BIG SOUND 2010 will be held from the 8th to 10th of September 2010 in Australia's only live music precinct Fortitude Valley Brisbane.
Glenn Wheatley
Position: CEO Organisation: Talentworks
Country: AUS
Glenn Wheatley’s 40 year career in the entertainment industry is centred around contemporary music. His business interests have expanded to encompass sport, film, television, radio, mobile and internet.
Born in Brisbane in 1948, Glenn’s career commenced as the bass player for the Masters Apprentices, a band that had many top ten hits in Australia during the late ‘60s and early ‘70s. This ultimately lead to roles in personal management, music publishing and recording, event management and promotion. Among the artists managed at the time were the New Seekers, who were achieving major international success.
In 1973, Glenn moved to Los Angeles and in the subsequent two years his experience included co-ordinating three concerts for the 1973 Presidential Inaugural celebrations at the JFK Centre in Washington D.C. for President Nixon, and co-ordination of the Michael Jackson program at the 45th Academy Awards.
In 1975, Glenn returned to Australia to form and manage Little River Band, who became the first Australian based band to achieve multi-platinum record sales in the U.S. Little River Band went on to sell over 25 million albums worldwide.
Glenn has played a pivotal role in the Australian contemporary music business, managing and promoting Australian artists locally and overseas including John Farnham, Australian Crawl, Ross Wilson, Pseudo Echo and Delta Goodrem.
In 1986, his record label Wheatley Records produced Farnham’s album Whispering Jack, which remains Australia’s biggest selling album by a local artist. Delta Goodrem's debut album Innocent Eyes is Australia's second highest selling album by an Australian artist giving Glenn the honour of the two highest selling Australian albums.
A direct involvement in radio started in 1980 when he was a founding director of Melbourne based EON-FM (now 3MMM FM). EON FM was the first commercial FM radio station to go to air in Australia.
In 1987 he negotiated a series of acquisitions which resulted in the amalgamation of Wheatley Communications into Hoyts Media.
Glenn played an integral role in the formation of the national Triple M FM radio network.
From 1987 to 1989 he was managing director of the publicly listed Hoyts Media before the sale of the Triple M network into Austereo.
In 1990 he amalgamated his sporting division, Wheatley Sport, with Advantage International and built up a superlative talent base including golfers Ian Baker-Finch and Wayne Grady; tennis players John Alexander, John Fitzgerald and John Frawley; cricketer Simon O’Donnell; racing legend Peter Brock and footballer Paul Salmon.
Glenn has been a recipient of the Advance Australia Award for Outstanding Contribution in the Entertainment Industry and the Business Review Weekly Australia’s Business Award for Marketing. He has been a director and part owner of the Sydney Swans Football Club and a board member of AUSMUSIC, Tourism Task Force, the AIDS Trust of Australia and a Council Member for Screen Sound Australia (formally the National Sound and Film Archive). In 1999 Glenn was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame (Masters Apprentices).
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