Disney's Iger to leave at year-end, Arnold named new chair

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Disney's Iger to leave at year-end, Arnold named new chair

The Walt Disney Company has elected Susan E. Arnold as its new board chair, effective 31 December. She is already a 14-year board member and the lead independent director since 2018. She will succeed Bob Iger, the former Disney CEO who is leaving the company at year-end. 

Arnold comes from the Carlyle Group, where she was an operating executive from 2013 to 2021. Before that she held executive positions at Procter & Gamble and served as a director at McDonald’s and NBTY. 

The appointment brings to an end a long period of Iger at the top of the media company. He has served as chairman of the board since 2012, and as Disney’s executive chairman since 2020, directing the company’s creative endeavors. From 2005-2020 he led Disney as CEO. 

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