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Australia

Melbourne, Vic, Au

I work with marketing, digital and publicity teams across the APAC region and focus on conceptualising, developing, and executing best in class integrated marketing programs to drive ticket sales, support enhanced fan experiences, and showcase the Live Nation brand and value propositions for our APAC touring. The position serves as the regional marketing resource and centre of excellence for our network of offices and our major tours across the region.

Melbourne, Vic, Au

As the Head of Tour marketing for Live Nation Australia and New Zealand, I lead a team whose core function is to execute best in class marketing campaigns in support of Live Nation tours across music, comedy and family entertainment categories. It is essential that I have great relationships across the spectrum of the industry from talent, agents, ticketing agents, venue operators, media, labels, artist management, publicists and promoters in order to develop new marketing strategies that best serve our clients and fans. I am responsible for revamping the overall marketing strategy with a focus on data and digital.

Sydney, New South Wales, Au

As a Marketing Director at Universal Music Australia, I was responsible for developing and executing marketing campaigns for projects across both domestic and international repertoire. In this role, it was essential to have an excellent understanding of digital distribution networks, the Australian and global media landscape, and the function that content plays within these.Achievements: Developed innovative and digital-first strategies to deliver number one albums and singles for artists such as Tame Impala, Taylor Swift, The Rolling Stones, U2 and Ellie Goulding.

New York, Ny, Us

As Head of Digital Sales at Kobalt Label Services/AWAL responsible for creating and executing global sales and marketing strategies for our network of artists and label partners. I was also responsible for shaping all new commercial deals. Kobalt Label Services is a next-generation service provider to recording artists and record labels, and part of the Kobalt Music Group, one of the world's most prominent music rights management businesses.Achievements: Setting up Kobalt Label Services global digital sales team & distribution partners; 3 top 3 albums in the UK; multiple global chart successes.

At Domino Records, I oversaw the label's digital sales initiatives - managing key partnerships with UK and international digital music services. In this role, it was essential that I had a great understanding of the digital music ecosystem. It was my responsibility to position the label so that it could benefit from evolution in the marketplace and find the best opportunities for Domino artists.Achievements: Established the digital sales team at Domino Records with international digital partners; completely overhauled Domino's digital supply chain and production process; conducted a global review of distribution partners in order to shape a more efficient strategy.

Santa Monica, California, Us

Working in the central digital team at Universal Music UK my role was very broad. On the one hand, I identified and developed new commercial relationships in order to find opportunities in the digital space, whilst working with existing business partners to ensure that we were both fully leveraging the relationship.Achievements: Launched global first virtual goods store on Sony Playstation; helped to shape Universal Music's social gaming strategy; responsible for strategic UK relationships across streaming platforms.

Santa Monica, California, Us

At Universal Music Australia I was promoted from Digital Key Relationship Manager, to Senior Digital Key Relationship Manager, and finally to lead the team as Digital Sales Manager. It was my responsibility to manage the digital accounts team and to plan and execute the digital sales strategy for all releases. I provided input, direction and communication to the senior management team and shaped the digital sales strategy.Achievements: Record 30% year-on-year digital growth; maintained #1 digital sales market share for the label group; responsible for hitting a multi-million dollar digital sales budget.

As the Director of Content & Editorial for leading mobile technology company MIA I managed the content team and was the key label contact for licensing music downloads for sale via multiple retail branded download stores such as Ministry Of Sound, MTV, FHM, Virgin, Big Day Out, Target and K-Mart. Key to this role was to liaise with major stakeholders to ensure that all sales channels and opportunities were maximised.

I have also worked as a freelance music and lifestyle journalist - in the past 10 years I have interviewed the likes of Lily Allen, Phoenix and Robbie Williams for Oyster, EMI and Groupie Magazine. I have been employed to write mobile specific editorial for Ministry Of Sound and Telstra.

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