Hasbro Inc President and CEO, Brian D. Goldner has sold 100,000 shares in the US toy company for a staggering $3.54 million ($35.43 per share). According to the related SEC filing Mr Goldner executed his option to sell the shares on the 28th February 2012 netting him a cool $1.75 million which almost doubles the value he paided for them when he bought them at $17.97. Brian still has shares, in fact he owns another 102,209 shares which are currently worth another $3.62 million.
Brian was promoted to CEO and President of Hasbro Inc in 2008, partly due to the success of the Transformers movie, and has worked at Hasbro since 2000. Before that, he served as President of Bandai North America, and worked at J. Walter Thomson Advertising and Leo Burnett Advertising. He is also currently on the board of Molson Coors Brewing Company.
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