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Peter de Mönnink was appointed as the CEO of ICE, the world’s first integrated processing hub, in March 2022. Within this short period, Peter has forged a strong passion for improving the industry-affecting inefficiencies within the royalty value chain. During his first year at ICE, he has focused on refining and focusing the business strategy, with enhanced customer intimacy and increased operational excellence at the core of the thinking.

Whilst relatively new to the Music Industry, Peter is a media executive with a wealth of experience in running large media organisations in many roles over the past decades: he was Chief Strategy Officer for the global professional publishing company Reed Business Information, and CEO for multiple countries; CEO for Sanoma in Holland and Belgium; and also CEO of the Dutch media company Talpa Network. Peter has a proven track record of delivering new online products and services, and oversaw a diverse range of audio, video, radio, television, E-commerce, and online/magazine services.

When he was introduced to ICE, Peter said: “Nothing has proven more engaging than music in our digital lives. At the same time, the transition of content-rights and their value to the ever-expanding footprint of global digital markets is an ongoing challenge. ICE is a unique company. Founded with the purpose of ensuring that the fast-growing consumption of music is also reflected in value for content-creators and all stakeholders involved. Shared data processing and distribution are at the core of ICE, with the goal to protect and preserve the value of music.”

Stuart Dredge is Music Ally’s head of insight, writing the daily news bulletin, contributing to research reports and working on trends analysis. He has also worked as a freelance journalist for The Guardian, The Observer and The Week Junior, and has written for the blogs and preview guides of the Midem, MIPCOM and MIPTV conferences.

Mark Mulligan is the Managing Director of MIDiA Research and a long term media and technology analyst and a leading thinker on the music industry’s digital transition.

Mark has 20 years of media business analysis and consulting experience, working with leading global media, technology and device companies. Mark heads up MIDiA’s music research and oversees all of MIDiA’s research output.

Mark is the author of the industry leading blog Music Industry Blog. He is also author of ‘Awakening: The Music Industry In The Digital Age’ the definitive account of the rise of the digital music market.

Stuart Dredge is Music Ally’s head of insight, writing the daily news bulletin, contributing to research reports and working on trends analysis. He has also worked as a freelance journalist for The Guardian, The Observer and The Week Junior, and has written for the blogs and preview guides of the Midem, MIPCOM and MIPTV conferences.

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Mark Mulligan is the Managing Director of MIDiA Research and a long term media and technology analyst and a leading thinker on the music industry’s digital transition.

Mark has 20 years of media business analysis and consulting experience, working with leading global media, technology and device companies. Mark heads up MIDiA’s music research and oversees all of MIDiA’s research output.

Mark is the author of the industry leading blog Music Industry Blog. He is also author of ‘Awakening: The Music Industry In The Digital Age’ the definitive account of the rise of the digital music market.

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After studying international business administration, Thomas Theune started his professional career at GEMA in January 2006. His first position at GEMA was in the Radio and New Media department, now Broadcast and Online (S/O). After he lead the department for licensing mechanicals for a while Thomas Theune took over the position of Director of Broadcast and Online in July 2014. He is responsible for the licensing of public and commercial television and radio stations, cable retransmission as well as in the online area for national online licensing, for international online licensing and accounting via ICE and for the business via the Option 3 companies SOLAR and ARESA.

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Will Page is the author of the critically acclaimed book Tarzan Economics, which has been translated into five languages and published in paperback under the title Pivot. As the former Chief Economist of Spotify and PRS for Music, Will pioneered Rockonomics. At PRS, he published work on Radiohead’s ‘In Rainbows’ and saved BBC 6Music. At Spotify, he uncovered the anatomy of a hit and articulated the global value of music copyright. A passionate communicator, Will is a regular contributor to the Financial Times, Billboard and The Economist. He is a fellow at the London School of Economics, Edinburgh Futures Institute and the Royal Society of the Arts.

Paul Brindley is the co-founder and CEO of Music Ally.

Music Ally is a knowledge and skills company, publishing its well-respected reports since 2002. Paul has a background as a musician, having played bass guitar with The Sundays, a band who sold over two million albums worldwide. Paul also worked at the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) think-tank where he wrote New Musical Entrepreneurs, a report into the impact of new technologies on the UK music industry published in 2000.

Scott Cohen joined JKBX in 2022 as founding Chief Executive Officer and investor. One of the music industry’s most notable pioneers, Cohen co-founded The Orchard – the world’s first digital distributor of music.

Established in 1997, The Orchard – now owned by Sony Music – gave independent artists and labels a platform to sell their music to mainstream audiences and has since become the leading distribution company with 45 offices worldwide. Cohen retired from The Orchard in 2019 and joined Warner Music Group as its first-ever Chief Innovation Officer – a role uniquely tailored to Cohen’s expertise.

Not only is Cohen a proponent of new technology and innovation in the industry, but he also carries this through to his personal life.  He is a cyborg, human rights activist, and has been a vegan for the past 25 years.

Michael is a managing director in the Cross Markets Technology, Media and Telecom Group, where he leads the Music and Live Entertainment team in the Investment Banking Division. He joined Goldman Sachs in 2021 as a managing director.

Previously, Michael served as president and chief financial officer of the Hakkasan Group, where he advised on the sale of the company to the Tao Group in 2020. Before that, Michael served as chief financial officer at EMI Music Publishing Group, and first joined the company to lead the global Tax and Treasury team. Prior to this role, he advised the Sovereign Wealth fund of Abu Dhabi (Mubadala) on potential media acquisitions, including the wealth fund’s acquisition of EMI Music.

Michael spent the first 10 years of his career in consulting, focusing on all areas of Mergers & Acquisitions and finance transformation. Michael earned a BA in Accounting from Association of Accounting (UK) in 2002, a master’s degree in International Tax from Chartered Institute of Taxation (UK) in 2006 and an MBA from Columbia Business School in 2017.

As Chief Executive Officer of peermusic, Mary Megan Peer directs the largest privately owned music publishing and neighbouring rights company of its kind, operating in 38 offices from 31 countries with well over a million titles owned or administered and over 200+ employees worldwide. Peer is a third-generation music publishing executive with a Wall Street background.

Mary Megan led the acquisition of the largest independent K-pop publisher in Korea in 2016, adding Korea as the thirtieth country to the company’s global network, along with 40,000 Korean copyrights and works by K-pop groups BTS, EXO, and Monsta X. Peer previously led the opening of peermusic’s first office in mainland China, becoming the first global independent in mainland China. She had previously established a successful joint-venture partnership in China, which made peermusic the first Western independent publishing company to directly sign Chinese writers.

Mary Megan also led the formation of peermusic Neighbouring Rights, one of the leading independent neighbouring rights companies in the world. Its client roster encompasses 300+ record labels and 3000+ performers, including Billie Eilish, Imagine Dragons, DJ Snake, Metallica, Leonard Bernstein, Megan Thee Stallion, Lizzo, Panic! At The Disco, Migos, Joan Baez, The Strokes, Malcolm McLaren, Luis Enrique, Stromae, and David Guetta.

Mary Megan holds a BA with honors from Stanford University and an MBA from Columbia Business School. Peer has been named to Billboard’s “Power 100”, “Women in Music” and “International Power Players” lists and featured in Music Business Worldwide’s “Inspiring Women.”

Stuart Dredge is Music Ally’s head of insight, writing the daily news bulletin, contributing to research reports and working on trends analysis. He has also worked as a freelance journalist for The Guardian, The Observer and The Week Junior, and has written for the blogs and preview guides of the Midem, MIPCOM and MIPTV conferences.

Music producer turned serial entrepreneur Jan Nordlund is the co-founder and CEO of music tech startup Starmony – a company that utilizes music intelligence and AI to create and monetize music at scale.

He started his career as a producer and songwriter, as part of the successful production team Bass Nation where he co-wrote some of Sweden’s most prominent dance hits. Since then, he has founded multiple companies within the music-tech sphere, including Mobilehits, PlusFourSix, Global Media Bank, and X5 Music Group, the latter of which was later acquired by Warner Music.

Rachel Lyske has taken a professional journey that has diverged from the typical performing arts career. Guided by her passion for identifying and nurturing the creative abilities ofothers, she has forged a unique path that has led her to becoming CEO and co-founder of DAACI.
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Rachel’s strength as a leader in the field of AI-based music is rooted in her background in musical composition and vocal performance. She trained as a composer at the Royal Academy of Music, London, working alongside peers and mentors in the upper echelons of musical production on screen, stage, and studio.
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Her ear for novel and innovative talent made Rachel an ally in the ascendency of more than a few rising stars, as a co-producer of the exclusive and widely acclaimed industry music festival, “In The Woods”.

Her contribution to developing talent continued in her role as lead vocal consultant for the main music exam body, the ABRSM, where she designed the syllabus for the current “Singing for the musical theatre” exams. She’s put her own training and theories to the test as a vocal coach and supporting vocalist for Mercury and Brit Award winners, both live and in recording and is a vocal coach at The Brit School.

Arriving at MXX in the heart of London in 2018, Rachel helped lay the groundwork for DAACI, the technology that now promises to open new doors in the field of AI musical composition. Her leadership ensures that the vision for DAACI puts composers and artists front and centre as it becomes the premiere composition tool for any brief, anywhere.

With more than 25 years of experience in the technology industry, Edward Balassanian has founded and funded numerous startups ranging from operating systems to consumer packaged goods.

He most recently founded Aimi, the groundbreaking new music platform that allows fans to enjoy immersive listening experiences, while providing artists a new medium to create and monetize AI-powered music.

Prior to Aimi, Edward founded startups including BeComm Corporation, a pioneer in building operating systems for digital devices, Be Labs, an IP centric incubator, Vital Juice, a Food Manufacturing company, and Strings Inc, a content publishing platform, among others.

A graduate of the University of Washington with Distinction in Computer Science, Edward started his career at Microsoft where he worked from 1990-1995. He is the named inventor on over 80 patents in technologies ranging from gesture interfaces, networking, distributed processing, and digital music synthesis.

Will Page is the author of the critically acclaimed book Tarzan Economics, which has been translated into five languages and published in paperback under the title Pivot. As the former Chief Economist of Spotify and PRS for Music, Will pioneered Rockonomics. At PRS, he published work on Radiohead’s ‘In Rainbows’ and saved BBC 6Music. At Spotify, he uncovered the anatomy of a hit and articulated the global value of music copyright. A passionate communicator, Will is a regular contributor to the Financial Times, Billboard and The Economist. He is a fellow at the London School of Economics, Edinburgh Futures Institute and the Royal Society of the Arts.

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Michael Pelczynski is a strategist, economist and music rights expert that has been a pioneering force in evolving the music streaming business. As principal advisor at Forms + Shapes, Michael continues shaping the new music business with clients across AI, creator tools, fan models and administrative tech.

Previously as Vice President of Strategy at SoundCloud, Michael had architected, licensed and launched an award-winning new streaming model, led global business strategy and established the company’s future fan-powered business.

Continually working on improving the economics of music, Michael had delivered multiyear first-to-market licensing deals with major record labels while inventing patent-pending artist-to-fan engagement tools that enhance the commercial value proposition.

Focused on the future state of the industry, Michael has led cross-functional teams to address industry-wide issues like fraud, identify and evaluate new strategic business opportunities, including ancillary revenue initiatives, strategic partnerships and operational improvements. Upon joining SoundCloud, Michael was the head of economics and rights administration overseeing the company’s 170MM global revenue based royalties.

Prior to joining SoundCloud, Michael directed rights administration at Warner Music Group, overseeing royalties and reporting across six label divisions totaling 440MM in annual revenue. In addition to his formal economics background, Michael’s career in music began as a songwriter, composing for BMG Rights Management and several film productions, notably garnering 2014 A2IM Libera Awards semi-finalist nominations for Album of the Year and Up & Comer.

Dr Hayleigh Bosher is a copyright and music industry expert. She is the author of Copyright in the Music Industry: A Practical Guide to Exploiting and Enforcing Your Rights and many news and journal articles in this area.

She is a Reader in Intellectual Property Law and Associate Dean at Brunel University London, host of the Whose Song is it Anyway? Podcast and blogger for The IPKat, a legal consultant in the creative industries and an advisor for Help Musicians.

Hayleigh is well-recognised in the field of intellectual property law, in particular copyright law and the creative industries, and has attained an international reputation in the field of music copyright in particular.

She is regularly interviewed by national and international press and media on music cases of public interest.

Peter de Mönnink was appointed as the CEO of ICE, the world’s first integrated processing hub, in March 2022. Within this short period, Peter has forged a strong passion for improving the industry-affecting inefficiencies within the royalty value chain. During his first year at ICE, he has focused on refining and focusing the business strategy, with enhanced customer intimacy and increased operational excellence at the core of the thinking.

Whilst relatively new to the Music Industry, Peter is a media executive with a wealth of experience in running large media organisations in many roles over the past decades: he was Chief Strategy Officer for the global professional publishing company Reed Business Information, and CEO for multiple countries; CEO for Sanoma in Holland and Belgium; and also CEO of the Dutch media company Talpa Network. Peter has a proven track record of delivering new online products and services, and oversaw a diverse range of audio, video, radio, television, E-commerce, and online/magazine services.

When he was introduced to ICE, Peter said: “Nothing has proven more engaging than music in our digital lives. At the same time, the transition of content-rights and their value to the ever-expanding footprint of global digital markets is an ongoing challenge. ICE is a unique company. Founded with the purpose of ensuring that the fast-growing consumption of music is also reflected in value for content-creators and all stakeholders involved. Shared data processing and distribution are at the core of ICE, with the goal to protect and preserve the value of music.”

Stuart Dredge is Music Ally’s head of insight, writing the daily news bulletin, contributing to research reports and working on trends analysis. He has also worked as a freelance journalist for The Guardian, The Observer and The Week Junior, and has written for the blogs and preview guides of the Midem, MIPCOM and MIPTV conferences.