迪士尼的下任CEO是他？

    迪士尼公司有了新的首席运营官，他就是在该公司管理层任职已久的汤姆•斯塔格斯。更重要的是，作为娱乐业巨头，迪士尼终于有了一位半官方的首席执行官继任者。现任CEO鲍伯•艾格将在三年后卸任。

    斯塔格斯目前负责迪士尼乐园度假区业务，一直是传闻中的两名CEO职位竞逐者之一。另一位是目前担任首席财务官职务的杰伊•罗思乐（关于罗思乐会不会留在迪士尼尚无官方消息，但留任的可能性似乎不大，因为罗思乐最近已经决定不与公司续约）。五年前，艾格曾将斯塔格斯和罗思乐的职务对调。斯塔格斯1990年进入迪士尼担任经理，后一路升至首席财务官。正是这次对调让他成为了迪士尼乐园度假区业务的负责人。

    艾格在周四上午发布的新闻稿中说：“作为一名高管，汤姆有着了不起的经验、才干和全面性。在他的领导下，迪士尼乐园度假区业务得到了前所未有的发展和扩张，其中包括上海迪士尼乐园的兴建。他的业务领导力已经得到证明，他也已经在迪士尼首席财务官的位置上取得了成功，这让他成为理想的首席运营官人选，进而可以参与到迪士尼的各项业务之中。”

    迪士尼的收入已连续四年创下新高。不过，近几周人们向迪士尼乐园投来了审视的目光，原因是南加州迪士尼乐园成了麻疹疫情的源头，而上海迪士尼乐园又推迟了开园时间。

    斯塔格斯在迪士尼有着辉煌的业绩记录，而且也曾在公司不同业务部门历练过多年。不过，虽然首席运营官让他离CEO宝座更进了一步——艾格升任CEO前就曾经干了五年的COO，一位和迪士尼关系密切的消息人士向《财富》杂志透露，这并不意味着斯塔格斯一定会成为CEO。该消息人士称，这次升职既是斯塔格斯高管生涯的进一步发展，也是公司从CEO候选人的角度对他进行考察。这还会让他有机会更加频繁地与迪士尼的董事会和外界人士打交道。

    随后迪士尼还可能出现其他变化。首先，还不清楚现任首席财务官罗思乐是否会留任。而且艾格目前还需要寻找相关人选，以接手斯塔格斯负责的乐园度假区业务。目前这项业务还由他暂时兼管，而他的继任者很可能从公司内部产生。

    但可以肯定的是，艾格不大愿意看到权力交接出现混乱，或者说，希望避免出现自己的前任迈克尔•艾斯纳被赶下台后自己被提拔为CEO时的局面。因此，虽然距离卸任还有三年时间——届时艾格将不再与迪士尼续约——但我们很可能在不久之后便可以进一步获悉艾格的权力移交计划。（财富中文网）

    译者：Charlie

    审稿：李翔

    The Walt Disney Company has a new chief operating officer: longtime company executive Tom Staggs. More importantly, the entertainment giant finally has a semi-official heir apparent to the CEO job. Its current chief executive, Bob Iger, is set to retire from Disney in three years.

    Staggs, head of the company’s parks and resorts business, had been one of two rumored contenders for the top job. The other was current CFO Jay Rasulo. (There’s no official word on whether Rasulo will stay with the company, though it seems unlikely as he recently opted not to renew his contract.) Five years ago, Iger asked Staggs and Rasulo to swap jobs. That’s when Staggs, who started at Disney in 1990 as a manager and worked his way up to CFO, became the head of the parks and resorts division.

    “Tom is an incredibly experienced, talented and versatile executive who has led parks and resorts during a time of unprecedented growth and expansion, including the construction of Shanghai Disney Resort,” Iger said in a press release issued Thursday morning. “His proven ability to lead a business as well as his successful tenure as Disney’s former CFO make him an ideal chief operating officer, expanding his portfolio into all the company’s businesses.”

    Disney DIS 1.34% has been on a tear, with four straight years of record-breaking revenues. But its parks business has been under scrutiny in recent weeks after a measles outbreak was linked to its Southern California parks and it pushed back the launch of an upcoming resort in Shanghai, China.

    Staggs has a strong track record at Disney and has spent years working across the company’s diversified business units. While the COO position puts him one step closer towards the top job—Iger spent five years as COO before his promotion to CEO—a source close to the company tells Fortune that it does not mean the job is guaranteed. According to the source, the promotion will position Staggs for further executive development as well as scrutiny for the CEO role. It will also give him an opportunity to more frequently face the company’s board and an external audience.

    Other changes may follow suit at Disney. For starters, it’s not clear that current CFO Rasulo will stay with the company. And Iger now needs to find someone—most likely an internal candidate—to run the parks and resorts business, which will remain in Stagg’s hands for the time being.

    One thing is clear: Iger will likely want to avoid a messy handover, à la his promotion following the ousting of former CEO Michael Eisner. So while the CEO has another three years to go—he won’t extend his contract again—it’s likely we’ll be hearing more about his succession planning long before.