Board and Staff

Jodie Ferneyhough brings years of knowledge and expertise to the always important and vital world of intellectual property. Ferneyhough spent ten years as the head of Universal Music Publishing Group, which included him leading the amalgamation of BMG Music Publishing Canada to UMPG Canada. He spent the previous five years at the helm of peermusic Canada. Throughout his career his artists have been nominated for or were awarded accolades from the Juno Awards, SOCAN Awards, Country Music Awards, Much Music Video Awards, Grammy Awards and Latin Grammy Awards. Jodie sits on the Board of Directors of CMRRA and is the President of the Canadian Music Publishers Association (CMPA). He is active in lobbying, copyright reform and monitoring ongoing entertainment industry developments on behalf of our clients and partners.

Catharine Saxberg has been VP, International Relations for SOCAN since January 2014. Prior to that, she was the executive director of the Canadian Music Publishers Association since May of 2005. She has spoken about music publishing, copyright and other music industry issues at events in North America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East.

Other music industry experience prior to CMPA includes two years as the executive director of the Radio Starmaker Fund and consulting projects for the Canadian Country Music Association.

Catharine’s experience before working primarily for the music industry was in content development, strategic planning, marketing, sales and research for the broadcast industry, where she worked in progressively senior positions for over twenty years for a number of major broadcasters. She has also worked as a media executive for a major international advertising agency, and taught at the Harris Institute of the Arts for fifteen years.

Catharine holds an undergraduate degree from Ryerson University in radio and television arts, an honours BA and a masters degree (SCL) in cultural history from the University of Toronto, and did her doctoral studies in cultural history at York University.