Insight, strategy, and creative expert in the global family market and children's media
Gary Pope is the CEO of Kids Industries, a unique business solving big challenges in the family market through an integrated proposition of insight, strategy, and creative. Gary was a teacher before he joined a change management agency as a learning designer. In 1999, Disney asked the agency to create a live experience and KI was born. Gary is a patron of the Children’s Media Foundation, advisor to the Children’s Media Conference, children’s ambassador for Products of Change, and sits on the UK Council of Licensing International. In 2022, Gary was voted the most influential person in international licensing.