Barry Watson is president

President

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 and CEO of Illumitoon Entertainment

Illumitoon Entertainment

Illumitoon Entertainment is a company based in Fort Worth, Texas that has announced plans to "[deliver] customized, quality entertainment to the North American markets." Specifically, the company plans to produce animation, especially anime, both for television broadcast and home video...

. He was formerly a producer and voice director for FUNimation Entertainment

FUNimation Entertainment

Funimation is an American entertainment company. Originally founded in 1994 by Gen Fukunaga, the company became a subsidiary of Navarre Corporation on May 11, 2005...

 whose production credits include:

• Bakuretsu Tenshi - Tenshi Sairin (OAV
  Original video animation
  , abbreviated as media , are animated films and series made specially for release in home-video formats. The term originated in relation to Japanese animation...
  
  )
• Blue Gender
  Blue Gender
  is a 26-episode anime created by Ryōsuke Takahashi broadcast in Japan from 1999-2000. Blue Gender was created by the Japanese animation studio, AIC and is distributed in the United States by Funimation Entertainment...
  
   (TV series and feature-length movie)
• Burst Angel
  Burst Angel
  is a Japanese animated television series directed by Koichi Ohata, from a screenplay by Fumihiko Shimo. It was produced by the Gonzo animation studio....
  
   (TV series)
• Case Closed
  Case Closed
  Case Closed, known as in Japan, is a Japanese detective manga series written and illustrated by Gosho Aoyama. The series is serialized in Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday since February 2, 1994, and has been collected in 73 tankōbon volumes as of September 2011...
  
   (TV series)
• Dragon Ball (TV series and feature-length movies)
• Dragonball GT (TV series, including A Hero's Legacy, a special episode)
• Dragonball Z (TV series and feature length movies)
• Fruits Basket
  Fruits Basket
  , sometimes abbreviated , is a Japanese shōjo manga series written and illustrated by Natsuki Takaya. It was serialized in the semi-monthly Japanese magazine Hana to Yume, published by Hakusensha, from 1999 to 2006. The series was also adapted into a 26-episode anime series, directed by Akitaro...
  
   (TV series)
• Fullmetal Alchemist
  Fullmetal Alchemist
  , is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hiromu Arakawa. The world of Fullmetal Alchemist is styled after the European Industrial Revolution...
  
   (TV series)
• Gunslinger Girl
  Gunslinger Girl
  Gunslinger Girl is an ongoing manga by Yu Aida. It first premiered in the November 2002 issue of the monthly shōnen magazine Dengeki Daioh. The chapters are also being published in tankōbon volumes by ASCII Media Works. 13 volumes have been released in Japan as of April 2011...
  
   (TV series)
• Kiddy Grade
  Kiddy Grade
  is a 24 episode science fiction anime series produced in 2002 and created by gímik and Gonzo Digimation and directed by Keiji Gotoh. The series is licensed and distributed in North America by FUNimation Entertainment. The series currently airs on the FUNimation Channel in both its "syndicated...
  
   (TV series)
• Kodocha
  Kodocha
  is a manga series by Miho Obana, helped periodically by her sister, Kaori Obana. The series is commonly known under the name Kodocha. The manga won the 1998 Kodansha Manga Award for shōjo. In the year 2007, At the American Anime Awards the anime was nominated for best comedy anime...
  
   (TV series)
• Lupin III
  Lupin III
  , also known as Lupin the 3rd, is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kazuhiko Kato under the pen name of Monkey Punch. The story follows the adventures of a gang of thieves led by Arsène Lupin III, the grandson of Arsène Lupin, the gentleman thief of Maurice Leblanc's series of...
  
   (Special episodes and feature-length movies)
• Sakura Taisen: Sumire
  Sakura Wars
  is a Japanese media franchise created by Ouji Hiroi, and is developed and owned by Sega and licensed by Red Entertainment and Sega. The franchise centers on a series of dramatic fantasy and science-fantasy tactical role-playing adventure video games, which consist of tactical wargame and dating sim...
  
   (OAV
  Original video animation
  , abbreviated as media , are animated films and series made specially for release in home-video formats. The term originated in relation to Japanese animation...
  
  )
• Spiral (TV series)
• Tenchi Muyo! GXP
  Tenchi Muyo! GXP
  is a Japanese anime series created by AIC and broadcast on NTV from April 3, 2002 to September 25, 2002. It is the fourth installment of the Tenchi Muyo! line of series, succeeding Tenchi in Tokyo, localized in North America by Funimation.-Plot:...
  
   (TV series)
• YuYu Hakusho
  YuYu Hakusho
  is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yoshihiro Togashi. The name of the series is spelled YuYu Hakusho in the Viz Media manga and Yu Yu Hakusho in other English distributions of the franchise. The series tells the story of Yusuke Urameshi, a teenage delinquent who is struck and...
  
   (TV series)

Daniel Cocanougher, FUNimation's Vice President

Vice president

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, was listed on production credits with Watson on many projects. Following Illumitoon's founding in 2006, Justin Cook

Justin Cook

Justin Ryan Cook is an American Producer, Voice Actor, Line Producer, ADR Director, and Engineer who works for Funimation Entertainment and OkraTron 5000...

 and Carly Hunter have been credited as producer on FUNimation's titles. He also does the English voice of Dr. Brief's black cat Scratch

Scratch

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 in the English dub of Dragon Ball and its sequel, Dragon Ball Z.

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