US firm Walt Disney names Amy Chang & Calvin McDonald as new directors

Leading American entertainment company, Walt Disney, has announced that the company’s board of directors have elected two new directors, Amy Chang, veteran technology executive, and Calvin McDonald, chief executive officer of global athletic apparel company Lululemon Athletica. The elections of Chang and McDonald are effective immediately.

Chang serves on the board of directors of Procter & Gamble and Marqeta, and as an advisor to more than a dozen companies including Cisco, HubSpot and various private companies. From 2018-2020, Chang served as executive vice president and general manager of Cisco’s Collaboration business, leading its videoconferencing, cloud calling, contact centre, video device, and phones businesses. She joined Cisco through the acquisition of the company she founded,
Accompany, an artificial intelligence/machine learning-based relationship intelligence platform serving Fortune 500 companies. Prior to Accompany, where she served as chief executive officer, Chang was global head of product, Google Ads Measurement, where she led the teams for Google Analytics, Website Optimizer, Trends and multichannel attribution. She has held additional positions with eBay, McKinsey, Intel, AMD and Motorola, and previously served on the boards of Cisco, Splunk and Informatica, according to a press release by Walt Disney.