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Steve Boom | |
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| Born | 1968 (age 55–56) [1] |
| Citizenship | U.S., Belgium [2] |
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Steve Boom is Vice President of Audio (encompassing Amazon Music, Audible, and Wondery [4] ), Twitch & Games at Amazon. [2] Before that, he was the Vice President of Amazon Music.
Boom received a JD from Harvard Law School [5] in 1994. [3] After law school, Boom began his career as an attorney at Arnold & Porter in Washington, D.C., [6] and then Venture Law Group in Silicon Valley, advising software and internet startups. [7]
He joined Yahoo Inc. in 1998 [8] as director of business development for Yahoo Europe. [9] In October 2002, he became the company's senior vice president of business and enterprise services. [10] Boom worked at Yahoo for 10 years, departing in 2008 [11] as senior vice president of the Connected Life division, [7] where he managed the company's mobile and broadband businesses. [12] Boom led the rollout of Yahoo's mobile advertising network [13] and Yahoo! Go for Mobile 2.0. [14] He also played a role in Yahoo's investment in speech recognition company Vlingo. [15]
In January 2009, [7] Boom became CEO of mig33, a mobile social networking service popular primarily outside the U.S. [16] He transitioned to the executive chairman role in March 2010. [17] Boom joined Loopt as its president in August 2010 [18] and was also an adviser to video service Vuclip. [19]
Boom joined Amazon in 2012 to develop and launch the Amazon Music business. [4] He led the transition of the business from selling MP3 music downloads to providing music streaming, [20] including the introduction of Amazon Prime Music in 2014 [21] and the rollout of the Amazon Music Unlimited streaming service in 2016. [22] In January 2020, Boom reported that Amazon Music had 55 million users. [23] As head of Amazon Music, he led the 2021 [24] acquisitions of podcast network Wondery [25] and podcast hosting and advertising company Art19 [26] as Amazon Music expanded into podcasts. [25] In 2022, Boom also led the expansion of the service to offer streaming of its entire catalog to Amazon Prime members [20] and the rollout of Amazon Music Live, a concert series airing on Amazon Prime Video and Twitch following Thursday Night Football . [27]
In December 2022, Boom took on expanded leadership to include Audible, Twitch and Amazon Games, reporting to Amazon CEO Andy Jassy. [28] Ryan Redington, general manager of Amazon Music, reports to Boom. [2]
Additionally, Boom is the longest-running chairman of music aid organization MusiCares, [4] first joining the organization's board in 2017. [29] In this role, he helped create the MusiCares COVID-19 Relief Fund [20] and guide distribution of $35 million in COVID-19 pandemic aid. [30] [31]
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