Jean Chalopin
Jean Chalopin (born 31 May 1950) is a French screenwriter, producer and bank executive. During the 1980s and early 1990s, he made several successful children's programs as founder of the production company DIC. He now heads Bahamas-based Deltec Bank. Career. In 1971, Chalopin formed with the backing of Radio Television Luxembourg the company Diffusion, Information Communications (DIC) which later evolved into DIC Entertainment. At DIC, he wrote and produced programmes animated by overseas studios. In 1987, Chalopin founded the company Créativité et Développement (eng: Creative and Development or C&D) after selling his shares in DIC and  continued to produce cartoons in the late 1980s and 1990s. C&D had offices in Paris and Tokyo while setting up Jetlag Productions as its American affiliated company. C&D had purchased the DIC library foreign distribution rights from Saban Entertainment soon after Saban had acquired them from DIC in 1987. In 1996, Chalopin sold the C&D library to Fox Kids Worldwide, while the company itself was absorbed into Saban International Paris. After moving to the Bahamas in 1987, Chalopin began investing in Deltec Bank and Trust, eventually becoming its largest shareholder and chairman. According to Chalopin, as chairman he sought out  smaller technology-related businesses, including Tether and its controlling company Bitfinex in 2018. At that time, Deltec was the only bank willing to work with the cryptocurrency. Screenwriting credits. • asterisk = head writer