Music video licensing company VPL has appointed Geoff Kempin as its new chairman, following the retirement of Fran Nevrkla at the end of 2015. Kempin has been a director of VPL since its inception in 1983.

In the late ‘80s he was influential in negotiating the first agreement with MCPS for the rate of mechanical payment for visual formats. He later led negotiations on behalf of the UK record industry as chairman of the IFPI Music Video Committee, which resulted ...