Peter Chellew (Chair)

• Executive Officer, The Push Inc. 7 years
• Previously General Manager PBS Radio & FBi Radio (Sydney)
• Previously Artistic Director Melbourne Fringe

Andrew Walker (Vice President)

• Artist Manager: Joe Camilleri and Stephen Cummings
• Co-owner: Head Records
• Treasurer: Australian Independent Record Labels Association
• Board member: Melbourne Jazz Fringe Festival, 4 years
• Owner: Garden of Unearthly Delights (Adelaide Fringe Festival)
• Co-owner: Buxton Walker – management and publicity company
• Co-owner Buxstock Comedy Management

Maria Amato (Treasurer)

Maria Amato is an accounting professional with over 20 years experience in the entertainment industry.
Maria is the principal of Results Management, a company she setup in 1994 to provide consultancy services to a broad range of clients. Maria also provides forensic accounting services and has successfully delivered innovative solutions to improve business processes, cut costs and increase profitability.
She is the CFO for AIR (Australian Independent Record Labels Association), Media Arts Lawyers, and Rubber Music, and CEO of MIFF (Melbourne International Film Festival).

Andrew Fuller (Secretary)

Andrew Fuller is an experienced entertainment & commercial lawyer and works with musicians, labels, publishers, film studios and fashion clients.  He is a passionate musician, having performed and recorded with a number of independent bands in Australia and overseas.  Andrew  also writes arts grants for clients in the creative industries and is a keen gardener. 

Jon Perring

• Co–owner venues Bar Open, Pony, Yah Yah’s and The Tote Hotel
• Fair Go 4 Live Music representative and signatory in the Live Music Accord
• Participant in the Live Music Taskforce
• Former member of City of Yarra Arts Advisory Committee
• Musician

Sophia Brous

• Musician / Singer-songwriter
• Program Director -  Melbourne International Jazz Festival 2008-2011
• Curator Contemporary Music - Adelaide Festival of the Arts.
• Broadcaster on Triple R FM - 2007-2010

Leigh Treweek

Leigh Treweek is National Marketing Director and Owner of Street Press Australia.
With 15 years’ experience in the music and publishing industries, Leigh oversees one of Australia largest multi-platform music media companies in Australia.
As Marketing Director at Street Press Australia, Leigh forged strong relationships with venues, record labels and artist management. He has since gone on to work on major campaigns assisting national and international brands synch their products to music. Recently SPA launched into new media creating Australia first iPad only lifestyle and entertainment magazine that was recently voted as one of the top 20 magazine iPad apps in the world from a list of 5,000. The national stable of street press has also been dominating the magazine app charts since their launch.
Leigh is a regular panellist for The Seed and strongly believes that the support of grassroots music is the cornerstone of a strong music industry.

Karl Richter

Karl Richter is director of Level Two Music, a music company with offices in Melbourne, Sydney and Auckland. Level Two’s music supervision work includes film and TV across all networks.