Jason Abdool Email & Phone Number

Toronto

• Serving as the company’s first Industry Partnership Lead, I was tasked with successfully overhauling the entire music licensing process for both the public and private sector. I also implemented a marketing strategy.
• Negotiated agreements with governments and schoolboards, and lead a small team to ensure compliance and correct remuneration to members
• Communicated SOCAN/Entandem’s vision through collaborating with key industries while forging relationships with their top leaders
• Conducted seminars for both music creators and users to better inform both sides of their rights and responsibilities in complicated copyright world

• Collecting all Media based royalties from Toronto to the Pacific Coast
• Accounts include Rogers, Shaw Cable, Shaw Direct, Sasktel, Jim Pattison
• Accounts earn over $60,000,000.00 annually for distribution to our members
• Responsible for licensing new radio stations, commercial TV stations, cable networks, pay audio and television and radio retransmission across Canada
• Helped develop processes for new BEST system implementation

• Processing payments for SOCAN members by receiving reports from foreign societies
• Ensuring the works used in film, television and radio are accurate and up to date
• Member of team that set SOCAN record for foreign royalties earned

• Creating full agreements between publishers and sub-publishers including all applicable works
• Forging relationships with every major label and smaller labels by obtaining up to date information to better serve their needs, these include: Universal, EMI, Sony, Warner and several others
• Liaising with ASCAP, BMI and SESAC to ensure publisher’s catalogue is accurate

• Assuming responsibility for all NLMP’s and continuing to perform extensive research to ensure royalties are paid correctly and in a timely manner
• Reduced a backlog of several months to where NLMP’s were processed the day after

• Processing online and paper NLMP’s and performing extensive research on venues, tariffs and setlists to ensure royalties are paid out in a timely and accurate manner
• Developing guidelines for new project of investigating backlog of unidentified concert works and verifying these works to distribute royalties in the six figure range
• Successfully completed year end, week-long project to distribute royalties for music at sporting events across Canada and distributing royalties of over $750,000.00

Works And New Media

• Thoroughly and effectively researched, identified, and verified registered and unregistered music works to ensure the copyright holders were accurately compensated. This included determining the correct share breakdown.
• Meticulously researching SOCAN databases as well as CIS-Net, ASCAP, BMI, PRS and other sources to make sure information is accurate and duplicates are merged to reflect all member requests
• Creating, modifying or terminating agreements to reflect up to date information submitted by members, while forging relationships with contacts at Sony, Universal, Kobalt, Warner and other publishing organizations

Bachelor'S Degree

Successful Business Negotiating Strategies For Managers

Strategic Marketing Management

Certificate, Business Analysis