Tom Wayland is an American singer, guitar player, bassist, drummer, voice actor, voice director and voice producer who works with anime distribution/dubbing companies 4Kids Entertainment and DuArt Film and Video. He previously worked for Central Park Media. He is the founder of TripWire Productions, which has produced more than 200 different anime titles and overseen the voice direction of animations including Alien Nine and World of Narue. He is also a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. He is best known as the current director of Pokémon.