Gerard Devan - Acting AVP

Gerard Devan is Group Executive of The Walt DIsney Company and heads the Disney APAC team. He is a Senior Executive within the greater Walt Disney platform reporting to the Global Executive Team. Gerard Devan has been required from time to time to work within the Executive Leadership Team whilst acting in a relief AVP position. Gerard Devan is responsible for Disney's content and production development, revenue growth, operations, content creation and growth for Australia, NZ, The Pacific and specific regions within South Asia. Whilst relieving the Executive Leadership, he has further taken on responsibility for the wider Asian and EMEA regions whilst driving growth within APAC. He has direct reporting delegations for the APAC prime-time program creation for Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Hulu, Walt Disney Pictures, Animation Studios, Disney Experiences & Entertainment, ESPN, FX, Fox Network Group, 20th Century Fox, Disney Streaming & Imagineering, Star Wars™, National Geographic, ABC (USA) in Australia, Disney Comics, Disney Consumer Product Group, and Star among other programmatic content. Gerard Devan and his APAC team are further responsible for partnerships Cinematic corporations, Television networks, streaming media services, video on demand (VOD) services, or over-the-top (OTT) media services as well as other multi-media platforms. Disney has formed strategic alliances with brand partners for content creation and co-production of programs as well as distribution across its many partner platforms. Gerard Devan manages those partnerships within Online, Television, Cinematic and related providers which are shared across the APAC and global regions. Disney shares strategic partnerships with Telstra Exchange, Amazon Prime, Free to Air Network Television and the Cinema Networks for developing and delivery of content, sharing complex commercial partnerships across Australia and the globe. Gerard Devan and his APAC 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+ portfolio, 20th Century Fox divisions, Pixar, Marvel, ESPN, Telstra streaming partnership with Disney+, Amazon Primer global partnership, Government relations (Federal and State), and the Federal cross-media ownership statute relaxation lobby. The Disney APAC team's key focus is the many production partnerships and distribution networks amongst other Enterprise and Government strategic initiatives which Gerard Devan's Group Executive Office controls for Disney APAC.

Gerard is a graduate of the University of Wollongong with two undergraduate degrees and a postgraduate degree completed over the years in the ICT, Business Technology, Science and Technology fields, Communications and Media fields. Gerard is currently completing a Law Degree at The University of Sydney's LPAB program. Gerard Devan is member of the Trans-Tasman Business Circle and The Executive Connection CEO Networking Forum.