Annual Report - QPAC

a new stage production of The Pirates
of Penzance which received a triple
platinum video and an ARIA Award.
He then created new versions of The
Mikado and HMS Pinafore, and a new
production of The Merry Widow. His
company also produced Terrence
McNally’s Master Class and Sondheim’s
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to
the Forum.
Simon has also been involved in a
revival production of The Pirates of
Penzance (opened in Brisbane in 2001),
the $6 million Australian musical
Eureka (in 2004 in association with the
Melbourne International Arts Festival)
and a new production of The Mikado
(opened in Brisbane in 2008 and in
Adelaide in 2009).
In 2007, Simon initiated Showstoppers,
a series of music-theatre workshops for
young people.
Helene George
Member
Helene George is
Company Director of
Creative Economy,
a company
internationally
recognised for
creative business development. Helene
was a keynote speaker at the First
International Cultural and Creative
Industries Forum in Beijing, a member
of the Prime Minister’s Working
Party for Creativity in the Innovation
Economy and developed Australia’s
first Creative Industries Strategy for the
Brisbane City Council.
Helene has over 15 years experience in
management and consulting throughout
Australia. She has worked as a manager
of creative companies and facilities,
export trade representative and as
an executive in local government. In
addition to successfully managing
her own business for over a decade,
she has been engaged as a business
development consultant and policy
adviser by both government and the
private sector.
Most recently, Helene was honoured
with a Leadership Award at the
2007 Future Leadership Summit by
Australia’s pre-eminent leadership
organisation, AusDavos.
Paul Piticco
Member
Since their inception
in 1990, Paul Piticco
has managed the
career of multiplatinum,
multi-award
winning Brisbane act, Powderfinger.
Forming Secret Service Artist
Management in the late 1990s, Paul
continues to manage numerous artists
including Bernard Fanning and The
Grates. In 2001, Paul created Dew
Process Recordings, a label which has
signed many successful Australian
artists and distributes the music of
international artists in Australia and
New Zealand.
Paul is also heavily involved in live
music through his annual arts and
music festival, Splendour in the Grass
and tour promotion business, Secret
Sounds. Paul created and staged
PAUHAUS: A Festival of Contemporary
Music as part of the multi-million dollar
re-launch of the Brisbane Powerhouse
in June 2007. In the same year, he
co-promoted Across The Great Divide
– a live tour of Australia and New
Zealand headlined by Powderfinger and
Silverchair. Across The Great Divide
was a carbon-neutral event, and was
presented by reconcile.org.au in an
effort to reduce the 17 year gap in life
expectancy between indigenous and
non-indigenous Australians.
In 2008, Paul added a further dimension
to the now well established Dew Process
Label, with the creation of a publishing
arm.
Rhonda White
Member
Rhonda White is
co-founder of the
Terry White Chemists
Group of pharmacies
and Managing Director, White Retail
Group Pty Ltd. Rhonda is also a
fellow of the Australian Institute of
Management. She is a pharmacist
and an organisational psychologist
and consults to the retail industry and
currently owns and operates a number
of pharmacies throughout Australia.
Rhonda has served on a number of
boards including the Energex Retail
Board, the Ergon Energy Board, the
Australian College of Natural Medicine
Advisory Board, the Nudgee College
Foundation Board and the Terry White
Chemists Board and she was Foundation
Chairman of the Queensland Cancer
Fund Volunteers Committee.
Rhonda was awarded the Leading
Women Entrepreneurs of the World
International Award in 2000, the
National Business Bulletin – Business
Star of the Year in 2000, the Pharmacy
Guild Distinguished Service Award for
services to the pharmacy industry in
Australia in 2004 and is a recipient of
the 2006 Pharmacy Practice Foundation
Medal of Excellence.
Leigh Tabrett PSM
BA(Hons)
State Government
Representative
In March 2005, Leigh
Tabrett PSM was
appointed Deputy Director-General,
Arts Queensland. In this role, she is
responsible for arts and cultural policy,
arts funding, capital programs and
relationships with statutory authorities
and other arts organisations.
Prior to taking up this role, she was
Assistant Director-General (Education)
with responsibility for international,
non-state and higher education.
Leigh has served on numerous national
higher education advisory bodies and
boards.
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