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Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Christine M. McCarthy is Senior Executive Vice President and Chief
Financial Officer of The Walt Disney Company and oversees the
company’s worldwide finance organization, investor relations,
corporate planning, enterprise controllership, tax, treasury, real
estate, risk management, global product and labor standards, and
enterprise social responsibility.

Ms. McCarthy formerly served as Executive Vice President, Corporate Real Estate, Alliances and Treasurer of The Walt
Disney Company. In that role, she was responsible for the enterprise-wide management of a variety of functions,
including corporate finance, capital markets, financial risk management, international treasury, insurance, pension and
investments, global cash management and treasury operations, and credit and collections. She also oversaw corporate
alliances and the company’s global real estate organization, including development, portfolio management and
facilities management. In 2017 Ms. McCarthy was appointed Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Euro Disneyland.

Prior to joining Disney, Ms. McCarthy was the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Imperial Bancorp
from 1997 to 2000. She held various finance and planning positions at First Interstate Bancorp from 1981 to 1996, and
was elected Executive Vice President, Finance at First Interstate Bancorp in 1993.

She has served as Disney’s representative on the board of FM Global since 2010. Christine is also a Trustee of the
Westridge School for Girls in Pasadena, California and a member of the Board of Advisors of UCLA Anderson.
Previously, she was a board member and chair of the finance committee of Phoenix House of California, Inc., a director
of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association, and served as both the Treasurer and a Director of the Alumnae
Association of Smith College, as well as a member of the Smith College Investment Committee. She has been named
multiple times to Treasury & Risk’s “100 Most Influential People in Finance”, the Top 100 Irish American Business
Leaders, and Business Insider’s “The 15 Most Influential Women in Finance”. In 2015, she was the recipient of Treasury
Today’s Adam Smith “Woman of the Year” award. In 2016 she received Los Angeles Business Journal’s “Executive of the
Year” and was honored as one of the Entertainment Diversity Council’s “Top 50 Most Powerful Women in
Entertainment”.

Ms. McCarthy completed her Bachelor’s Degree in Biological Sciences at Smith College and earned an MBA from the
Anderson School at UCLA.