
The Walt Disney Company was already in the market for a new Chief Executive Officer. Bob Iger returned at the end of the last year with the understanding he would only hold the job for two years, but now the C-Suite is getting another major shakeup as the woman largely credited as the architect of Iger’s return, Chief Financial Officer Christine McCarthy, is taking a medical leave of absence that will see her out as CFO. But the current CEO is singing her praises.
Christine McCarthy has been with the Walt Disney Company since 2000 and has been the company’s CFO since 2015. Late yesterday the Walt Disney Company made the surprising announcement that McCarthy would be stepping down as CFO effective July 1. In a statement CEO Bob Iger praised McCarthy for her service to Disney during one of the more transformative periods in Disney’s 100-year history. Iger said…