Anne Gates Joins Disney Consumer Products as Sr. VP and Chief Financial Officer.Business & Entertainment/Retail Editors NOTE TO MEDIA: Photo is available in a Smart News Release(TM) on Business Wire's Home Page at www.businesswire.com BURBANK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 16, 2000 Anne Gates has been named senior vice president and chief financial officer for Disney Consumer Products, it was announced today by Andrew Mooney, president of Disney Consumer Products Worldwide, and Thomas O. Staggs Thomas O. Staggs is the Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of The Walt Disney Company. [1] Career Thomas O. Staggs currently oversees Disney's worldwide finance organization, corporate strategy and development, acquisitions, , senior executive vice president and chief financial officer of The Walt Disney Noun 1. Walt Disney - United States film maker who pioneered animated cartoons and created such characters as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck; founded Disneyland (1901-1966) Disney, Walter Elias Disney Company (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :DIS). Gates will be responsible for all finance and accounting functions for the Consumer Products division and its operating companies around the globe. She will also lead the division's budgetary and strategic planning Strategic planning is an organization's process of defining its strategy, or direction, and making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy, including its capital and people. reviews, and its Information Technologies function. Gates served as director of group finance for Disney Consumer Products in 1992 and was promoted in 1993 to vice president of group finance, where she served until 1997 before moving to Disney Interactive and Corporate operations. "Anne's business acumen and and analytical skills will provide critical building blocks as we position Consumer Products for new growth and activity around the world," Mooney said. "We're very happy she is once again part of our team at Consumer Products." Added Staggs: "Anne has made invaluable contributions to our company during her career, and particularly in her most recent role in operations and planning. Her talents will serve Consumer Products well as the division focuses on improving its performance." Gates joined The Walt Disney Company in January 1991 as senior manager of operations and planning, working closely with the Consumer Products division. In 1992, she moved to Disney Consumer Products as director, division finance and business planning, and was promoted to vice president, division finance and planning, in 1994, and later was named vice president, finance, Disney Consumer Products U.S. & Canada. Gates moved to Disney Interactive in 1997 as vice president, planning and business development, and transitioned to The Walt Disney Company's corporate headquarters in 1998, heading up the operations planning and analysis group. Prior to joining Disney, Gates worked for PepsiCo, where she spent more than a year in London as manager of business development for Kentucky Fried Chicken Fried chicken is chicken which is dipped in a breading mixture and then deep fried, pan fried or pressure fried. The breading seals in the juices but also absorbs the fat of the fryer, which is sometimes seen as unhealthy. in Europe, Middle East & Africa. Gates, who is married and has twin sons and a daughter, received her bachelor's degree in mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley is a public research university located in Berkeley, California, United States. Commonly referred to as UC Berkeley, Berkeley and Cal , and a master's degree master's degree n. An academic degree conferred by a college or university upon those who complete at least one year of prescribed study beyond the bachelor's degree. Noun 1. from Columbia University Columbia University, mainly in New York City; founded 1754 as King's College by grant of King George II; first college in New York City, fifth oldest in the United States; one of the eight Ivy League institutions. . |
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