David Alpert

CEO

Skybound Entertainment / Partner, Circle of Confusion

David Alpert is a prolific producer, with television credits including The Walking Dead, and its companion series, Fear The Walking Dead, Outcast, Five Year, Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, and the upcoming AMC comic docu-series Robert Kirkman’s Secret History of Comics.

His film credits include producing the upcoming adaptation of the long-running Robert Kirkman comic, Invincible, which is set to be written, directed and produced by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg for Universal Pictures.

Other producing credits include AIR, starring Norman Reedus and Djimon Hounsou, the Jessie
Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart film American Ultra, and the George Lopez film Spare Parts.

Alpert is also CEO of Skybound Entertainment, founded alongside longtime collaborator Robert Kirkman. It was their vision to build Skybound, a multi-platform content company, to produce creatively driven content in all genres and formats with passionate creators at the helm. As CEO, Alpert oversees operations, creative development and production and strategic business initiatives for the company.

Moving across platforms, Alpert executive produced Samsung Milk VR’s Gone, the first ever narrative virtual reality series. He also produces the VR series Delusion: Lies Within, the first project out of Skybound’s partnership with immersive theatrical company Delusion.

Alpert is an honors graduate of Harvard University and New York University Law.

Speaking at: In Conversation With: David Alpert, Skybound Entertainment & Circle of Confusion