Experience

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  Prs for music

  Oct 2000 - Apr 2008

  Negotiated music usage licensing agreements with UK broadcasters and managed a small team of 6 other negotiators; together we generated £177m net royalty revenues for the PRS writer and publisher members in my final financial year. Initially obtaining approvals for synch music licensing for usage within film, television and advertising but quickly joined the online licensing team as two of us administered MCPS licences for the entire embryonic online industry for the UK - iTunes etc.

  • Broadcast Negotiations Manager

    Feb 2005 - Apr 2008

  • Online Licensing Consultant

    Oct 2000 - Feb 2005
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  Bootlegal limited

  Oct 2004 - Mar 2007

  Co-owner

  Online music start-up with the goal of legitimising the significant yet clandestine demand for live gig recordings made possible through the economies offered by digital distribution.

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  Mushroom tv

  Apr 2008 - Jun 2011

  Head of music licensing

  Directed music licensing compliance and broadcasting regulatory affairs for the group owned Sky music channels. Secured content distribution deals with all the major digital streaming and sales service providers.

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  Getty images

  Jul 2011 - Mar 2012

  Copyright compliance manager (emea)

  Led the International Licensing Compliance team in the UK in achieving challenging short-term targets in monetising the unauthorised usage of Getty Images digital content portfolio.

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  Fixio

  Mar 2012 - now

  Co-owner

  - Apple Authorised (Independent Repair Network)- Four repair workshops and retail premises; Brighton, Crawley, Tunbridge Wells & Sevenoaks - Fixio Business Support - our B2B remote and onsite support service- Apple Certified engineers; covering Kent, Sussex, Surrey & London- Fixio AV - bespoke onsite installations and maintenance - New and refurbished Apple hardware sales - supertechnology.co.uk- Amazon Renewed Apple reseller - LoveMacs