Wayne Denning is an Indigenous Australian businessman of Birri Gubba heritage, and is the Managing Director and owner of Carbon Creative.
[1] Denning grew up as part of the Birri Gubba First Nations community (also known as Blackwater) in the Central Highlands Region of Queensland, Australia.
[2] His sister is Tanya Denning-Orman, the Director of Indigenous Content at SBS Australia, and Channel Manager of NITV.
Denning established creative agency Carbon Media (later renamed Carbon Creative) "around a kitchen table in 2006"[4] to showcase the arts and culture of Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and to create more positive representation of First Nations people in the Australian mainstream media.
[5] Denning stated that while Carbon Media was founded as a for-profit business to ensure ongoing viability, it was established with "a philosophy of social entrepreneurship",[6] and the intent of giving back to the First Nations community of Australia.