Catherine Jones is a highly experienced music rights specialist with close to 30 years of experience in the Canadian Music Industry. Catherine is knowledgeable in all areas of music rights, publishing, royalties, unions and guilds, and creative. After spending 20 years at Universal Music Canada where she started the licensing division, Catherine moved to Bell Media Inc. as the Director of Music Services and was responsible for overseeing the licensing and reporting teams along with management of their in-house music library and music commissioning.  Catherine oversaw the creation of numerous theme packages including The Social, Daily Planet, CFL on TSN, and more.  Currently, Catherine is the Vice President of CONNECT Music Licensing, a member-based collective management organization that administers blanket licenses in Canada for the reproduction of sound recordings, and the reproduction and broadcast of music videos on behalf of the copyright owners.