CFO, Kilometre Music Group

James is an accomplished financial professional with more than a decade’s worth of expert music royalty analysis and corporate financial responsibilities. His previous roles include Director, Corporate Finance & Development at the Canadian Performing Rights Organization, known as SOCAN, and Director of Acquisitions at music publisher Ole (now Anthem, owned by the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan).

He has led acquisitions of music publishing assets and other intellectual property with a total capital investment of in excess of US $400 million making extensive use of predictive music royalty modelling.

His music industry corporate financial experience includes treasury management, sourcing bank debt financing, capital market investment, foreign exchange activities and reporting to stakeholders.

James holds an MBA from Schulich School of Business at York University, and is a CFA Charterholder.