Mike Bell is a Northern Irish executive producer and animation director from Bangor, County Down. He trained in animation at Sheridan College, Canada and worked as an animation director for Dublin-based Moving Still Productions in the 1990s. Bell relocated to London in 1998. In 2008, he joined the animation studio Tandem as an executive producer and partner. In 2015, he launched Encycle Studios, an animation company based in London and Belfast. Mike Bell is perhaps best know as executive producer of Simon’s Cat, the animated YouTube series.