Carole MacGillvray

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| name = Carole MacGillvray{{cite news|last=Zeider|first=Sue|title=Newsmaker: 'Idea' man Pressler tapped for Gap helm|date=September 26, 2002|publisher=Reuters}}

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| birth_name = Carole Ann Bienkowski

| birth_date = 1937

| birth_place = Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.

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| employer = {{unbulleted list|Hasbro (late 1970s){{cite news|title=Who's What Where|date=May 14, 1978|work=The Boston Globe|page=55|quote=Hasbro Industries Inc., Pawtucket: Carole MacGillvray of Warwick, associate vice president marketing for its Rhode Island toy division...}}|General Mills (1980s){{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/02/10/business/little-miss-was-born-to-sell.html|last=Salmans|first=Sandra|title=Little Miss Was Born to Sell|date=February 10, 1981|accessdate=September 5, 2011|url-access=subscription |work=The New York Times|page=D1}}{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/02/16/business/advertising-people.html|last=Dougherty|first=Philip H.|title=Advertising; People|date=February 16, 1984|accessdate=September 5, 2011|work=The New York Times}}{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/02/14/business/new-yorkers-co-a-grown-up-s-winning-touch-in-toys-usually.html|last=Salmans|first=Sandra|title=New Yorkers & Co.; A Grown-up's Winning Touch in Toys (Usually)|date=February 14, 1985|accessdate=September 5, 2011|url-access=subscription |work=The New York Times|page=D1}}|Kenner-Parker Toys (1980s)}}

| years_active= Late 1970s–mid-1990s{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-11-20-fi-65119-story.html|last=Woodyard|first=Chris|title=After a Successful Stint at Disney Stores, Paul Pressler Is Becoming ... : The New Mayor of Disneyland|date=November 20, 1994|access-date=September 5, 2011|work=Los Angeles Times|page=3}}

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Carole MacGillvray Rappeport was an employee of the General Mills Toy Group. As early as 1978, she was associate vice-president of Hasbro's toy marketing unit; in the early 1980s, she served as vice-president of U.S. marketing at General Mills' CPG (Consumer Products Group) division. In February 1984, she became president of General Mills' M.A.D. (Marketing and Design) service, replacing Bernard Loomis. In the mid-1990s, she ran a toy consulting company in Santa Barbara, California.

MacGillvray was a boss to fellow General Mills/Kenner staffer Paul Pressler. Both were executive producers for 1985's The Care Bears Movie, produced by Canada's Nelvana studio.{{cite video |people=Selznick, Arna (director) |date=1985 |title= The Care Bears Movie |medium=Animated film |language= |publisher= The Samuel Goldwyn Company (distributor) / Nelvana Limited / American Greetings / CPG Products Corp }} Before its completion, MacGillvray's search for a distributor led to rejections from major U.S. studios; The Samuel Goldwyn Company, an independent outfit, eventually acquired the film for U.S. release.{{cite journal|last=Sharkey|first=Betsy|title=Selling the Whole Family on Film That Cares-a-Lot|date=April 22, 1985|journal=Adweek|publisher=A/S/M Communications, Inc.|at=Creative Solutions}}{{cite news|last=Salamon|first=Julie|title=At the Movies: Care Bears Hit It Big, Onscreen and Off|date=April 16, 1985|work=The Wall Street Journal|page=32 (W)/28 (E)}}