Jeff Archambault – Managing a Legacy, and Why CSR Is Your Ticket to Success

Jeff Archambault is a coach/mentor for start-ups & scale-ups, an international conference speaker, university lecturer and consultant (tourism, bus dev, CSR) and former Vice President at The Walt Disney Company EMEA.

 

During his last six years with Disney, Jeff drove the CSR strategy and execution of the company’s stakeholder engagement and the company’s philanthropy program in EMEA. He previously worked for twenty years at Disneyland Paris in various senior executive positions including Financial Controller, Director Purchasing & Logistics, VP Theme Park Operations, VP Walt Disney Studios Park Development, VP Corporate Alliances, and ultimately VP Communications (corporate, internal & philanthropy.

 

Prior to joining Disney, Jeff was Treasury Manager for Apple Computer Europe (Paris) and Institutional Fixed Income Securities for Bankers Trust Co. on Wall Street (New York and Los Angeles). He earned his MBA’84 from Stanford University and resides in Paris since 1988 with his wife and two children.

 

In this episode of Diploma-C, we sit down with Jeff to discuss his extensive experience with CSR, finding the right cultural fit and what exactly it takes to manage a high-stakes transaction.