2012 Speakers

Mark Poston

Position: Chairman & Senior Vice President Marketing, Australasia

Organisation: EMI Music Australia

Web: www.theinsoundfromwayout.com

Country: AUS

Mark's passion is music - so much so it's likely to be found in his DNA one day. Mark has worked in music since 1989, in a number of roles from running a record store to running a record label. At Sony and BMG in the 90’s he was a founding member of the ARIA Club Chart as well as starting Australia’s first major label street teams. By the time he turned 30 he was Head of Capitol Records at EMI Australia working with artists such as Silverchair, Coldplay, Jet, Keith Urban, Paul Mac, Robbie Williams, The Living End, Kasey Chambers, John Williamson, The Finn Brothers and Gorillaz amongst others.

In 2005, he was promoted to Director, Global Marketing for EMI based in London. By 2007, Mark was Director of EMI UK frontline label Angel Music Group/Charisma. In August 2008, he returned to Australia as Chairman and Senior Vice President of Marketing for EMI Australasia, based in Sydney and became a board member of both ARIA and PPCA. In December 2009 he was the only music executive to be named in Media Week’s ‘Top 30 Most Influential Media People’ list.

Under his tenure EMI has scored consecutive ARIA Albums Of The Year for Empire Of The Sun and for Angus & Julia Stone in 2010 and 2011, as well as striking maverick deals in the digital & new business space such as AAPT and Samsung. He recently appointed award-winning Producer Scott Horscroft to head up the company’s A & R division and after 22 years in North Sydney, moved the company’s H.Q. to the creative hub of Surry Hills.

He never wants to become cynical or jaded, and could do with 30 hours in the day instead of the average 24.