Anthony Bay

Anthony Bay, Executive Chairman and Co-Founder

Anthony Bay, executive chairman and co-founder of MOD Systems, brings more than 25 years of experience as a technology executive and private venture investor.

Mr. Bay is the former executive chairman of Loudeye Corporation (formerly NASDAQ: LOUD), which was acquired in 2006 by Nokia and now powers Nokia's global music service; OVI. Loudeye was a leading provider of business-to-business systems and services for the digital media industry. Loudeye operated more than 90 digital music stores in over 20 countries for a variety of customers including France Telecom, O2, Cingular Wireless, MSN, The Coca-Cola Company, and Nokia. Loudeye was one of the largest encoding service companies, managed the world's largest licensed archive of digital music with more than five million tracks, serviced EMI and many independent music labels as their digital supply chain/distribution partner, and was the world's largest provider of music sampling services to online retailers.

Before joining Loudeye, Mr. Bay spent six years with Microsoft, last serving as corporate vice president and general manager of the Digital Media Division, and as a member of Microsoft's executive staff. He was responsible for multimedia and digital rights management (DRM) technologies, overseeing a team of 700 and a research and development budget of more than $125M. Mr. Bay's team was responsible for the creation and development of Windows Media technologies including Media Player, Media Server, codecs, DRM, and the windowsmedia.com portal. During Mr. Bay's tenure, Windows Media player went from conception to one of the most widely used media players in the world and Windows Media DRM became the de facto industry standard for media content protection.

Previously, Mr. Bay served as general manager of Microsoft's Commercial Systems Division. He was responsible for core components of the Internet services platform including ISP and carrier infrastructure, web site development, content management, and e-commerce. Dozens of telcos and .com sites around the globe utilized Microsoft Commercial Internet System and Site Server/Commerce Server.

Mr. Bay joined Microsoft in 1994 as part of the MSN management team and was responsible initially for Internet strategy and engineering. He was appointed general manager of all MSN development and systems. Mr. Bay managed the development organization that shipped the original version of MSN with Windows 95.

Mr. Bay spent eight years at Apple Computer, including three years at Apple's European headquarters in Paris. He served as general manager of Apple's Online Services in Europe, general manager for Enterprise Systems Europe, and product line manager for Apple's Workgroup Systems.

Mr. Bay sits on the board of CMGI (NASDAQ: CMGI) and chairs the technology committee, which governs its @Ventures VC subsidiary. He is also a principal in 21st Century Music, an independent music company. Mr. Bay served for five years on the board of European Capital Ventures (ECV), a small private equity investment firm in London, and he also served as chairman and vice chairman for four years at Active24 (OSLO: ACTIVE), an ECV portfolio company and one of the largest pan-European small and medium business web hosting providers.

Mr. Bay has a bachelor's degree from the University of California Los Angeles and an MBA from California State University San Jose. He also has studied at INSEAD in Paris, France, and at Goerg-August Universitaet in Goettingen, Germany.