Hein van der Ree, former chairman of FastTrack and CEO of the Dutch collecting society Buma/Stemra, has joined Brett Gurewitz and Lionel Conway as a partner in their music publishing enterprise, Mothership Music Publishing.

Van der Ree brings international experience to Mothership, the independent music publishing company launched three years ago that now represents Tom Waits, Bad Religion, Andy Shauf, Son Little, Jesca Hoop, Autolux and others.

"The position of songwriters is always fragile and needs to be protected vigorously,” Van der Ree. “Mothership’s set-up is the perfect incubator to develop songwriters and artists." He added, "I will now use my experience to further the global careers of the songwriters and artists signed to Mothership.”