Page 6 - DTCI Mentor Bios Burbank

As General Manager, Digital Media for The Walt Disney
Company’s Direct-to-Consumer & International (DTCI) segment,
Salil Mehta manages a significant portfolio of video apps and
digital media platforms, including all of the digital properties of
Walt Disney Television properties, as well as those of Disney,
Marvel and Star Wars.

Mehta leads a team that oversees the P&L, as well as the product
strategy, business development, audience development and
marketing for this portfolio. He works in close collaboration with
DTCI’s Technology, Disney Streaming Services, and Disney
SALIL Advertising Sales teams as well as with content leaders around
the Company to evolve current product offerings; develop
MEHTA innovative new products to attract, engage and retain audiences;
and maximize revenue and operating income. In addition, as
Mehta joined from Fox where he served as President, FoxNext, he
General continues to manage FoxNext’s vertically integrated videogame
Manager, business, as well as its virtual and augmented reality studio.

Digital Media Mehta joined Fox in 2013 as president of content management for
Direct-to-Consumer Twentieth Century Fox Film. Prior to Fox, he served as chief
& International operating officer and chief financial offer of NBCUniversal’s
entertainment, digital networks and integrated media division.
During his tenure at NBCUniversal, Mehta also served as
president, business operations, strategy and development.

He first joined The Walt Disney Company in August 1994 as
Manager, Corporate Strategic Planning. Mehta served as the
Executive Vice President of Corporate Business Development
from 2002 to 2005, where he had lead responsibility for the
development and launch of new businesses and played a senior
role in the development of Disney's long-term growth strategies
and mergers and acquisitions plans. Mehta also served as an
Executive Vice President of ESPN Enterprises Inc. from 2005 to
2008. He had the general management responsibilities for all of
ESPN's non-broadcasting businesses including new media,
broadband, mobile, publishing and consumer product businesses.

Mehta obtained an MBA from Wharton School and a Bachelor of
Arts Degree in International Relations from Brown University. He
also was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study Political
Economy at the Delhi School of Economics in Delhi, India. He
lives in Los Angeles with his wife and three children – all of whom
are massive Disney fans.

6