Disney Appoints First-Ever Chief Technology Officer Amid Growing AI Focus

Disney has appointed Karandeep Anand as its first Chief Technology Officer (CTO) in a move that highlights the company's focus on leveraging technology to drive creativity and innovation. Anand, who will also serve as Senior Executive Vice President, comes from Character.AI where he was CEO.

Anand brings a unique blend of experience across infrastructure, consumer technology, and AI, which Disney CEO Josh D'Amaro believes will be crucial in driving the company's three priorities: great storytelling, technology in service of creativity, and operating as One Disney.

As CTO, Anand will oversee enterprise technology, infrastructure, data, and AI platforms, product, and engineering across the studio's segment technology teams. A number of Character.AI's technical team will follow Anand to Disney from October 2nd.