Former SOCAN CEO Eric Baptiste launches new rights service company QwantumRights Solutions

 

By Emmanuel Legrand

Eric Baptiste, the former CEO of Canadian rights society SOCAN, is launching QwantumRights Solutions, a new company that has the ambition of “helping copyright managers achieve excellence by leveraging cost-effective, scalable, and adaptable copyright management and administration back office solutions, data management capabilities, and consulting and outsourcing services.”

  Baptiste (pictured, below) will serveas CEO of the Toronto-based company. Other co-founders include Janice Scott, formerly SOCAN's Vice President, Information Technology and Dataclef COO, who hold the position of COO, and Diana Petrucci, former CFO of SOCAN, who will hold the same role at QwantumRights, Gilles Daigle as Legal Adviser and Terry Boissonneault as CTO. 

  Scott said QRS’s mission is "to provide cost-effective, scalable, quality back-office, consulting and outsourcing services to our customers that allow them to better focus on their company’s prosperity and growth, with the end result of flowing more money into the pockets of their rights holders.”

Extensive knowledge and experience

  The new venture targets companies and organisations in the arts and entertainment industry, including music and book publishing, audio visual, graphic arts, and visual arts.

  QRS offers its clients three solutions: QwantumRights Montage (end-to-end back-office solution for local or worldwide rights management entities), QwantumRights Insight (multidisciplinary consultancy practice that provides expert advice and guidance on areas of international relations, finance, audit, business strategy and transformation, as well as technology strategy and planning), and QwantumRights Entrust (an outsourcing service that enables clients to assign operational functions such as finance, audit, international relations, and information technology).

  “QRS’s principals have extensive, firsthand, current knowledge and practical experience in the rights management industry that have allowed the company to hit the ground running with solutions that can be deployed quickly for customers anywhere in the world. We bring the resources, relationships, knowledge and access to tools and technology that can readily address our customers’ strategic and operational needs,” said Baptiste, who is the former Director General of the International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers(CISAC). Baptiste left SOCAN in April 2020.