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Purpose
ICE is a purpose-driven organisation, founded by rightsholders, for rightsholders.
We exist to support songwriters, enabling societies and publishers to accurately compensate them when their work is used internationally.
It’s this motivation that gets us up in the mornings and pushes us to excel together.
Values
Formed by colleagues, our values guide us.
ICE’s values are:
Excellence – we strive for excellence and to bring out the best in our people.
Creativity – we create innovative solutions for the industry we support.
Respect – we respect our colleagues and partners.
Culture
As a young organisation at the exciting intersection of technology, music and data, our culture is evolving. It reflects the diverse colleagues, specialisms and locations that combine to make us what we are.
Diversity & Inclusion
Whoever we are, we live each workday through our actions, shared values and personal integrity.
At ICE we commit to:
Demonstrating Respect for everyone by understanding and celebrating our differences.
Embracing the Creativity that comes from different perspectives
Achieving Excellence by bringing out the best in people who can bring their whole selves work.
Day-to-Day
ICE works in a dynamic and changing industry, where we are constantly developing a wide range of initiatives to improve and shape the future, and that is reflected in our colleagues daily work lives.
Hybrid working
We adopt modern working practices, including a mix of locations, as colleagues blend home and office, team and individual working.
Fit
If ICE sounds like the kind of place you’d like to work, check out our current opportunities.
We welcome candidates from all backgrounds, regardless of age, disability, gender, gender identity, gender expression, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and any other protected characteristic.
We are committed to making all stages of our recruitment process accessible to candidates with disabilities. Please speak to our recruitment team and we will work with you to make reasonable adjustments to ensure you can perform at your best throughout your application.
Our Leadership Team
Peter de Mönnink
CEO
Ben McEwen
Chief Commercial Officer
Rachael Naylor
Chief Operating Officer
Michael Hayes
Chief Product and Technology Officer
Steve Powell
Chief Financial Officer
Jenny Lambert
General Counsel
Bhavik Bhatt
Chief Strategy Officer and VP Business Development
Charlotta Jansson
Chief People Officer
Extended Leadership Team
Tim Rawlinson
VP – Licensing
Neil Johnson
VP – Security & Governance
Lasse Kahlo
VP – Online
Graham Edwards
Director – Solutions & Support
Yannik Exler
Director – Product Operations
Maria Jacob
Senior P&C Business Partner
Ahmad Alani
Head of Strategy
Clara Boerkamp
VP – Finance
Cathy Hayes
VP – Customer & Operational Excellence
Dale Hoblyn
Director – Service Risk
Our Offices
London
2nd floor, 7 Devonshire Square
London, EC2M 4YH
England
Stockholm
Hornsgatan 103
104 62 Stockholm
Sweden
Berlin
Lützowstraße 100
10785 Berlin
Germany
Munich
c/o GEMA, Rosenheimer Str 11,
81667 Muenchen
Germany
About ICE
ICE is a music technology company built by rightsholders, for rightsholders. We simplify the complexities of the music royalty chain through an innovative suite of licensing, processing, and copyright services, enabling our customers to accurately and efficiently compensate songwriters and composers for the use of their works.
A joint venture between PRS, STIM, and GEMA, ICE is the result of a big vision for the industry that harnesses years of combined experience in the multi-territory music market. Serving over 330,000 rightsholders and leveraging a copyright database comprising 55 million musical works, ICE’s operations touch 250+ territories to distribute more than €1bn in royalties per year, with a total of over €5bn distributed to date.
We’re based in the UK, Germany, and Sweden.
What makes ICE unique?
Operating at the exciting intersection of technology, music, and data, our partnership with stakeholders across the industry delivers best practice, new processes, and innovative solutions for better royalty flows. With years of experience as ICE and decades more through our parent companies, our collective industry knowledge has enabled us to develop initiatives that benefit not only our own customers, but also the wider industry.
We build our products and services in collaboration with our partners and customers, and any profits ICE generates flow fully back into customer value – including through strategic investment in technology to improve the delivery of cost-effective, streamlined, and quality services that ensure rightsholders retain and increase royalties.
History in brief
▷ 2010: Following extensive development based on an initiative by PRS and STIM, ICE is born as a joint copyright database.
▷ 2012: GEMA joins the joint venture to help develop ICE’s vision.
▷ 2015: ICE launches its integrated processing hub, including online licensing services.
▷ 2016: ICE distributes its first royalty payments.
▷ 2019: ICE passes €1bn in total royalties distributed to rightsholders to date.
▷ 2020: ICE launches market-first solution Licensr, simplifying multi-territory licensing for start-up services.
▷ 2021: ICE passes €2bn in royalty distributions. ICE’s unique, multi-stage invoicing has now benefitted more than 295,000 writers and more than 31,000 publishers, reducing market residuals by over €70m.
▷ 2022: ICE passes €3bn in royalty distributions across 239 territories.
▷ 2023: ICE’s copyright database exceeds 50 million musical works.
▷ 2024: ICE distributes more than €1bn in royalties to rightsholders in a consecutive 12-month period for the first time.
▷ 2025: ICE launches industry-first copyright database platform Cube, holding more than 55 million musical works. ICE’s operations now touch 250+ territories and serve over 330,000 rightsholders, with more than €5bn paid in royalties since 2016.
You can read ICE’s Modern Slavery statement here.