Nom : BENASSAYA
Prénom : Jonathan
Fonction : Chairman & Co-Founder
Entreprise : Deezer
A 29 year old, corporate finance graduate from Essec and a graduate from ESAM,
Jonathan Benassaya started his career in business in an investment bank. Weary of mergers and acquisitions, he founded Connect’in Advertising in 2005, an online video game advertising agency, which became Magic Party in 2006.
To this end, he left France for Beijing and Shanghai to develop his business, which he eventually decided to sell.
On his return, he meet his future associate Daniel Marhely. Together they developed the online music website Blogmusik.net. At that time, the music market was in deep crisis, unsettled by illegal downloading and falling record sales. In April 2007, the two young entrepreneurs thus decided to put Blogmusik on hold to legalise their project and negotiate with Sacem and Sesam, before relaunching the site under the name of Deezer.com.
Jonathan was voted one of the top ten personalities of 2007 by Musique Info Hebdo. It is therefore no coincidence that this ambitious, enthusiastic young man was named Marketing Man of 2008 by Marketing Magazine.
His motto is : “My only limit is that which I set for myself”
His favourite Deezer album is : The space between us by Craig Armstrong
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