Clive Hodson (chair)

Perfect Pitch Publishing 

Clive is Founder/Managing Director of the Perth-based independent Full-Service Music Publisher Perfect Pitch Publishing. He is an APRA registered songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, senior music business lecturer and music teacher. An AMCOS Non-Executive Board Director, Non-Executive Board Director of AMPAL and Deputy Chair of AMPAL.

Clive is the only regionally based (Perth WA) music publisher currently sitting on the AMCOS/AMPAL boards.

Clive’s previous experience include senior director roles at PolyGram/Universal, ABC Music and Shock Music Publishing. He has previously served on the boards of PPCA, AIR and WAM (West Australian Music Industry Assoc)

Clive was a senior lecturer at AIM (Australian Institute of Music) - Music Publishing and International Music Marketing until relocating to Perth in 2019. He is a guest lecturer at WAAPA (Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts), and a regular facilitator, panellist, mentor at WAMcon, a major sponsor of WAM Song of the Year competition and an Australia Council peer assessor.

Clive holds a certificate of Education from the London School of Teachers (UNSW), is a registered Justice of the Peace in NSW and WA and a member of the Royal Association of Justices of Western Australia and the Institute of Community Directors Australia (AMICDA).

Wise Music Pty Ltd

Jane English has worked extensively in the Australasian music publishing business. Jane is currently Managing Director of Wise Music Pty Ltd. She has also worked for EMI MP Asia (Regional Director), BMG MP Asia Pacific (Vice-President), EMI MP Hong Kong (General Manager), Warner Bros MP Australia (General Manager), Warner Bros MP Asia (General Manager) and Rondor Music Australia (General Manager).  She has been on the Executive Committees of the Asian Music Publishers Association and the Hong Kong Music Publishers Association. Outside of music publishing, Jane has worked in the live music sector, primarily as Festival Director of Good Vibrations Festival and managing various venues, she has provided free legal advice to musicians and songwriters at the Arts Law Centre of Australia and assisted in establishing Support Act Limited. She holds an Honours degree in Law, an Arts degree and a graduate diploma in legal practice.

Jaime Gough

CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING ANZ

Jaime is Managing Director of independent music publisher Concord Music Publishing ANZ (formerly Native Tongue), overseeing offices in Melbourne, Sydney and Auckland.

Concord Music Publishing is a global, full-service, independent music publisher offering bespoke creative support from its A&R, Synchronization and Marketing teams and diligent administration by its in-house Copyright, Licensing, Income Tracking and Royalty departments.

Jaime is Chair of the Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society Limited (AMCOS), a Director of the Australasian Performing Right Association Limited (APRA) and a Director of the Australasian Music Publishers Association Limited (AMPAL).

Jaime has a double bachelor’s degree (Business Marketing & Management - Monash University) and worked in artist management at Mayday Management and music licensing at Mana Music before joining Native Tongue in 2005.

During his career, Jaime has represented a wide range of songwriters and catalogues including Marlon Williams, The Amity Affliction, Courtney Barnett, M-Phazes, Jon Hume, Stuart Crichton, Tia Gostelow, Don McGlashan, Aldous Harding, Luude, Roy Orbison, Elvis Presley, Prince, Spandau Ballet, Mark Ronson, Daft Punk, Pink Floyd, Rodgers & Hammerstein and Phil Collins.

Karen hamilton (Deputy Chair)

120 Publishing Pty Ltd

Karen has over 30 years’ experience in the industry across A&R, Copyright, Royalties & Licensing and is currently the General Manager at 120 Publishing.

Having previously worked at AMCOS, MMA Music, Mana Music and Warner Chappell, in 1998 she joined John Woodruff Management to work across recordings, publishing and management for Savage Garden, and a short time later partnered with John and Keith Welsh to form Rough Cut Music Publishing. Over the next decade the company signed and developed several prominent Australian artists including Evermore, Kisschasy, Trial Kennedy and The Butterfly Effect.

In 2011 she launched 120 Publishing for Ministry of Sound Australia (now TMRW Music). 120 is a full-service publisher with a special interest in working closely with dance & electronic music writers, producers and topliners, and a focus on setting up collaborations between domestic writers and international artists.

Karen is passionate about creating export opportunities for Australian songwriters. She currently sits on the AMCOS Board, is a judge for APRA’s Professional Development Awards and is also an active member of APRA’s CMAG Committee, working to implement Music Recognition Technology across nightclubs and festivals and advocating for the fair distribution of live performance income to Australian writers.

Peter Hebbes AM has over 40 years’ experience in all aspects of the music industry having headed up Festival Music Publishing before moving to MCA/Universal Music Publishing and in 2000 he set up his own company the Hebbes Music Group Pty. Ltd., which in 2003 was voted as the “Independent Music Publisher of the Year”. The company is now one of Australasia’s most active independent music publishing companies representing a cross section of Australian and international writers/performers.  Peter also acts as music consultant to the television, film and theatrical industry acting on behalf of producers, directors and production companies in the field of licensing and music rights. In addition, Peter is on the Board of the CMAA, the mechanical society AMCOS, the music publishers association AMPAL, is a past deputy chair of the performance society APRA, and was a member of the government Music Industry Advisory Council (MIAC), the Australian Music Centre (AMC) and AMPCOM. Peter was co-founder of the Golden Stave Foundation, a past director of Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy Association and is a past chairman and a current director of “Variety - the children’s charity”. In 2006 Peter was appointed as a member in the General Division of the Order of Australia (AM) in recognition of his contribution to the Australian music industry and his extensive charity work.

Simon Moor is the Managing Director of Kobalt Music Group APAC.

Simon established Kobalt Music Publishing in Australia and New Zealand in 2010; Now in 2022, the Kobalt roster includes songwriters and artists ranging from Cosmos Midnight, Flume (Future Classic), Dean Lewis, Genesis Owusu, Gotye, Tash Sultana, and Tim Minchin, to Rüfüs Du Sol, Sampa The Great and Spacey Jane, as well as many others.

Simon was also responsible for establishing both the AWAL Recorded Music services business and Kobalt’s neighbouring rights company. In 2016, Simon established Kobalt Music Publishing Asia in Hong Kong and played a key role in drafting and implementing business plans across the region.

Complementary to his role at Kobalt, Simon is currently a non-executive director of the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) and the Australasian Music Copyright Owners Society (AMCOS).

ART PHILLIPS

Adjunct Professor - MMusStud, FIML, FCFE, FCSR, FAIM

101 MUSIC PTY LTD

Art Phillips specializes in production music and is the owner & director of 101 Music Pty Ltd®, a production music library catalogue consisting of over 75 library album releases with independent sub-publishing distribution deals across 85 foreign territories: www.101.audio. 101 Music is also an APRA AMCOS supplier of production music and represents over 40 production music catalogues throughout Australasia and parts of S.E. Asia: https://search.101.audio/#/home

Phillips has renowned credentials as a music composer as well as a music publisher. He’s a two-time Emmy Award recipient for ‘Outstanding Music Composition in a Drama Series’, with over 45 years of international experience including 2000 hours of television scoring. Among his screen credits are these popular shows: the NBC daytime television series Santa Barbara, Australia’s hit series Neighbours, Outback House, Pirate Islands: The Lost Treasure of Fiji, Catalyst, The Secret Lives of Sleepwalkers, Made in China and Missing Persons Unit.

His production music has been used on television shows throughout the world including The Bachelor, Welcome to Chippendales, The Oprah Show, Celebrating Betty White: America’s Golden Girl (NBC), Survivor, 60 Minutes, The NBC Today Show, Dateline, Night Train, Hollywood Medium, Twisted Sister, Cold Case Files, and many more.

His commercial song repertoire as composer and music publisher includes the Minnie Riperton top 10 Billboard R&B single ‘Here We Go’, Teena Marie’s ‘Now That I have You’ (Motown), ‘Lazy Afternoon’ (performed and co-written with The Roots) – which is also used on The Jimmy Fallon Tonight Show (USA) as guest walk on music, and many other rap artist covers of his co-writes with Riperton/Rudolph.

Art has performed as guitarist and musical director on concert tours and record albums for Barry Manilow, Demis Roussos, Minnie Riperton, opened for George Benson, The Lettermen, Bill Cosby, The Carpenters NBC television specials, John Rowles, Dory Previn, Sally Kellerman (Hot Lips from Mash – the movie), Ricky May and Dinah Lee.

Art is the longest standing President of the Australian Guild of Screen Composers (AGSC), 2001 ~ 2008, and was Vice President from 1992 ~ 2000.

Phillips was the Chair of the Screen Music Awards from 1994 ~ 2008, and executive produced the APRA/AGSC Screen Music Awards in 2002 and 2003. He is on the Academic Board of AMPA (Academy of Music & Performing Arts) and was Deputy Chair of the Academic Board of AIM (the Australian Institute of Music) from 2016 ~ 2021.

He is also Chair of the Course Advisory Committee at Queen Anne School of Management (QASM), and on the Academic Senate of the Universal Business School (Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide).

Art also served as President and Chairman of The Italian Family History Group for Co.As.It. Australia from 2013 ~ 2016.

Phillips’ complete background can be referenced here: https://101.audio/bio-art-phillips/

Tim Prescott

Double Drummer Music

Tim is the founder and Managing Director of Double Drummer Music - an independent music publisher and record label based in Sydney.

He has worked in Australia and overseas, including as the Head of Australian Music for Polydor (PolyGram), Managing Director of BMG Australia/NZ,  Head of Asia Pacific for BMG (based in HK/Tokyo); and Chief Marketing Officer of BMG worldwide in New York, then becoming global CMO for the newly merged Sony/BMG. Tim returned to Australia and joined Alberts as CEO, before founding Double Drummer. Tim has worked closely with many Australian artists including The Cruel Sea, Megan Washington, Powderfinger, AC/DC, John Farnham, Custard, Underground Lovers, Natalie Imbruglia, You Am I , The Angels, Men At Work and recently with Greta Stanley, Dominic Breen and Cousin Tony's Brand New Firebird.  Tim’s Board experience includes as a director of APRA, AMCOS, and AMPAL, Regional director of the IFPI, (Asia Pacific); Vice Chairman of ARIA, a director of PPCA , and The NIDA FOUNDATION. 

Whilst in New York Tim was recognised as one of Australia's Top 100 Global expats by ADVANCE. He holds a Bachelor of Arts (Law / English / History) from ANU.

Damian Rinaldi

Alberts

Damian is the principal of Sonic Lawyers and Sonic Rights Management, specialising in music industry matters. He also serves his former employer Alberts in the global management of the AC/DC and Vanda, Young & Wright catalogues, and is Alberts’ representative on the AMPAL board. Prior to Alberts, Damian held senior executive positions at Sony Music in both Australia and the UK, amongst other corporate and law firm roles. As principal of Sonic Rights Management, Damian manages the estate of the late AC/DC frontman Bon Scott. He has previously served as President of the Copyright Society of Australia, on the boards of PPCA and WAM, and on the Copyright Committee of ARIA and Legal Sub-Committee of BPI. Damian volunteers as a panel lawyer for the Arts Law Centre and has been a writer member of APRA since 1992. Damian holds a Bachelor of Laws degree from UWA and a Master of Laws degree (specialising in Media, Communications & Information Technology Law) from UNSW.

Sony Music Publishing Australia

Damian is the Managing Director of Sony Music Publishing Australia.

He is a non-executive Director, and the Deputy Chair, of APRA, and a non-executive Director and former Chairperson of AMCOS.

Damian has been with Sony since the company re-started its publishing arm in 1992. Following the merger of Sony Music Publishing with EMI Music Publishing in 2012, he was appointed Managing Director of the combined entities. He began his music industry career in 1981 at CBS Records.

During his career at Sony, Damian has worked with many of Australia’s most important and successful writers/artists such as Midnight Oil, Tame Impala, Sarah Aarons, Paul Kelly, Cold Chisel, Gurrumul, Angus & Julia Stone, Silverchair, Paul Kelly, AC/DC, Thelma Plum, Sarah Blasko, 5 Seconds Of Summer, AB Original and Alex Hope as well as emerging stars of the future like King Stingray, May-A, Sycco, Electric Fields and Barkaa to name a few.

Briese abbott - alternate director

Kobalt music

Briese is the Head of Creative Services at Kobalt Music Publishing Australia, joining the company in 2017. Prior to Kobalt Briese spent ten years in artist management, six of those on the board of the Association of Artist Managers (AAM). She’s worked with artists such as Paul Kelly, Kate Miller-Heidke, The Drones, PVT, Cub Sport and founded management, PR and events companies. Briese got her start in music promoting live music events and hosting a community radio show.