Overview
- Fubo’s board appointed Alisa Bowen as chief executive with her job starting Friday, July 10, and co‑founder David Gandler stepped down as CEO and resigned from the board.
- Bowen joins from Disney, where she was president of Disney+ and helped build Disney+, Hulu and ESPN+, and she is expected to join Fubo’s board pending shareholder approval at the July 28 annual meeting.
- A recent SEC filing discloses Bowen’s pay package, which includes a roughly $1.575 million base salary, a target bonus equal to 120% of salary, restricted stock units worth about $3.5 million and larger equity awards tied to multi‑year vesting.
- The leadership change follows Disney’s roughly 70% ownership stake after last year’s combination of Hulu + Live TV with Fubo and reflects Disney installing a senior streaming executive to run the combined pay‑TV service.
- The combined Fubo/Hulu + Live TV business entered 2026 with about 6.0–6.2 million subscribers, and Bowen’s mandate will focus on tightening product strategy, accelerating subscriber gains and steering the company toward profitability under Disney’s majority control.