Jerrell Jimerson, chief product officer for Disney Streaming, is departing the company amid ongoing layoffs. An insider confirmed his exit to Deadline.
As product chief, Jimerson oversaw the look and feel of Disney+, Star+ and Hulu, steering their user experience and design. Jimerson came to the company in 2018 via Bamtech, the streaming arm of Major League Baseball.
Disney acquired majority control of Bamtech in 2017 as it built up technological capabilities, gaining 100% ownership last year.
Before arriving at Bamtech, Jimerson had held exec positions at PayPal, Yahoo and iHeartMedia. Early in his career, he was part of the team at Netscape that introduced Navigator and Netcenter, the first modern browser and one of the early services on the emerging internet of the 1990s.
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