Eric Boyko | |
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Born | 1970 (age 53–54) |
Alma mater | McGill University |
Occupation(s) | Founder, president & CEO, Stingray Group Inc. (2007-present) |
Years active | 1991–present |
Website | stingray.com |
Eric Boyko (born 1970) [1] is a Canadian tech entrepreneur and the founder, president and CEO of Stingray Group.
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]
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]
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.
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