Mark Simon, from the National Cartoonist Society, has 40 years in the entertainment industry known as the Godfather of Storyboards and owner of Storyboards & Animatics, Inc, as well as a producer and director for live action and animation and has amassed over 7,000 production credits. Recent credits include the Netflix projects Stranger Things and Woody Woodpecker (movie and animated series), The Walking Dead, Chucky, Scream 7, Marvelous Mrs Maisel, Mr and Mrs Smith, Dexter and others.

He is the animation producer for Universal's How High 2 and Little Rascals movies and Fox's Tooth Fairy 2 feature.

Mark participated in a 2012 Prime Time Engineering Emmy for his work with the Toon Boom software team behind the Storyboard Pro software. He was also inducted into the DAVE School (Digital Animation & Visual Effects School) Hall of Fame.

He has won over 200 awards for projects he’s written and directed.