The March Entertainment team consists of a vibrant blend of technical, creative and business talent that has helped us evolve from our beginnings on the Internet, to become an acclaimed producer of multimedia for worldwide audiences.

Here are just some of the people who help make March Entertainment what it is.

As President and founder of March Entertainment, Dan and his team produce animated series, movies and games for TV, Internet and mobile platforms. Dan holds an Honours Management Information Systems degree from the University of Ottawa, Canada. He began his career as a software engineer at Nortel before moving on to become a serial Internet entrepreneur by day and struggling creative soul by night. He has since built and sold two Internet companies. Dan is the co-creator of Chilly Beach, Becoming Georgie and a host of online shows and games. He is also executive producer of March Entertainment's vast slate of content.

Jim brings almost 20 years' experience in the media and entertainment industry to his role as Chief Financial Officer. Jim started his career in KPMG's media and entertainment division, followed by senior financial positions at Norstar Filmed Entertainment, Protocol Entertainment and Live Nation. He has been a production executive on over $80M of both domestic and international projects and was involved in over $100M of financing in the media industry. Jim is a CA and recently completed the advanced stage of CICA's Corporate Finance Qualification.

Daphne Park brings more than 15 years of experience to her post as Vice President, Production Finance and Operations at March Entertainment. As a member of the company's executive management team alongside the President and CFO, she is involved in arranging the co-production and financing of projects while supervising the overall business and legal affairs of the company. Daphne was formerly Vice President of Production and Business Affairs at Norstar Filmed Entertainment where she was involved in every aspect of production and finance from the start of development to distribution. During her tenure, she worked on more than 20 feature films and earned a Gemini Award for Best Dramatic Series as an Executive Producer on CTV's The Eleventh Hour.

A native of Ottawa, Ontario, Doug is March Entertainment's head writer and also oversees the animation/production process of many of its shows. Doug has a BFA in film from York University and has been creating leading-edge online apps and content since the early days of the Internet. Doug's love of new technology and his background in film and television have enabled him to apply the same high-quality standards of storytelling used on TV to the web. Doug is the co-creator and head writer of Chilly Beach and numerous other series.

Jon Izen is a Winnipeg-born artist and director who loves wiener dogs. After graduating from the University of Manitoba with a BFA, Jon moved to Vancouver and studied animation. Since graduating, Jon's original animated projects have been awarded and nominated internationally in numerous animation competitions and festivals. His artwork has been included as a part of group and solo shows in Winnipeg, Vancouver, Portland and San Francisco. Jon is the co-creator and director of The Very Good Adventures of Yam Roll in Happy Kingdom.

Jordan brings 14 years of expert CG production to March Entertainment, specializing in building robust, automated pipelines. Prior to joining March, Jordan spent seven years at C.O.R.E Digital Pictures, where he led CG teams on such acclaimed productions as Warner Brothers' The Ant Bully and Disney's The Wild. Jordan was also with Nelvana for six years, where he provided lighting direction for the first televised CG show to make major use of shadows, the Gemini Award-winning Rolie Polie Olie.

Chris Henderson began his career in animation in 1984 as director on 65 episodes of the anime cult favorite Tranzor Z. Through the 1980s and '90s Chris worked on a myriad of productions in both development and production capacities. Production and development clients/studios included 20th Century Fox/Landmark Entertainment, Phil Mendez Productions, Telescreen, DIC and Jim Henson Productions. Chris was later hired by Walt Disney Television Animation to act as the show runner/producer of the TV series 101 Dalmatians and Hercules, both 65 half-hour episodes. He then went on to produce 720 interstitials for the Buena Vista Television syndication block, the “Disney's One Too” brand. While at Disney, he also produced two long-form movies, The Hunchback of Notre Dame II, which won a DVD Premiere Award for Best Animated Movie, and the sequel to Peter Pan Return to Never Land, a theatrical release.

Born in Nairobi, Kenya and a resident of Toronto, Canada, Anushie Mahavitane attends to every detail of March Entertainment's varied slate of animated productions. Anushie has been at March for almost five years, where she began as a Production Coordinator before graduating to her current position of Production Manager. Anushie is a graduate of Ryerson University's Radio and Television Arts program, Anushie earned her stripes as a Production Assistant and Production Coordinator at Deveaux Babin Productions and White Hat Productions before joining March Entertainment.

After joining March Entertainment in 2007 as "Chief Web Dude," Barry soon established himself as a people-oriented leader, well-versed in both the technical and business sides of March Entertainment's various new media projects. A Sudbury, Ontario native, Barry has more than 15 years of experience in technology engineering, analysis and development. He holds honours degrees in both Commerce and Computer Science Commerce from Laurentian University, as well as a diploma in Computing and Information Systems from Cambrian College.

Mike Drach is a talented writer and developer originally from North York, Ontario. He has worked closely with the March Entertainment team for more than seven years, eventually joining as an in-house creative writer, editor and script consultant. He has written scripts for several productions including Yam Roll, Chilly Beach, Uncle Joe's Cartoon Playhouse, Maple Shorts!, G2G, Mia and Me, as well as various online and new media productions. Since joining, he has taken the role of Marketing and Development Manager, supporting the day-to-day functions of March Entertainment's branding and marketing initiatives while helping to develop new assets.