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BRENT

WOODFORD

EVP, Controllership, Fin

Planning, & Tax

Brent A. Woodford is Executive Vice President, Controllership,

Financial Planning & Tax for The Walt Disney Company.

Brent is responsible for developing the company’s operating

profit, cash flow and capital spending plans in addition to its

external and internal financial reporting. He manages

company-wide controllership and related shared service

financial activities as well as the corporate Financial Planning &

Analysis and Tax functions. Brent also provides

administrative oversight of Management Audit.

Prior to joining Disney in October 2003, Brent was Vice

President, Controller of Yum! Brands, Inc., a spin-off from

PepsiCo, and the Controller of PepsiCo’s international

restaurant division, serving 10 years with the PepsiCo and Yum!

organizations. Brent also spent time as an equity securities

analyst with A.G. Edwards & Sons, as a financial

consultant with Coopers & Lybrand and in the audit practice at

KPMG in its Dallas and London offices.

Brent is a CPA (inactive) and a Chartered Financial Analyst. He

is a member of the Financial Executives International

Committee on Corporate Reporting and of the AICPA, serving

on its Accounting Standards Executive Committee from 2003 to

2005. He also served on the Financial Accounting Standards

Advisory Council of the Financial

Accounting Foundation from 2006 to 2009. Brent has a B.A. in

accounting from Michigan State University and an M.B.A. from

St. Louis University.