Brian Rogers:
CLASS OF 1977
Apple Valley High SchoolClass of 1977
Apple valley, MN
University of CaliforniaClass of 1994
Los angeles, CA
California State UniversityClass of 1984
Fullerton, CA
Brian's Story
After High School graduation in 1977 my family and I moved to Southern California. I attended California State University Fullerton and graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration with a concentration in Finance.
I worked in banking for five years and then became a financial analyst at Hughes Aircraft Company. My office mate, Gordon Lemke, had worked at Disney when he was in college so we both left Hughes Aircraft and were hired at Walt Disney Imagineering (WDI), the theme park design and development group at the Walt Disney Company, in 1986. During my time at WDI, I received my Masters Degree in International Business Administration from UCLA in 1994......go Bruins!! After ten (10) years of working in finance for WDI, I was hired at Sony Development, a start up venture designing and building location based entertainment venues in San Francisco, Tokyo and Berlin. After two (2) years, Sony decided to sell the venues and get out of the business so I went to Universal Studios for five (5) years as VP Finance for theme park development, building theme parks and resort hotels in Orlando, Osaka, Japan and Port Ave...Expand for more
ntura, Spain. Next it was two (2) years at Safeway, Inc as their CFO Corporate Real Estate, helping expand the grocery business and building out over 300 stores across the U.S. Then I became independent and was consulting with Microsoft to start-up their venture into retail stores, helping them design and build the first 500 stores nationwide. I returned to Walt Disney Imagineering (WDI) in 2012 as VP Project Controls and am working on the Shanghai Disney Resort in Shanghai, China. In January 2016, I returned to Universal Studios to lead government relations in the development of the Universal Beijing Resort in Beijing, China as Vice President, Sr. Representative. I have traveled all over the world for work and pleasure and have lived in Pasadena, California, the East Bay in Northern California and Shanghai and now Beijing, China.
I married my best friend December 28, 2014 but we have been together for 30 years!
In early 2015, after living in Shanghai for 2.5 years for work, I returned to Southern California (Pasadena), still at Walt Disney Imagineering and working on new projects locally. It's great to be back in the USA!
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