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 (but don’t hold that against him), and has over 20 years of entrepreneurial business experience including founding his first venture the Glowzone product range in 1987.