PRS Foundation appoints chair and trustees

New music funding charity PRS Foundation has appointed former CEO of the Music Publishers Association Group of companies JANE DYBALL as its new chair.

Dyball is co-founder of the Primadonna Festival, a trustee of Suffolk Artlink, a mentor for tech music incubators including Abbey Road Red and a founding advisory board member for Music Tech UK. 

She takes up her new role in April following the end of her term as co-chair of Attitude is Everything.

“I’m really excited to be taking on this role in this, the 25th anniversary year of the PRS Foundation,” Dyball said.

“When the PRS Foundation was established in 2000 I was a board member of PRS for Music representing a major publisher, and somewhat sceptical about the need for a talent development agency when the industry is full of excellent A&R teams.

“But the industry has moved on and in a world where an act with 100,000 streams is just scratching the surface, PRS Foundation has built a 25 year proven track record in facilitating the development of new talent.”

Meanwhile, BRAHIM AIT BEN LARBI, principal legal counsel at Apple, JONATHAN JACKSON chief operating officer at Plimsoll Productions Ltd, and GRACE GOODWIN, founder of Gender Equality Networks in Europe, have been elected as Trustees to PRS Foundation’s board following a number of trustees completing their terms.