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Executive Profile*

Background*

Mr. Robert A. Iger, Bob has been the Chief Executive Officer and President of The Walt Disney Company at Disney Consumer Products, Inc. since October 2, 2005 and has been its Chairman since March 2012. Mr. Iger serves as the Chief Executive Officer and President of The Walt Disney Studios. He served as the Chief Operating Officer of The Walt Disney Company from January 2000 to September 2005 and its President since January 2000. He served as the President of Walt Disney ... International and Chairman of the ABC Group from February 1999 to January 2000. He held a number of increasingly responsible positions at ABC, Inc. and its predecessor Capital Cities/ ABC, Inc., culminating in service as the President and Chief Operating Officer of ABC, Inc. from 1994 to 1999. Mr. Iger officially joined the Disney senior management team in 1996 as Chairman of the Disney-owned ABC Group. Mr. Iger began his career at ABC in 1974 as a studio supervisor in New York, then moved to ABC Sports, where he advanced over a 12-year period through a series of increasingly responsible management posts. He has held a series of increasingly responsible senior management positions at ABC, where he guided the complex merger of ABC at The Walt Disney Company. Mr. Iger served as Vice President of programming and was responsible for all scheduling and program acquisitions at ABC Sports since 1987. He served as the President of ABC Entertainment in Los Angeles. He served as the President of the ABC Television Network Group in New York since 1993. During his years at ABC, he oversaw its broadcast television network and station, cable television, radio and publishing businesses, which includes the market leading brands of ABC, ESPN, Lifetime, A&E and The History Channel. He served as Chief Executive Officer of MarketWatch, Inc. since 2006. He was employed at ABC Holding Company, Inc. He served as the Chairman of the Disney-owned ABC Group since 1996. He has been a Director of The Walt Disney Co. of Disney Interactive Media Group since 2000 and Apple Inc since November 2011. He served as a Director of ABC, Inc. (formerly Capital Cities/ABC Inc.) since 1994. He served as a Director of Infoseek Corp., since November 1998. He was employed at ESPN Holding Company, Inc. He serves as a Director of National September 11 Memorial & Museum at the World Trade Center Foundation, Inc., Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts Inc., and New York City Outward Bound. In June 2010, he was appointed as U.S. President's Export Council, which advises the U.S. president on how to promote U.S. exports, jobs and growth. He serves as a Trustee of the Museum of Television and Radio and of Ithaca College. He serves as a Trustee of American Film Institute. He serves as a Member of Foundation Committee at The Motion Picture and Television Fund. He has been director of Apple Inc. since November , 2011. He has been a Board Member of the U.S.-China Business Council in June 2011. Mr. Iger is also a member of the Partnership for a New American Economy, a coalition of mayors and business leaders from across the United States that support comprehensive immigration reform. He serves on the Executive Advisory Board of the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation. Mr. Iger has been named one of Fortune magazine's "25 Most Powerful People in Business" (2006, 2007); one of the "Top Gun CEOs" by Forbes magazine (2009) and one of the "Best CEOs" by Institutional Investor magazine (2008, 2009, 2010, 2011). He graduated magna cum laude. He holds a BS in Communications from Ithaca College.

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