Music Publishers Association chairman Chris Butler has revealed he is expecting to announce a successor to exiting chief executive Stephen Navin in the next fortnight.

Navin effectively signed off as chief executive at the organisation’s AGM in London today (Tuesday) ahead of going to Oxford University this October to read history.

Butler told the AGM that the “new-look” MPA needed to be run “efficiently and effectively” with the business now comprising three distinct operating areas: the trade association, its ownership ...