Mark Vermaat is VP of Business Strategy & Partnerships at Orfium, the global technology leader solving the entertainment industry’s biggest challenges around digital music and broadcast rights management. Mark is responsible for guiding the company’s growth, product development, and engagement with music rights holders such as publishers and record labels, with whom Orfium works to maximise the revenue they receive from the use of their music in user-generated content and across all forms of broadcast.

Carrying a breadth of experience in music licensing and industry-wide data exchange, Mark was formerly Head of Music at Endemol International, responsible for the licensing of music for the multi-platform entertainment content produced and distributed by the company, and sat on the board of the UK AV registration agency between 2009 and 2016, the hub for the collection and exchange of data identifications of film and TV productions.