Head Of Music, Radio Fritz (Germany)
CEO & Co-Founder, Imagem Music Group (Holland)
Managing Director, Ticketmaster UK
Programme Director, Nordic Music Export & Chair, European Music Export Exchange
Founder & CEO, Canvas Talent & Co-Founder & CEO, Farout Media
Controller, BBC Radio 2, 6 Music, Asian Network & Director, BBC Music
Controller, BBC Radio 1 (UK)
Chairman & CEO, JEM Artists/JEM Music Publishing
Music Supervisor & Creative Director, ThinkSynch Music
Damaris Rex-Taylor
General Manager, Disturbing London
Founder & President, Glassnote Entertainment Group
Darcus Beese
President, Island Records UK
Managing Director, Outdustry
Founder & President, Glassnote Entertainment Group
Danielle Perry
Presenter, Absolute Radio
Dumi Oburota
Founder & Managing Director, Disturbing London
Chief Commercial Officer, 7digital
Gabe Turner
Director, Fulwell 73
Founder, CATO Music
Managing Director, U.K. & President, European Creative, Sony/ATV Music Publishing
Head Of Business Relations, Auddly
James Hanley
Sr. Staff Writer, Music Week
CEO, MPA Group of Companies
Jeff Smith
Head Of Music, BBC Radio 2 & 6 Music (UK)
Chief Executive, UK Music
Head of Marketing & Strategic Marketing, KBK Konzert-Künstleragentur GmbH, Germany
Joel Denver
President/Publisher, AllAccess (U.S.)
Professor Jonathan Shalit OBE
Chairman, ROAR Group
Sr. VP, BMG & Founder, Infectious Records
Leo Pearlman
Producer, Fulwell 73
Marc Robinson
President, Globe – Creative & Commercial, Universal Music UK
Mark Strippel
Head Of Programmes, BBC Asian Network (UK)
Mark Sutherland
Editor, Music Week
Vice President A&R, Virgin/EMI Records
Deputy Programme Director/Head Of Music, Radio X (UK)
Murray Stassen
Deputy Editor, Music Week
Natasha Bent
Live Agent, United Talent Agency
Nic Jones
Chief Rrevenue Officer, Vevo
Oum Pradutt
Founder, Phase 1 Events (Asia)
A&R & Label Manager, Playground Scandinavia
Founder & Creative Director, Eurosonic Noorderslag (Holland)
Executive President of Touring, International, Live Nation
MD of UK and International with Spirit B-Unique
Rebecca Allen
Managing Director, Decca Records
CEO, PRS For Music
Founder, Robomagic
Rob Scott
Founder & CEO, Source Music
CEO, Cosmos Music Sweden
Sammy Andrews
Artist Manager, LOCK
Sanken Sandqvist
Managing Director, BMG Scandinavia
Sat Bisla
President & Founder, A&R Worldwide/MUSEXPO
Sigi Schuller
Sr. Director A&R, Universal Music Germany
Ted Cockle
President, Virgin EMI
Entertainment Marketing Consulting
ROBERT ASHCROFT
Chief Executive, PRS For Music
Robert Ashcroft has been Chief Executive of PRS for Music, the UK's leading music copyright collecting society, for five years. Representing some 115,000 songwriters, composers and music publishers, PRS for Music licenses organizations to play, perform or make available copyright music on their behalf, distributing the resulting royalties to them fairly and efficiently. In addition, Robert oversaw the establishment of the world's first integrated licensing and processing hub as the first CEO for its licensing and professional services arm. The hub is a joint venture between PRS for Music, STIM and GEMA.
Previously Robert worked for a number of international companies in London, Paris and New York, including eight years on the management boards of Sony Electronics in the Unites States and Sony Europe. While in the US, he launched their e-commerce business, SonyStyle.com, and ran the iconic Walkman business before launching a number of pan-European Internet services, including the world's first subscription music service to stream over both mobile and fixed-line networks in 2004. A leading advocate of global licensing solutions, Robert has played an active role in championing improvements to copyright law in the digital economy.