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Robert Alan Iger (/ ˈ aɪ ɡ ər /; born February 10, 1951) [3] is an American media executive who is chief executive officer (CEO) of the Walt Disney Company. [4] He previously was the president of the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) between 1994 and 1995 and president and chief operating officer (COO) of Capital Cities/ABC, from 1995 until its acquisition by Disney in 1996.
Eisner was born to an affluent, secular Jewish family [8] [9] [10] in Mount Kisco, New York.His mother, Margaret (née Dammann), whose family founded the American Safety Razor Company, was the president of the Irvington Institute, a hospital that treated children with rheumatic fever. [8]
Mitchell played an important role in the selection of Robert A. Iger as Eisner's successor as CEO in 2005. [29] On June 28, 2006, Disney announced that its board had elected one of its members, John Pepper Jr., former CEO of Procter & Gamble, to replace Mitchell as chairman effective January 1, 2007. [30]
Disney’s voluble boss, Michael Eisner, even confided to board members that he was dubious about Iger’s future. Worried […] Bob Iger was in a snit, and didn’t disguise it. It was the winter ...
As we stroll on Disney’s historic Burbank lot toward the plaza where he is about to be photographed in front of a statue of Walt Disney and Mickey Mouse holding hands, I ask Iger if he is ...
Walt Disney Co's Bob Iger will once again be asked to identify his successor as chief executive -- one of his greatest failures in his first go-around as the company's leader, say people who have ...
David Eisner is an American business and political official. As of 2013, he is serving as president and CEO of Repair the World, a non-profit organization that fosters and mobilizes Jewish-American volunteerism efforts. [ 3 ]
The correct stylistic approach is as follows: "After Michael Eisner became CEO in 1984, the company's animation studio enjoyed a sustained period of spectacular success called the Disney Renaissance. In 2005, under Eisner's successor Bob Iger, the company started to expand through acquisitions of other large media corporations.