Our Leadership: James Hunt
James "Jim" Hunt
Chair, Board of Directors
Jim Hunt has been a corporate director for more than 20 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, a global gaming, hospitality, and entertainment company. He 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.
His continuing board work includes Brown & Brown Inc. a diversified insurance agency, wholesale brokerage, insurance programs, and services company. He is a member of the audit and acquisitions committees. He was elected to the Brown & Brown board in 2013.
He is also a member of the board of trustees of Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company. Penn Mutual was originally chartered in 1847 and today is a Fortune 1000 company with over $285 billion of insurance in force. He was elected to the position in 2015 and serves as chairman of the audit committee and as a member of the investment and executive committees.
In 2020, Jim was invited to serve on the newly formed board of directors of Subway Worldwide Inc., the world’s largest single-brand restaurant chain with over 40,000 locations across more than 100 countries.
Jim is a CPA with an active license and certificate in the state of Florida. He is a member of the National Association of Corporate Directors, where he is also a designated Board Leadership Fellow, among his other professional organizations and associations.
A member of the ֲý Children’s board of directors since 2016, Jim brings extensive knowledge of board governance and children’s healthcare issues.