Marc H. Segan
Founder and President
M. H. Segan & Company Inc.
Marc Segan is founder and president of M. H. Segan & Company Inc., an invention and product development firm in New York. The firm, specializing in creative
innovative products, has invented the first musical greeting card for Hallmark Cards, the Triple Arcade for Fisher-Price, Tony the Tattooed Man for Mattel Toys,
as well as many Warner Bros. and Disney products, including the hit high-tech. Mickey’s Marching Band and the newest Mickey Mouse and Goofy telephones in
years--for the first time talking and animated.
The firm creates and manufactures the entire line of Nickelodeon electronics, including the Nickelodeon PhotoBlaster camera, a totally new concept in picture taking,
and the Nickelodeon Desk Thing which has just arrived in stores.
Mr. Segan is a graduate of Princeton University with a degree in Philosophy, and was musical director of Princeton’s Triangle Club. His love of musical theatre
continues; he was co-producer of last year's hit Off-Broadway musical When Pigs Fly --winner of the Outer-Critics Circle and Drama Desk Awards.
Mr. Segan’s hobbies include tennis, piano, origami, and ham-radio operating.
Marc H. Segan
President, THE ANIMATED ANIMATIONS COMPANY LLC
Marc Segan, award-winning inventor, theatrical producer, musician, and president of The Animated Animations Company LLC, is the creator of the first
musical greeting card (for Hallmark), the first musical interactive plush toy (for Dakin), and other one-of-a-kind creations that continue to delight kids and families
worldwide.
Animated Animations, the unique, collectible "Art that Moves and Talks", is representative of Mr. Segan's 20-year career creating and designing for companies
such as Warner Bros., Disney, Nickelodeon, Fisher Price and Mattel Toys.
Mr. Segan's patents and innovations in toys, games, musical instruments, and microelectronics have earned wide critical acclaim and numerous awards. Mr. Segan
created the best-selling line of Nickelodeon electronics, including the Nickelodeon TalkBlaster Multi-Ringer Telephone, which received a "1998 Platinum Best Toy
of the Year Award" by the Oppenheim Toy Portfolio, and was a "Top Holiday Pick of retailer Zany Brainy. He invented the first animated Mickey Mouse and
Goofy phones, winners of the "CES Innovation Award" for 1998 and 1999, respectively; the Fisher-Price Triple Arcade, a combination game table, which earned
Fisher-Price's "Highest Rating in Consumer Satisfaction" in 1996; and the best-selling Santa's Marching Band, a line of musical holiday products.
A man of many talents, Mr. Segan has long been active in musical theater. Most recently, he co-produced the Outer-Critics Circle and Drama Desk Award-winning
Off-Broadway musical, When Pigs Fly. Mr. Segan has also served on the board of directors of New York Stage & Film, which produces an annual summer
festival of new plays at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York.
"Animated Animations is, in fact, theatre right on your wall," said Mr. Segan. "Combining multi-dimensional scenic elements, theatrical magic, and whimsy, this new
art form permits us to create an infinite variety of moods and stories--just like theatre."
A graduate of Princeton University with a degree in Philosophy, Mr. Segan was musical director of the Princeton Triangle Club. He has been an inventor since
childhood. "On sunny days, while other 9-year olds were outside playing baseball, I was in the basement rebuilding my ham radio.
The Animated Animations Company LLC, an independent company, specializing in innovative art that moves and talks, with musical elements, was established in
1993. Mr. Segan founded M. H. Segan & Company Inc., a New York-based invention and product development firm, in 1978.
"The fantasy and technology of Animated Animations satisfy me on many levels," said Mr. Segan. "It's art, theatre, design, mechanics and invention, coming
together to create a dazzling new form of collectible art."