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LifeVault Bio: Anthony Bay

Dec 17, 2019

Startup LifeVault Bio has named longtime technology executive Anthony Bay to its board of directors. Bay, cofounder of online video producer Uproar, is former global head of digital video at Amazon. He also is a former CEO of Rdio, a music streaming service that was sold to Pandora. In the 1990s, Bay held executive positions at Microsoft and Apple. 

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