James Hunt

Chairman
Nemours Children's Health

Jim retired from The Walt Disney Company in 2012 as Chief Financial Officer of its global theme parks and resorts business. While at The Walt Disney Company, he served on the boards of its Hong Kong and Shanghai businesses, which operate major theme parks and resort hotels in their respective markets. During that period, he also served on the boards of directors of Disney’s insurance enterprises, Buena Vista Insurance Company and Alameda Insurance Company.

Jim has been a corporate director for 30 years. His board work has included serving as chairman of the board of Caesars Entertainment; chairman of the audit committee at The St. Joe Company; chair of both the audit and compensation committees at Subway Worldwide Inc.; and chairman of the audit committee and a member of the investment committee at Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company.

His current board work includes, Brown & Brown, Inc., an S&P 500 diversified insurance brokerage, agency, programs, and consulting business. He serves on the audit and acquisitions committees and was elected to the Brown & Brown board in 2013.

Jim also serves as Chairman of the Nemours Foundation, which oversees Nemours Children’s Health, an internationally recognized pediatric health network, that owns and operates hospitals in Delaware and Florida, as well as other clinical, outpatient, and related facilities in five states. He was appointed to Nemours in 2016.

In 2026, Jim was asked to serve as Director-in-Residence and Chair of The Governance Institute’s newly formed Blue Ribbon Committee on Health System Governance. The committee aims to guide the next generation of board assessment, governance best practices, and benchmarking for hospitals and health systems by advancing a disciplined, experience-informed model for how boards are developed and supported.

Jim is a CPA with an active license and certification in the State of Florida. He is also a member of the National Association of Corporate Directors, where he is a designated Board Leadership Fellow, among other professional organizations and associations. Most recently, Jim served as a member of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board’s Standards and Emerging Issues Advisory Group (SEIAG). He served on the SEIAG from its inception in 2022 through 2025 and was subsequently elected to the SEIAG’s Emerging Issues in Audit Subcommittee.