{"id":1169,"date":"2018-07-06T15:54:18","date_gmt":"2018-07-06T15:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ddex.3mil.co.uk\/?page_id=1169"},"modified":"2025-08-15T16:40:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T16:40:20","slug":"executive-board","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ddex.net\/about-ddex\/executive-board\/","title":{"rendered":"Executive Board"},"content":{"rendered":"[mk_page_section bg_image=”http:\/\/ddex.3mil.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/ddex-head9.png” bg_image_portrait=”http:\/\/ddex.3mil.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/arrows.gif” bg_color=”#003a6f” bg_position=”right center” bg_repeat=”no-repeat” min_height=”230″ padding_top=”0″ padding_bottom=”0″ top_shape_color=”#ffffff” bottom_shape_color=”#ffffff” sidebar=”sidebar-1″][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″ css=”.vc_custom_1526311495651{padding-top: 0px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}”][mk_fancy_title tag_name=”h1″ color=”#ffffff” size=”54″ force_font_size=”true” size_phone=”40″ font_weight=”900″ margin_top=”65″ margin_bottom=”30″ font_family=”none” responsive_align=”left”]Executive Board[\/mk_fancy_title][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/mk_page_section][mk_page_section bg_color=”#ffffff” padding_top=”30″ padding_bottom=”80″ sidebar=”sidebar-1″][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1532016006529{padding-top: 20px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;}”][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner css=”.vc_custom_1532076643058{margin-bottom: 20px !important;margin-left: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1541175246889{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]The Board of Directors appoints an Executive Board which consists of two representatives from each of the three sectors represented on the Board itself. The Board also appoints a chair. The appointment of other responsibilities such as treasurer and secretary are allocated by the Executive Board. The Executive Board is responsible for ensuring the day-to-day operations of DDEX are carried out in a way that meets the strategic direction agreed by the Board. The current members of the Executive Board are:[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner css=”.vc_custom_1532011366559{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-right: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;margin-left: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}”][vc_column_inner css=”.vc_custom_1532009701608{margin: 0px !important;border-width: 0px !important;padding: 0px !important;}”][mk_fancy_title font_family=”none” responsive_align=”left”]\n

Dan Simpson \u2013 Meta Platforms Inc.<\/h3>\n

Chair<\/span><\/h4>\n[\/mk_fancy_title][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner css=”.vc_custom_1532076853309{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 30px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}”][vc_column_inner width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”4030″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” css=”.vc_custom_1736181065930{margin-top: 5px !important;}”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1736181088431{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]Dan Simpson leads the Music Operations team at Meta where his team manages the complex music rights ecosystem that powers musical expression on Instagram and Facebook. He started his career at Sony Music in London in various roles in Music Operations before joining SoundCloud in Berlin to set up their Label Operations function.<\/p>\n

Over his 20 year career he has seen the compound value that cooperation and standardisation that DDEX fosters can bring to the music industry.<\/p>\n

Dan holds a Master’s degree from UCL and BA from The University of Liverpool.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner css=”.vc_custom_1532011366559{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-right: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;margin-left: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}”][vc_column_inner css=”.vc_custom_1532009701608{margin: 0px !important;border-width: 0px !important;padding: 0px !important;}”][mk_fancy_title font_family=”none” responsive_align=”left”]\n

Kim Beauchamp \u2013 Universal Music Group<\/h3>\n

Chair Emeritus<\/span><\/h4>\n[\/mk_fancy_title][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner css=”.vc_custom_1532076827254{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-right: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 30px !important;margin-left: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}”][vc_column_inner width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”1612″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” css=”.vc_custom_1533302841876{margin-top: 5px !important;}”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1543491808323{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]Based in Los Angeles, Kim is SVP Process Innovation & Advanced Operations and oversees the Process Innovation, Advanced Operations, and Metadata Modeling and Standards areas. She focuses on transforming the existing business models and creating new business processes to support the new business models in which UMG is engaging. She designs operational workflows to integrate new business models and complex edge cases in the traditional business models. She also oversees Metadata Modeling & Standards, where she investigates root causes for bad or incomplete data throughout the value chain and oversees the creation of the company\u2019s global metadata standards.<\/p>\n

Kim has worked for UMG since 1998, beginning her career within their IT department. She has helped design and develop numerous systems that are critical to the company\u2019s operations, including the digital scheduling system, the asset management and content delivery system, and the company\u2019s global label copy system. She continues to actively work to reimagine the company\u2019s internal tool set and processes to support the ever-changing business.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner css=”.vc_custom_1532011366559{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-right: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;margin-left: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}”][vc_column_inner css=”.vc_custom_1532009701608{margin: 0px !important;border-width: 0px !important;padding: 0px !important;}”][mk_fancy_title margin_bottom=”0″ font_family=”none” responsive_align=”left”]\n

Nick Williamson \u2013 Apple Inc.<\/h3>\n

<\/h4>\n[\/mk_fancy_title][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner css=”.vc_custom_1532076809197{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 30px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}”][vc_column_inner width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”1411″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” css=”.vc_custom_1532081698497{margin-top: 5px !important;}”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1543491699123{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]Nick Williamson is part of the senior leadership team for Apple Music. Having previously been managing director for the online rights agency, Celas, in Europe, and before that the strategic development director at PRS for Music, Nick has extensive experience on the writer and publisher side of the music industry. Since moving over to Apple he has played key roles in the world-wide expansion of the iTunes Store and the cloud locker and re-download service iTunes Match, and the subsequent worldwide launches of Apple Music and Beats1 radio, both of which launched in more than 100 countries at the same time. Nick has served on the Board and Executive Board of DDEX since July 2015 and was its chairman from November 2015 to June 2017.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner css=”.vc_custom_1532011366559{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-right: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;margin-left: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}”][vc_column_inner css=”.vc_custom_1532009701608{margin: 0px !important;border-width: 0px !important;padding: 0px !important;}”][mk_fancy_title margin_bottom=”0″ font_family=”none” responsive_align=”left”]\n

Kirit Joshi \u2013 Sony Music Entertainment<\/h3>\n

<\/h4>\n[\/mk_fancy_title][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner css=”.vc_custom_1532076843153{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 30px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}”][vc_column_inner width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”1922″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” css=”.vc_custom_1543944743321{margin-top: 5px !important;}”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1543943345269{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]Kirit was involved in the initial set up of DDEX and has guided the organisation in various capacities including: Chairman of the Board for two terms, Chair Emeritus and Executive Board member since the inception of DDEX in 2005. Kirit is also SVP & CIO of Sony Music where he leads the Global Technology Strategy, Operations and Application Security. He has utilised DDEX standards to help transform the digital supply chain to support sophisticated release strategies and the building of a big data environment processing trillions of transactions from commercial and social digital platforms which enable centralised revenue and royalty processing as well as marketing analytics. These capabilities are used to provide Sony Music\u2019s artists and staff with real-time music consumption perspectives and advanced royalty analytics via the Artist Portal. Some of Sony\u2019s DDEX compliance capabilities have also been made available to the DDEX community as open source.<\/p>\n

Kirit brings a global perspective to DDEX having lived and worked extensively in Europe, Asia and Africa. Prior to joining the music industry in 1993, Kirit started his career in the finance industry building the first automated stock trading systems using AI, and in the defence industry to build de-centralised secure open system command control systems. He followed an education in Computer Science with a focus on Cognitive Science.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner css=”.vc_custom_1532011366559{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-right: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;margin-left: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}”][vc_column_inner css=”.vc_custom_1532009701608{margin: 0px !important;border-width: 0px !important;padding: 0px !important;}”][mk_fancy_title font_family=”none” responsive_align=”left”]\n

Paul Cohen Scali \u2013 Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 des Auteurs, Compositeurs et Editeurs de Musique (SACEM)<\/b><\/h3>\n[\/mk_fancy_title][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner css=”.vc_custom_1532076921213{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}”][vc_column_inner width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”2401″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” css=”.vc_custom_1582003252297{margin-top: 5px !important;}”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1582003322269{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]Paul Cohen Scali is Chief Information and Technology Officer at SACEM. In this role, he is pursuing digital transformation in the service of the company’s objectives and its commitment to generate value for authors, composers and publishers. In particular, he is striving to improve member services and strengthen the ability to process ever-increasing volumes of data. It is through these many projects that SACEM anticipates and responds to digital challenges and those of the music sector.<\/p>\n

Paul\u2019s started his career in various positions in the military sector and then in new technologies, notably at Cap Gemini. In 1997, he joined Bouygues T\u00e9l\u00e9com, a French mobile carrier, where he contributed to urbanising the information system and worked on mobile phone services as well as on the commercial information system. In early 2009, he joined PMU, a French gambling company, as CTO to implement digital transformation in a context of opening towards competition of the online gaming market.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner css=”.vc_custom_1625159463417{margin-top: 20px !important;margin-right: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;margin-left: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}”][vc_column_inner css=”.vc_custom_1532009701608{margin: 0px !important;border-width: 0px !important;padding: 0px !important;}”][mk_fancy_title font_family=”none” responsive_align=”left”]\n

Nicholas Lehman \u2013 American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP)<\/b><\/h3>\n[\/mk_fancy_title][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner css=”.vc_custom_1532076921213{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}”][vc_column_inner width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”3712″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” css=”.vc_custom_1693779536323{margin-top: 5px !important;}”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1693779595956{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]Nicholas Lehman is ASCAP\u2019s Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy & Digital Officer, reporting directly to the society\u2019s CEO, Elizabeth Matthews. Lehman oversees Strategy, Business Development, Product Development and Administration Services as ASCAP enhances services to its songwriter, composer and music publisher members as well as to its music licensing partners.<\/p>\n

Prior to ASCAP, Nicholas Lehman worked as Chief Strategy Officer for TEGNA, where he was responsible for guiding the media company\u2019s vision, cultivating strategic partnerships, incubating new businesses, and driving innovation initiatives throughout all areas of the company. Lehman also worked as President of Digital for NBCUniversal, where he oversaw and transformed a portfolio of the company\u2019s native digital businesses, including Fandango, and launched a series of new convergent media brands for NBCUniversal. He also held several executive roles at MTV Networks, where he oversaw digital strategy and operations and launched multiple new businesses in the digital music, mobile, gaming, and social media spaces.<\/p>\n

Lehman has an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and an honors undergraduate degree from Brown University.
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