Spotlight on Kareem Daniel – Chairman, Disney Media and Entertainment Distribution

A longtime veteran of Disney, Mr. Daniel has spearheaded transformation throughout the Firm via management roles in Client Merchandise, Video games and Publishing; Walt Disney Imagineering; The Walt Disney Studios; and Company Technique. He leverages this expertise at Disney Media and Leisure Distribution the place he oversees content material funding and distribution selections to maximise viewers engagement and industrial affect throughout the Firm’s portfolio of media platforms.

Mr. Daniel’s scope consists of world P&L administration and operation of the Firm’s streaming companies – Disney+, Hulu, ESPN+, and the worldwide normal leisure providing, Star+ – which mixed serve greater than 175 million subscribers; its portfolio of must-watch linear tv channels,
together with ABC, Disney Channel, ESPN, Freeform, FX, and Nationwide Geographic; its ABC owned-stations; its industry-leading promoting gross sales enterprise; Disney Music Group; content material licensing and distribution; and theatrical movie distribution for the Firm’s world-class leisure studios – Disney, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar Animation Studios, Marvel Studios, Lucasfilm, twentieth Century Studios, and Searchlight Footage.

Previous to Disney Media and Leisure Distribution, Mr. Daniel was President of Client Merchandise, Video games and Publishing, the place he led the groups creating and delivering merchandise throughout a wide range of channels, together with the Firm’s direct-to-consumer e-commerce enterprise, shopDisney. He additionally managed the world’s largest client merchandise licensing group, oversaw the digital and cell video games enterprise, and was accountable for Disney Publishing Worldwide.

Beforehand, Mr. Daniel served as President of Operations at Walt Disney Imagineering, the place he helped remodel the Firm’s iconic characters, tales, and worlds into technologically superior, immersive experiences at Disney’s Parks and Resorts, together with Star Wars: Galaxy’s
Edge at Disneyland Park and Disney’s Hollywood Studios and Avengers Campus at Disney California Journey Park.

He additionally led Distribution Technique at The Walt Disney Studios, creating new distribution and commercialization enterprise fashions throughout a number of platforms geared toward assembly audiences’ evolving expectations. As a part of Company Technique, he labored on a wide range of transformative tasks throughout the Firm, together with M&A offers such because the acquisition of Marvel Leisure.

Along with his prolonged profession at The Walt Disney Firm, Mr. Daniel labored in fairness analysis and funding banking at Goldman Sachs, the place he specialised in know-how, media and leisure, and telecommunications. Mr. Daniel earned his Bachelor of Science diploma in Electrical Engineering and an MBA from Stanford College.

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