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L-R: Jess Keeley, Danny Rukasin

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Australia’s Wonderlick Entertainment have today announced a number of new appointments and changes to its label and management divisions as part of an overall re-organisation of the company.

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Jess Keeley, who has managed and co-managed artists such as Shania Twain, Lykke Li, Arcade Fire and Marina & the Diamonds, and who recently returned to Australia after more than 10 years based in Los Angeles and London, has been appointed Director of Artist Management. Jess will be heading up the next era of Wonderlick Management. On her appointment, Keeley commented “The talent in the Australian Music Industry is so consistently at a global standard, and Wonderlick has proved this again and again in their approach to A&R and management. I’m excited and energised by our vision for artist career development and support, and am very ambitious in realising long-term local and international success for our artists with this incredible team.”

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Danny Rukasin, long-time manager and co-founder of US based management company Best Friends Music (clients including Billie Eilish, Finneas, Role Model, Bishop Briggs, Lexi Jayde, and more), is joining the company as a partner and will focus on furthering the company’s international reach in his role as Director of International from his base in LA. Rukasin says, “I’m constantly amazed by the unique talent that is cultivating in Australia and New Zealand, and I am excited to work with the highly regarded Stu, Gregg, Dan, Michele, Jess, and the rest of the team at Wonderlick, to help expand the roster’s reach into the rest of the world!”

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Further to this, long-term senior staffers Michele Porto and Dan Crannitch, have been acknowledged for their significant contributions with partnerships in the company and have been announced as Director of Marketing and Director of A&R, respectively.

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Paul Zaja, the group’s long-time business manager, will become Director of Finance while Brock Galway is promoted to the position of Senior Artist Manager.

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Co-founder Stu MacQueen will continue as Wonderlick CEO, while fellow co-founder Gregg Donovan will remain as Senior Artist Manager and will continue to play a close role in the management of key artists. 

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Additionally, Wonderlick will continue its longstanding joint venture partnership with Sony Music Entertainment Australia.

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MacQueen says of the news, “The addition of Danny and Jess to our already talented and experienced team, along awith our reenergised partnership with Sony Music Australia under Vanessa Picken’s strong leadership, significantly improves our offering to artists across the label and management sides of the company. It’s a challenging environment to develop and break Australian artists right now, but I feel that we have assembled one of the strongest teams ever put together by an Australian music company, and we are ready to embrace the challenges ahead.”     

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Wonderlick Entertainment was established in 2007 by co-founders Stu MacQueen and Gregg Donovan. Wonderlick is comprised of label, management, and publishing arms. The company has a proud history of representing some of Australia’s leading artists including Amy Shark, Grinspoon, Boy & Bear, Pete Murray, Montaigne, Josh Pyke, Holy Holy, Airbourne, The Paper Kites, Japanese Wallpaper and Electric Fields, among many others. Throughout its 16-year history it has helmed artist campaigns that have collectively sold millions of albums worldwide, achieved billions of streams, won 20 ARIA Awards (from well over 60 nominations), had multiple #1, top 5 and multi-platinum awards in Australia, and enjoyed several international platinum & top 10 chart successes. Amongst other industry recognition, the company made the top 30 of the AMID Power 50 List of the most powerful people in the Australian music industry three years running.

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