DISNEY - As Barbara Bouza takes on the role of President, Bob Weis is transitioning from President, Walt Disney Imagineering – Creative and New Experience Development to Global Imagineering Ambassador, a role previously held by one of his mentors, the late Marty Sklar. Bouza will be working under new corporate leadership. Robert Iger is scheduled to step down as Disney’s Executive Chairman on December 31, 2021, a role he assumed in 2020 after retiring as the company’s CEO and President. Taking the reins from Iger will be Susan Arnold, a long-time Board member, with fourteen years of service. Arnold was formerly an operating executive of the equity investment firm The Carlyle Group, where she served from 2013 to 2021.
UNIVERSAL - Universal Parks & Resorts is undergoing a structural change with a major shuffling of executive management and the creation of two new positions. With the announcement that Mark Woodbury will be promoted from President of Universal Creative to Chair and CEO of Universal Parks & Resorts on January 1, 2022, the company announced that he will be succeeded by Michael Hightower, who has served with Universal Creative since 1995, most recently as Senior VP, Executive Project Director. On the park operations side, after fifteen years as President of Universal Orlando Resort,Bill Davis is retiring. He will be replaced by Karen Irwin, current President and COO of Universal Studios Hollywood. Tom Mehrmann will take on the newly created role of President, Pacific Rim, Universal Parks & Resorts, which will oversee parks and resorts in China, Japan, and California...
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Photo: Tom Mehrmann speaks at the signing ceremony for the Universal Beijing Resort. Courtesy Universal Beijing Resort
