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B R E N T W O O D F O R D

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 .