One Media iP Group Plc announced that the Company has incorporated a new subsidiary, TCAT Limited, and appointed an experienced management team for its Technical Copyright Analysis Tool (“TCAT”). To enhance and scale TCAT for wider use across the industry and other markets, the Company has appointed an accomplished management team to operate the subsidiary, led by Dr. Ed Vernon OBE, Strategic Adviser to BT Ireland, a Foundation Board Trustee of Queen’s University, a Belfast Harbour Commissioner, and adviser to a number of technology businesses. Ed will be appointed Non-executive Chairman and holds 8% of shares in TCAT Limited under a JV deal. Ed will be joined on the Board of TCAT Limited by Robin Abeyesinhe as Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer, who has over 30 years’ public and private European finance experience. Michael Infante, Chief Executive Officer of One Media iP, and Alice Dyson Jones, Chief Operating Officer of One Media iP and Director of the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), will also join TCAT Limited’s Board. Dr. Benoit Hudza, who currently leads a team of engineers, data scientists and researchers to bring Artificial Intelligence to cloud operations, has been appointed as an adviser to the Board of TCAT Limited.  The senior management team will consist of: Gareth Waller as Chief Technology Officer. Gareth has significant experience developing highly scalable customer engagement platforms for the retail sector. Kevin King is based in New York USA (the focus of TCAT’s client list) and as Head of International Sales will lead the sales initiative for TCAT. His experience in all social music destinations and his previous work with major record labels, digital distributors and leading digital streaming sites is important to the marketing of the service.  Giuseppe Malavolta, Dr Mahroo Rockni and Mr. Philip Miles, all highly experienced software developers who have been integral to TCAT’s development to date, will also take up positions in TCAT Limited. The team, now consisting of a number of Big Data technology industry professionals, will be expanded in due course to provide the expertise required to grow the platform and develop new initiatives and tools in music anti-piracy, digital music fingerprinting and music data analysis. Michael Infante, Chief Executive Officer of One Media iP, commented: “After four years of developing and growing TCAT’s capabilities in-house, the Board has identified the need for TCAT to operate as an independent entity within the Group in order to realise its full potential.