Steve Wilder is the Senior Vice President, Risk Management for The Walt Disney Company, where he has worked 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 Master’s 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, are very involved in community activities and at the top of their list is USC Verdugo Hills Hospital a 158-bedcommunity hospital in Glendale. Steve has been on the operating Board nearly 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, a retired Walt Disney World Human Resources Executive, is also a 25-year volunteer at VHH, a member of the Foundation Board and past president of the Foundation. Steve and Sue have been especially supportive of two programs there that are “near and dear’ to their passion – The Healthy Heart Program and the Healing Arts Program. 

Steve was also instrumental in creating a Risk Management program at USC’s Marshall School of Business in 2017, as well as helping create their Emerging Leaders Program in 2021, for which he and Sue have created a Scholarship for those students. Steve continues to serve as the Executive Chairman of the Board of Advisors to the USC Risk Management Program.

Finally, Steve has served on the Board of Glendale Community College for over 15 years, serving as President from 2017-2019, where he and Sue have supported students in their nursing program.

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