Jennifer Twiner-McCarron is the CEO and Chair of Thunderbird Entertainment Group, and the Company’s kids and family content arm, Atomic Cartoons. With a focus on diversity and inclusion, the Vancouver-based global multiplatform entertainment company creates award-winning scripted, unscripted and animated programming for the world’s leading digital platforms, as well as Canadian and international broadcasters.

Jennifer joined Atomic Cartoons as the Head of Production in 2011. She was promoted to CEO of Atomic Cartoons in 2016, and CEO of Thunderbird in 2018. She continues to hold both roles, overseeing Thunderbird’s overall business as a public company as well as a team of more than 1,400 people, with offices and studios in Vancouver, Los Angeles, and Ottawa.

Throughout the years, Jennifer has executive produced multiple titles including the Emmy-winning The Last Kids on Earth, which streams on Netflix, Dogs in Space, also streaming on Netflix, and Molly of Denali, which airs on PBS KIDS. Her work has received

several recognitions, including multiple Leo Awards, an ELAN, a DTV, two Emmys and a Peabody, among others.

In 2022, she was named as one of Business in Vancouver’s five Most Influential Women and to Bay Street Bull’s Women of the Year List. Jennifer was also named the Equity and Inclusion Champion in BC Business’ 2021 Women of the Year Awards, one of WXN’s Most Powerful Women in Canada (2019) and Executive of the Year by Playback Magazine (2018). Jennifer sits on various boards and committees, including the Canadian Chamber of Commerce’s BIPOC Council, the CKNW Kids’ Fund, the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television, and more.