Burbank-based Walt Disney Co. has named Michael Colglazier president of the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, effective Feb. 1.
Colglazier will replace George Kalogridis, who is set to become president of the Walt Disney World Resort in Florida.
The Disneyland Resort is made up of the Disneyland and Disney California Adventure theme parks, three hotels and the Downtown Disney shopping and entertainment district.
Kalogridis was named president of the Disneyland Resort in 2009, and he is credited with the completion of the $1.5 billion expansion and makeover of the California Adventure park. The project was capped in June with the opening of the 12-acre Cars Land, which is based on the Pixar Animation Studios movie Cars.
He was named Business Person of the Year in the tourism industry for 2012 earlier this month.
Colglazier joins the Disneyland Resort after leading Disney’s Animal Kingdom theme park in Florida, where he oversaw the planning behind a new land based on the movie Avatar.
—Kari Hamanka
