THE TEAM
Mariel Beros – Program Director
A business strategy and international development consultant, one-time film producer, director, journalist and publicist, Mariel has spent most of her professional life working in the media and cultural industries. Starting as a radio journalist, she moved into print journalism, television production, public relations and book publishing, before founding the Melbourne Film Office for the state government of Victoria, Australia. She then ventured into feature film production, marketing, distribution and exhibition, and the development and delivery of a number of very successful professional development programs for the screen and music industries, as well as international aid agencies in Australia and abroad.
Mariel has also worked as a business coach, strategy consultant and researcher with the Boston Consulting Group and Buchan Consulting in Melbourne. Her music industry clients have included Music Australia, Australian Music Industry Network, Australian Independent Record Labels Association (AIR), Independent Music New Zealand, NZ Music Managers Forum and Music BC, Canada. Mariel is responsible for the content and delivery of Phoenix.
Patrick Aldous
Patrick Aldous is a partner at the entertainment law firm Chandler Fogden Aldous in Vancouver, British Columbia. The music business is the primary focus of Patrick’s practice, although he is also experienced in the fields of film, television, publishing and new media. His clients comprise a wide variety of music business professionals including record labels, music publishers, artist managers, record producers, recording artists, composers, promoters and agents. Patrick assists his clients with matters relating to all aspects of the music business.
Prior to attending law school, Patrick earned a Bachelor of Music degree from Berklee College of Music in Boston, followed by a B.A. in International Relations and Comparative Politics at McGill University in Montreal, focusing on governmental policy regarding arts and media industries. After studying at McGill and working in radio in Montreal, he returned to his native Vancouver to pursue his legal studies at the University of British Columbia, where he received his Bachelor of Laws degree in 1999. He was called to the bar in BC in 2000.
Patrick is the current Vice President and past-President of Music BC, British Columbia’s not-for-profit music industry association. He is also Vice President of BC Coastal Jazz and Blues Society, which produces the annual TD International Jazz Festival in Vancouver, amongst other events. Patrick is also on the Advisory Committee for the BC Music Fund, which is administered by Creative BC.
While pursuing his career in law, Patrick has continued to be active as a performing and recording musician. He lives on Vancouver’s North Shore with his wife and three children. Patrick lives each day with the certainty that the Vancouver Canucks will win the Stanley Cup.
Dr David Court
David Court is Executive Director of Compton School. He was formerly Head of Screen Business at the Australian Film Television & Radio School. He has been involved in the financing of more than a dozen film and television productions including John Weiley’s Antarctica, Baz Luhrmann’s Strictly Ballroom, Dean Cavell’s The Wiggles Movie, Jerzy Domaradski’s Lilian’s Story, Robert Connolly’s The Bank, Guy Gross’s Old Tom, Andrew Horne’s The Animated Leunig and Don Featherstone’s The One Percenters. David was founding editor of the highly regarded industry newsletter Entertainment Business Review. As author of Film Assistance: Future Options (Allen & Unwin, 1986), he was the policy architect of the Film Finance Corporation, established by the Australian Government in 1988.
In 2010, with Sir Peter Jackson, he undertook a review of the New Zealand Film Commission for the NZ Government. David holds a PhD from the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University. His thesis, Shakespeare’s Fortune: how copyright has failed authors and why it matters, is available at http://hdl.handle.net/1885/12432
Shauna de Cartier
In 2000, Shauna de Cartier founded Six Shooter Records, a record label and artist management company which has maintained since inception a steadfast commitment to fostering artistic excellence. Now in its 20th year, Six Shooter has developed a distinct community of predominantly Canadian-based artists with international careers. Her award-winning label and management rosters include July Talk, Whitehorse, The Dead South, Tanya Tagaq, William Prince, Rheostatics, The Wet Secrets, Amelia Curran, and others.
In 2012, together with her long time business partner, Helen Britton, de Cartier founded and produced The Interstellar Rodeo, a music and wine festival which had a 3-year run in Winnipeg and an 8-year run in Edmonton, headlined by artists such as Beck, Alabama Shakes, Wilco, Sarah McLachlan, and many more.
De Cartier plays an active role in the industry, including a continued participation as an elected board member of CIMA, which she chaired for four years, as well as the board of the Radio Starmaker Fund. She also holds an MBA from the University of Alberta. De Cartier is an advocate for artists, independent businesses and fair dealings, and is committed to creating professional opportunities for young industry members – particularly women. In 2019, de Cartier was honoured with the Canadian Independent Music Award for Entrepreneurship.
Andrew Gemino
Andrew Gemino is Professor and Associate Dean, Graduate Programs for the Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser University (SFU). He received his PhD in Management Information Systems from the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia. Andrew has championed several new programs including the Charles Chang Certificate in Entrepreneurship, the Certificate in Business Analytics and Decision Making, and most recently the MSc in Accounting and Cognitive Analytics, a national program developed in collaboration with KPMG Canada.
His research in process innovation, business analytics and project management has received over 2500 citations and has been supported by grants from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council and Social Sciences Research Council of Canada. Andrew was also principal investigator on the initial grant provided by the Western Economic Diversification fund that gave seed funding for “Venture Connection” which was the first early-stage entrepreneurship incubator in Western Canada.
Andrew is a SFU Teaching Excellence Award winner and a two-time winner of the TD/Canada Trust Teaching Award. He has also co-authored an award winning textbook “Experiencing MIS” which is in its fifth edition. In his former lives he was a co-founder of a software/consulting company focused on scheduling and pro sports scouting. He was also a bass player in a rock n roll band. He has served as an instructor in the Phoenix Music Executive Program since 2017.
Terry McBride
Terry McBride is the current CEO and one of three founders of the Nettwerk Music Group, which includes Nettwerk Productions (Canada’s largest independent record label), Nettwerk Management (artist and producer management), Nettwerk One (publishing), and Artwerks (graphic and fashion design). Founded in McBride’s apartment in 1984, Nettwerk has corporate offices in Vancouver, Boston, Los Angeles, New York, Hamburg and London. Since its inception, Nettwerk has released over 600 different albums and sold over 160 million albums worldwide with such renown artists as Avril Lavigne, Coldplay, Dido, Fun, Wanting, Passenger and Sarah McLachlan. In the past few years McBride has spoken at dozens of international conferences about social marketing, digital branding, intellectual property rights and the future of music consumption.
In 2008, McBride co-authored a paper for the University of Westminster’s “Musictank” entitled Meet the Millennials that became a marketing template for musicians in the digital space. In 2004, McBride stepped onto a yoga mat for the first time by way of recommendation from a friend, and it wasn’t long before he realized that yoga offered him more than just a flexible body and mind. Acting on this realization, McBride along with his friend and yoga instructor, Lara Kozan, launched a chain of wellness centres called YYoga. It’s McBride’s vision for YYoga Studios to evolve into social third spaces, focusing on health and wellness for the body, mind, spirit and the community.
In 2003 Terry received the Walt Grealis Special Achievement Award, recognizing an outstanding individual who has contributed to the growth and advancement of the Canadian music industry. Terry has also twice been awarded the Pollstar Industry Award for Personal Manager of the year for his work with Sarah McLachlan (1997) and Avril Lavigne©/Coldplay (2002).
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Catherine Runnals
Born and raised in Vancouver, Catherine began her career in the television industry, working on such iconic shows as Front Page Challenge and Shari Lewis’s Lamb Chop. Transitioning to the music industry in the late ‘90s, she went on to spend almost a decade on the road working with acts such as Sheryl Crow, The Pretenders, The Tragically Hip, Chantal Kreviazuk and Dido.
In 2004, Catherine took her background in television, married it to her rock ‘n’ roll pedigree and started BRANDLIVE Management Group with partners Jordan Melville and Paul Runnals. A brand activation event management company, BRANDLIVE is behind some of the province’s largest public gatherings such as Honda’s Celebration of Light, Canada Day at Canada Place and the Squamish Valley Music Festival — all of which drive considerable economic benefit to British Columbia.
As the President of BRANDLIVE, Catherine is the driving force in the agency’s growth — in people, revenue and its strategic direction. Her role in business development, along with her savvy people skills and knack for motivating supporters, clients and staff, has helped to grow the Vancouver agency into an award-winning production company. She is a Top 40 Under 40 recipient and in 2012 was named Event Professional of the Year at the National Canadian Special Events Awards.
Catherine sits on the board of Tourism Vancouver, Mark Brand’s A Better Life Foundation, SFU’s 149 Arts Society and the Global Poverty Project.
Dr Chris Stevens
Dr Chris Stevens is a registered psychologist with over 25 years’ experience in assisting individuals, groups and organizations to be sustainably creative and innovative. This has taken the form of personal coaching, lecturing, public speaking, facilitating groups and training programs and consulting in a wide variety of organizations around the world.
He has published articles on personal adjustment, creativity, insight and constructive outlooks. His Doctoral research explored the nature and genesis of creative insight and his professional passions include promoting workplace innovation and creativity especially as it relates to well-being and high quality productivity. He has taught courses on Managing Creativity and Innovation in a variety of academic and creative industry contexts.
His clients are diverse, including those in the creative industries (television, advertising, music industry, research and development, design & architecture) as well as many government and private sector organizations. The emphasis throughout is practical: what does the research tell us about reliable and sustainable creative process and how can we engineer the organizational, social and personal conditions that support this?