Alan Bergman (pictured top right), who’s been president of The Walt Disney Studios since 2005, has been promoted to co-chairman of The Walt Disney Studios Entertainment division, according to an announcement made on May 1st by Disney chairman and CEO Bob Allen Iger and Disney Studios chairman Alan Horn (pictured top left).
Bergman will serve alongside Horn as co-chairmen, while Horn, 76, will assume the additional title of chief creative officer (CCO). Both Horn and Bergman, in their respective new roles, will report to Iger and will jointly oversee Disney’s film, music and theater groups, as well as the studios’ global marketing, distribution, communications, and human resources.
The long list of labels they are in charge of include Disney, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar Animation Studios, Disneynature, Marvel Studios and Lucasfilm, Twentieth Century Fox, Fox Family, Fox Searchlight Pictures, Fox 2000, and Blue Sky Studios.