Steve Boom is Vice President of Audio (encompassing

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, and

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. Before that, he was the Vice President of Amazon Music.

Early career

Boom received a JD from

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in 1994. After law school, Boom began his career as an attorney at

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, and then Venture Law Group in

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, advising software and internet startups. He joined Yahoo Inc. in 1998 as director of business development for Yahoo Europe. In October 2002, he became the company's senior vice president of business and enterprise services. Boom worked at Yahoo for 10 years, departing in 2008 as senior vice president of the Connected Life division, where he managed the company's mobile and

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businesses. Boom led the rollout of Yahoo's mobile

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and Yahoo! Go for Mobile 2.0. He also played a role in Yahoo's investment in speech recognition company

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. In January 2009, Boom became CEO of mig33, a mobile social networking service popular primarily outside the U.S. He transitioned to the executive chairman role in March 2010. Boom joined

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as its president in August 2010 and was also an adviser to video service Vuclip.

Amazon

Boom joined Amazon in 2012 to develop and launch the Amazon Music business. He led the transition of the business from selling

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music downloads to providing

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, including the introduction of Amazon Prime Music in 2014 and the rollout of the Amazon Music Unlimited streaming service in 2016. In January 2020, Boom reported that Amazon Music had 55 million users. As head of Amazon Music, he led the 2021 acquisitions of podcast network

and podcast hosting and advertising company Art19 as Amazon Music expanded into podcasts. In 2022, Boom also led the expansion of the service to offer streaming of its entire catalog to

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members and the rollout of Amazon Music Live, a concert series airing on

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and Twitch following ''

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''. With the retirement of Senior Vice President Jeff Blackburn in December 2022, Boom took on expanded leadership to include

and Amazon Games, reporting to Amazon CEO Andy Jassy. Ryan Redington, general manager of Amazon Music, and Dan Clancy, CEO of Twitch, report to Boom. Additionally, Boom is the longest-running chairman of music aid organization

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, first joining the organization's board in 2017. In this role, he helped create the MusiCares COVID-19 Relief Fund and guide distribution of $35 million in

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aid.

References

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