CLA Board

The Board of CLA comprises fifteen Directors, six non-executive Directors nominated by ALCS, six non-executive Directors nominated by PLS, one non-executive Director nominated by DACS, one executive Director (Chief Executive Office) and one non-executive independent Chairman.

All Directors must submit themselves for re-election at least every three years if they wish to continue serving and are considered by the Board to be eligible.

The Chairman has primary responsibility for running the Board. The Chief Executive has executive responsibilities for the operations and results of the CLA and for making proposals to the Board for the strategic development of the CLA. Clear divisions of accountability and responsibility exist and operate effectively for these positions.

The board is made up of the directors, the observers and the Company Secretary.

The board directors are:

• Tom Bradley, Independent Chairman
• Kevin Fitzgerald, Chief Executive
• Tony Bradman
• Alan Dearling
• Toby Faber
• Danny Gesua
• Penny Grubb
• Dave Jago
• Dominic Knight
• Audrey McCulloch
• Mark Millar
• James McConnachie
  
• Andrew Potter
• Graham Taylor
• Andrew Yeates

The observers are:

• Owen Atkinson
• Gilane Tawadros
• Sarah Faulder

The Company Secretary is:

• Martin Delaney
  

All Directors have access to the services of the Company Secretary. The Company provides insurance cover and indemnities for its Directors and officers.

All new Directors attend an induction programme designed to develop their knowledge and understanding of the Group's culture and operations. The programme will usually include an overview of the operations and Board processes and meetings with the CLA management team.

The Board process
The Board governs through a number of statutory Board Committees - the Finance and Audit, Remuneration and Appointments Committees - to which certain responsibilities and duties may be delegated.

These Committees are properly authorised under the constitution of the Company to take decisions and act on behalf of the Board within the parameters laid down by the Board. The Board is kept fully informed of the work of these Committees and any issues requiring resolution will be referred to the full Board as appropriate. A summary of the operations of these Committees is set out below.

The Board is serviced by the Company Secretary who reports to the Chairman in respect of his core duties to the board.

Board Director profiles 

Tom Bradley - CLA Independent Chairman  

Initially beginning his career as a Commercial Apprentice with Pressed Steel Fisher, Tom then undertook financial studies and after lecturing at Luton College in the early 1970s progressed into financial and general management within the music industry during the 1970s and 80s.

In 1992, Tom became Chief Operating Officer for the Mechanical Copyright Protection Society Ltd (MCPS), doubling the company’s turnover to £180 million.  In 1995, he moved to EMI Music Publishing as Deputy Managing Director.  In 2003, he became Managing Director of his own company Quiet Man Music Limited specialising in music publishing consultancy services.  Since 2004, he has been the non-executive Chair of the MCPS and he is also currently a non-executive Director of National Discography and UK Music.  

Tom Bradley says: “I am delighted to be appointed as Chairman of the CLA.  I have a strong commitment to defending intellectual property rights which are the foundation of our creative industries and a key component of the UK national economy as a whole. I am looking forward to bringing my extensive experience from the music industry, of managing the impact of changes brought about by digital technology, to ensure that CLA continues to build on its position as a leader in collective licensing.”

Kevin Fitzgerald - CLA Chief Executive

Kevin Fitzgerald is the Chief Executive of the Copyright Licensing Agency Ltd, which he joined in 2007. Since that time licence fee income has increased from £47m to £60m per annum and a variety of innovative digital licences have been introduced.  

From 2002 to 2006 Kevin was at Pearson PLC as Managing Director of Rough Guides. During his tenure global sales increased by 50% and gross margin from 45% to 65%; podcasts, webcasts and other digital innovations enhanced the Rough Guides product offering.  Kevin worked for the Thomas Cook Group for some five years, joining in 1997. Amongst his various roles he was one of the founders of thomascook.com, which grew to some £50m of turnover in just three years.
  
Kevin holds other public appointments/non executive directorships, including at the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office and a tourist board. 

Tony is an award-winning writer who has worked in the field of children's books for nearly 30 years. He has written or edited over 200 books for children -collections of poetry and picture books, young fiction, full length novels, re-tellings of classic myths and legends, and themed anthologies of both poetry and short stories. 

Tony has recently been working as lead author on a major new Oxford University Press series, ‘Project X', has reviewed children's books for The Daily Telegraph and been a judge of various children's literary prizes.

Alan is passionate about books and supporting authors. He has spent much of the last 30 years researching, writing, editing, commissioning and publishing. He has written and edited over forty publications for a variety of publishers including Routledge, John Wiley, Longman and RHP, with sales of over a quarter of a million copies.

Alan worked for over 20 years as publisher for Longman, Pitman, Churchill Livingstone, Russell House Publishing and the Scottish Office and managed significant financial budgets.

Currently, along with writing his own books, he is publishing editor for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and the Chartered Institute of Housing and has worked for number of major organisations and universities including the London School of Economics, University of York, University of Wales at Cardiff and Queensland University of Technology at Brisbane.

Alan has been a member of the ALCS board since the beginning of 2007 and has been involved with finance, distributions and membership. He is also an ordinary member of the PLS and DACS.

 

A Director of the CLA Board since 2005, Penny was elected to the Board of the ALCS in 2002 and became Chair of that organisation in 2007.  She has worked in academia for over 20 years both in the fields of Software Maintenance and Health Informatics, and also as an officer and negotiator for the Universities and Colleges Union.   

A seasoned campaigner on intellectual property issues, she has published works in a variety of fields, fiction and non-fiction.

Dave Jago is Head of Publications at the Royal College of Psychiatrists, and has worked in STM publishing for over 25 years. He is also a board director of PLS.

His department is responsible for the College's books, journals and reports, as well as its website (which provides free, high-quality mental health information) and an interactive online continuing professional development training package.

Dominic Knight

Dominic Knight is an Executive Director of Macmillan Ltd and Managing Director of Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. He joined Macmillan as a graduate trainee and held several positions in editing, sales and marketing. He became Group Marketing Director for educational and academic businesses in 1989 and after a period as Group Publishing Director, became Managing Director of Macmillan Press in 1994. He was Chairman of the Council of Academic and Professional Publishers from 1998-2000 and joined the Publishers Licensing Society Board in 2000.

Audrey McCulloch

Audrey McCulloch is the Executive Director for the UK at the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP), the international association for non-profit scholarly and professional publishers and those that work with them. She is responsible for supporting the UK-based members and representing the interests of scholarly and professional publishers to various UK bodies.

She has ten years’ experience of scholarly publishing with Portland Press Limited and has a PhD in Cardiovascular Pharmacology from the University of Nottingham.

Audrey is also a Director of the Publishers Licensing Society and an Associate Member of the Chartered Institute of Management.

Mark Millar

Mark joined Future plc, the international special-interest media group listed on the London Stock Exchange, as Company Secretary and Head of Legal in 2002 from Allen & Overy after a 10 year City corporate law career.  Future's diverse media business includes magazines, websites and events in special interest areas.

His focus on intellectual property law, notably copyright, at Future led him to be invited to join the Government and Regulatory Affairs Committee of industry body the Periodical Publishers Association. In that role he has worked closely with the PPA and has represented the UK magazine industry in Westminster and Brussels.  

Mark was invited to join the Publishers Licensing Society board and the Copyright Licensing Agency board as a PPA representative in 2008.

 

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James McConnachie 

James has worked as an independent, self-employed writer for the last 15 years, and still can't quite believe it has been possible. He is the author of numerous Rough Guides (from Paris and Nepal to Conspiracy Theories and Sex), and wrote a critically acclaimed study of the Kamasutra, The Book of Love. He has presented TV programmes for the BBC and Channel 4, and has given talks and lectures at the V&A, Cambridge Wordfest and Southampton University, among others. In 2008, he was nominated for Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year, and has reviewed non-fiction for the Sunday Times ever since. 

He is a passionate bibliophile, and believes that books and their (hardworking, poorly rewarded) authors need champions more than ever in this emerging digital age. He belongs to the NUJ and the Society of Authors, and is an active member of the independent Rough Guide Authors' Forum. He joined the board of the CLA in 2011. 

 

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Graham Taylor

Graham Taylor represents The Publishers Association where he is Director of Educational, Academic and Professional Publishing.

He brings thirty five years experience of the publishing industry worldwide having served as divisional managing director, publishing director and sales director with four of the major publishing groups in the UK.

Graham is also Chair of the PLS board.

Andrew Yeates (Photo by Martin Beckett)

Andrew Yeates qualified as a solicitor in 1981. He has specialised in copyright and media law since qualifying.

Andrew has been Intellectual Property Adviser to the PPA since February 2005.

He is also currently in-house General Counsel to The Educational Recording Agency, a Consultant with Sheridans Solicitors, dealing with rights management and the exploitation of content on new media platforms and a Consultant to British Equity Collecting Society. He is a director of the British Copyright Council and a member of the UK Trade and Investment Creative Industries Advisory Board.

Andrew was a member of the DCMS Legal Deposit Advisory Panel addressing legal deposit requirements for electronic publications in the digital age throughout the term that it was set up. He chaired the E-Journals subcommittee within LDAP and remains and member of the Publishers/Deposit Libraries – Joint Committee on Legal Deposit.

Andrew was Director General of the BPI (British Phonographic Industry) the UK trade association for the record industry from 2000 – 2004. He was a director of BRIT Awards Limited and The BRIT Trust.

Prior to this he worked at Channel 4 for 11 years, holding posts including Head of Acquisitions and Business Affairs, and Head of Rights and Corporation Secretary.  Previous posts included Legal Adviser to Phonographic Performance Limited and Contracts Manager for Thames Television, Thames Television International and Euston Films.

Andrew is a Governor of The BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology.
He is a member of BAFTA and a Liveryman to The Haberdashers’ Company.

Observer profiles 

Owen Atkinson 

Owen is Chief Executive at the Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society, the UK rights management society for writers of all genres of literary and dramatic copyright works.

He joined ALCS in 1997. He had previously spent 10 years working in Hong Kong in IT consultancy developing bespoke solutions for the publishing and book industry. Owen has worked within the area of Collective Management for nearly ten years within the areas of information systems and Operations.

During this time he has been involved extensively in international projects regarding information and repertoire exchange as well as working with data standards groups on the development of identifiers.

Gilane Tawadros was appointed DACS Chief Executive in February 2009. She was formerly joint Chief Executive of Rivington Place, a RIBA-Award winning arts space (2003-6) and founding Director of the Institute of International Arts (1994-2005).

She is currently President of the Board of the International Foundation Manifesta and sits on the Boards of the A Foundation (Liverpool and London) and Photoworks (Brighton).

Company Secretary - Martin Delaney

Martin began his career at Reed Elsevier (then Reed International PLC) and worked there for 10 years before moving to join the MBO of the manufacturing divisions of Reed International which became Reedpack Ltd.  He worked at Reedpack for 3 years and left after the company was sold to SCA of Sweden.  After spells at the British Printing Corporation and 3M, Martin returned to publishing to work at Pearson Professional in 1998 before moving in 2000 to join The Copyright Licensing Agency Ltd as its first in-house legal adviser.

Martin is now the Legal Director and Company Secretary of CLA handling or overseeing all of its legal work including the drafting of licences, handling of disputes (including Copyright Tribunal issues) and is heavily involved in licensing negotiations, as well as working with rightsholder societies in preparing these licences.

Increasingly, CLA finds itself involved in lobbying at both national and EU level where there is a continued focus on copyright law and the role of collective licensing within copyright.  Martin is also a member of the Legal Issues Committee of IFRRO – the International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organisations.

Board committees  

Board committees 

Remuneration and Nominations Committee
The Remuneration and Nominations Committee leads the process for Board appointments, re-election and succession of Directors, as well as making recommendations for the membership of statutory committees. The Committee's role is also to determine and recommend to the Board the remuneration of the executive and non-executive Directors.

Composition:

• Alan Dearling
• Mark Millar
• Dave Jago - Chairman

Finance and Audit Committee
The Finance and Audit Committee's primary responsibilities are to review the financial statements, to review internal control and risk management processes, to consider the appointment of the external auditors, their reports to the Committee and their independence.

Composition: