Sarah Liversedge is co-founder and Managing Director of the award winning and independent UK music publishing company, BDi Music - a sister company to Bucks Music Group.
 
Sarah studied music composition at Bath Spa University acquiring a First Class BA Honours degree. She then went on to study Stage Management at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. Sarah’s TV media career kicked off as a Floor Manager for UK Television. She then side-stepped into a TV Researcher role for BBC TV and after 2 years in this position was promoted to Programme Liaison Executive for BBCWW Music, the commercial arm of the BBC. In 2000, Sarah was appointed Deputy Head of Music Publishing at BBC WW Music. In this role, Sarah played a major part in developing and expanding what became a multimillion pound business and one of the leading media music publishing companies in the UK.

BDi Music was founded in 2004, since inception BDi has been awarded 2 Ivor Novello Awards, 3 RTS Awards and 1 Bafta. BDi co-publishes Ed Sheeran’s No.1 album, + , produced and co-written by Jake Gosling.

Sarah is also co-founder of The Movement, a business and creative collaboration which nurtures and develops unbeatable, innovative and creative urban forces of young and talented producers and songwriters: www.themovement.uk.com.  She has been a member of the PRS Media Committee for the last 7 years and she is also a Board Director for Heart 'n Soul, one of the UK's leading arts organisations. Led by artists with learning disabilities, they create original music, theatre, dance, digital art, films, visual arts, clubs and participatory cultural events, which give a voice to learning disability culture.

Sarah's extensive experience within the music and media industry has provided her with strong relations in Film, TV and Radio production companies and with producers, directors, agents, managers, publishers, labels, media composers and songwriters.

Simon Platz is Managing Director of Bucks Music Group Ltd and has 20 years of experience in international music publishing. Simon joined the family firm of Essex Music in 1984. Essex was founded by Howie Richmond (US) and Simon’s father David in the 1950’s. The Essex catalogue of titles by the Rolling Stone, David Bowie, Marc Bolan and Joe Cocker form the backbone to Bucks Music Group’s current operation. Essex was demerged soon after Simon joined and Bucks Music became the Platz company moving forward. Bucks Music now has wholly owned companies throughout the world and has a varied roster of composers covering all types of music genre from Drum and Bass to Jazz, and Media music. Bucks’ recent Ivor Novello successes include: Beautiful Liar by Amanda Ghost & Beyonce; You’re Beautiful by Amanda Ghost, Sacha Skarbek & James Blunt; and Elizabeth by Rob Lane.

Simon expanded the Bucks business specifically in the areas of television and film music rights. Simon is a founding member of the PRS Media committee, he is on the board of the Music Publishers Association and he is a board Director for both PRS and MCPS.