Biography

Fred Stein is the Chief Legal Officer of Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment Inc., where he oversees all legal, business affairs, and risk management. Fred expands upon the Chief Legal Officer role he enjoyed at Redbox. Fred first joined Redbox in 2007, where his areas of responsibility included licensing and distribution deals with major Hollywood studios, privacy and other consumer issues, “high stakes” consumer class actions and antitrust litigation, representing the company’s interests with regulators, and promoting policy initiatives in Washington, D.C. He also served as SVP of Redbox Tickets, the company’s live event tickets venture. Fred received his BS in government from St. John’s University and earned his JD from Chicago-Kent College of Law, where he served as editor in chief of the law review. From 2020-21, Fred was chair of the Association for Corporate Counsel’s 6,000 member IT, Privacy and e-Commerce Network, and served as faculty for the association’s annual Corporate Counsel Institute for 10 years.