Eric Boyko

Eric Boyko (born 1970) 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. He earned a bachelor of commerce degree from McGill University in 1992, and became a certified general accountant in 1997.

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. He then founded the online fundraising company Universal Fundraising Group with a $2,000 loan from the Business Development Bank of Canada.

Stingray Group Inc. In 2007, Boyko and Alexandre Taillefer founded digital music provider Stingray Digital Media Group, The company sells commercial-free music streams to cable and satellite television providers to add to their subscribers' packages, Unlike many of its streaming music competitors, Stingray uses human curators rather than algorithms to generate playlists. It was launched with the $6 million purchase of karaoke company Soundchoice, which was then renamed The Karaoke Channel.

In December 2018, the company officially changed its name to Stingray Group, Inc.