Disney Streaming Hires Netflix’s Devika Chawla, Meta’s Arun Chandra for Senior Posts
Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorDisney Streaming Services, which operates the Disney+, Hulu, ESPN+ and Star+ services globally, has tapped two tech veterans — Devika Chawla from Netflix and Arun Chandra — for senior roles.Chawla (above left) joins Disney Streaming next week as senior VP of lifecycle engineering, after a decade of building out Netflix’s global customer communication products and teams. Most recently, she served as director of engineering, messaging and contact, at Netflix.Chawla will lead Disney’s initiatives to “optimize customer journeys, interactions and retention” for Disney+, Hulu, ESPN+ and Star+.