Micheline Chau served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Lucasfilm Ltd. from April 2003 to September 2012 and served previously as Lucasfilm's Chief Financial Officer from 1991 to March 2003. Her retirement from Lucasfilm coincided with The Walt Disney Company's purchase of Lucasfilm in late 2012, when Kathleen Kennedy assumed Chau's position. Since February 2013, Chau has served as a board member of Dolby Laboratories, and in October 2014, she joined the board of Las Vegas Sands Corp.