Disney creates CTO role for enterprise tech and AI, hires Character.ai's CEO

2026-09-21

Disney introduced a new CTO role to lead enterprise technology and AI platforms and hired Karandeep Anand, most recently CEO of Character.ai, for the position; he starts Oct. 2, 2026, CIO Dive reported Sept 21, 2026.

Significance 2: A single-company leadership hire and new role — notable given the hire's AI-native background, but routine in scale relative to the significance-3+ bar for strategy or capability shifts.

operational business Leadership / governance Talent flows

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press Disney introduces CTO role to lead enterprise tech, AI platforms retrieved 2026-09-22

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