We partner with the World’s leading brands in Film, Music and Gaming to create beautiful products and record performing retail experiences.
Face the Music provides product development and retail solutions to the Music, Film and Gaming sectors.
Acting as brand guardian and franchise partner, FTM is in a unique position to facilitate licensing deals and product strategies that include, design and vision, trends and collaborations, product development, supply chain and distribution.
The Company operates globally, utilising their vast network of partners to also produce merchandise solutions, both physical and digital, for live and touring productions, sourcing product, merchandising, buying and manufacturing, through to and pre/post show management and most importantly, the retail and sales execution.
Jonathan Sands
Jonathan is an entrepreneur who puts creativity at the heart of everything that he produces. As a trained fine art photographer, he began his life as a commercial photographer at Elstree Film Studios before acquiring Weird and Wonderful, a prop hire company servicing the film industry with unusual set pieces, furniture artefacts.
Jonathan has over 30 years’ experience producing and operating customer-based experiences, including themed attractions, museums, exhibitions and retail on an International level.
He also has extensive experience in developing IP and licences with music, film and cultural institutions, having been involved with some of the largest brands and franchises in the business including Star Wars, James Bond and Harry Potter.
Founder and CEO of the London Film Museum.
Co-Founder and CEO of the Platform 9 ¾ Group (The official Harry Potter Shops including The Cursed Child theatres) London, London Airports, New York, Melbourne, San Francisco.
Jonathan oversaw the sale of his business to Warner Bros. Studios in 2018.
Lauren Gaffan
Lauren is a product designer and developer, managing the teams of designers in every discipline from brand, characterisation, product conceptualisation, sampling and manufacturing.
Having worked for the Harry Potter franchise for the last 10 years, Lauren was instrumental in the integration of thousands of products during the time that the business grew internationally.
Lauren also worked on the James Bond franchise and was instrumental during the building of the 007 store online.
