The board of Walt Disney Co. appears to be on the verge of picking Disney parks chief Josh D’Amaro as its next chief executive officer. D’Amaro is the man responsible for pushing woke ideals into the company’s parks.
D’Amaro, 54, would succeed Bob Iger, who had recently returned as CEO after a previous stint in the job from 2005 to 2020. The decision is not yet locked in, but insiders say D’Amaro is the most favored, according to Bloomberg.
The top candidates after D’Amaro have been ESPN chief Jimmy Pitaro, and Disney co-chairs Dana Walden and Alan Bergman.
D’Amaro joined Disney as a parks executive in 1998 from the Gillette razor company and has headed up a $60 billion investment in parks, resorts,
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