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Head of ABC Music Publishing (AUS)  An experienced music lawyer and formerly at Simpsons Solicitors, Marianna has also held senior legal and business affairs roles at major record labels and music publishers including BMG Australia and BMG Music Publishing, SonyBMG Entertainment in New York, and EMI Music Australia. She was GM at Music Industry Piracy Investigations (MIPI) during 2009, and is currently Head of ABC Music Publishing and a... Read More →

Director, Ground Control Music (AUS) Rick has been managing Brisbane bands for over ten years and currently manages The Boat People, Dan Parsons, emma louise and Skinny Jean. He was a Q Music board member between 2006-2011, teaches copyright, publishing and entrepreneurialism at JMC Academy and in 2010 co-founded and ran the first Download program with Leanne De Souza, a six month course for emerging Queensland managers. He is a qualified lawyer... Read More →

Director of Native Tongue Publishing Chris is Managing Director of Native Tongue Music Publishing, an independent music publisher with offices in Melbourne, Auckland and London. Besides acquiring rights to the work of local songwriters, Native Tongue also administers the works of overseas writers and catalogues for Australia and New Zealand. Local signings include Parades, Wagons, Strange Talk, New Empire, Boy In A Box and Gossling, to name a... Read More →

In 2010, following roles as Head Of A&R EMI Music and Sony/ATV, Simon Moor opened the Australian office for Kobalt Music Group as Managing Director. Simon oversees Publishing, Label Services and Neighbouring Rights for AU/NZ markets. Simon works directly with Kobalt’s extensive roster of writers and catalogues including Max Martin, Dave Grohl, Stevie Nicks, Disney Music, Gotye (Ex-ANZ), Neil Finn, Future Classic (Flume), Sweat It Out (Rufus... Read More →

Director, Sugaroo! (USA) Michael Nieves is the President of Sugaroo!, a music licensing and management company that represents independent record labels, artists and music publishers for visual media licensing (film, TV, advertising, theatrical trailers, video games, etc). Michael is also the personal manager to Mark Olson (solo and in The Jayhawks), Sarah Borges, and Megan Hickey & The Last Town Chorus. Founded by Michael in January of... Read More →

Director of undercover tracks In 2004 Isabel Pappani established Undercover Tracks, an exclusive boutique music licensing agency specializing in placing Australian music into U.S. film and television productions. Based in Los Angeles, Pappani and her team have secured syncs for many artists, including Queensland locals like Powderfinger (Grey’s Anatomy), Hungry Kids of Hungary (Grey’s Anatomy, USA Network promos, Cougartown, Royal... Read More →