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Wayne DearingManaging Director, Top Draw Animation, Inc.
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Wayne DearingManaging Director, Top Draw Animation, Inc.
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As principal and overall manager of Top Draw, Wayne Dearing brings an impressive depth of experience gained through his 26 years as Senior Executive to the international television industry across a broad based Live action and Animation platform.
First joining Hanna Barbera Australia as Financial Controller in 1978, Wayne quickly moved onto becoming Studio Manager and then, after ten years, joined Australia's largest independent electronic media company of the day, Broadcom Australia as General Manager to their Facilities, Production and In Store Music divisions.Over the next three years Wayne presided over the supply of a variety of television product and services to all major Australian Television Networks, Advertising Agencies and blue-chip corporate Australia.
Wayne's Philippines experience spans some fourteen years, beginning in 1991 when he rejoined Hanna Barbera to manage their Manila based studio, Fil Cartoons.He later joined Philippine animation studios (pasi) as CEO in 1994, and in 1999, started his own company, Top Draw Animation, where in five years (by most accounts some of the most difficult years in our industry's history), Wayne has successfully grown Top Draw into becoming one of today's leading 2D studios
Having effectively managed numerous multi-national, general and treaty co-productions over the years as well as large service contracts and, having worked on both 'sides of the pond' as it were, Wayne is perfectly placed to understand the prerequisites necessary for the mutually successful completion of off-shore production arrangements.