Disney Names Louise Pentland as its Chief Counsel for Parks, Experiences, and Merchandise

The Walt Disney Co. has appointed Lousie Pentland as its new Chief Counsel for the Disney Parks, Experiences, and Merchandise department, efficient Sept. 15. Pentland will report back to Horacio Gutierrez, Senior Govt Vice President, Normal Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer, and function a strategic advisor to Josh D’Amaro, Chairman, Disney Parks, Experiences, and Merchandise and the chief management workforce.

As Chief Counsel, Pentland will probably be liable for regulatory and authorized issues for the Disney Parks, Experiences, and Merchandise companies. This contains six theme park-resorts throughout Asia, Europe, and the U.S., a trip possession program, a well known cruise line, and a guided household journey enterprise. 

Disney’s world client merchandise operations, which encompasses a main licensing enterprise spanning digital video games and apps, dwelling items, toys, and attire; the shopDisney e-commerce platform; and the corporate’s kids’s print writer are additionally inside her oversight. 

Pentland, who most just lately served as Govt Vice President, Chief Enterprise Affairs and Authorized Officer at Paypal, has intensive enterprise and authorized expertise required to meet the position. At Paypal, Pentland led the corporate’s Individuals, Authorized, Communications, Mental Property, Authorities Relations, and Social Innovation features. She oversaw monetary, regulatory, and authorized necessities throughout the globe as nicely. 

“Louise Pentland is a extremely completed authorized government with greater than twenty years of expertise serving on the highest ranges of modern world corporations,” Gutierrez says. “Her broad experience working with advanced enterprise, regulatory, and compliance issues all over the world and her observe document as an exemplary chief make her an outstanding addition to the management workforce at Disney Parks, Experiences, and Merchandise.”

Pentland provides, “I’ve lengthy admired Disney Parks’ status as a world chief in tourism and client merchandise, together with its distinctive historical past of innovation and development, and I’m wanting ahead to taking up this position and serving to advance the group’s formidable objectives for the longer term. That is an thrilling time to hitch The Walt Disney Co. and I’m honored to be a part of a enterprise that brings a lot pleasure to folks throughout the globe – myself included.”