
Frederic N. Heller is a diverse entrepreneur. Having been a highly successful and innovative manager and consultant to a number of established international recording and performing artists earlier in his career, more recently he has turned to the transportation and recycling industries.
A skilled administrator and supervisor of creative and technical personnel, Mr. Heller has guided and expanded domestic and international markets for entertainment industry clients and has simultaneously established other business ventures, including a metal recycling company and a taxi fleet in New York City.
Fred, as his friends and family know him, is a devoted father and husband and an active member of, and contributor to the arts and progressive political organizations.
During the 1990s he served on the board of the Office For The Arts at Harvard University and as a member of the selection board for the Ivers Foundation Visiting Artist Program at Harvard. Since then he has been involved in the Whitney Museum 21st Century Artist program and a member of the Queens Museum Advisory Board and has been a contributor to the Socrates Sculpture Park. In 2007 he and his brother, Philip established the Lillian Heller Curators Award at the Chesterwood Estate and Museumr in Stockbridge, MA in the honor of their late mother.
Those who know Fred know that he is always willing to help out be reaching into his deep rolodex of contacts, just as he did for the Pleasantville Music Festival in the last few years.
Fred was born in the Bronx in 1947. He has fond memories of Reservoir Oval, Gunhill Road and Arthur Avenue, Cream Sodas and Square Kinishes.