Fred Seibert

Fred Seibert
Seibert at Vidcon 2014
Born	Frederick Seibert (1951-09-15) September 15, 1951 (age 65) Manhattan, New York City, US
Education	Columbia University
Occupation	Television producer, media & technology entrepreneur
Years active	1975–present
Website	http://fredseibert.com

Frederick "Fred" Seibert (born September 15, 1951) is a serial entrepreneur and American television and film producer. He owns Frederator Networks, Inc. and Frederator Studios. Seibert has held leading positions with MTV Networks,Hanna-Barbera, and Next New Networks, and is an angel investor in several technology and media start-ups. He has produced live action and animated programs for cable television, and the internet, and began his professional career as a jazz and blues record producer.

Seibert began his media career in college radio at Columbia University's WKCR-FM in 1969. While at Columbia he started his first company, Oblivion Records with partner Tom Pomposello, releasing LP's by Mississippi Fred McDowell (Live in New York) and Joe Lee Wilson. Simultaneously, he produced several dozen jazz and blues albums for independent companies such as Muse Records, JCOA Records (Jazz Composer's Orchestra), and Birth Records (owned by instrumentalist/composer Gunter Hampel). Seibert was an early employee of New Music Distribution Service, a non-profit distributor of musician owned record company started by composers Carla Bley and Michael Mantler, before going on the road with Bley's big band as sound engineer and road manager. A late 1970s stint with media promotion innovator Dale Pon at New York's WHN radio, Seibert began his work at MTV Networks in 1980