Brendon Cassidy is a technologist, entrepreneur, and product visionary with more than two decades experience in the convergence of entertainment, consumers, and digital distribution. Cassidy is co-founder, CTO and Chief Scientist of Super Hi-Fi, a Los Angeles-based music technology company that is focused on the radical transformation of the radio industry.
Cassidy is responsible for the development and management of Super Hi-Fi’s patented, AI-powered operating system for high margin radio designed to help radio companies thrive. Leveraging a patented set of AI programming, production and playout technologies, the Super Hi-Fi platform completely transforms radio’s operating model by automatically generating incredible music logs and delivering beautiful song segues to more complex moments that combine voiceover, sound effects, imaging, music beds, and advertising. Super Hi-Fi’s current partners include Audacy, Beasley, iHeart, Sonos Radio, Peloton, Fubo, and many more.
Over his 20+ year technology leadership career at his digital agencies, We See Dragons and Wilshire Media Group, Cassidy led the design, development, and operation of high-profile, high-scale digital, cutting-edge products for brands that include National Geographic, Johnson & Johnson, Madison Square Garden Company, Ticketmaster, Citibank, Disney, and Experian.
As Chief Scientist, Cassidy brings to bear his significant experience in the world of digital music. At the foundation is his MFA in Music Composition and New Technology from California Institute of the Arts, where he studied algorithmic composition, interactive sound generation, and digital signal processing with luminaries like Morton Subotnick, Mark Trayle, and Tom Erbe. After seven years as CTO of Richard Branson’s Virgin Digital, launching several of the industry’s earliest digital music services, Cassidy then went on to lead the design, development, and operation of premiere digital music offerings for CBS Radio, Cricket Wireless (Muve Music), AOL Radio, Yahoo Launchcast, and Sony Music.