The Walt Disney Co. has appointed Lousie Pentland as its new Chief Counsel for the Disney Parks, Experiences, and Merchandise department, efficient Sept. 15. Pentland will report back to Horacio Gutierrez, Senior Government Vice President, Normal Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer, and function a strategic advisor to Josh D’Amaro, Chairman, Disney Parks, Experiences, and Merchandise and the manager management group.
As Chief Counsel, Pentland will likely be answerable for regulatory and authorized issues for the Disney Parks, Experiences, and Merchandise companies. This consists of six theme park-resorts throughout Asia, Europe, and the U.S., a trip possession program, a widely known cruise line, and a guided household journey enterprise.
Disney’s international client merchandise operations, which incorporates a main licensing enterprise spanning digital video games and apps, residence items, toys, and attire; the shopDisney e-commerce platform; and the corporate’s youngsters’s print writer are additionally inside her oversight.
Pentland, who most lately served as Government Vice President, Chief Enterprise Affairs and Authorized Officer at Paypal, has intensive enterprise and authorized expertise required to satisfy the position. At Paypal, Pentland led the corporate’s Folks, Authorized, Communications, Mental Property, Authorities Relations, and Social Innovation facets. She oversaw monetary, regulatory, and authorized necessities throughout the globe as properly.
“Louise Pentland is a extremely completed authorized government with greater than twenty years of expertise serving on the highest ranges of revolutionary international firms,” Gutierrez says. “Her broad experience working with complicated enterprise, regulatory, and compliance issues around the globe and her monitor file as an exemplary chief make her an excellent addition to the management group at Disney Parks, Experiences, and Merchandise.”
Pentland provides, “I’ve lengthy admired Disney Parks’ repute as a world chief in tourism and client merchandise, together with its distinctive historical past of innovation and progress, and I’m trying ahead to taking over this position and serving to advance the group’s formidable objectives for the longer term. That is an thrilling time to hitch The Walt Disney Co. and I’m honored to be a part of a enterprise that brings a lot pleasure to individuals throughout the globe – myself included.”
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