Bob Bacon

Bob Bacon

Executive Vice President Animation at Paramount Pictures

Supervisor Animation Exec/Prod / 30 yrs

Los Angeles, CA

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Bob Bacon is Executive Vice President, Production for Paramount Animation and heads the animation division. Bob recently oversaw Paramount's first film under the new division -- the box office hit "The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge out of Water"​ which opened #1 at the box office and earned over $310M in worldwide grosses. Since joining Paramount in 2011, Bob has led and built the company from the ground up and has successfully brought 4 films to green light, built a full slate of films in development, brought in key leadership, and grew the division to over 125 people.

Bob's animation career spans over two decades of creative development, production, and deal-making expertise. Bob served as Production Executive on the 2011 animated feature, Gnomeo & Juliet, for Disney’s Touchstone Pictures. Formerly EVP of Walt Disney Animation Studios, Bob oversaw production, finance, and technology for the world-renowned studio. Bob ran the day-to-day operations of a crew of over 600 artists, technicians, and production staff including Disney’s first all-CG, stereoscopic film Chicken Little.

Named SVP of Production in 2001, Bob oversaw production as the studio re-tooled from traditional, hand-drawn processes to CG animation. Bob joined Disney in 1991 holding key financial positions during the animation studio’s aggressive expansion of its worldwide operations in the late 1990’s where as VP of Production Finance he managed more than $400 million in annual film costs helping to fuel the division’s growth to a peak of over 2,200 employees and 750,000 sq ft. of facility operations. During his tenure the studio produced 17 award-winning films including the classics Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, The Lion King, Tarzan, and Lilo and Stitch with worldwide box office grosses totaling over $5 billion.
Work History

  • Chief Executive Officer

    Alpha Animation

    August 2016 - Present

  • Executive Vice President Animation

    Paramount Pictures

    October 2011 - September 2015

  • Animation Executive, Producer, Consultant

    Magic Bag Productions

    June 2007 - October 2011

  • Executive Vice President

    Walt Disney Feature Animation

    1991 - 2006
Education

  • MBA

    California State University-Northridge

    1991 - 1993

  • B.S. in Business Administration/Finance

    California State University-Northridge

    1983 - 1987