Michael Eisner
Michael Dammann Eisner ( born March 7, 1942 in Mount Kisco, New York, USA) is an American manager and led the Walt Disney Company of 1984 until 2005.
Life
Eisner comes from a wealthy Jewish family. He attended the Lawrenceville School in New Jersey, then enrolled but - contrary to the wishes of his family - not at Princeton University, but instead at the small Denison University in Ohio. First, he began to study medicine, but quickly changed to English literature and theater and made in 1964 with a BA. Since 1967, he is married to Jane Breckenridge and has with her three sons.
He began his career at ABC, where he eventually became in 1976 the position of senior vice president for prime time and program development. In 1977 he became president of Paramount Pictures. As with ABC, he was responsible for numerous successful productions.
Since 1984, Michael Eisner had held the position of Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Disney Company. Sid Bass and Roy E. Disney had stood up for him and Frank Wells. Eisner along with the former Warner Brothers chief, the company made a major crisis. The two managed the turnaround, as they could cause the animation division at the height of old successes.
Under Eisner's control was in Paris a theme park, theme parks in California, Florida and Tokyo received new attractions and new parks and even in face of new hotels had with it. The company grew through acquisitions: for example, Capital Cities / ABC and Miramax. He also instrumental in the development of the Disney Stores had. Also in the production of real and animated films could be achieved numerous successes, like The Little Mermaid, The Lion King, Armageddon, The Sixth Sense and Pearl Harbor. Ultimately, he also contributed to the creation of Walt Disney Theatrical in, which is very profitable - as tickets relating Awards - moved productions to himself: "Beauty and the Beast ," " The Lion King ", " The Hunchback of Notre Dame" and " Aida ".
Johnny Depp voiced in retrospect critical of Eisner. Due to strong criticism and conflict, among others, Roy E. Disney and Steve Jobs, the former CEO of Pixar, Eisner finished his working relationship with Disney in 2005, leaving his position the vice Robert A. Iger.