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Bob Iger
Robert Allen "Bob" Iger〔 (born February 10, 1951)〔 is an American businessman and the chairman and chief executive officer of The Walt Disney Company. He was named president of Disney in 2000, and later succeeded Michael Eisner as chief executive in 2005, after a successful effort by Roy E. Disney to shake-up the management of the company. Iger oversaw the acquisition of Pixar Animation Studios in 2006, following a period of strained relations with the animation studio. He also led the company to acquire Marvel Entertainment in 2009 and Lucasfilm in 2012, further broadening Disney's intellectual property franchises.
==Early life==
Iger was born to a Jewish family〔(Temple Avodah website: "Famous members - Robert Iger, President & CEO, Disney Corporation" ) retrieved October 11, 2012〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.jta.org/2013/08/06/news-opinion/israel-middle-east/arab-voice-of-donald-duck-tweets-for-israel-to-be-demolished )〕 in New York City, New York, the son of Mimi and Arthur L. Iger.〔(Newsday: "Arthur L. Iger Obituary" ) May 25, 2010〕 His father was a World War II veteran,〔 served as the executive vice president and general manager of the Greenvale Marketing Corporation, and also as a professor of advertising and public relations. His mother worked at Boardman Junior High School in Oceanside.〔 He was raised in the Long Island town of Oceanside, New York, where he attended the Fulton Avenue School and later graduated from high school.
Iger completed his undergraduate studies at Ithaca College where he graduated ''magna cum laude'' with a Bachelor of Science degree in Television & Radio from Ithaca's Roy H. Park School of Communications. He then began his career as a weatherman for a local television station. He joined the American Broadcasting Company in 1974 and gradually rose through its ranks. Iger was instrumental in convincing ABC to pick up David Lynch's offbeat but influential ''Twin Peaks''. In 1989, Iger was named to head up ABC Entertainment. He served as president of the ABC Network Television Group from January 1993 to 1994, while being appointed as Capital Cities/ABC senior vice president in March 1993 and executive vice president in July 1993. Bob in 1994 was named president and chief operating officer of ABC's corporate parent, Capital Cities/ABC. In 1996, The Walt Disney Company bought Capital Cities/ABC and renamed it ABC, Inc., where Iger remained president until 1999.〔
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