PTR Strategic was set up in 2021 by Charlie Phillips to offer specialist advisory services to music industry stakeholders around the world.
Charlie is an England & Wales qualified solicitor (SRA number 819455). He is a recognised expert on the interaction between music rights and data in complex cross border contexts.
Financial and tax related expertise is provided by PTR Strategic’s Chief Finance Officer Indre Phillips. Indre is a dual qualified ACCA Chartered Accountant and CTA Chartered Tax Advisor.
PTR Strategic’s clients include major and independent record labels, collecting societies, trade bodies, recording artists, law firms and professional service providers.
Charlie recently acted as interim CEO of the Ivors Academy, the UK’s association for songwriters and composers where he continues to act in an advisory capacity.
Before the Ivors, Charlie spent a decade representing the independent recording sector at industry level, running the global independent trade association Worldwide Independent Network (WIN). Prior to running WIN, Charlie was Director of Legal Affairs at the UK’s Association of Independent Music (AIM), and before this was legal adviser at the international recording industry association IFPI.
Charlie’s early career was in broadcast and digital media, with management roles at Napster and Capital Radio.
He started his music career as a recording studio engineer, working with notable artists including Radiohead on the location recording of their ‘Kid A’ and ‘Amnesiac’ albums.
He is a published author on legal professional issues, with four editions of his career guide ‘Working In Law’ (Crimson Publishing) available. He is a guest lecturer at Warwick University’s Centre for Cultural and Media Policy Studies, teaching modules on their ‘Managing Intellectual Property’ Masters Degree course.
Charlie has a degree from Oxford University in Egyptology and Akkadian, and an MA in Middle East Historiography with Anthropology and Arabic from SOAS (University of London).
He is also a certified life coach and careers counsellor.