Paul Myers (record producer)

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Paul Myers (born Plaistow, London, England 1967) is a British author and businessman and was formerly a record producer. He is the CEO and founder of online music store Wippit^[1].

1 Music industry
2 Internet businesses
3 Media
4 References

[edit] Music industry

During the 1980s Myers was a club DJ, and was resident at the Hippodrome in London at the age of 18 ^[2]. From 1989 to 1995 he was a songwriter and record producer working for Polydor Records, Warner Brothers Recordings, Rhythm King Records, and Sony Music. He contributed to the movie soundtrack to A Rage in Harlem. In 1991 he obtained a platinum disc for his production work on the Betty Boo's album Boomania including the single 24 Hours which was also written and co-vocaled by Myers^[3]. His songs have been remixed and produced by Fat Boy Slim, William Orbit, Vince Clarke and David Morales^[4].

[edit] Internet businesses

Among his early Internet ventures were the web design agency Nethead and the search portal G.O.D.

In 1998 he created a revolutionary business concept, free Internet access with The X-Stream Network, the first Free ISP in the UK. Both ^[5] are now part of Tiscali.

In 2000 he founded Wippit, an online music store. Wippit is the biggest UK-based MP3 online music and movies store and in terms of sales is second only the the UK branch of the iTunes Music Store.^[6] From March 15 2007 Wippit produced "The All Day Breakfast Show", a podcast by award-winning radio presenter Danny Baker described in The Guardian newspaper as the 'Future of Radio'.

[edit] Media

In 2006 Myers was nominated for a Netimperative Lifetime Achievement Award.^[7] He was a board advisor to UK social networking service, ProfileHeaven^{[citation needed]} and more recently the creator of the Facebook application FriendFolio^[8].

He is the author of a travel memoir, 'What I Did in Cuba'^[9], first published in 2007.