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Derrick Fung (born October 19, 1987) is an entrepreneur, former investment banker and contributing writer for Forbes.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2013/10/01/how-a-business-is-like-an-airplane/ )〕 He is best known as the founder and CEO of Tunezy, a music company founded in Toronto, Ontario and now based in New York City.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/digital-and-mobile/5770373/sfx-beefing-up-digital-capabilities-plans-to-buy-tunezy )〕 Tunezy was acquired in 2013 by SFX Entertainment. In 2014, Derrick was listed on the Forbes Top 30 under 30 list in Music.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.forbes.com/pictures/eeel45ehgfg/derrick-fung-26/ )〕 == Early Life and Education == Derrick grew up in North York, Ontario, Canada. He attended York Mills Collegiate for high school. During high school, he created a site called QualitySheetMusic.com, which was the largest online sheet music community at the time with over 50,000 registered users.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.blogto.com/tech/2012/04/get_to_know_a_toronto_startup_tunezy/ )〕 After the site gained notoriety, he sold the website to U.S. investors in 2005. After graduating from high school in 2005, Derrick attended the University of Toronto Scarborough where he was enrolled in the Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) degree. He was selected to be the President of the Management and Economics Students' Association (MESA) in 2008 and was subsequently voted the Co-op Student of the Year in the same year. He was a teaching assistant for courses in Macroeconomics and Intermediate Finance. As part of the undergraduate program, he interned at Microsoft in Marketing, BNP Paribas in Equity Derivative Sales and on the trading floor of Merrill Lynch in 2009 as the first class after the merger with Bank of America. Fung was awarded the Gordon Cressy Award in 2010 for his leadership potential. In January 2010, Fung worked at the Clinton Foundation in New York City as an Intern in the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI). He was one of four Canadians chosen that term to assist with the foundation. He was part of the Membership Department, which was responsible for inviting and managing the delegates for the conference. Upon graduation from the University of Toronto, he started working at CIBC World Markets on the trading floor where he traded Foreign Exchange. He was one of the youngest employees at the bank to be given P&L responsibilities. During his time at CIBC, Fung concurrently started building Tunezy part-time with former classmate and co-founder, (Brandon Chu ), who was in finance at Kraft Foods. On Friday, April 22, 2011, one of his former bosses encouraged him to leave to work on Tunezy full-time and provided him with the initial capital to start the business. Fung officially left CIBC to start Tunezy on December 22, 2011, with Brandon following suit a few months later. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Derrick Fung」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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