Speaker Asaph Fipke
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With over 300 episodes of animated television to his credit, Asaph “Ace” Fipke has established himself as one of North America’s top producers of animation. As Chief Content Officer for Kids & Family, Fipke brings to DHX Content a rare blend of expertise in the creation, development, production and business of animated television and feature-length animation productions.
Prior to joining DHX, Fipke was the CEO and founder of Nerd Corps Entertainment, which DHX acquired in 2014. Fipke founded Nerd Corps in 2002 to produce 39-episodes of The Story Hat’s/Alliance Atlantis’s Dragon Booster, which won a 2005 Gemini for Best Animated Series. Building on that success, he created and executive produced the company’s first original series, Gemini Award-nominated Storm Hawks. The action comedy series launched in 2007 and saw unprecedented 52 episode orders from all its broadcasters right out of the gate. Fipke oversaw and executive produced all series coming out of the studio since Storm Hawks, including Mattel’s Hot Wheels: Battle Force 5, Monster High and Max Steel; Nerd Corps’ original comedy series League of Super Evil; and the studio’s first preschool series,Kate & Mim-Mim. He is also the creator and executive producer on Nerd Corps’ original Emmy-winning sci-fi action/comedy Slugterra, Rated A for Awesome, and the comedy series Endangered Species.
Over 12 years, Fipke led Nerd Corps from a 20-person operation to one of North America’s largest animation studios at 420+ employees, producing award-winning content for broadcast in 150+ territories.
Prior to Nerd Corps, Fipke was a producer and executive on such hit series as Hasbro's Transformers: Beast Wars, Transformers: Beast Machines and Action Man; Sony Pictures' Heavy Gear and Max Steel; and the first-ever animated Barbie movie for Mattel,Barbie in the Nutcracker.
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