Murray Hidary
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Murray Hidary is an entrepreneur, composer, and fine art photographer.
Hidary attended New York University
(NYU) between 1989 and 1993 and majored in Music and Composition.
. EarthWeb was one of the first internet companies, serving as an IT information portal. EarthWeb's initial public offering
on November 11, 1998 closed at US$48.69 per share, up 247.8% from its opening price of $14. At the time, EarthWeb's first-day return was among the largest in NASDAQ
history. The meteoric success of EarthWeb’s IPO reopened investor appetite for new issues and prompted several other internet companies to proceed with an IPO, including theglobe.com
.
Following the dot-com crash, Internet.com acquired EarthWeb’s content properties in 2000. EarthWeb changed its name to Dice Inc, taking the company private and keeping its flagship property dice.com
, the leading career website for technology and engineering professionals, as a profitable stand-alone business. In 2005 private equity firms Quadrangle
and General Atlantic Partners
acquired Dice Inc. for approximately US$200 million. Dice Inc. subsequently went public on the New York Stock Exchange in 2007 and trades under the ticker symbol DHX.
Murray Hidary left Dice, Inc. in January 2001, but continued to serve on the board through April 2002.
In April 2005 the company was acquired by the Standard & Poor’s division of McGraw-Hill
.
In 2009 McGraw-Hill sold Vista Research to Guidepoint Global, a global consulting and research firm.
, David Allen
, Yoga Journal
, Marianne Williamson
, Condé Nast
’s Golf Digest
and Eckhart Tolle
.
With pressure on the publishing industry mounting Hidary was one of the first to envision taking readers “beyond the book,” and provide a platform for authors to forge a direct relationship with their audience.
Primary Insight is a leading provider of a vast network of experts in all industries and caters to some of the world’s largest hedge funds and institutional investors.
. Additional influences include composers of the minimalist movement including, Philip Glass
, Terry Riley
, and Steve Reich
, as well as, the contrapuntal techniques from the Baroque period. In his music he employs many organic mathematical processes as well as a layering technique that creates a rich and textured effect.
Hidary recorded his first symphony in St. Petersburg, Russia in 2004. Entitled Motion, it was performed by The St. Petersburg Philharmonic and conducted by Paul Alan Levi.
Hidary’s work has garnered wide praise and regularly appears in gallery and museum exhibitions. His work is also held in many private collections. His photography has appeared in myriad group shows including the San Francisco MoMA’s 15th Biennial Auction (San Francisco, CA), at the Guggenheim Museum
(New York, NY), and the San Diego Art Institute
(San Diego, CA). Solo exhibitions of Hidary’s work have been featured at Atelier (New York, NY), Metro Gallery (Reno, NV), Karpeles Museum (Santa Barbara, CA), East Link Gallery (Shanghai, China), and the Nabokov Museum (St. Petersburg, Russia).
The power of Hidary's work lies in this ability to communicate with the eye in much the same way the musical note plays on the ear. The melodic surfaces that emerge from his abstract and semi-abstract images contain a rhythmic structure articulated through composition and combinations of color. This intersection of space, color and time reveals a vast interconnected world of seemingly disparate objects. Unseen connections exist among every thing that surrounds us. Hidary blurs the boundaries of individual perception and thereby keenly sharpens our insight.
Hidary’s work is also part of Art Pic’s collection of available pieces in Los Angeles, CA. Through Art Pic, Hidary’s photographs have been featured in movies and television including FOX’s House
, CBS’s Numbers and NBC’s Joey
, and films such as My Best Friend’s Girl and Unhitched. Hidary’s work also appeared in a Revlon
advertisement and a Nikon
television ad campaign featuring Ashton Kutcher
.
, a contemporary “postclassical” string quartet, for whom he now serves as president of the board. ETHEL has also performed original works by Murray Hidary including Spinning Still in 2006. Additionally, Hidary is a board member for Four Way Books
, a publisher of poetry and short fiction by both emerging and established writers.
He continues to be highly involved at NYU, his alma mater. Hidary serves on the Dean’s Advisory Council. In 2006 NYU awarded Murray Hidary the Distinguished Service Award. The text of his commencement acceptance speech is available here.
Outside of Hidary’s business and artistic pursuits, he travels extensively. He has also trained for and completed three marathons: New York City 2007, New York City 2008
, and London 2007
. He has a passion for the environment and supports alternative energy.
Hidary attended New York University
New York University
New York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...
(NYU) between 1989 and 1993 and majored in Music and Composition.
EarthWeb/Dice Inc.
Murray Hidary began his business career in 1994 at the age of 23 when he co-founded EarthWeb with his older brother, Jack Hidary, and Nova SpivackNova Spivack
Nova Spivack is a technology entrepreneur named as one of the top thought-leaders on the future of the Web.Spivack is presently CEO of Bottlenose, a new realtime personalization startup...
. EarthWeb was one of the first internet companies, serving as an IT information portal. EarthWeb's initial public offering
Initial public offering
An initial public offering or stock market launch, is the first sale of stock by a private company to the public. It can be used by either small or large companies to raise expansion capital and become publicly traded enterprises...
on November 11, 1998 closed at US$48.69 per share, up 247.8% from its opening price of $14. At the time, EarthWeb's first-day return was among the largest in NASDAQ
NASDAQ
The NASDAQ Stock Market, also known as the NASDAQ, is an American stock exchange. "NASDAQ" originally stood for "National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations". It is the second-largest stock exchange by market capitalization in the world, after the New York Stock Exchange. As of...
history. The meteoric success of EarthWeb’s IPO reopened investor appetite for new issues and prompted several other internet companies to proceed with an IPO, including theglobe.com
TheGlobe.com
theGlobe.com was an internet startup founded in 1994 by Cornell students Stephan Paternot and Todd Krizelman. A social networking service, theGlobe.com made headlines by going public on November 13, 1998 and posting the largest first day gain of any IPO in history up to that date...
.
Following the dot-com crash, Internet.com acquired EarthWeb’s content properties in 2000. EarthWeb changed its name to Dice Inc, taking the company private and keeping its flagship property dice.com
Dice.com
Dice.com is a career website based in Urbandale, Iowa. It serves information technology and engineering professionals. Dice.com is owned by Dice Holdings, Inc ....
, the leading career website for technology and engineering professionals, as a profitable stand-alone business. In 2005 private equity firms Quadrangle
Quadrangle Group
Quadrangle Group is a private investment firm focused on private equity. The firm invests in middle-market companies within the media, communications and information-based sectors....
and General Atlantic Partners
General Atlantic
General Atlantic is a private equity investment firm. The firm invests through growth capital injections, control buyouts, industry consolidations, build-ups, recapitalizations, and PIPEs...
acquired Dice Inc. for approximately US$200 million. Dice Inc. subsequently went public on the New York Stock Exchange in 2007 and trades under the ticker symbol DHX.
Murray Hidary left Dice, Inc. in January 2001, but continued to serve on the board through April 2002.
Vista Research
In 2001 Hidary co-founded Vista Research with his brother Jack Hidary. The firm pioneered the field of expert network research providers, catering to top-tier investment funds. Vista Research provides hedge fund and asset managers with access to an extensive network of experts in industries including technology, media, telecommunications, energy, aerospace and healthcare.In April 2005 the company was acquired by the Standard & Poor’s division of McGraw-Hill
McGraw-Hill
The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., is a publicly traded corporation headquartered in Rockefeller Center in New York City. Its primary areas of business are financial, education, publishing, broadcasting, and business services...
.
In 2009 McGraw-Hill sold Vista Research to Guidepoint Global, a global consulting and research firm.
iAmplify
Murray Hidary and Jack Hidary founded iAmplify in 2005. iAmplify is a Web-based content publisher and syndication network for professionals in a broad range of fields. The site features simple tools for use by specialists to distribute their media. Users range from individuals to large corporations. iAmplify has established prominent partnerships with BloombergBloomberg L.P.
Bloomberg L.P. is an American privately held financial software, media, and data company. Bloomberg makes up one third of the $16 billion global financial data market with estimated revenue of $6.9 billion. Bloomberg L.P...
, David Allen
David Allen (author)
David Allen is a productivity consultant who is best known as the creator of the time management method known as "Getting Things Done" .He grew up in Shreveport, Louisiana where he acted and won a state championship in debate...
, Yoga Journal
Yoga Journal
Yoga Journal is an American based media company that publishes a magazine, a website, DVDs, and puts on conferences all devoted to yoga, food and nutrition, fitness, wellness, and fashion and beauty.-Beginnings and Growth:...
, Marianne Williamson
Marianne Williamson
Marianne Williamson is a spiritual activist, author, lecturer and founder of The Peace Alliance, a grass roots campaign supporting legislation currently before Congress to establish a United States Department of Peace. She is also the founder of Project Angel Food, a meals-on-wheels program that...
, Condé Nast
Condé Nast Publications
Condé Nast, a division of Advance Publications, is a magazine publisher. In the U.S., it produces 18 consumer magazines, including Architectural Digest, Bon Appétit, GQ, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and Vogue, as well as four business-to-business publications, 27 websites, and more than 50 apps...
’s Golf Digest
Golf Digest
Golf Digest is a monthly golf magazine published by Condé Nast Publications in the United States. It is a generalist golf publication covering recreational golf and men's and women's competitive golf. Condé Nast Publications also publishes the more specialized , and Golf World Business. The...
and Eckhart Tolle
Eckhart Tolle
Eckhart Tolle is a German-born Canadian resident, best known as the author of the The Power of Now and A New Earth, which were written in English. In 2011, he was listed by the Watkins Review as the most spiritually influential person in the world...
.
With pressure on the publishing industry mounting Hidary was one of the first to envision taking readers “beyond the book,” and provide a platform for authors to forge a direct relationship with their audience.
Primary Insight
In 2009 Murray Hidary re-entered the expert network industry with his most recent endeavor: Primary Insight. The Hidary Group backed a management buyout of Primary Insight from JP Morgan led by former colleagues, David DeRose and Leighton Thomas. JP Morgan retains a minority interest.Primary Insight is a leading provider of a vast network of experts in all industries and caters to some of the world’s largest hedge funds and institutional investors.
Music career
Murray Hidary majored in Music and Composition at NYU. After college he continued his musical pursuits in parallel with his business ambitions. His primary compositional mentor was Paul Alan LeviPaul Alan Levi
Paul Alan Levi is an American composer whose compositions have been performed in Carnegie Hall, among other major venues in United States and Europe, as well as on national television.-Biography:...
. Additional influences include composers of the minimalist movement including, Philip Glass
Philip Glass
Philip Glass is an American composer. He is considered to be one of the most influential composers of the late 20th century and is widely acknowledged as a composer who has brought art music to the public .His music is often described as minimalist, along with...
, Terry Riley
Terry Riley
Terrence Mitchell Riley, is an American composer intrinsically associated with the minimalist school of Western classical music and was a pioneer of the movement...
, and Steve Reich
Steve Reich
Stephen Michael "Steve" Reich is an American composer who together with La Monte Young, Terry Riley, and Philip Glass is a pioneering composer of minimal music...
, as well as, the contrapuntal techniques from the Baroque period. In his music he employs many organic mathematical processes as well as a layering technique that creates a rich and textured effect.
Hidary recorded his first symphony in St. Petersburg, Russia in 2004. Entitled Motion, it was performed by The St. Petersburg Philharmonic and conducted by Paul Alan Levi.
Original compositions
- Motion, symphony for strings and two sopranos
- Conducted by: Paul Alan Levi
- Performed by: The St. Petersburg Philharmonic
- Spinning Still, for eight strings
- Conducted by: Paul Alan Levi
- Performed by: ETHELEthel (string quartet)ETHEL is a New York based string quartet that was co-founded in 1998 by Ralph Farris, viola; Dorothy Lawson, cello; Todd Reynolds, violin; and Mary Rowell, violin. Unlike most string quartets, ETHEL plays with amplification and integrates improvisation into its performances...
& Friends - Kenji Bunch (viola), Malrl Dorman-Planeuf (cello), Neil Duffallo (violin), Ralph FarrisRalph FarrisRalph Farris is an American violist, violinist, composer, arranger, producer and conductor. He specializes in new music and is a founding member of the string quartet ETHEL....
(viola), Ariana Kim (violin), Dorothy Lawson (cello), Mary Rowell (violin), and Wendy Sutter (cello)
- In Solitude, for solo piano
- Performed by: Paolo Tatafiore
- As you Like, duet for shakuhachiShakuhachiThe is a Japanese end-blown flute. It is traditionally made of bamboo, but versions now exist in ABS and hardwoods. It was used by the monks of the Fuke school of Zen Buddhism in the practice of...
(Japanese flue) and violin
- Performed by: Yoshio Kurahashi (shakuhachi) and Eaisun Shin (violin)
- Ubiquity Changed, piano improvisations
Photography career
Murray Hidary first began experimenting with photography during a cross-country road trip when he was 17 years old. He continued his travel and nature photography after his first semester at NYU, when at the age of 18, he took a leave of absence from college and spent 8 months riding a bicycle over 10,000 miles throughout Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Fiji, New Zealand and Australia.Hidary’s work has garnered wide praise and regularly appears in gallery and museum exhibitions. His work is also held in many private collections. His photography has appeared in myriad group shows including the San Francisco MoMA’s 15th Biennial Auction (San Francisco, CA), at the Guggenheim Museum
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is a well-known museum located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City, United States. It is the permanent home to a renowned collection of Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, early Modern, and contemporary art and also features special exhibitions...
(New York, NY), and the San Diego Art Institute
San Diego Art Institute
The San Diego Art Institute’s “Museum of the Living Artist”, with its main gallery located in historic Balboa Park, is a Center for the Visual Arts for the Southern California /Baja California region. The institute functions much like a municipal gallery for the city/county...
(San Diego, CA). Solo exhibitions of Hidary’s work have been featured at Atelier (New York, NY), Metro Gallery (Reno, NV), Karpeles Museum (Santa Barbara, CA), East Link Gallery (Shanghai, China), and the Nabokov Museum (St. Petersburg, Russia).
The power of Hidary's work lies in this ability to communicate with the eye in much the same way the musical note plays on the ear. The melodic surfaces that emerge from his abstract and semi-abstract images contain a rhythmic structure articulated through composition and combinations of color. This intersection of space, color and time reveals a vast interconnected world of seemingly disparate objects. Unseen connections exist among every thing that surrounds us. Hidary blurs the boundaries of individual perception and thereby keenly sharpens our insight.
Hidary’s work is also part of Art Pic’s collection of available pieces in Los Angeles, CA. Through Art Pic, Hidary’s photographs have been featured in movies and television including FOX’s House
House (TV series)
House is an American television medical drama that debuted on the Fox network on November 16, 2004. The show's central character is Dr. Gregory House , an unconventional and misanthropic medical genius who heads a team of diagnosticians at the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in...
, CBS’s Numbers and NBC’s Joey
Joey (TV series)
Joey is an American sitcom, which stars Matt LeBlanc reprising his role as Joey Tribbiani from the sitcom Friends. It premiered on the NBC television network, on September 9, 2004, in the former time slot of its parent series, Thursday nights at 8:00 p.m...
, and films such as My Best Friend’s Girl and Unhitched. Hidary’s work also appeared in a Revlon
Revlon
Revlon is an American cosmetics, skin care, fragrance, and personal care company founded in 1932.-History:Revlon was founded in the midst of the Great Depression, 1932, by Charles Revson and his brother Joseph, along with a chemist, Charles Lachman, who contributed the "L" in the Revlon name...
advertisement and a Nikon
Nikon
, also known as just Nikon, is a multinational corporation headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, specializing in optics and imaging. Its products include cameras, binoculars, microscopes, measurement instruments, and the steppers used in the photolithography steps of semiconductor fabrication, of which...
television ad campaign featuring Ashton Kutcher
Ashton Kutcher
Christopher Ashton Kutcher , best known as Ashton Kutcher, is an American actor, producer, former fashion model and comedian, best known for his portrayal of Michael Kelso in the Fox sitcom That '70s Show...
.
Philanthropy and other pursuits
Hidary is a member of several philanthropic boards. His continued love of music led him to ETHELEthel (string quartet)
ETHEL is a New York based string quartet that was co-founded in 1998 by Ralph Farris, viola; Dorothy Lawson, cello; Todd Reynolds, violin; and Mary Rowell, violin. Unlike most string quartets, ETHEL plays with amplification and integrates improvisation into its performances...
, a contemporary “postclassical” string quartet, for whom he now serves as president of the board. ETHEL has also performed original works by Murray Hidary including Spinning Still in 2006. Additionally, Hidary is a board member for Four Way Books
Four Way Books
Four Way Books is an American not-for-profit literary press located in New York City, New York, which publishes poetry and short fiction by emerging and established writers. It features the work of the winners of national poetry competitions, as well as collections accepted through general...
, a publisher of poetry and short fiction by both emerging and established writers.
He continues to be highly involved at NYU, his alma mater. Hidary serves on the Dean’s Advisory Council. In 2006 NYU awarded Murray Hidary the Distinguished Service Award. The text of his commencement acceptance speech is available here.
Outside of Hidary’s business and artistic pursuits, he travels extensively. He has also trained for and completed three marathons: New York City 2007, New York City 2008
New York City Marathon
The New York City Marathon is a major annual marathon that courses through the five boroughs of New York City. It is one of the largest marathons in the world, with 45,103 finishers in 2010...
, and London 2007
London Marathon
The London Marathon is one of the biggest running events in the world, and one of the five top world marathons that make up the World Marathon Majors competition, which has a $1 million prize purse. It has been held each spring in London since 1981. The race is currently sponsored by Virgin Money,...
. He has a passion for the environment and supports alternative energy.