ITEM 4. Mine Safety Disclosures
Not applicable.
Information About Our Executive Officers
The executive officers of the Company are elected each year at the organizational meeting of the Board of Directors, which follows the annual meeting of the shareholders, and at other Board of Directors meetings, as appropriate. Each of the executive officers has been employed by the Company in the position or positions indicated in the list and pertinent notes below.
The executive officers of the Company are: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Name | | Age | | Title | | Executive
Officer Since |
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| Robert A. Iger | | 74 | | Chief Executive Officer(1) | | 2022 |
Hugh F. Johnston | | 64 | | Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer(2) | | 2023 |
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| Horacio E. Gutierrez | | 60 | | Senior Executive Vice President, Chief Legal and Global Affairs Officer(3) | | 2022 |
| Sonia L. Coleman | | 53 | | Senior Executive Vice President and Chief People Officer(4) | | 2023 |
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| Kristina K. Schake | | 55 | | Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Communications Officer(5) | | 2022 |
(1)Mr. Iger was appointed Chief Executive Officer effective November 20, 2022. He also serves as a director on the Board of Directors from November 20, 2022. He previously served as Executive Chairman of the Company from February 2020 through December 2021 and as Chief Executive Officer of the Company from September 2005 to February 2020. He served as Chairman of the Board of Directors from 2012 to 2021.
(2)Mr. Johnston was appointed Chief Financial Officer effective December 4, 2023. Prior to joining the Company, he served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, from 2010, and Vice Chairman, from 2015 to November 2023 of PepsiCo, Inc. (“PepsiCo”). His portfolio included a variety of responsibilities, including leadership of PepsiCo’s information technology function from 2015, PepsiCo’s global e-commerce business from 2015 to 2019, and the Quaker Foods North America division from 2014 to 2016. He also held a number of other leadership roles during his PepsiCo career, having served as Executive Vice President, Global Operations from 2009 to 2010, President of Pepsi-Cola North America from 2007 to 2009, Executive Vice President, Operations from 2006 to 2007 and Senior Vice President, Transformation from 2005 to 2006. Prior to that, he served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of PepsiCo Beverages and Foods from 2002 through 2005, and as PepsiCo’s Senior Vice President of Mergers and Acquisitions in 2002. He joined PepsiCo in 1987 as a Business Planner and held various finance positions until 1999 when he left to join Merck & Co., Inc. as Vice President, Retail, a position which he held until he rejoined PepsiCo in 2002. Mr. Johnston serves on the board of directors of Microsoft Corporation, which he joined in 2017, and on the board of HCA Healthcare, Inc., which he joined in 2021.
(3)Mr. Gutierrez was appointed Senior Executive Vice President and General Counsel effective February 1, 2022, appointed Senior Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer effective March 27, 2023, appointed Senior Executive Vice President, Chief Legal and Compliance Officer effective December 21, 2023 and appointed Senior Executive Vice President, Chief Legal and Global Affairs Officer effective November 4, 2025. Prior to joining the Company, he served as Head of Global Affairs and Chief Legal Officer for Spotify Technology S.A. (Spotify) from November 2019 to January 2022, where he led a global, multi-disciplinary team of business, corporate communications and public affairs, government relations, licensing, operations and legal professionals responsible for the company’s work in areas including industry relations, content partnerships, public policy, and trust & safety. He was previously Spotify’s General Counsel - Vice President, Business & Legal Affairs from April 2016 to November 2019.
(4)Ms. Coleman was appointed Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer effective April 8, 2023 and appointed Senior Executive Vice President and Chief People Officer effective September 27, 2025. She was previously Senior Vice President, Human Resources at Disney General Entertainment and ESPN from August 2021. Ms. Coleman served as Senior Vice President, Human Resources for Disney General Entertainment from April 2017,
Vice President, Human Resources for the Company from May 2016 and Vice President, Human Resources, Disney Consumer Products from May 2010.
(5)Ms. Schake was appointed Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Communications Officer effective June 29, 2022. Previously, she served as Executive Vice President, Global Communications from April 2022. Prior to joining the Company, she was appointed by the President of the United States as Counselor for Strategic Communications to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, leading a nationwide public education campaign from March 2021 to December 2021. Prior to that, she served as Global Communications Director for Instagram, a product of Meta Platforms, Inc., from March 2017 to March 2019, where she oversaw the communications teams in North America, Latin America, Europe and Asia.
