Board of Directors

Bill Cullen - Chairperson

Bill is a director of One Louder Entertainment, the management home to End Of Fashion, Paul Kelly, Sarah Blasko, The Drones and Kate Miller- Heidke.

He has been involved in the music business since leaving school, and did a long stretch working with Grant Thomas Management, working with acts such as Crowded House and The Rockmelons.

A five year stint in London followed, where he worked with the legendary Pete Jenner (manager of Pink Floyd, The Clash, Billy Bragg etc), before going on to co-manage New Zealand act OMC (How Bizarre) who went on to a number one single and gold album in the US.

He returned to   Australia in 1999, and established One Louder, and has since had platinum plus success with Alex Lloyd, George and Amiel.  He is also a Director of the PPCA.

Kim Thomas - Vice-Chairperson

Kim Thomas has been managing The Whitlams for the last 12 years. During that time the band have played over 1500 shows and have had 3 multi-platinum & 2 gold albums. The album ‘Eternal Nightcap’ was also the biggest selling independent album in Australian history.

Kim Thomas is the director of Black Yak Management and has also been co-managing Magic Dirt successfully for the past 4 years. Kim also manages very promising young band Lowrider.

In the late 1980’s Kim also managed the careers of Crash Politics and Porcelain Bus and more recently Preshrunk, Nitocris & iOTA.

On an international level Kim’s artists have been released in or toured Ireland, England, France, Germany, Poland, Canada, America & Japan.

Denny Burgess - Treasurer

Denny Burgess is a singer/bass player from Australian bands that include The Throb, Masters Apprentices, The Whispers, His Majesty, and BurgessBurgess. He spent 11 years living in London, in a variety of UK based bands such as Ginger, the George Hatcher Band and Bombshell.

He now heads Denny Burgess Management, looking after former Idols Rebecca LaVauney and Peter Ryan, as well as BurgessBurgess.

Denny is currently Chairman of the ‘Australian Songwriters Association’ (ASA), and Chairman of the ‘Australian Songwriters Official National Group’ (ASONG). He is also an active member of both the ‘Association of Independent Record Labels’ (AIR), and music industry benevolent group ‘Support Act Limited’ (SAL).

Under the auspices of Burgess Ventures he owns and runs Event Management company A Red Letter Day and Regal Records, an independent label that explored the South-East Asian market in the 90’s, and now releases young original bands.

He also has sporting and corporate interests as a Director of Wests Tigers Rugby League Football Club, Wests Ashfield Leagues, and Western Suburbs District Rugby League Football Club. Denny also recently joined the Board of Ronald McDonald House Charities.

Michael McMartin - International Representative

Started Trafalgar Records in 1971, recording and publishing artists as diverse as Radio Birdman, Robyn Archer, 1927, Gyan and may others. In 1985 he formed Melody Management and signed as his first clients the Hoodoo Gurus, whom he manages to this day. As well as representing a number of artists and bands who have performed and released albums throughout the world Michael manages producers including his long time associate at Trafalgar, Charles Fisher (1927, Savage Garden, Hoodoo Gurus etc), Tim Whitten (Powderfinger etc) and Wayne Connolly (You Am I, Josh Pike etc.)

Michael was a founding member of the Music Managers’ Forum in Australia and was made an Honorary Lifetime member of the MMF (Australia) in 2002 for his contribution to management. He served as Chairman and then Executive Director of the International  Music Managers’ Forum (IMMF), the umbrella organisation for managers from some 14 countries. He is presently vice chairman with responsibility for Asia/Africa.

In 2007 he helped found the AAM, the Association of Artist Managers and in 2008 was elected to its first board of Directors.

Over the years he has been invited to work with the music industry in China and Egypt, has spoken at many international events and forums in Canada, the US, the UK, Europe and Brazil plus at countless local forums in Australia.

At the 2007 APRA Awards Michael was presented with the Ted Albert Award for his contribution to Australian Music.

He is a board member of Support Act, a music industry benevolent organisation, sat on the Create Australia panel on their program for the educational standards relating to the music industry and is a member of the mediation association  LEADR.

Gregg Donovan

For 18 years Gregg Donovan has played an incredibly active role in the Australian Music industry taking on number of roles in the live arena from driver to promoter rep, tour manager to video producer for a who’s who of local and international artists including; Fugazi, Ben Lee, Pavement, Deftones, Eddie Vedder, Shawn Mullins, The Living End, At The Drive In, Happy Mondays Mix Master Mike and DJ Spooky.  His reputation earned him the award for Best Tour Manager in 1999 and 2000 at the Australian Live Music Awards.

Gregg is presently Co- Owner/Director of Wonderlick Entertainment (Label, Publishing, Merch & Management) and managers the careers of Grinspoon, Josh Pyke, Airbourne and Jackson McLaren.