Fred Seibert

Frederick G. Seibert is an American television producer and media proprietor. He was the first employee and creative director of MTV in 1980, and later founded Frederator Networks in 1997, as well as its spin-off companies Frederator Studios, Channel Frederator Network, and Cartoon Hangover. Having held numerous executive positions for Viacom Media Networks, he was the final president of animation studio Hanna-Barbera from 1992 to 1996. He's since co-founded Next New Networks, Bolder Media, and the production company FredFilms by 2020.

Seibert is an angel investor for numerous technology and media-based startup projects, having served as a seed investor for Tumblr and produced animated/live action programs for cable television or streaming. He created the animation incubator anthology series What a Cartoon! in 1994, Oh Yeah! Cartoons in 1998, and Random! Cartoons in 2008. Television programs which first originated on these series include The Fairly OddParents, Johnny Bravo, Dexter's Laboratory, Courage the Cowardly Dog, My Life as a Teenage Robot, The Powerpuff Girls, and Adventure Time, among others; most of which were executive produced by Seibert.

Seibert began his professional career as a jazz and blues record producer and audio engineer in the 1970s.