David Alpert is the CEO and co-founder of Skybound Entertainment. The company’s initiative is to act as a platform for creators and their intellectual properties, to extend their stories through varying mediums including comics, television, film, tabletop and video games, books, and beyond. As CEO, Alpert oversees operations, creative development and production, and strategic business initiatives for the company and its ventures.
Alpert is also a prolific producer across television, film, and digital series. His television credits include The Walking Dead, (and its spinoffs), Outcast, Dirk Gently, Locke & Key, Dead by Dawn (the first-ever nature horror docu-series), and Super Dinosaur (an animated children’s series based on Robert Kirkman’s comic book of the same name). Alpert will also be serving as an executive producer on the upcoming series Psi Cops with Adult Swim Canada, Demon In The White House for Discovery, and the feature film Renfield directed by Chris McKay with Universal. His other film credits include American Ultra, AIR, and Spare Parts. He also serves as executive producer on the animated hit series, Invincible, which has been renewed for a 2nd and 3rd season at Amazon and is in development for a live-action film adaptation at Universal.
Alpert was a winner of the 2021 EY Entrepreneur Of The Year award. He is a member of the Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO) and is an honors graduate of Harvard University and New York University Law.