About
Creative Wealth.
A non-profit organization that holds the Creative Wealth Fund charter and works with regions to establish their own funds.
Creative Wealth is being formed in the United States.
Founders and board
MissionTo enable every region the access and infrastructure to permanently hold the value of its most sovereign resource, its culture, for the betterment of the communities that create it.
Derek Morrison
Founder and President
Derek Morrison is the author of The Missing Market for Creative Utility, the economic theory behind the Creative Wealth Fund model, and leads Creative Wealth as its President. He is also the founder and CEO of PNAQL. He was previously VP and General Manager of StockX for EMEA and Canada, and Global Managing Director of UNiDAYS, scaling international marketplaces across more than 30 markets.
John Rough
Co-founder, Brand and Communications
John Rough is an executive-level brand strategist and cultural partnerships professional. At Creative Wealth John leads the organization’s marketing and communications as well as designs each partner region’s Governance Establishment process. A co-founder of PNAQL and with cross-cultural leadership experience from his roles at altr_thelabel, EMPIRE, UnitedMasters/Translation and VICE.
Andrew Kelly
Co-founder, Partnerships and Regions
Andrew Kelly has spent his career building creative communities and creating opportunities for artists internationally. He is the founder of ITS FOR FRIENDS and a co-founder of Secret Walls. At Creative Wealth, Andrew leads partnerships and regional development, connecting creative communities with cultural institutions and commercial partners across the global network.
PNAQL
Co-founder
PNAQL is the market infrastructure every Creative Wealth Fund runs on: a capital market for creative work that lets funds offer open, listed instruments, so capital can flow into a region’s culture.
Miriam Makki
Board member
Miriam Makki is a lawyer and public policy advisor whose work spans IP policy and national economic development. She served as Senior Advisor to Australia’s Minister for Industry and Science, advising on IP and the A$15 billion National Reconstruction Fund, and later to the Minister for Home Affairs, whose portfolios included the Arts and Cyber Security. She sits on the board of the Australian Saudi Business Council & Forum and leads global public policy at Heidi.
Research
The model rests on The Missing Market for Creative Utility by Derek Morrison, an economic theory of why the value of creative work goes unpriced and what holding it would take.
Briefings
We host sessions with governments, cultural agencies, foundations and researchers, in confidence, on the model and on what establishing a fund would involve for their region.