Bob Weis Promoted To President At Walt Disney Imagineering

Walt Disney have promoted Bob Weis to president of Walt Disney Imagineering, replacing Bruce Vaughn, with a few months cross over during the transitional period.  With a big push to boost the theme parks with new attractions and improvements to existing parks, plus the opening of the Shanghai Disney Resort. MBob’s history within the company will help the Imagineering department, as he previously worked on Shanghai, DisneySea and Hollywood Studios.

Bob Chapek, chairman of Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, announced the changes in an internal memo. “Since creativity is at the heart of what we do,” the memo said, “we need to relentlessly innovate and evolve our organization.”

There have been some other reshuffles of top staff with Craig Russell working in Project Integration and Kathy Mangum will now be responsible for the creative side of Disney Cruise Line and Disneyland Paris to her creative responsibilities.

Disney Parks is about to begin a major push of building new attractions across all properties, and with Bob Weiss at the helm, the company has a vastly experienced creative leader spearheading the effort.