The Executive Board

The Copyright Hub Ltd is a company limited by guarantee. Its directors are drawn from a variety of fields covering creative businesses, individual creators, users of copyright and others. The Executive Board is the formal decision making body overseeing the Copyright Hub and responsible for its governance, It works closely with the Partners Board which has a broad membership and wide-ranging consultative remit.

Richard Hooper

Non-Executive Chairman

Richard Hooper CBE has devoted his career to the converging worlds of media, communications and technology.  He holds a number of Board directorships, does advisory work for clients in the UK and internationally, mentors company directors and carries out Board evaluations.  In 2011 HMG asked Richard to review the digital copyright exchange idea that came out of the Hargreaves Review.  This became a major project looking at ways of streamlining copyright licensing processes and organisations which led to the creation of the Copyright Hub. He is married to the Australian writer Meredith Hooper, with three grown-up children and lives in North London.

Dominic Young

CEO

Dominic Young became CEO of The Copyright Hub in December 2013. He was previously a consultant and adviser to a number of investors, media companies and trade organisations. In his earlier career he held a number of senior positions at News International and News Corporation including Director of Intellectual Property and DIrector of Strategy and Product Development for the UK newspapers and Managing Director, International for the News Corporation Digital Media Group. He is a former Chair of the Newspaper Licensing Agency (now NLA Media Access), was a founder of the Automated Content Access Protocol initiative, a founder of the News Media Coalition and has been involved in a large number of initiatives and negotiations in the area of copyright and IP at a sector as well as company level for many years. Long, long ago he was briefly a photographer.

Tony Ageh

Director

Tony Ageh is Controller of Archive Development at the BBC.

Justin Basini

Director

Justin is a successful entrepreneur focused on creating high growth, consumer focused businesses. Currently Justin is Chief Product & Marketing Officer of Zapp a new mobile device based payment network.

Justin has had a varied career building fast moving and valuable branded franchises for big companies and as an entrepreneur. His early career started with Procter & Gamble and then moved into consulting with WPP. Justin then joined Deutsche Bank in retail e-ventures moving to work in Corporate Finance. From 2006 to 2009 Justin was CMO for Capital One in Europe running all market facing initiatives.

In 2010 Justin founded ALLOW which offered consumers the ability to protect their data and privacy. ALLOW acquired thousands of customers at launch, built a unique technology and grew to a team of 12 undergoing two rounds of multi-million pound investment. The business was sold in early 2013.

Justin has been a popular blogger and writer on digital issues, marketing and entrepreneurship for over 10 years at www.basini.com and in July 2010 his first book Why Should Anyone Buy From You? was published by the Financial Times.

Sarah Faulder

Director

Sarah Faulder is CEO of the Publishers Licensing Society.

Mike Holderness

Director

Mike Holderness is a science writer, editor and trade unionist

Sam Obernik

Director

For more than twenty years, award winning singer and songwriter Sam Obernik has made her music a way of life. Crossing genres from jazz to acoustic folk and soul, her main focus is on electronic dance music with a handful of international hits to her name. Sam continues to write and produce from her London studio whilst maintaining a performance diary taking her all around the world. Sam is also a legally accredited mediator, practising a pyschotherapeutic approach to dispute resolution.

Alan Rae

Director

Alan Rae began his copyright career in 1988 when his then college Principal asked him to attend a meeting “with something called the CLA – I can’t find the person I want, so you’ll have to do” -  Alan has been looking for the missing person ever since!
 
After 34 happy years in Scottish Further Education, Alan now runs his own copyright consultancy, © Here, principally serving educational clients.  Alan has served on a variety of copyright consultation groups through the years and works with the major collecting agencies on behalf of Scottish Further Education.  He lectures on copyright and advises on all aspects of copyright law and legislation.  On behalf of the Scottish Colleges, Alan wrote a submission to the Hargreaves Review and has since contributed to the Educational Licensing Workstream Group. He is delighted to be a Copyright Board Hub member and is keen to see the Hub develop and make his contribution as a user representative.