Well, it has been 12 years. 12 years of almost 24x7x365 dedication to the Mouse House! A long adventure that started some dark winter day in Paris, trying to land back on my feet while working for a couple of months as a contractor for Disney Online, thanks to my then business partner Christophe and his then girlfriend. These couple of months soon turned (for the better) into a full time gig and a move to London, starting anew in Britain, for what I thought was a “12 months max” project, before ideally moving to New York or back to France.

Eight years later, I was finally leaving the UK, but now working in the Media division of the Mouse, on my way to Los Angeles, with my British wife and my multi-passport daughter…

Four years later, the daughters count has reached 2 and shortly after having decided that it was actually a good idea to stick with the Mouse of another decade or 2, my career took a wrong turn and seemed to have reached a dead end at best…

Once again, when I was not really looking for a job (but just being extremely unhappy of mine at the time) a friend appeared from nowhere (see Sylvain in 1999, Keith in 2003), offered to apply for a position and I simply decided to run for it (the one bird in your hand…). To my biggest surprise, I was considered and then offered the role.

After much deliberation, second thoughts, guilt trips and more, I decided to embark on that new journey, close that 12+ years chapter and start a new one (literally) across the street, with Turner, part of the Time Warner group (formerly known as the Enemy),

The hardest part in that whole process: Explaining to my 2 baby girls that Daddy was no longer going to work for any of the Princesses (Cinderella, Belle, Sleeping Beauty, etc) or Hannah Montana…

So, I guess it is “Bye Bye Mickey”, “Hello Looney Tunes and Scooby Doo”!