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Today 16-year Disney veteran Paul Yanover today announced his January departure in an email to his staff. This is the latest shakeup at Disney digital following a wholesale manager changeover (Bob Iger Splits Top Disney Interactive Job). Yanover follows Graham Hopper out the door in September as the 10-year head of the video game division on the eve of Epic Mickey’s launch. Yanover is EVP/managing director of Disney Online, the business unit of Disney Interactive Media Group that’s the No. 1 entertainment destination for kids and families on the web. He has global oversight of all strategic, creative, technical and marketing initiatives surrounding the Disney brand on the Internet and Mobile Web, including flagship site www.disney.com; a large portfolio of divisional Web sites for The Walt Disney Company; and a network of family-targeted sites including Disney Family.com, FamilyFun.com, Wondertime.com and iParenting.com. Yanover also oversees Disney’s suite of premium online products and virtual worlds including Disney Club Penguin, Pirates of the Caribbean Online, Disney Fairies Pixie Hollow, Disney’s Toontown Online and the upcoming Cars virtual world. Yanover began his career at Disney in 1991, left in 1999, and returned in 2002.
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Any news where he is going? Some big startups starting to hire senior executives in the Silicon Valley and NYC area.
It’s too bad he is leaving. Paul is a highly regarded exec, one of the best at Disney. Smart, creative, a real driving force for the division and company.
Disney is a mess. Iger wants digital innovation and Disney Online has been trying to take over anything and everything digital that the company does. This doesn’t work because they don’t know the divisions’ businesses and improperly balance objectives and needs. Yanover probably got tired of fighting divisions when he knew it was wrong to centralize everything.
Paul is a smart exec but he put some real inexperienced managers in key spots. Ultimately he paid for their arrogance and repeated failure to deliver.
Paul Yanover is the most talented executive at DIMG – by far – and a great human being. Iger will rue this day. I had the pleasure to be a member of Paul’s team – it was a wonderful, encouraging, inspiring experience which is very rare at DIMG (could there be a worse acronym for a creative division that “DIM” G???). The place is ruled by arrogant, conniving, uninspired technocrats who drain the life out of most projects before even launched. His future is very bright. DIMG’s is anything but!
Paul will be fine. “DIM”G will not.