Steve Wilder is the Senior Vice President, Risk Management for The Walt Disney Company, a position he has held for over 37 years.  His department is responsible for directing Disney's worldwide corporate Risk Management programs.  

He holds a BA in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania and has completed UCLA’s Executive Management Program.  In addition, he has an Associate in Risk Management Designation and a Masters Degree in Risk Management from Florida State University.

He was named Business Insurance's Risk Manager of the Year in 1990 and is a former National President of the Risk Insurance Management Society. In 2010 Steve was awarded RIMS’ top honor, The Goodell Award, for his lifetime achievements in Risk Management.

Steve and his wife, Sue, also are very involved in community activities and at the top of their list is USC Verdugo Hills Hospital (“VHH”),a 158-bed community hospital in Glendale. Steve has been on the operating Board for close to two decades and was a member of the “options” committee when VHH decided they needed to sell themselves to survive. The “options” committee thought USC was the best acquirer for numerous reasons and that continued VHH’s tradition of what today, is a model of community hospitals. Steve’s wife Sue is a 25-year volunteer at VHH, a member of the Foundation Board and past president of the Foundation. Steve and Sue have created two endowments at USC VHH leaving a legacy for two programs “near and dear’ to their hearts – The Healthy Heart Program and the Healing Arts Program.

In 2021 Sue and Steve were honored by Los Angeles Business Journal as “Healthcare Volunteers of the Year”.

Steve has been on the Glendale Community College Foundation Board for the past 13 years serving as President from 2017-2019.

Steve also is Executive Chairman of USC’s Risk Management Advisory Board (a program he helped create in 2015 that is flourishing today). Steve is a guest lecturer at the USC Risk Management program and, as a way of giving back to this industry that has been so good to him, he and Sue created an endowed scholarship for the USC Risk Management Emerging Leaders Program hoping to help bring talented young professionals into our industry.

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