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Phil Hughes

Work Department

Intellectual Property

Position

Partner

Career

Phil is a qualified IP & Entertainment Lawyer; Experienced COO; Brand Founder; Expert in all things creator talent, influencer and social; Founder & CEO to Digital Creator Association.

Having spent seven years at a leading media agency (MGOMD) in Account Director roles, Phil retrained as a media and entertainment lawyer specialising in intellectual property for talent, distributors and brands: from publishing, to film, music and TV, licensing, distribution and more. He trained at and then and qualified into Lewis Silkin LLP in 2011.

With a wealth of experience within the talent, social media, entertainment and advertising industries, Phil joined Gleam Futures in November 2014 as Legal, Strategy and Business Affairs Director and later became COO, where he was instrumental in Gleam’s dynamic growth and eventual sale to Dentsu Inc. As well as developing and building successful brands with some of the world’s best digital-first talent, as the strategic, commercial, financial and global operations lead, Phil managed multiple successful teams across Gleam’s three territories as it went from a small start-up to an international multi-million EBIT business.

Phil left Gleam Futures in 2021 following its successful sale and as well as providing legal and advisory services to businesses in the creator economy he has co-founded multiple digital creator led brands in the beauty and fashion industries, whilst founding and being CEO of the UK’s only creator focused trade body, The Digital Creator Association.