Debra manages the editing and engineering team and Q.C.s. Debra is responsible for financials and daily operations.
Deyan Audio has 18 Mac Pro Tools workstations. Deyan Audio has edited over 7,000 audio books, reformatted more than 2,000 audio books, recorded and directed over 2,000 audio books (many with celebrity readers). We have Q.C.ed over 10,000 audio books (our titles and other producers titles).
Besides more than 20 years in the audio book business, Bob has had experience as a Television Director, Videographer, Photographer, Voice Over / Radio Talent and Operations Manager for a Los Angeles based radio station. During his college days at CSULB, Bob was chosen out of hundreds of applicants to intern on the set of M.A.S.H. for several weeks based on a script he wrote for the show.
Before Debra started her 20 plus year career in audiobook creation, she used her MBA in the swimming pool supply business as a Director of Regulatory and Legal Affairs for 7 years and prior to that she put herself through college as a saleswoman for 6 years in the wholesale fishing tackle industry.
Bob and Debra LOVE books and especially AUDIOBOOKS! So, when Bob and Debra got married they put their schooling and experience together and dove into the publishing world. When they got started, audiobooks were recorded to 1/4" tape. Things have come a long way since then!
Deyan Audio was conceived in 1990 by Bob and Debra Deyan of Tarzana, CA. Bob Deyan, from Los Angeles, has a B. A. in Radio/Television Broadcasting from the California State University Long Beach. Debra Deyan from Virginia Beach, holds a MBA from Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA.
Bob produces, directs, and Q.C.s audiobooks, as well as manages the company. He has produced over 2,000 audio books. Bob has directed celebrity readers such as Craig Ferguson, Alice Cooper, Dudley Moore, Beau Bridges, Juliet Mills, Ed Asner, Jane Goodall, Patrick McNee, Wayne Knight, Tori Spelling, Richard Dreyfuss, Kareem Abdul-Jabar, CCH Pounder, Malcalm Jamal-Warner, Bill Cosby, Raven Symoné, and recorded Milton Berle, Whoopi Goldberg and Joe Mantegna and many more. Bob also works with celebrity authors and famous motivational speakers like Deepak Chopra, Bob Harper, Vincent Bugliosi and Dr. John Demartini.
