Jason Jameson is Co-Founder and Creative Director of Unanico Group. Jason studied at the prestigious Royal College of Art, graduating with an Animation Masters, and has over 15 years of experience in concept and character development, design and animation direction. Jason is currently working on Unanico Creative Content’s own family focused original IPs, which include Buddi, Melody Makers and Kananga (long-form series) and The Robin & The Fir Tree (short film). Jason wrote and directed Unanico Creative Content’s award-winning stereoscopic 3D CGI animated short film One Night In Hell, and is co-writing and co-directing its animated feature spin-off. Jason and the team provided all the animation for Season 1 and Season 2 of Three Stones Media’s live-action/animation mix series Apple Tree House that was commissioned by CBeebies. Jason is the lead talent of Unanico Creative Content.

Paul Laikin is Co-Founder and Managing Director of Unanico Group. Paul is a former lawyer who represented Paramount, Universal and Disney, before transitioning to animation and live-action film production. Paul currently specialises in international film co-production. Paul is a multi-lingual, award-winning producer and screenwriter, following a 2014 WGA Award screenplay nomination for the acclaimed documentary drama No Place On Earth. Paul is co-producing and co-writing Unanico Entertainment’s music-driven animated feature spin-off of One Night In Hell alongside Queen’s Brian May and the team behind Fantastic Mr. Fox and Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride. Paul speaks French, German, Italian, Dutch, Norwegian and Mandarin Chinese.

Leanne Preston is CEO of Unanico Group, based in Los Angeles and has over fourteen years’ experience working in the kids and family entertainment business across both the creative and business sides. Starting out her career at Nickelodeon, Leanne worked in the London office on the development and production of global original content, including BAFTA nominated series House of Anubis, before transitioning to the independent producer side, as Head of Development for Red Kite. There she oversaw shows such as ‘Ella Bella Bingo’, sold to 20+ countries and the DreamWorks Classics property ‘George of the Jungle’ for Teletoon in Canada, sold to 125+ countries worldwide. Leanne later founded Bright Box Creative and worked with Chinese broadcasters Toonmax Media and CCTV to develop content for Chinese and international audiences as well as working with producer clients across the globe. Also a writer and story editor, Leanne developed, story edited and wrote scripts for international preschool show Emmy & GooRoo, distributed by Jetpack. Since moving to Los Angeles in 2015 Leanne has worked with Citizen Skull Productions, Gaumont as a Development Executive and as Associate Producer on the new Lego City Adventures series for Nickelodeon. Most recently, Leanne was VP Production for Indian studio Digitoonz, building on their North American and European business and as Director of Content and Business Development for Left Pocket Studio in Shanghai.

Naima Vogt is the Production Manager and Business Development Executive at Unanico Group. Naima began her career in New York City, where she gained valuable experience working on drama series, feature-length documentaries, and short digital documentaries for entities such as Netflix, CNN Films, The New York Times, and The Wellcome Trust. Naima worked as Associate Producer & Archival Producer on the Sierra/Tango & CNN Films documentary, Unseen Enemy, and subsequently managed the film development and distribution plans for Sierra/Tango Productions. Naima is passionate about animation production, documentary filmmaking, content development, distribution and acquisitions, as well as black & white film photography. Naima is Brazilian-Canadian and holds a Bachelor of Arts from McGill University in International Development with minors in Philosophy and Psychology. She is fluent in English, Portuguese, and French.

Warren (Jianguo) Yan joined Unanico following a career in project management.  With a talent for management, Warren’s focuses on business strategy, marketing, distribution, communication and team-building, applying his experience across multiple industries to Unanico’s animation projects.  A native Mandarin speaker, he has also been instrumental in supporting the company’s business and relationships in China.

Robert Milne is an animation director who has worked on a range of award-winning features, shorts, music videos, games and commercials. A graduate of the Royal College of Art, Robert has worked at cutting edge studios, such as Nexus, Airside, Not To Scale, Passion and Lupus, where he recently animated on Ethel & Ernest. Robert started his career at Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment, where he worked on the animated feature Balto before relocating to Los Angeles to join Dreamworks SKG, animating on the features The Prince of Egypt, The Road To El Dorado and Spirit: Stallion Of the Cimarron.

Jamie Holdom is our Sales and Marketing Manager at Unanico Group. Jamie is a creative marketer who has previously worked in art and commercial sales. He is a graduate of University of the Arts London. Jamie is responsible for Unanico’s social media, websites (including print on demand), collaborations, events and fan engagement.

Anna Martorano Oliver studied Media at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain, and obtained a Masters in 3D animation.  Later at the IDEC-Universitat Pompeu Fabra, with fellow animators, Anna produced a short 3D animated film called Olinda that won, amongst others, the Distribution Award at the Festival La Boca del Lobo and the Shortcutz Viseu Award. At Unanico Creative Content, Anna has worked across the studios’ portfolio, including One Night In Hell, Buddi and Melody Makers.  Anna also works across the Studio’s co-development and co-production IPs with other companies.  Anna’s native languages are Spanish and Catalan.