Eric Boyko

Boyko fundó su primer negocio, Campus Gourmet, en 1991 a la edad de 19 años. La empresa vendía comidas precocinadas a estudiantes de la Universidad McGill. ^{[ 2 ] [ 5 ]} Luego fundó la empresa de recaudación de fondos en línea Universal Fundraising Group con un préstamo de $2,000 del Banco de Desarrollo Empresarial de Canadá . ^{[ 2 ]} Fue renombrada como eFundraising.com en 1998, ^{[ 5 ]} y vendida a ZapMe en 2000 por $25 millones. ^{[ 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.