Murray Hidary

Last updated

Murray Hidary (born August 30, 1971) is an American composer, fine art photographer, and entrepreneur of Syrian origin. [1]

Contents

Hidary attended New York University (NYU) between 1989 and 1993 and majored in Music and Composition.

Business career

EarthWeb/Dice Inc.

Murray Hidary began his business career in 1994 at the age of 23 when he co-founded EarthWeb with his older brother, Jack Hidary, and Nova Spivack. [2] While EarthWeb was one of the first internet consulting companies, it shifted focus in 1997 when Tristan Louis was brought in to turn the company into an IT information portal called developer.com. [3] EarthWeb's initial public offering on November 11, 1998 closed at US$48.69 per share, up 247.8% from its opening price of $14. [4] At the time, EarthWeb's first-day return was among the largest in NASDAQ history. [5]

In 2000, EarthWeb changed its name to Dice Inc, [6] taking the company private and renaming itself after its flagship property dice.com, the leading career website for technology and engineering professionals [7] In 2005 private equity firms Quadrangle and General Atlantic Partners acquired Dice Inc. for approximately US$200 million. [8] Dice Inc. subsequently went public on the New York Stock Exchange in 2007 and trades under the ticker symbol DHX. [9]

Murray Hidary left the company in January 2001, but continued to serve on the board through April 2002. [10]

Vista Research

In 2001 Hidary co-founded Vista Research with his brother Jack Hidary. The firm pioneered the field of expert network research providers, catering to top-tier investment funds. Vista Research provides hedge fund and asset managers with access to an extensive network of experts in industries including technology, media, telecommunications, energy, aerospace and healthcare. [11]

In April 2005 the company was acquired by the Standard & Poor's division of McGraw-Hill. [12] [13] In 2009 McGraw-Hill sold Vista Research to Guidepoint Global, a global consulting and research firm. [14]

iAmplify

Murray Hidary and Jack Hidary founded iAmplify in 2005. iAmplify is a Web-based content publisher and syndication network for professionals in a broad range of fields. The site features simple tools for use by specialists to distribute their media. Users range from individuals to large corporations. [15] iAmplify has established prominent partnerships with Bloomberg, [16] David Allen, [17] Yoga Journal, [18] Marianne Williamson, [19] Condé Nast's Golf Digest , [20] and Eckhart Tolle. [21]

With pressure on the publishing industry mounting, Hidary was one of the first to envision taking readers “beyond the book,” and provide a platform for authors to forge a direct relationship with their audience. [22]

Primary Insight

In 2009 Murray Hidary re-entered the expert network industry with his most recent endeavor: Primary Insight. The Hidary Group backed a management buyout of Primary Insight from JP Morgan led by former colleagues, David DeRose and Leighton Thomas. JP Morgan retains a minority interest. [23]

Primary Insight is a leading provider of a vast network of experts in all industries and caters to some of the world's largest hedge funds and institutional investors. [24]

eBillity

Murray is also the co-founder of eBillity, a cloud-based SaaS platform used by freelancers, IT professionals, lawyers, accountants, creative professionals, and small business owners. The web-based and mobile tool helps professionals quickly and accurately track, manage, and bill their time.

Givme

Hidary partnered with co-founder Robert Etropolsky, who is the entrepreneur that built fashion brand Nanushka. Givme [25] is a private, location-based, photo-sharing app for friends.

Music career

Murray Hidary majored in Music and Composition at NYU. After college he continued his musical pursuits in parallel with his business ambitions. His primary compositional mentor was Paul Alan Levi. Additional influences include composers of the minimalist movement including, Philip Glass, Terry Riley, and Steve Reich, as well as, the contrapuntal techniques from the Baroque period. In his music, he employs many organic mathematical processes as well as a layering technique that creates a rich and textured effect.

Hidary recorded his first symphony in St. Petersburg, Russia in 2004. Entitled Motion, it was performed by The St. Petersburg Philharmonic and conducted by Paul Alan Levi. [26]

Original compositions

Conducted by: Paul Alan Levi Performed by: The St. Petersburg Philharmonic

Conducted by: Paul Alan Levi

Performed by: ETHEL & Friends - Kenji Bunch (viola), Malrl Dorman-Planeuf (cello), Neil Duffallo (violin), Ralph Farris (viola), Ariana Kim (violin), Dorothy Lawson (cello), Mary Rowell (violin), and Wendy Sutter (cello)

Performed by: Paolo Tatafiore

Performed by: Yoshio Kurahashi (shakuhachi) and Eaisun Shin (violin)

Performed by: ETHEL & Murray Hidary at the Crest Theater, Los Angeles. [27]

Mind Travel

Murray is the creator of [28] Mind Travel. He performs real-time compositions at the piano. These performances feature his solo piano with visual art installations. Mind Travel has also featured performances by ETHEL including the premiere of Hidary's Piano Quintet. Concert venues include The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, The Soho House in West Hollywood, New York City, Chicago and Miami, The Crest Theater, The Carlsbad Music Festival, St Regis Hotel in Aspen, The Mind Body Green Revitalize Conference in Arizona, Unplug Meditation Studio, The Shine in Los Angeles and the Listening Room in NYC.

Photography career

Murray Hidary first began experimenting with photography during a cross-country road trip when he was 17 years old. He continued his travel and nature photography after his first semester at NYU, when at the age of 18, he took a leave of absence from college and spent 8 months riding a bicycle over 10,000 miles throughout Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Fiji, New Zealand and Australia. [29]

Hidary's work has garnered wide praise, regularly appears in gallery and museum exhibitions, and is held in many private collections. His photography has appeared in myriad group shows including the San Francisco MoMA's 15th Biennial Auction (San Francisco, CA), at the Guggenheim Museum (New York, NY), and the San Diego Art Institute (San Diego, CA). Solo exhibitions of Hidary's work have been featured at Atelier (New York, NY), Metro Gallery (Reno, NV), Karpeles Museum (Santa Barbara, CA), East Link Gallery (Shanghai, China), and the Nabokov Museum (St. Petersburg, Russia).

Hidary's work is also part of Art Pic's collection of available pieces in Los Angeles, CA. Through Art Pic, Hidary's photographs have been featured in movies and television including FOX's House, CBS's Numbers and NBC's Joey, and films such as My Best Friend's Girl and Unhitched. Hidary's work also appeared in a Revlon advertisement and a Nikon television ad campaign featuring Ashton Kutcher, as well as the flagship Ralph Lauren store in New York, NY. [30]

In June, 2015, he won 1st Place, Still Life [31] at the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, International Photography Competition.

Philanthropy and other pursuits

Hidary is a member of several philanthropic boards. His continued love of music led him to ETHEL, a contemporary “postclassical” string quartet, for whom he now serves as chairman of the board. ETHEL has also performed original works by Murray Hidary including Spinning Still in 2006 and his Piano Quintet in 2015. [32] Additionally, Hidary is a board member for Four Way Books, a publisher of poetry and short fiction by both emerging and established writers. [33]

In 2006 NYU awarded Murray Hidary the Distinguished Service Award. The text of his commencement acceptance speech is available here.

Outside of Hidary's business and artistic pursuits, he travels extensively. He has also trained for and completed three marathons: New York City 2007, New York City 2008, [34] and London 2007. [35] He has a passion for the environment and supports alternative energy.

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ethel Smyth</span> English composer and suffragette (1858–1944)

Dame Ethel Mary Smyth was an English composer and a member of the women's suffrage movement. Her compositions include songs, works for piano, chamber music, orchestral works, choral works and operas.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Michael Spence</span> Canadian-American economist

Andrew Michael Spence is a Canadian-American economist and Nobel laureate.

NYU Grossman School of Medicine is a medical school of New York University (NYU), a private research university in New York City. It was founded in 1841 and is one of two medical schools of the university, the other being the NYU Grossman Long Island School of Medicine. Both are part of NYU Langone Health.

Mecklermedia was a U.S.-based corporation. The original WebMediaBrands was established in 1994, and headquartered in New York. Founded by Alan M. Meckler and Tristan Louis, the company provided business-to-business (B2B) services for creative, business and information technology professionals, including recruitment and event promotion.

Ethel is a New York based string quartet that was co-founded in 1998 by Ralph Farris, viola; Dorothy Lawson, cello; Todd Reynolds, violin; and Mary Rowell, violin. Unlike most string quartets, Ethel plays with amplification and integrates improvisation into its performances. The group's current membership includes violinists Kip Jones and Corin Lee.

Rolf Rainer Gehlhaar was an American composer, Professor in Experimental Music at Coventry University and researcher in assistive technology for music.

The Leonard N. Stern School of Business is the business school of New York University, a private research university based in New York City. Founded as the School of Commerce, Accounts and Finance in 1900, the school received its current name in 1988.

Ralph Farris is an American violist, violinist, composer, arranger, producer and conductor, best known as a founding member and artistic director of the ensemble ETHEL. Farris is an electric string player with a lengthy career that spans the gamut of musical genres from rock and jazz to Broadway. His instruments are outfitted with a piezoelectric pickup which allows him to play amplified. Amplification was initially adopted early in Farris's career in order to facilitate the playing of various "contemporary classical" pieces that involve electronic components. It continues to be integral to his signature sound.

Paul Alan Levi is an American composer whose compositions have been performed in Carnegie Hall, among other major venues in United States and Europe, as well as on national television. He is the composer of the 1971-1984 PBS identity music.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Nova Spivack</span> American businessman

Nova Spivack is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and author. He is the founder and CEO of the early stage science and technology incubator Magical and co-founder of The Arch Mission Foundation.

Francis Edward Fitzpatrick, more commonly known as Frank Fitzpatrick, is an American composer, music producer, author, wellness expert, filmmaker and social entrepreneur.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">NYU Langone Health</span> Hospital in New York, United States

NYU Langone Health is an academic medical center located in New York City, New York, United States. The health system consists of the NYU Grossman School of Medicine and NYU Grossman Long Island School of Medicine, both part of New York University (NYU), and more than 300 locations throughout the New York City Region and Florida, including six inpatient facilities: Tisch Hospital; Kimmel Pavilion; NYU Langone Orthopedic Hospital; Hassenfeld Children's Hospital; NYU Langone Hospital – Brooklyn; and NYU Langone Hospital – Long Island. It is also home to Rusk Rehabilitation. NYU Langone Health is one of the largest healthcare systems in the Northeast, with more than 49,000 employees.

William Jay Sydeman was a prolific American composer. He was born in New York. He studied at Duke University, and received a B.S. degree in 1955 from the Mannes School of Music, having studied with Felix Salzer, Roy Travis, and Roger Sessions. He received his master's in music from the Hartt School in 1958, studying under Arnold Franchetti and Goffredo Petrassi. From 1959 to 1970 he joined the composition faculty at his alma mater Mannes School of Music.

<i>The Visibility of Thought</i> 2001 studio album by Muhal Richard Abrams

The Visibility of Thought is an album of contemporary classical compositions by Muhal Richard Abrams performed by various ensembles which was released on the Mutable Music label in 2001. The album features performances by Abrams, Jon Deak, Joseph Kubera, Mark Feldman, Thomas Buckner, the string quartet ETHEL and Phillip Bush.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Dice.com</span> Career website

Dice.com is a career website based in New York City with primary sales and development operations in Urbandale, Iowa and Denver. It serves information technology and engineering professionals, as well as contract and permanent engineering staffing firms. Dice.com is owned by DHI Group, Inc. . Dice.com typically has approximately 80,000 tech job listings. The website claims to have 3 million registered technology professionals and approximately 2.4 million unique visitors each month. Of those registered users, 75% have a bachelor's degree or higher and 65% have 10 or more years of experience in their field.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jack Hidary</span> American businessman and technologist

Jack Hidary is the CEO of AI and quantum technology company SandboxAQ.

Collaborative piano is a discipline of music that combines piano performance, accompaniment, and music pedagogy.

Bastion is a global marketing and advisory company headquartered in the Melbourne, Australia suburb of Cremorne, Victoria. It is reportedly the largest independent marketing and communications group in Australia and New Zealand, and was founded in 2009 by former professional Australian rules footballer Fergus Watts. Watts serves as the company's executive chairman.

Zosha Di Castri is a Canadian composer and pianist living and working in New York. She is the Francis Goelet Assistant Professor of Music at Columbia University. Her work came to international attention when a specially commissioned piece about the lunar landings opened the BBC Proms 2019.

Deven Parekh is an American venture capitalist, philanthropist, Democratic fundraiser and public servant. He is managing director at Insight Partners, a New York City venture capital and private equity firm. Parekh is a noted donor and fundraiser for Democratic politicians. He has served in multiple government advisory roles, and is currently a member of the board of directors for the Council on Foreign Relations and the US International Development Finance Corporation.

References

  1. ↑ Dube, Rob. "Why This Tech Pioneer Says Real Success Has Nothing To Do With Money". Forbes. Retrieved 2023-12-11.
  2. ↑ Michael Intergaard (2004).Silicon Alley: the Rise and Fall of a New Media District(Psychology Press) p. 63 ["https://books.google.com/books?id=ha0gTXusFfIC&pg=PA63&lpg=PA63&dq=earthweb,+founded,+spivack+%2B+hidary&source=bl&ots=8WN5QoMA3Q&sig=ypAyFHW-zRHmTPBLDklRWh38_qg&hl=en&ei=YeurTIm6L4GB8ga1nPixCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9&ved=0CC4Q6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=earthweb%2C]
  3. ↑ AtNewYork Staff, April 11, 1997 Earthweb shifts gears, turns publisher
  4. ↑ Computergram International (1998-11-12) “Eartweb IPO a Huge Hit on Nasdaq,” BNET. Retrieved 2010-10-05.
  5. ↑ David Lazarus (1998-11-11), “Net Stock Frenzy Goes Flat,” Wired. Retrieved 2010-10-05.
  6. ↑ (2001-04-17). “EarthWeb Inc. to Become Dice Inc. – Nasdaq Ticker Symbol to Become ‘DICE’,” PRNewsire. Retrieved 2010-10-05
  7. ↑ Jayson Blair (2000-12-27). “EarthWeb Selling Most of Its Web Site and News Services,” New York Times. Retrieved 2010-10-05
  8. ↑ Rafat Ali (2005-07-13). “Dice Acquired by Private Equity Firms,” paidContent.org. Retrieved: 2010-10-05
  9. ↑ Rafat Ali (2007-04-07). “Dice.com Parent Files for $100 Million IPO,” paidContent.org. Retrieved: 2010-10-05
  10. ↑ "Murray Hidary LinkedIn Profile".
  11. ↑ (2001-09-10). “Vista Research: Security Spending Continues to Increase but Companies Cannibalize IT Budgets to Pay the Bill,” PRNewswire. Retrieved: 2010-10-05
  12. ↑ “S&P gets on independent research bandwagon with Vista acquisition,” Electronic Information Report. (2005-03-14).
  13. ↑ Michael Privitera (2005-03-04). “Standard & Poor's Signs Agreement to Acquire Vista Research Move Enhances S&P Research Platform for Institutional Investors,” PRNewswire. Retrieved 2010-10-05 Archived 2006-10-17 at the Wayback Machine
  14. ↑ (2009-06-01). “McGraw-Hill sells Vista Research to Guidepoint Global,” Business Publisher. Retrieved 2010-10-05
  15. ↑ iAmplify. Retrieved 2010-10-06
  16. ↑ Bloomberg iAmplify partner page
  17. ↑ David Allen iAmplify partner page
  18. ↑ Yoga Journal iAmplify partner page
  19. ↑ Marianne Williamson iAmplify partner page
  20. ↑ Nat Ives (2010-10-01). “Condé Nast edges into selling videos on demand,” Crain's New York Business.com. Retrieved 2010-10-06
  21. ↑ "Eckhart Tolle iAmplify partner page". Archived from the original on 2010-09-24. Retrieved 2010-10-07.
  22. ↑ Adrienne Mand Lewin. “Murray Hidary: An Exclusive Interview with the CEO and co-founder of iAmplify,” Wordsmitten.com. Retrieved 2010-10-06
  23. ↑ Business Wire (2009-04-01). “Primary Insight Completes Management Buyout form J.P. Morgan,” Business Wire. Allbusiness.com. Retrieved 2010-10-06
  24. ↑ "Primary Insight". April 2, 2020.
  25. ↑ http://givme.com/#home Givme.com
  26. ↑ Music Bridges International
  27. ↑ "None".
  28. ↑ http://www.mindtravel.be [Mind Travel]
  29. ↑ Murray Hidary (2006-05-09). “Distinguished Service Award Aceptance Speech – New York University,” Murray Hidary. Retrieved 2010-20-06 "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-11-15. Retrieved 2010-10-07.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  30. ↑ http://murrayhidary.com/murrays-work-featured-at-flagship-ralph-lauren-store-in-nyc/ Archived 2015-06-20 at the Wayback Machine [Exhibit at Ralph Lauren in NYC]
  31. ↑ "International Photography Competition 2015 • FMoPA". Archived from the original on 2015-06-20. Retrieved 2015-06-20. [International Photography Competition 2015 winners]
  32. ↑ "ETHEL | Home".
  33. ↑ "Four Way Books". fourwaybooks.com.
  34. ↑ NYC Marathon Results [ permanent dead link ]
  35. ↑ London Marathon Results
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.