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AI brief of an SEC Form 8-K · Walt Disney Company (The) (DIS)

Disney adds CEO Josh D'Amaro to board; shareholders elect all 11 director nominees

Neutral Impact 3 of 5 leadership Written later

On March 18, 2026, Disney's board appointed CEO Josh D'Amaro as a director, with a term expiring at the 2027 annual meeting, and to the board's Executive Committee. The same day, shareholders at the annual meeting elected all 11 director nominees, ratified PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP for fiscal 2026, approved the advisory executive compensation vote, and rejected three shareholder proposals.

Key points

  • Josh D'Amaro, Chief Executive Officer, was appointed to the board effective immediately on March 18, 2026, and joins the Executive Committee.
  • Maria Elena Lagomasino received the most votes against among the directors, at 87,361,080.
  • PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP was ratified for fiscal 2026 with 1,389,388,245 votes for and 99,386,474 against.
  • The advisory executive compensation vote received 1,091,655,024 for and 181,755,217 against. The cumulative voting proposal received 36,841,191 for and 1,231,354,256 against.

The filing

CompanyWalt Disney Company (The) (DIS)
Form8-K, current report
Filed with the SECMar 20, 2026, 4:16 PM ET
Accession number0001628280-26-020172

Items reported: 5.02 Director / Officer Change5.07 Shareholder Vote Results

Read the filing on SEC.gov ↗

Written by AI (Anthropic Claude, claude-haiku-5-5) on Nov 8, 2026, 2:16 AM ET, from the text of the filing and its press-release exhibits only. Written later: this filing was briefed after the fact, when past filings were added to the site, so the brief may be read with hindsight; the filing itself is the record of what was known on March 20, 2026.

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