Rob Gruschke

VP Global Collective Rights, Beggars Group 

Rob Gruschke started working in the music business 30 years ago. In 2001 he joined the Beggars Group. After running the Beggars Group in the Benelux for nearly 10 years his focus shifted to the international role of collecting neighbouring rights. Collecting globally public performance and Broadcast income for the Beggars Group mainly through direct memberships and trying to establish a good working relation with International MLCs became a full time occupation. 

As a member of the Supervisory Board of SENA (The Netherlands), a Board member of the local collecting society in Belgium and a current PPL Director and VPL Director, Rob has a wide experience concerning the treatment of neighbouring rights abroad. Rob is also a Director at RDx (Repertoire Data Exchange), the one-stop-shop for registering Metadata for MLCs. Rob has also been involved in the Finance committee at PPL and is still on the PPL Distribution committee and is active in DDEX RDR working group and Impala and WIN Performance Rights committees.