Walt Disney World now has a gay President (while that sort of sounds like the theme park has seceded from the rest of the US, we just mean the type of President businesses have – he’s not trying to rival Obama). Last Friday George Kalogridis was put in charge of Disney World, where he’ll oversee oversee more than 66,000 employees.
Kalogridis is a Disney World veteran becoming one of its first employees when he was hired, aged 17, to bus tables on the park’s opening in 1971. He worked his way up the ranks and before getting the job as head of Disney’s biggest park he’s put in time as President of Disneyland in Anaheim, California and Chief Operating Officer of Disneyland Resort Paris.
59-year-old Kalogridis commented to the Orlando Sentinel, “The first thing I see is one big word: humility. This is a very, very big place, and having been able to see it from Day 1 and to see it now — truly, you have to respect just how incredible this project is.”
Kalogridis and his partner of 12 years, Andy Hardy, are now busy making Florida their home, building a house in Golden Oak, the luxury are that Disney World is developing on its 40-square mile property.
Disney World is the most-visited entertainment resort in the world, with four theme parks, two water parks, 24,000 hotel rooms, 3,000 time-share suites, a 120-acre retail complex and a 230-acre sports campus.
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