Brian Goldner (born around 1964) is the chief executive officer of the American toy company Hasbro.
Goldner's father Norman came from Utica, New York, while his mother Marjorie grew up in Mississippi. They married in 1961 after she came north to work for UNICEF, and settled in Huntington. Brian attended Huntington High School and Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, where he majored in politics. There he practiced public speaking and was ...
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Brian Goldner (born around 1964) is the chief executive officer of the American toy company Hasbro.
Goldner's father Norman came from Utica, New York, while his mother Marjorie grew up in Mississippi. They married in 1961 after she came north to work for UNICEF, and settled in Huntington. Brian attended Huntington High School and Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, where he majored in politics. There he practiced public speaking and was also a radio DJ.
In 1985, he got a job as a marketing assistant at a healthcare firm in Long Island. There, he met his wife Barbara, a clinical director, and they married two years later. The couple have two children, a boy, born around 1993, and a girl, Brooke, born around 1995. In 1997, Goldner was set to head JWT's entertainment accountant division, but he was lured away by Bandai.
Goldner was working as Hasbro's Tiger Electronics unit in 2000, after the company had lost 5000 jobs. By 2003, the company recovered on the stock market, and in...
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