Mark Pope

In a career spanning 40 years, Mark Pope has traversed the length and breadth of the Australian music industry as a tour manager, promoter, event producer, artist manager, record company executive and innovator. Mark began his career as tour manager and in-house promoter for two of Australia’s biggest bands – The Angels and Cold Chisel – touring with both in Australia, US and Europe. Mark managed and promoted Jimmy Barnes’s solo career on the Bodyswerve, For the Working Class Man and Freight Train Heart albums while promoting Australian tours for INXS, Public Image, Stan Ridgway, Georgia Satellites, Transvision Vamp and Rickie Lee Jones amongst others.

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Mark was later hired by Sony Music as National Marketing Manager of Australian Artists working with the likes of Tina Arena and Midnight Oil, indeed the whole Sony local artist roster over the next 18 months. later headhunted to rebuild Warners Music’s domestic roster from ground zero as Head of A&R and Marketing. Built an enviable artist roster that included award winning artists such as Regurgitator, The Superjesus, Taxiride, The Whitlams as well as signing Jimmy Barnes for his multi-platinum selling album Soul Deeper.

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Pope’s signings delivered over $64m dollars in revenue to Warner Music Australia over a 9 year period. Mark was headhunted by ARIA to breathe new life into a tired ARIA Awards format where Pope reconfigured and helmed the ARIA’s over a 10 year [mostly] golden run perceived by many to be the pinnacle of awards shows in Australia not matched since. Mark has worked on many iconic events including, the XBOX 360 Launch, Wave Aid, Live Earth, Sound Relief, ARIA Hall of Fame Events and Daft Punk's Random Access Memories album launch.