Jack Dorsey Joins Disney's Board of Directors

Jack Dorsey has been elected to the board of directors at Walt Disney Co., the company announced Monday.

Dorsey, who currently serves as CEO of Square and chairman of Twitter, the two companies he cofounded, will serve as an independent director at Disney, effective immediately.

“I am honored and humbled to join the Disney Board,” Dorsey said in a press release. “Disney is a timeless company, one we all grow up learning from and admiring.”

Dorsey announced the move in his own way, on Twitter:

“I only hope we don't lose sight of one thing—that it was all started by a mouse.”—Walt Disney pic.twitter.com/MgY9byVIkz

— Jack Dorsey (@jack) December 23, 2013 Read more...