Joe Earley is the President of Direct-to-Consumer, Disney
Entertainment, where he leads efforts to expand and elevate the
company’s best-in-class streaming services, utilizing the impactful
and resonant programming and engagement offerings across Disney+ and
Hulu.

Earley joined Disney in January 2019 to oversee global Disney+
marketing and operations in the leadup to its hugely successful
November launch that year, he added responsibility for content
curation in 2021 as the service expanded globally. In January of 2022,
he was named President of Hulu leading the platform’s on-demand and
live streaming businesses until assuming his current role as head of
Direct-to-Consumer in April of 2023.

Before joining Disney, Joe served as President of The Jackal Group,
where he oversaw all areas of the studio’s television, film,
commercial theater and digital divisions, with productions ranging
from “Tidying Up with Marie Kondo” to the animated feature film
“The Addams Family.”

Prior to The Jackal Group, Joe was a Fox executive for over two
decades, starting as a Senior Publicist and rising through the ranks
to President of Marketing & Communications, Chief Operating Officer of
Fox Broadcasting Company, and eventually Chief Operating Officer of
Fox Television Group. Before joining Fox, Joe spent several years in
media relations at HBO. He began his entertainment career in
production and development with producer Gale Anne Hurd.

A member of ATAS and PGA, and native of Chicago, Joe holds a B.A. in
Mass Communications from UCLA.
