Euro Disney Names New Chief Executive

By Richard Verrier

March 29, 2003 12 AM PT

The former president of Burger King International has been named chairman and chief executive of Euro Disney.

Andre Lacroix, 43, takes over from James Rasulo, who was appointed last year as president of Walt Disney Parks & Resorts.

A French native, Lacroix joined Burger King in 1996 and held various executive positions overseeing the expansion of the company’s brand in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

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Richard Verrier

Richard Verrier is investigations editor for Arts and Entertainment at the Los Angeles Times. He has been with The Times since 2001 and has run our Company Town since 2016. After stints at the St. Petersburg Times and the Orlando Sentinel in Florida, Verrier joined the paper as a reporter, and for many years covered all aspects of the entertainment industry before turning to editing. He oversees the Company Town coverage while working to guide and edit investigative and enterprise reporting across the entertainment team, collaborating with writers and editors from all departments. He is a native of Montreal and a graduate from the University of Toronto and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.