Hasbro CEO Brian Goldner dies By Reuters
© Reuters. Brian Goldner, President and CEO of Hasbro Inc., speaks on the Reuters Client and Retail Summit in New York June 28, 2011. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/Information
(Reuters) -Toymaker Hasbro Inc (NASDAQ:) stated on Tuesday longtime Chairman and Chief Government Officer Brian Goldner has died, two days after he went on medical depart.
In an announcement final 12 months, Goldner stated he had been beneath continued medical therapy following his most cancers analysis in 2014.
Board member and former CEO of selling agency InnerWorkings (NASDAQ:) Inc, Wealthy Stoddart, has changed Goldner on an interim foundation.
Goldner, 58, joined Hasbro in 2000 and was appointed CEO in 2008, the corporate stated.
“He expanded the corporate past toys and video games into tv, films, digital gaming and past,” Hasbro stated.
Goldner additionally served on the board of administrators of ViacomCBS (NASDAQ:) Inc.
“(Goldner’s) steerage and management performed a key function not solely within the mixture of Viacom and CBS however within the execution of the imaginative and prescient that has considerably formed the corporate,” Shari Redstone, non-executive chair of ViacomCBS stated.
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