Scott Farrant
CEO, Musaxia (consulting)
Scott Farrant is a music industry veteran with 40 years of experience across major and independent music publishers, as well as CMOs. His background includes foundational roles at PRS, EMI, and BMG, followed by executive positions at Palan Music, STIM, KSTAR, AMRA, and Kobalt Music. His scope of expertise ranges from high-level strategy, licensing, and operations to sample clearance and sync.
In addition to his corporate leadership, Scott has been deeply involved in global industry governance and technical standards. He served as vice-chair at ICMP—where he was also founder-chair of the Metadata Expert Group—and was a long-term board member of both IMPA and the MPA. He also founded and co-chaired the Steering Committee for the Technical Online Working Group for Europe.
In 2025, Scott founded Musaxia, an independent music consultancy offering strategic advisory services and deep domain expertise to music rights holders and music tech companies.
Alongside running Musaxia, Scott currently chairs the UK Government IPO Metadata Technical Solutions Group (TSG) and contributes to key international initiatives, including the EU Copyright Infrastructure Task Force, CreditsDue, WIPO’s AI Infrastructure Interchange Technical Exchange Network (AIII TEN) and promoting new AI standards such as C2PA.
Dedicated to building a fairer, future-focused music ecosystem, Scott remains an active songwriter and creates scrap metal sculptures in his spare time.