Horacio Gutierrez is Senior Executive Vice President, Chief Legal and Global Affairs Officer of The Walt Disney Company. In this role, Gutierrez oversees a multi-disciplinary team of professionals responsible for all aspects of Disney’s legal, regulatory, public policy and government affairs around the world, and serves as a strategic advisor to executive leadership and the Board of Directors.

Before joining Disney in February 2022, Gutierrez served as Head of Global Affairs and Chief Legal Officer for Spotify, where he led a global team of legal, business, corporate communications, government relations, and other business professionals responsible for the company’s work in areas including industry relations, content partnerships, public policy, and trust & safety.

Prior to joining Spotify, Gutierrez was Corporate Vice President and General Counsel for Microsoft, overseeing the company’s legal affairs around the world. In that role, he provided advice and support of the complete lifecycle of Microsoft’s products and services, from research and development to business development activities, M&A, litigation, legal compliance, and cybercrime prevention. Gutierrez initially joined Microsoft in 1998 as Corporate Attorney, LATAM, and held a number of positions of increasing responsibility throughout the legal department during his 17-year tenure with the company, including Associate General Counsel, EMEA from 2002 to 2006; Deputy General Counsel, Intellectual Property and Licensing Group from 2006 to 2014; and Deputy General Counsel, Products and Services Group from 2014 to 2015.

Gutierrez sits on the board of directors for the Motion Picture Association (MPA) and the nongovernmental organization Kids in Need of Defense (KIND). Additionally, he is an Advisory Board Member of the Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession and a member of the Legal Services Corporation’s Leaders Council.

Gutierrez holds a Master of Laws degree from Harvard Law School, which he attended as a Fulbright scholar; a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Miami School of Law; and a Bachelor of Laws degree and post-graduate diploma in corporate and commercial law from Universidad Católica Andrés Bello in Caracas, Venezuela.