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Mick Ebeling

Mick Ebeling
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at Internet Week New York
May 18, 2015
Born 1970 (age 46–47)
Alma mater UC Santa Barbara ('92)
Occupation producer, author, entrepreneur, philanthropist

Mick Ebeling (born 1970) is an American film, television and commercial executive producer, author, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. Ebeling has been honored by Advertising Age as one of the “Top 50 Most Creative People”, 2015 Wired Magazine Agent of Change, and the recipient of the 2014 Muhammad Ali Humanitarian of the Year Award.

Ebeling is the founder and CEO of Not Impossible Labs, a company committed to creating technology of the sake of humanity. Ebeling is also founder of The Ebeling Group and the nonprofit The Not Impossible Foundation.

Ebeling's first entertainment job was launching Venice Beach based, FUEL in 1995. FUEL was a motion design studio using one of the first versions of the Adobe After Effects software. FUEL was bought by Razorfish in July 1999. Ebeling then went on to be the CEO of THEY. THEY was a cross-platform design company that worked with clients such as NASA. In 2001, Mick formed The Ebeling Group (TEG), a commercial and film production company that focuses on animation, design and visual effects.

From 2006 to 2011, under Ebeling's leadership the company branched into film and long form content with credits on titles such as “Stranger Than Fiction” (2006), “Kite Runner” (2007), “Quantum of Solace” (2008), the award-winning animation "Yes, Virginia" television special for CBS (2009) and a series of short films with Marvel Studios called "One-Shots" (2011).

Ebeling is also the executive producer of the documentary film "Getting Up: The Tempt One Story", winner of the Audience Award at the 2011 Slamdance Film Festival.

In 2014, Ebeling will be featured as one of Intel's Innovators for their "Look Inside" Series. Other sponsored Innovators include Jack Andraka.


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