David Alexander

Background

About David Alexander

David Alexander was recently promoted to Senior Vice-President of New Markets at Downtown Music Holdings. He is the Founder and Managing Director of Sheer Music Publishing (Pty) Ltd, the largest independent music publishing company on the African Continent. A serial entrepreneur David has started or invested in many companies in the music industry over the last 30 years and while the business of the music industry has been disrupted by technology David has managed to align himself with the 4th Industrial Revolution and keep his business interests relevant in the marketplace. David is a non-Executive Director of SAMRO (The South African Music Rights Organisation) as well as a the Chair of MPA-SA (the Music Publishers Association of South Africa) Sheer Publishing is very active on the African Continent and David has travelled to many sub-Saharan countries in search of new clients. David has given papers and served on panels at music industry conferences such as Midem (France) Canadian Music Week (Canada), African IP Forum (Tanzania), Salaam Music Expo (Senegal), Womex, Kenya Music Week and ONGEA (Kenya), NIMEX- the Nigerian International Music Expo (Nigeria), Porto Musicale (The Brazilian Music Exhibition) and the Wami Conference (Western Australian Music Industry) as well as at Moshito, Music Exchange, Music Imbizo in South Africa. At the Annual General Assembly (GA) of the International Confederation of Music Publishers (ICMP) held during Midem 2016 David was appointed to the Popular Music Bureaux which is a sub-Board of the ICMP. David is also on the Board of the IMPF (Independent Music Publishers Forum) which is a global organisation representing Independent Music Publishers.