Audrey Finci Promoted to Executive VP, Walt Disney Art Classics/Disney Direct Marketing.BURBANK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 28, 1999--Audrey Finci has been promoted to executive vice president of 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 Art Classics and Disney Direct Marketing, it was announced Thursday. In addition, she will continue to lead Disney Consumer Products' global operations Global Operations is a first-person shooter computer game developed by Barking Dog Studios and published by both Crave Entertainment and Electronic Arts. It was released in March of 2002, following its public multiplayer beta version which contained only the Quebec map. and technology groups, which she has headed up since 1997. The announcement of Finci's promotion was made by Disney Consumer Products Chairman Barton K. Boyd and President Anne Osberg. Finci, 41, will head worldwide operations of Walt Disney Art Classics, Disney's fine-art and collectibles business; and Disney Direct Marketing, which operates The Disney Catalog and The Disney Credit Card in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. . The two businesses were integrated in 1998. Finci assumes leadership of the businesses from Thomas F. Park, who on Tuesday was named executive vice president of The Disney Store Worldwide. "Audrey's assured leadership has helped Disney Consumer Products to grow around the world and meet the challenges we have faced along the way," said Osberg. Boyd added, "Her strong vision and the expertise she has demonstrated in the decade she has been with Consumer Products will be great assets to our successful Walt Disney Art Classics and Disney Direct Marketing businesses." Finci joined Disney Consumer Products in 1988 as director of group finance. She was named senior vice president of operations and technology for DCP DCP - definitional constraint programming in 1997. Prior to that, she was vice president of operations for DCP in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and Canada. She also served as vice president and chief financial officer for Consumer Products in the United States and Canada. Before joining Disney, Finci headed Los Angeles-based Urban & Associates, a business and financial-systems consulting firm that she founded in 1984. She has also worked at The Wickes Cos. Inc., Coopers & Lybrand, and Ernst & Young. Finci holds a bachelor of arts degree in psychology from UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX , and a master of business administration degree from the University of Southern California The U.S. News & World Report ranked USC 27th among all universities in the United States in its 2008 ranking of "America's Best Colleges", also designating it as one of the "most selective universities" for admitting 8,634 of the almost 34,000 who applied for freshman admission . |
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