Speaker Rob Doherty
Speaker Rob Doherty

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Rob Doherty

SVP, Business Development

Omens Studios

Rob has almost 30 years of experience in the children’s television and animation industry. He has worked in every format of animation in many countries around the world, as well as on both sides of the production/broadcast divide; working for Aardman Animations, Disney, M2 Films, ITV, Endemol, Initial Productions, TVC Cartoons, and CAKE Entertainment.

Rob has a wealth of experience in development and overseeing multi-territory co-productions with credits more recently including, Angry Birds: Summer Madness (Netflix), Supa Team 4 (Netflix), and Space Chickens In Space (Disney).

He now runs a successful consultancy agency working with Omens Studios in Singapore, Mint CPH in Copenhagen, Uplift Games in London, and Turnip + Duck in Dublin.

He also started and runs festivus, an 11,000-strong animation community and networking event that has run for 20 years, on the back of which FSTVS, a recruitment service catering specifically to the animation industry, is now active.

Rob regularly sits on advisory boards and panels.

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