- Steve Jobs
Steven Paul Jobs (born February 24 1955) is the co-founder and CEO of Apple and was the CEO of Pixar until its acquisition by Disney. He is currently the largest Disney shareholder and a member of Disney's Board of Directors. He is considered a leading figure in both the computer and entertainment industries. Jobs' history in business has contributed greatly to the mythos of the quirky, individualistic Silicon Valley entrepreneur, … - Robert Iger
Robert A. "Bob" Iger (born February 10 1951) is head of the Walt Disney Company. He has been president since January 2000 and CEO since October 2005. - Roy E. Disney
Roy Edward Disney, KCSG, (born January 10, 1930) was a longtime senior executive for The Walt Disney Company, which his father Roy Oliver Disney and his uncle Walt founded. He is still a major shareholder (over 16 million shares), and currently serves as a consultant for the company and Director Emeritus for the Board of Directors. He is perhaps best known for organizing the ousting of two top Disney executives: first, Ron Miller in 1984, and then Michael Eisner in 2005. - Dick Cook
Richard W. "Dick" Cook is Chairman of the Walt Disney Studios. He is the only top Disney executive who has worked for the company since before Michael Eisner took charge in 1984. Cook holds a degree in political science from the University of Southern California (USC). - Al Lutz
Al Lutz is an Internet journalist who covers the behind-the-scenes goings on at the Disneyland Resort and, more broadly, the Walt Disney Company. Although an amateur reporter who relies on well-placed anonymous sources within the Disney corporate structure, Lutz is sometimes quoted in mainstream news reports and his column is known to be read by Disney executives, including former CEO Michael Eisner. - Michael Ovitz
Michael S. Ovitz (b. December 14 1946, Los Angeles, California) is a former talent agent and Hollywood powerhouse who served as the head of the Creative Artists Agency from 1975 to 1995. After graduating from UCLA with a degree in theater, film and television, Ovitz began his career at the William Morris Agency, but left with four other agents in 1975 to found Creative Artists Agency. While at CAA, he was responsible for pioneering the practice of "packaging" writers, … - Stanley Gold
Stanley P. Gold is the President and CEO of Shamrock Holdings, which manages Roy E. Disney's investments. He was a longtime member of the Walt Disney Company's board of directors (1984; 1987-2003), before he and Roy Disney resigned to publicly campaign for Chairman Michael Eisner's ouster. This campaign, which was chronicled in the book "DisneyWar", was eventually successful. Stanley Gold is currently Chairman of the Board at the University of Southern California, … - Howard Ashman
Howard Ashman (May 17, 1950 - March 14, 1991) was an American playwright and movie music lyricist. Ashman first studied at Boston University and Goddard College (with a stop at Tufts University's Summer Theater) and then went on to achieve his master's degree from Indiana University in 1974. He collaborated with Alan Menken on several films, notably animated features for Disney, Ashman writing the lyrics and Menken composing the scores. - Judith Estrin
Judy Estrin has been named three times to Fortune Magazine's list of the 50 Most Powerful Women in American business, and was inducted into the Women in Technology International Hall of Fame. She started her career as a 21-year old researcher in the lab that created the underlying technology for the Internet, co-founded several successful companies, pioneered the computer networking industry, and served as chief technology officer of networking giant Cisco. - Bucky Covington
William Joel "Bucky" Covington III (born November 8, 1977) is an American Country Music Singer. He originally came to fame when he arrived at 8th place on the 5th season of "American Idol". In early 2006, he was the 5th contestant to be eliminated from the final 12. In December 2006, he signed a recording contract with Lyric Street Records, and released the single, "A Different World", on January 16, 2007. - Joe Roth
Joe Roth is an American Entertainment executive, producer and film director. Roth co-founded Morgan Creek Productions in 1987 and was chairman of Twentieth Century Fox (1989–1993), Caravan Pictures (1993–1994), and Walt Disney Studios (1994–2000) before founding Revolution Studios in 2000. Over the course of his career, he has produced over 40 films, and has directed four to date, … - Henry Samueli
Henry Samueli (born September 20, 1954 in Buffalo, New York) is co-founder, chairman, and chief technology officer of the Broadcom Corporation and a philanthropist in the Orange County, California community. The schools of engineering at UC Irvine and UCLA, where he is a professor, were renamed after him after he donated $20 million and $30 million, respectively, to each in 1999. In 1991, while still working as a professor at UCLA, Samueli co-founded his company, … - Willow Bay
Willow Bay (born December 28 1963 in New York, New York) is the wife of Walt Disney Company CEO Robert Iger. She is currently hosting specials on Lifetime Television. - Bill Justice
William Justice (b. February 9, 1914, in Dayton, Ohio) was an animator and engineer for the Walt Disney Company. Justice joined Walt Disney Studios as an animator in 1937 and worked on such features as 1940's "Fantasia", 1944's "The Three Caballeros", 1951's "Alice in Wonderland", and 1953's "Peter Pan". He is arguably best known as the animator of the rabbit Thumper from 1942's "Bambi" and chipmunks Chip 'n Dale. - Harper Goff
Harper Goff (born March 16 1911 in Fort Collins, Colorado, died March 3 1993) was an artist, musician, and actor. He is best remembered as the driving artistic force behind many of the visual aspects of "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea", "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory", early renderings and concept art for Walt Disney's proposed "Mickey Mouse Park" (which later evolved into the Disneyland theme park), and several areas of the Walt Disney World theme park. - Arturo Moreno
Arturo "Arte" Moreno (born August of 1946) is an American billionaire of Mexican decent. On May 15, 2003, made history by becoming the first Hispanic to own a major sports team in the United States when he purchased the Anaheim Angels baseball team from the Walt Disney Company - Bob Karp
Robert Louis Karp (1911-1975) was an American comics writer. He began working for the Walt Disney Company in the 1930s, and from 1938 to 1974, he wrote the scripts for the daily "Donald Duck" newspaper strips. These were illustrated by Al Taliaferro and by Frank Grundeen after Taliaferro's death in 1969. Bob Karp's brothers, Hubie and Lynn, were in the comics field as well. - Richard Nanula
Richard Nanula has served as Chief Financial Officer of Amgen Inc. (biotechnology) since August 2001 and as Executive Vice President since May 2001. On April 10, 2007 Amgen announced that he would be resigning from his position "to pursue other opportunities" He will be at Amgen until July 2007 to assist in the transition. He is being replaced by Robert Bradway. Nanula was a member of Amgen's executive committee. Mr. - Al Bertino
Al Bertino (July 15, 1912-August 18, 1996), was an American animator best remembered for his work with the Walt Disney Company Born in California in 1912, Bertino began work for Walt Disney in 1935. Apart from his work on feature films, such as Pinocchio and Fantasia, Bertino also wrote for the Wonderful World of Disney, and helped create a number of attractions at Disneyland, including Mr. Toad's Wild Ride, the Haunted Mansion, and the Country Bear Jamboree. - Fairuza Balk
Fairuza Alejandra Balk (born May 21, 1974) is an American film actress. She is known for her role in the 1996 movie "The Craft", the 1998 movie "The Waterboy" and, more than ten years earlier, in Disney's 1985 "Return to Oz". - Allan Carr
Allan Carr (born Allan Solomon on May 27, 1937 in Chicago, Illinois, died June 29, 1999) was an American film producer and manager of actors and musicians. Early in his career, Carr worked behind the scenes at "Playboy Magazine" with Hugh Hefner. Through the years, he became known as a great planner of promotional events and parties. In 1977, producer Robert Stigwood hired him to produce the ad campaign for "Saturday Night Fever". - Charles Lane
Charles Lane (born December 26, 1953) is an African-American actor and filmmaker. While attending SUNY Purchase as a film student, he made a short titled "A Place in Time" based on the famous Kitty Genovese incident. This short gained him a certain amount of attention, including a student Academy Award win. Lane then directed and starred in feature films "True Identity", a vehicle for British comedian Lenny Henry funded by the Walt Disney Company, … - Breck Eisner
Breck Eisner (b. 1970) is the son of former Walt Disney Company chief executive Michael Eisner. He attended the Harvard High School in North Hollywood, CA (now Harvard-Westlake), Georgetown University, and then the film school at USC. He currently works as a director of film and television. He is married to Georgia Irwin. In October 2005, it was announced that Eisner would direct a remake of the classic monster movie "Creature from the Black Lagoon". - Craig Mazin
Craig Mazin (born April 8, 1971) is an American screenwriter and director. He was born in 1971 in Brooklyn, New York, and graduated "magna cum laude" with a degree in psychology from Princeton University in 1992. He began his entertainment career in marketing; he was an executive with the Walt Disney Company in the mid-90s, responsible for writing and producing campaigns for studio films. - Colleen Doran
Colleen Doran (born July 24, 1963) is an American comic book writer and artist, best known for her fantasy series "A Distant Soil". Doran broke into the comic book industry when still a teenager, in the 1980s. "A Distant Soil" was originally published by Wendy and Richard Pini's WaRP Graphics, publishers of "Elfquest", but Doran subsequently left the company due to an acrimonious dispute with Richard Pini, … - Russ Edmonds
Russ Edmonds is a Disney animator. He works are mainly Disney films, perhaps most notably "Beauty and the Beast", "The Hunchback of Notre Dame", and "Tarzan". - John Lustig
John Lustig (born January 25, 1953 in Seattle, Washington) is an American comics writer (former journalist) principally known for his comic book scripts featuring Donald Duck and other members of Disney's Duck family. Lustig's scripts have been illustrated by William Van Horn and other artists. In addition, Lustig has written Mickey Mouse scripts that have been drawn by Noel Van Horn (William's son) and others. - Steve Kirsch
Steve has been involved with the Internet and high-tech companies for more than 27 years. Steve has been involved with the Internet and high-tech companies for more than 27 years. Since the early 80s, he has founded three successful technology companies. Since the early 80s, he has founded three successful technology companies. Prior to Propel, he founded Infoseek Corporation, which was acquired by Disney in November of 1999. - R.J. Williams
R.J. Williams or Robert Jackson Williams (born: July 19, 1978) was a child actor on movies and television shows, one of his credits was the child character Rowdy for two seasons of "General Hospital". He was a guest star on a few episodes of "Full House" and on "Episode 2.1-the Child" of "Star Trek: the Next Generation". Williams played the boy whose friend was a robot on the 1990s syndicated children's TV show "Wake, Rattle and Roll", … - Henry Gilroy
Henry Gilroy is an American television screenwriter and producer. He is best known for co-writing the upcoming animated series "Star Wars: The Clone Wars", tentatively to be released in 2008. From an early age, Gilroy loved comic books and animation. He studied film at several colleges in the greater Los Angeles area. His first job was working as an editor for Warner Bros.' animation department. Gilroy has since written for numerous animated series, … - Rich Cronin
Richard Cronin has been a force behind several cable television networks throughout the past two decades. He is a member of the World Presidents Organization (WPO) and is on the board of CTAM, an education marketing association for the cable TV industry. - Doug E. Doug
Doug E. Doug (born Douglas Bourne on January 7 1970 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American actor and comedian. Doug has appeared in a number of films, including "Jungle Fever" (1991), "Class Act" (1992), "Cool Runnings" (1993), "Operation Dumbo Drop" (1995), and the remake of Disney's "That Darn Cat" (1997). He also appeared in "Eight Legged Freaks" (2002). He was the star of his own short-lived ABC sitcom, … - Anette Grecchi Gray
Anette Grecchi Gray is a chef, currently the Chef de Cuisine of Jiko in Florida. Annette was born in Lucerne, Switzerland. She learned her cooking skills as an apprentice at the Hotel de la Balance in Les Breuleux, Switzerland. She joined the Walt Disney Company in 1992 as Chef de Cuisine at the Inventions Restaurant in the Disneyland Hotel at the Disneyland Resort Paris. - Jesse Marsh
Jesse Marsh (July 27, 1907 - April 28, 1966) was a comic book and animation artist. His main claim to fame is his work on the early "Tarzan" and related books for Western Publishing that saw print through Dell Comics and later Gold Key Comics. He was the first artist to produce original Tarzan comic books. Up to that time, all Tarzan comics were reprints from the newspaper strips. He also worked on the Gene Autry comic for many years. - Bonnie Macbird
Bonnie MacBird graduated from Stanford University with a BA in Music and an MA in Communication (film production). She subsequently worked in the film industry for many years, in a variety of capacities. As a young production executive at Universal in the late 70's she was Ned Tanen 's story development executive for feature films. Next she was a screenwriter from for many years, and her first script, TRON was sold to Disney, and made into the 1981 feature film. - Bill Bavasi
William J. Bavasi (born December 27, 1957, Pasadena, California) is the current general manager and vice president of baseball operations for the Seattle Mariners. The son of longtime Major League Baseball executive Buzzie Bavasi and the brother of Peter Bavasi, also a former MLB executive, Bill also spent six full seasons (1994-99) as the general manager of the California/Anaheim Angels. Bill Bavasi was a graduate of California State University, Fullerton. - Chandler Burr
Chandler Burr (born December 30, 1963) is an American journalist and author, best known for his science writing. Burr achieved critical success with "The Emperor of Scent" (2003), a book-length account of scientist Luca Turin's efforts to decode the sense of smell. Burr's first book, "A Separate Creation" (1996), summarized research on the biological origins and explanations of homosexuality. Published by Hyperion, a subsidiary of the Walt Disney Company, … - Roland W. Betts
Roland Whitney Betts is an investor, film producer, developer, and owner of Chelsea Piers in New York City. A classmate and DKE (Delta Kappa Epsilon) fraternity brother of George W. Bush, Betts was the lead owner in President Bush’s Texas Rangers partnership. He is a graduate of St. Paul's School ('64), Yale ('68) and Columbia Law School ('78). Roland and Lois Betts celebrated their 30th wedding anniversary in 2002. They have two daughters, Margaret and Jessica. - Rian Malan
Rian Malan is a South African author, journalist and songwriter of Afrikaner descent. Born in Johannesburg, Malan developed as a teenager a hazardous predilection for partying with township [i.e. black] artists. Avoiding the apartheid military draft, he moved to the USA to become a keen observer of and writer about violence in contemporary society. He was able to return to South Africa in the 1980s, where he wrote "My Traitor's Heart", … - Lee Thompson Young
Lee Thompson Young (born February 1, 1984) is an American actor, known for starring in the Disney television series, "The Famous Jett Jackson".
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