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Mark Hydar (born November 20, 1966) is an American corporate executive who has served in several senior leadership positions for notable American software companies like EDS, Yahoo!, eBay, PayPal, and Microsoft. Hydar has served on Technical Advisory Boards for IBM, BMC, Gomez, Keynote, and MakesBridge Technology. He holds several patents. Hydar has been a leader in the area of Service Engineering and Operations for large-scale online services for nearly 20 years. He currently spearheads the Ericsson rollout of the IPTV platform Mediaroom.

Early Career
Until 1995, Hydar worked in law enforcement in Detroit. Then, he developed and deployed Enterprise Management Platforms for Electronic Data Services (General Motors) and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan.

Silicon Valley
In 1999, Hydar relocated to Silicon Valley, where he joined @Home Network, (which became Excite@Home,) where his primary focus was Enterprise Management Systems and Content Delivery.

Then, at eBay his team developed the monitoring and management platform together with core command and control tools which helped eBay manage its service and operational process. In 2007 he was tapped for a similar role at PayPal, where he was on the kernel team that initially stood up and integrated the PayPal environment and management platform.

In 2009, Hydar led Microsoft's Global Quality of Service team. He created methods to monitor, measure and articulate the true end-user experience for Microsoft online services. This quality measurement methodology was adopted by Microsoft worldwide.

Hydar was one of the key leaders that stepped in to drive recovery and damage control after a massive data-related incident at Danger/Sidekick. He later served as principal group manager for all Danger and Windows Phone services including the launch of Windows Phone 7.

Hydar joined Yahoo! in 2010, leading the Data Delivery Services team. He was responsible for every aspect of the massive Yahoo! big data pipeline. He was then asked to lead the Rewire effort with an ultimate goal of reducing Yahoo's data center footprint and reducing operating costs.

Ericsson Mediaroom
In 2013, Hydar joined the Ericsson Mediaroom team, an IPTV product he sees as revolutionary as @Home, eBay and Paypal. In an interview in, Hydar described his role as 1) ensuring quality and protecting the brand, 2) drive continuous engagement as the voice of Mediaroom, and 3) optimize profit through price efficiencies and cost containment.

 The Ericsson TV3 leadership team includes Steffen Schreier, Brad Post, Troy DeSouza and Brad Holmes.

