Английская Википедия:Eric Boyko
Eric Boyko (born 1970)[1] is a Canadian tech entrepreneur and the founder, president and CEO of Stingray Group.
Early life and education
Boyko was born and raised in Montreal, Quebec, to a Quebecois mother and Ukrainian father.[2] He earned a bachelor of commerce degree from McGill University in 1992,[3] and became a certified general accountant in 1997.[4]
Career
Campus Gourmet and eFundraising.com
Boyko started his first business, Campus Gourmet, in 1991 at the age of 19. The company sold precooked meals to students at McGill University.[2][5] He then founded the online fundraising company Universal Fundraising Group with a $2,000 loan from the Business Development Bank of Canada.[2] It was rebranded as eFundraising.com in 1998,[5] and sold to ZapMe in 2000 for $25 million.[6]
Stingray Group Inc.
In 2007, Boyko and Alexandre Taillefer founded digital music provider Stingray Digital Media Group,[3] with Boyko serving as president and CEO since the company's inception.[7][8] The company sells commercial-free music streams to cable and satellite television providers to add to their subscribers' packages,[2] as well as a music streaming app and an online service for consumers and businesses.[9] Unlike many of its streaming music competitors, Stingray uses human curators rather than algorithms to generate playlists.[10] It was launched with the $6 million purchase of karaoke company Soundchoice, which was then renamed The Karaoke Channel.[2][3] A year later, Stingray purchased music-streaming TV channel Galaxie from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation for $65 million, and renamed it Stingray Music.[3]
The company went public on June 3, 2015, on the Toronto Stock Exchange.[1][11]
In December 2018, the company officially changed its name to Stingray Group, Inc.
References
External links
- ↑ 1,0 1,1 Josh O’Kane, “How Stingray’s thrill-seeking CEO took his passion public,” The Globe and Mail, June 5, 2015.
- ↑ 2,0 2,1 2,2 2,3 2,4 Steve Ladurantaye, “Eric Boyko: Stingray’s entrepreneur a go-go-go,” The Globe and Mail, November 2, 2012.
- ↑ 3,0 3,1 3,2 3,3 Paul Delean, “Stingray Digital in a growth groove,” Montreal Gazette, July 24, 2014.
- ↑ Eric Boyko Шаблон:Webarchive, bdc.ca. Accessed November 15, 2015.
- ↑ 5,0 5,1 Keith Randall, “Who Said the Path to Success is Easy?” Шаблон:Webarchive McGill Management Newsletter, Fall/Winter 2003-04, p. 17.
- ↑ “Montreal company hits it big with e-fundraising,” CBC News, April 3, 2000.
- ↑ Robert Briel, "Q&A with Stingray’s Eric Boyko," Broadband TV News, March 10, 2015.
- ↑ Eric Boyko CGA: Executive Profile, Bloomberg Businessweek. Accessed November 15, 2015.
- ↑ “Stingray Digital said to seek about $120M in IPO,” Montreal Gazette, April 24, 2015.
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ Damon van der Linde, “Stingray Digital Group Inc plans global expansion after $140M IPO,” Financial Post, June 3, 2015.
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