Steve Parkis - Disney Online
Steve Parkis - Disney Online
Vice President, Premium Products, Disney Online
Steve Parkis vice president of premium content for Disney Online (disney.com), the division of the Walt Disney Internet Group that produces the number one kids’ entertainment and family community destination on the Web. He oversees the product development, operations and marketing of Disney-branded Internet content sold both directly to consumers online and via distribution agreements with narrowband and broadband ISPs. Products in the group’s portfolio include the award-winning Playhouse Disney Preschool Time Online, Disney’s Blast, the acclaimed Disney’s Toontown Online - a massively multiplayer online game (MMOG); Disney Connection - a broadband only kids channel for high-speed ISPs and the upcoming Pirates of the Caribbean Online MMOG.
Previously, Parkis served in finance and corporate development at the Walt Disney Internet Group overseeing, among other things, the strategy for the delivery of the GO Network’s rich media content and development of its entertainment-focused vertical content areas. Most recently, Parkis was responsible for leading the financial planning team of WDIG during the division’s drive to profitability.
Parkis first joined The Walt Disney Company in 1998 as a senior analyst in the business planning and development function at Walt Disney World.
Before joining Disney, Parkis was a managing director at Windhorst New Technologies, a venture capital and operating firm focused on technology and media investment. He began his career at Kimberly-Clark Corporation, where he spent five years in various roles working on consumer brands such as Kleenex facial tissue and Huggies diapers.
Parkis holds a master’s of business administration degree from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, and a bachelor’s degree in financial administration from Michigan State University. He resides in Valencia, California with his wife and three sons.
