Rosalyn Durant, ESPN executive vice president, programming & acquisitions, leads programming, media rights deals, ESPN+, ESPN International, Andscape, and espnW. Durant spent the past three years in Orlando as senior vice president of Disney Springs, Water Parks and ESPN Wide World of Sports.

While at the parks, she oversaw Disney Springs, Walt Disney World’s shopping, dining, and entertainment destination; both Walt Disney World water parks; the resort’s sports operations, including ESPN Wide World of Sports complex; and the workforce management, operations training, and business transformation teams. She took on the role in March 2020 and played a critical role in helping restart the 2019-20 NBA season in the “Bubble” at ESPN Wide World of Sports during the pandemic. Before her stint with Disney Parks, Durant most recently served as senior vice president of ESPN’s College Networks, overseeing ESPNU, SEC Network, and Longhorn Network, and was a central member of the cross-functional leadership team that successfully launched the ACC Network.

Durant graduated in 1999 from the University of South Carolina with a bachelor’s degree in Broadcast Journalism and a minor in Marketing.