The MLC Promotes Five Leaders To Enhance Resources & Operations

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Pictured (L–R, top row): Ellen Truley, Lindsey Major and Andrew Mitchell; (L–R, bottom row): Joya Carmichael and Rick Marshall

The Mechanical Licensing Collective (The MLC) has promoted five existing leaders in an effort to enhance its tools, resources and operations for the benefit of its members and other stakeholders.

Since before The MLC began full operations, Ellen Truley has led outreach and educational activities that seek to reach rightsholders wherever they are located, while also strengthening partnerships and industry relations. To further these endeavors, she has been elevated to Chief Marketing & External Affairs Officer and will continue to develop and execute The MLC’s overall marketing strategy and oversee the organization’s advertising, marketing and communications efforts as well as coordinate its educational activities, songwriter relations, industry partnerships, government relations and other external affairs.

Lindsey Major, who created and has since managed The MLC’s Support Team, has risen to Chief Member Experience Officer. In her new role, she will be responsible for designing, implementing and coordinating the delivery of world-class experiences to the organization’s membership as well as the development and enhancement of its tools that enable members to register works, claim their shares of previously-registered works, submit proposed matches of their works to unmatched usage and more.

Having led The MLC’s matching efforts since the beginning, Andrew Mitchell has been promoted to Chief Analytics & Automation Officer. In this new position, he will continue to oversee matching, including the company’s internal Matching Team and its recently-announced Supplemental Matching Vendor Network, while designing, developing and implementing new strategies for harnessing data, leading fraud prevention efforts and developing new ways to automate The MLC’s internal business processes.

Joya Carmichael has spearheaded the organization’s attempts to create, document and manage the end-to-end royalty distribution process starting with the very first monthly royalty distribution. To build upon that work, she has been elevated to Chief Administrative Officer and will continue to lead the team that coordinates and manages The MLC’s end-to-end royalty distribution process, while expanding her remit to manage other key internal processes and lead various process documentation and process improvement initiatives for the company.

Rick Marshall has worked to ensure The MLC’s compliance with its statutory and regulatory obligations since joining the organization in 2021 in addition to managing its interactions with DSPs and the blanket compulsory licensing process. Having risen to General Counsel earlier this summer, he now leads The MLC’s in-house legal team and coordinates all of the organization’s legal matters, including its interactions with the U.S. Copyright Office, the conduct of its important enforcement obligations under the Music Modernization Act (MMA), the management of any pending litigations as well as the provision of legal advice and guidance to the rest of The MLC’s team.

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