of 1 indicates lower governance risk, while 10 indicates higher governance risk.