Jez Bell has over 30 years of experience in the music industry and has been PPL’s Chief Licensing Officer since 2015. He leads PPL’s licensing strategy and negotiations with major partners.
Before joining PPL, Jez was Chief Executive of rara Media Group Limited, which operated rara.com, an on-demand music streaming service operating in 31 countries across Europe, the Americas and Asia Pacific. Leading rara, Jez launched Europe’s first fully on-demand direct to car music streaming service in partnership with BMW.
Before that, he was Chief Content Officer at Omnifone, a B2B provider of music streaming services for consumer electronics vendors, ISPs, automotive and mobile companies. Jez has also held several executive roles at PRSforMusic, including leading PRS and MCPS’ online, broadcast and mechanical licensing.