Stephen Hunt
Stephen Hunt
Music Health COO Music Health & Entrepreneur
Stephen Hunt (GAICD) is a serial entrepreneur who created his first not for profit charity, when he was 24 years old.
With extensive experience leading and operating businesses in the media, technology and music industries, Steve is no stranger to a challenge having swum the English Channel and finished a full length Ironman Triathlon on the side of building an impressive corporate career. He established one of the first programmatic media businesses in APAC (TubeMogul Australia Pty Ltd) where he was instrumental in not only growing the business he represented but influencing the formation of the market itself.
Steve spent three years in the US where he helped launch the world's first Programmatic Buying Platform for Television (PTV) and was on-stage at NASDAQ as TubeMogul Inc. went public. It was later sold to Adobe for USD $540 million after which Steve returned to Sydney and landed his dream job with Universal Music Group as a Managing Director where he reimagined the business through the pillars of Media, Content and Emerging Technology while driving innovative thinking through the organisation.
It is here where Stephen and Nicc first crossed paths and became friends. Now they are on a mission to empower the world through music as a therapy.
“As a teenager, I watched my grandfather slowly slip away at the hands of Alzheimer’s and more recently supported my grandmother through dementia before she passed. I inherently knew how much music helped lift their moods and make them sparkle back to life when I visited them but never understood why until I met Nicc (founder of Music Health). Now that I understand the science and have seen first hand the amazing impact the right music can have on people living with dementia, I can’t think of a better use of my time and energy than seeing Vera widely deployed around the world making music as a therapy universally available to those who need it.”
With extensive experience leading and operating businesses in the media, technology and music industries, Steve is no stranger to a challenge having swum the English Channel and finished a full length Ironman Triathlon on the side of building an impressive corporate career. He established one of the first programmatic media businesses in APAC (TubeMogul Australia Pty Ltd) where he was instrumental in not only growing the business he represented but influencing the formation of the market itself.
Steve spent three years in the US where he helped launch the world's first Programmatic Buying Platform for Television (PTV) and was on-stage at NASDAQ as TubeMogul Inc. went public. It was later sold to Adobe for USD $540 million after which Steve returned to Sydney and landed his dream job with Universal Music Group as a Managing Director where he reimagined the business through the pillars of Media, Content and Emerging Technology while driving innovative thinking through the organisation.
It is here where Stephen and Nicc first crossed paths and became friends. Now they are on a mission to empower the world through music as a therapy.
“As a teenager, I watched my grandfather slowly slip away at the hands of Alzheimer’s and more recently supported my grandmother through dementia before she passed. I inherently knew how much music helped lift their moods and make them sparkle back to life when I visited them but never understood why until I met Nicc (founder of Music Health). Now that I understand the science and have seen first hand the amazing impact the right music can have on people living with dementia, I can’t think of a better use of my time and energy than seeing Vera widely deployed around the world making music as a therapy universally available to those who need it.”
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Good Vibrations: Music as Therapy
WED, OCT 18, 2:00 PM
Conference
To heal with music is human nature.
A mother instinctively soothes her baby with a lullaby. We subconsciously soundtrack life moments. It’s there to celebrate, and there to commiserate.
Music is inside all of us and it’s far more powerful than most of us give it credit for.
The didgeridoo is one of the oldest forms of music therapy in human existence, yet Australia’s First Nations people weren’t the only ancient culture to harness the power of musical healing. Native Americans used wind instruments, Tibetan Monks used bowls for sound healing, the Aztecs, the Incas, Ancient Greeks…the list goes on.
And yet, in modern medicine, music is largely absent despite decades of powerful research proving its efficacy.
Music therapists become a growing industry. AI technology is creating new ways for music to integrate into modern healthcare and innovative music artists are experimenting with music's unquestionably real healing powers.
And this is just the start. Does music hold the power to enhance the effectiveness of virtually any treatment or therapy?
Join our esteemed speakers as we explore music’s magical power to heal from 3 unique perspectives:
1. Ancient practices
2. Modern music therapy.
3. AI-powered interventions.
