David Hyman
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David Hyman, Founder of MOG and Co-Founder of Chosen
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October 17, 1967 Melville, NY, US |
| Residence | Berkeley, CA |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of Vermont (B.S) |
| Occupation | CEO and Co-Founder of Chosen |
| Known for | CEO and Founder of MOG |
| Children | 2 |
| Parent(s) | Martin and Diane Hyman |
David Hyman (October 17, 1967) is an American Internet entrepreneur and self-proclaimed music junkie. He is the co-founder and CEO of Chosen, a next-generation competition platform for performers, which launched April, 2015. Hyman is also the former CEO of Beats Music, MOG and Gracenote.
Hyman was born and raised in Melville, NY. The son of Martin and Diane Hyman, he is the youngest of three siblings. His father Martin Hyman was Executive Vice President of Milgray Electronics. Hyman was educated on Long Island, graduating in 1985. He attended the University of Vermont from 1985-1989 and holds a bachelor's degree in Economics.
Hyman started his online career in online advertising sales at Wired Digital in San Francisco, CA, where he was an active participant in the web's constructs of online advertising. While at Wired Digital he sold one of the first advertisements online and also created the first platform for pioneering e-commerce entities to advertise.
From 1996-1999 Hyman worked as the Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Sonicnet. From 1999 to mid-2000 he worked at MTV Interactive as the Senior Vice President of Marketing, where he oversaw all marketing functions for MTV.com, VH1.com, Nickelodeon.com, and Sonicnet. (A little known fact is that Hyman was the voice over announcer on the only television ads done in MTVi's and Sonicnet's history]).
In 2000 Hyman moved on to Gracenote as President and CEO. There, he took fledgling compact disc identification technology (CDDB) and turned it into the world's largest music identification and music management company. Hyman’s efforts helped to drive Gracenote to become core plumbing for all mp3 players & encoders in hardware and software. Gracenote was sold to Sony for $260 million in 2008.
In 2005 Hyman founded MOG in Berkeley CA. As founder and CEO of the award-winning music subscription service, Hyman developed what has been described as one of the world's best music listening services. MOG provided consumers with over 19 million songs for a flat rate of $10/month with an easy, intuitive interface and the highest quality audio. Hyman also was responsible for creating the MOG Music Network, noted at the time as the largest music-centric advertising network, with over 1500 music publishers represented across 70 million unique visitors a month. While at MOG, Hyman worked with hundreds of publishers and labels to negotiate deals that would end up providing music catalogs that contained 19 million songs across every major label and hundreds of independent labels. Hyman also closed deals with large distribution partners across Carriers, ISPs, CE manufacturers, and Auto, including Verizon, AT&T, Telstra, Ford, BMW, Samsung, LG and many others. MOG was consistently voted "Best Music Service" by countless review publications.
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