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Sue Itzstein

General Manager | Indigenous Australia | Lifestyle Entertainment

Manager of Indigenous Australia Pty Lts and based in Sydney, Sue has worked a diligent few decades in the music industry, and her experience in working behind-the-scenes has been invaluable for the company. Instrumental in managing important releases such as 2004’s “A Musical Tribute To Diana”, Sue’s administrative prowess has proven invaluable in her role of general manager.

For the last 25 years, Sue has worked with both the Indig Music and Lifestyle Music labels, and her talents have been essential to Gene Pierson’s many endeavours for as long as the pair have worked together. The work she has performed to keep everything running smoothly can be seen in the label’s general successes – without a calm and collected person behind the wheel, not even meager success can be found. Luckily, Itzstein’s skills have led to incredible successes instead, and these labels could never be the same without her efforts.

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Colin Seeger

Corporate Affairs | Indigenous Australia | Lifestyle Entertainment

Colin graduated in law from Monash University and has been actively involved in the music and media industry for the last 25 years. He was Corporate Counsel and head of Legal and Business for Polygram Australia (now Universal Music) overseeing the Group’s legal work for the recording, home video and publishing divisions, as well as managing the catalogues of local and international copyrights, trademarks and related deal negotiations with licensors, and other media groups such as TV and radio networks.

He founded Abilong in 1996 to advise commercial ventures of all kinds on how best to secure the maximum benefit from their creative effort and intellectual property. Abilong provides commercial advice to a wide range of enterprises and creatives, clients have included TV program developers, major entertainment events, technology start-ups and Apple Computers (securing the music used to support the iPod’s launch into Asia). The company consulted to large UK arena events to create IP Matrix analysis and commercialization plans and provides Expert Witness services to litigation, such as the highly publicized “Men at Work/Kookaburra” copyright case. He has also worked closely with other companies in the music industry, such as Blue Pie and Ordior.

Colin Seeger is the key player in assisting Indig’s new ventures to become “capital ready”. He matches funders with commercial opportunities. Through this work, Colin has built close relations with a range of US and UK law firms and has developed a niche business creating and overseeing filing by patent attorneys of business system patents and a global network of media contacts and associates across television, new media and record companies. When operating a label with as much emphasis on cultural variety as Indig Music, the legal side of things is essential to manage properly. Seeger brings a level of care and respect to his work that is not only 100% required for jobs of this nature, but also most welcome. He loves what he does, and does it well.

As Indig’s internal corporate affairs consultant, Colin works to protect and manage Indig worldwide. A non-stop powerhouse of life and energy, with a great sense of humour, we are honoured to have Colin on the team.

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Gene Pierson

CEO & Founder | Indigenous Australia | Lifestyle Entertainment

Indigenous Australia was started by music entrepreneur Gene Pierson back in 1999. Gene decided to combine his experience in the music industry, with his growing interest in the tourism industry that was starting to develop around the time of the Sydney Olympics. The business case was simple: there would be millions of tourists coming and going each year. They all buy souvenirs – things that are inexpensive, physically compact, clearly identifiable with a place, and easy to buy at the last minute. Something like a CD with the right packaging.

Lifestyle created a catalogue of CDs that were sold from self-serve kiosks located in duty free stores in airports – ideally placed for outbound tourists with a last minute need to buy some souvenirs. Gene recruited producer Nigel Pegrum who had located to Cairns from the UK, to produce music by local indigenous performers such as David Hudson (who had supported Yannis across a 50 concert US tour) and Ash Dargan (master didgeridoo player) and commissioned cover art that was unmistakably “Australian”. These CDs that helped millions of tourists and their families hear Australia’s indigenous music for the first time. Later Gene replicated the model for other cultures including New Zealand, England and Ireland and added photo libraries.

In 2009, he merged the label into his Lifestyle Music Group, recording a huge range of styles of music including classical, ambient, jazz, sacred sounds and world music. Under the Lifestyle Music Group label, distributed by Sony Music Entertainment, he produced the album Angel Without Wings for Australia’s Got Talent runner-up Cameron (Cam) Henderson and made music history by having the first Australian Dance Chart album Don’t Funk With Me by Alston Koch enter the ARIA charts at #2, where it remained for seven weeks. He’s a well known name in the music industry, and throughout his well-lived life, he has brought music from the quality catalogues of Lifestyle and Indigenous Australia to the ears of many, spreading the cultures and passions of the world to all of its corners.

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For more information on Indigenous Australia and INDIG please email support@indigmusic.com