Jobs of Tomorrow: How songtrust's DewayneEctor recovers royalties for artists
’s own admission, explaining his job is “difficult and boring.” He isn’t wrong -- not on the first point, anyway. As Songtrust’s global head of society relations, a newly created position, Ector has one of the least glamorous but most crucial roles in the music industry. Since March, he has managed the Downtown-owned digital rights company’s relationships with over 40 collection societies around the world on behalf of its more than 200,000 songwriters and 26,000 publishers.
London-based Ector, 40, has extensive experience in the royalty-collection realm. He joined Songtrust after nearly four years at Kobalt’s AMRA Music running the global digital-music collection society’s international operations, with eight years at PRS for Music before that -- during which time he also earned a law degree from Birkbeck, University of London.
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