Yahoo CEO Emerges As Disney CEO Contender

:As Walt Disney begins its search for a new CEO by 2006, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel has emerged among Hollywood insiders as a top contender, reports Mercury News.

He has the deep Hollywood ties, and his success at turning around one of America’s highest-profile technology companies could give him more cachet with a Disney board seeking to restore the struggling entertainment company’s fortunes.

More than half a dozen names have been floated as Eisner successors, including eBay CEO Meg Whitman, also a Disney veteran, and Pixar Animation Studios CEO Steve Jobs, who also heads Apple Computer. Comcast CEO Stephen Burke, News Corp. Chief Operating Officer Peter Chernin and Leslie Moonves, CEO of CBS Television, are other candidates mentioned.

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