Disney Names New Head of China Unit
Walt Disney Co. named former Johnson & Johnson executive Stanley Cheung to head its Chinese operations.
Cheung, 46, who ran Johnson & Johnson’s consumer business in China, will become managing director of Walt Disney Co. (China), the Burbank-based entertainment company said in a statement.
“China is of great strategic importance to Disney,” Andy Bird, president of Walt Disney International, said in the statement.
Disney’s Hong Kong theme park, its first in Asia outside of Tokyo and its third outside the U.S., is scheduled to open next September. In October, Southern Media Corp. said it was in talks with Disney to make TV programs in the southern province of Guangdong.
Before joining Johnson & Johnson, Cheung worked in the Shanghai offices of Pillsbury Co., where he managed North Asian operations.
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