James Hunt

Jim Hunt has been a corporate director for over twenty years. During his career at The Walt Disney Company, he served on the boards of its Hong Kong and Shanghai businesses, which operate major theme parks and resort hotels in their respective locales. During that period he was also on the boards of directors of Disney’s insurance enterprises, Buena Vista Insurance Company, and Alameda Insurance Company.

Jim’s work as a corporate director continued upon his retirement from Disney in 2012. He most recently served as chairman of the board of Caesars Entertainment Corporation, an NASD, global gaming, hospitality, and entertainment company. Jim held this position from 2017, working with a newly appointed board of directors, which together, steered the organization from its initial emergence from reorganization through the sale of the company in the second half of 2020.

Jim’s continuing board work includes, Brown & Brown, Inc., an NYSE diversified insurance agency, wholesale brokerage, insurance programs, and services company. He is chairman of the audit committee and also serves on the acquisitions committee. He was elected to the Brown & Brown board in 2013.