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Gerard Devan is Group Executive of The Walt DIsney APAC team and a senior executive within The Walt Disney Company (Australia, NZ and The Pacific). He is responsible for the APAC prime-time program creation for content such as Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars™, National Geographic and Star among other programmatic content on Cinema, Television, Streaming and other multi-media platforms. Disney has formed a unique alliance with strategic partners for content creation and distribution. Gerard manages those partnerships within Online, Television, Cinematic and related providers which are shared across the APAC and global regions. Disney partners with Telstra Exchange, Amazon Prime, Free to Air Network Television and the Cinema Networks for delivery sharing complex commercial partnerships across Australia and the globe. Gerard’s team in Disney leads the management of those strategic partnerships generating much of the region's multi-billion-dollar revenues.
Disney+ brings you the best stories in the world and offers something for everyone, from family essentials and exclusive originals. The Disney APAC team is responsible for maintaining those distribution contracts. The team’s key remit is building strategic partnerships including the Disney Plus - 20th Century Fox acquisition, Telstra Exchange partnership, Amazon Primer global partnership, government relations portfolio among other enterprise and government partners.
Gerard is a graduate of the University of Wollongong with two undergraduate degrees and a postgraduate degree completed over the years in the ICT, Communications, Science and technology fields. Gerard is currently completing a Law Degree at The University of Sydney.
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The Walt Disney Company (Disney) is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios complex in Burbank, California. Disney was originally founded on October 16, 1923, by brothers Walt and Roy O. Disney as the Disney Brothers Studio; it also operated under the names the Walt Disney Studio and Walt Disney Productions before changing its name to The Walt Disney Company in 1986. Early on, the company established itself as a leader in the animation industry, with the creation of the widely popular character Mickey Mouse, who is the company's mascot, and the start of animated films. Together with its subsidiaries, The Walt Disney Company is a diversified worldwide entertainment company with operations in the following business segments: Media Networks; Parks, Experiences and Products; Studio Entertainment; and Direct-to-Consumer & International. In October 2020, the Company announced a strategic reorganization of their media and entertainment businesses to accelerate the growth of their direct-to-consumer strategy. The operations of the Media Networks, Studio Entertainment and DTCI segments were reorganized into four groups: three content groups (Studios, General Entertainment and Sports), which are focused on developing and producing content that will be used across all of their traditional and DTC platforms and a distribution group, which is focused on distribution and commercialization activities across these platforms and which has full accountability for media and entertainment operating results globally. The Walt Disney Company entertains, informs and inspires people around the globe through the power of unparalleled storytelling, reflecting the iconic brands, creative minds and innovative technologies families have come to love for over 90 years.