Dhiraj Mukherjee is an angel investor well know for being the Co-founder and former Board Director of Shazam, the worlds first mobile phone-based music recognition service. A frequent speaker at conferences, Dhiraj talks about innovation, entrepreneurship and emerging technology.
After completing his Ba in Mathematical Economics at Dartmouth College, Dhiraj went to work for Bain & Company as an Associate Consultant. Leaving as a Senior Consultant, he went on to gain an MBA in Global Management from Stanford University. A major contributor in all the roles he has held, as a Senior Strategist for Viant Corporation, he grew the team and acquired key clients including Universal Music, Diageo and Liberty. During his time with Save the Children Dhiraj helped build donation income from $24M to $32M within a year.
Whilst working for Bauer as a Digital Director, his team launched Bauer’s first social media service, Ditto, which he used to power social media marketing campaigns, generating £1M in revenue within one year of launch. Another notable role he held was with Virgin Money as Head of Banking Innovation, where his team was responsible for the creation of Virgin Money Digital Bank’s next-generation product.
With four friends, Dhiraj Co-founded Shazam in 2000, an original technology that was acquired by Apple for $400M in 2018. During the 18 years he spent with Shazam, alongside holding other challenging roles, Dhiraj grew the idea from concept to a service with over one billion downloads.
As a successful entrepreneur and digital executive, Dhiraj has been recognised for his work. In 2015 he was named as one of Europe’s Top 50 technology entrepreneurs by the Financial Times. Furthermore, he was elected a member of the Digital Banking Club’s Power 50 in 2016 and selected for Smith & Williamson’s Power 100 in 2017.
Following his highly successful multifaceted corporate career, in addition to co-founding and selling his own multimillion dollar business, Dhiraj, now travels the world as a Keynote Speaker sharing the lesson he has learned from his impressive career. With a desire to make a positive impact on the planet, he carefully selects mission-driven entrepreneurs to invest in. Book Dhiraj Mukherjee.
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We invited Dhiraj as a keynote speaker for the Google App Academy, an online learning program for small app developers from Central and Eastern Europe. Dhiraj shared his very own story of building a Shazam that was truly inspiring and motivating for the small developers wishing to reach such success one day with their own apps. His story was a great kick off for the whole program and was very well received and generated lots of questions from the audience. On the personal note, I’d like to highlight how easy it was to communicate with Dhiraj and how flexible he was given the very short notice we were in. Definitely recommend him as a keynote speaker for any big conference or event! - Orest
“We invited Dhiraj as a keynote speaker for the #GEN2021 event which is a business and digital event. Dhiraj shared his story about creating a Shazam, which was a real inspiration for all the participants. All visitors were delighted to hear his speech and interact with him. As an extra challenge, he gave his talk entirely in French, and it was a real success. On a personal level, Dhiraj is very accessible, extremely humble and smiling. He was a real revelation to all of us, both personally and professionally. I strongly advise you to invite him to your event, you won't be disappointed!” - Alix
