Anne Gates

Anne Gates has been in global consumer products businesses for over 35 years. She retired as President, MGA Entertainment, which is the largest privately held toy company in the United States with a global reach. Ms. Gates is past Executive Vice President and CFO of The Walt Disney Company’s Consumer Products Division and past Managing Director for Disney Consumer Products Europe and Emerging Markets based in London. She also worked for Pepsi, in both the US and Europe, Bear Stearns (VP, Investment Banking), AT&T (Marketing) and Bell Labs (Research).

She is currently on the Kroger Board, serving on the Audit and Public Responsibility Committees – she is Chair of the Audit Committee there. She is also on the Tapestry, Inc. Board and serves on the Audit Committee and the Governance and Nominations Committee – she is also Chair of the Audit Committee there. She is also a member of the Raymond James Financial Board, serving on the Audit and Risk Committee.

She also serves on the Boards of Public Media Group SoCal (Chair of the Investment Committee), Cadre, the UC Berkeley Foundation, and Salzburg Global Seminar (SGS). She has served on several other boards, including the Board of Directors for Super RTL (a German entertainment company).

She has also been named to the Power List of Britain’s 100 most influential black people.

She received her MS degree from the Engineering School at Columbia University, where she also completed post-graduate work. She has her BA degree in Applied Mathematics from UC Berkeley.