About Magic Blue Creative

Dip.Fin. 1987, Member Institute of Export
APRA Full Writer Member 1997     |    Member of AIR    |     Member of ARIA

Damien's specialist skill is the ability to integrate practical internet based communication systems into businesses. He creates leverage for Magic Blue Creative's clients by reducing their communication costs and allowing his clients to grow through improved and more efficient forms of communication and great design.

With over 25 years of IT & Music industry experience, Damien is the CEO of Magic Blue. As the CEO, Damien's specialist skills provide the company with market leverage and a competitive edge that allows the firm to compete more effectively and efficiently both locally and internationally. Damien creates leverage for Magic Blue Creative and our corporate clients through the practical integration of digital entertainment systems, data management services and the continual exploitation and commercialisation of the Magic Blue Creative source code libraries.

In 2007 Magic Blue Creative played a pivotal role in the greater expansion of Blue Pie's digital catalogue and development of new markets. Magic Blue Creative was directly responsible for the firms digital catalogue growing to over 3,000,000 tracks representing over 14,000 labels and over 100,000 artists from all over the world.

Damien is an accomplished musician, composer and producer with numerous international recording credits to his name and top 40 chart achievements.

Board Positions include:

CEO - Blue Pie Productions - www.bluepie.com.au
CEO Blue Vault Digital - www.bluevaultdigital.com
CIO and Founder - Ordior www.ordior.net
CFO - ACIT www.acitfinance.com
Chairman of Hurricane Healing - www.hurricanehealing.us

John is a seasoned executive excelling in product and project management. He has extensive IT experience in the fields of software development, hosting, web design, hardware retail & wholesale; PC design, manufacture & distribution. This coupled with upper management experience in the professional sectors of hospitality and medical facilities brings an unsurpassed business wisdom to the Magic Blue Creative team.

Jon was President of Sacramento Coaches Association, and a member of International Coach Federation. for many years. He has been coaching and training business supervisors, managers and executives since 1979

Prior to his current activities, Jon was CEO of Veracicom, Inc., a $20 million, multiple facility company providing cutting-edge IT Solutions to international corporations using, server-based computing systems, high-speed networks and subscriptionbased software sales. Jon is also the former President and COO of ContractQuest Corporation (CQ) and Nhanced Media Corporation, software development companies specializing in producing and selling wireless and wired applications for building contractors and other professionals. CQ and Nhanced Media were merged into Veracicom.

Jon was also one of six persons in a start-up team to develop Unicom Systems, in less than three years, into a $50 million business machine sales company, which was acquired by the Fortune 500 Company, Rockwell International.

Jon is on the board of Ordior and holds business development posts with Magic Blue Creative and Blue Pie Productions. He is an avid reader of all things technology and provides Magic Blue Creative with leadership from experience.

Colin Seeger has been actively involved in copyright and intellectual property management for nearly 20 years.

Colin manages corporate affairs and intellectual property protection for Magic Blue Creative, Blue Pie artists and the Blue Pie global catalogue of music. He provides a constant check on the management of our rights both locally and overseas and he has been a key part in the establishment of Blue Pie’s key strategic alliances with firms like FINTAGE and ARIA. Colin is the man to talk to when it comes to I.P law and the intricacy of its understanding. He is a Board Member of the Music Managers Forum Australian chapter and a Lecturer at Sydney Campus of TAFE. Teaching music licensing and publishing as a business.

Colin was the Corporate Counsel and Legal & Business Affairs Manager for Polygram Australia, overseeing the acquisition and creation of recordings and films as well as managing the administration and enforcement of the company’s extensive catalogues of copyrights, trademarks and intellectual property.

He is co-author of the first edition of the widely respected book “Music Business” and was a lecturer at the University of New South Wales College of Fine Arts, teaching the post-graduate subject “Cultural Property, Ethics and the Law” - a cross discipline subject combining commercial law, intellectual property and business administration.

In 1996, he created a new consultancy to help business ventures of all kinds generate and secure their intellectual property for maximum benefit to the venture and the business.

He has provided commercial and industry advice to a wide range of companies, artists and media companies including television networks, internationally broadcast TV programmes and technology start-ups, assisting them develop novel commercialisation strategies. He also assists existing enterprises to identify and audit their IP as well as forming strategies. This assists the enterprises to better understand its strengths and areas of special advantage over competitors.

As Corporate Affairs for Magic Blue Creative, Colin provides I.P protection, management and consulting services to our customer base. He oversees consulting projects and manages the day to day protection and documentation of our clients I.P requirements when they engage our consultant network.

Colin is a founding shareholder with Blue Pie. We are honoured to have Colin on the team.

CEO - Atlantis Consulting

With 14 years experience in Sales and Marketing and most recently 4 years as General Manager of a multi-million dollar Advertising Agency, Ms Cantwell has developed a wide range of networks and experience in the Advertising and Marketing sector. Ms Cantwell holds a Masters in Business Administration from QUT with minors in International Business and Marketing. Karen is the founder of Atlantis consulting.

Karen's practical application of web based communication systems and marketing tools provide her clients with a leading edge in business. Karen is highly regarded in the Australian marketing business community and her company is retained by a number of leading sports and medical groups in Australia.

As strategic marketing advisor to Magic Blue Creative, Karen provides on going strategy, marketing and market leverage through her dynamic network.

Rufus Shrestha has a Masters degree in Commerce and is our resident technical guru. His combined commercial and technical experiences over the past 10 years provide him with that extra edge as Blue Pie’s Operations Manager.

Rufus has seven years previous business experience running his own company back in Nepal. Rufus is the Magic Blue Creative project manager for our larger web design, systems development and programming projects.

No problem or project is too small and every problem has an answer is Rufus’s motto.

Rufus keeps the multimedia machines and technology systems online and information flowing 24x7x365 days a year at Blue Pie and Magic Blue Creative. He is highly intelligent and every client praises his work. Rufus is our Mr Technology.

Ajaydeep Singh (AJ) is one very gifted designer. He works in the digital realm and has had over 7 years experience in designing web pages and flash sites, working for many major brands throughout ASIA and the South Pacific including Volvo, Honda, Pfizer, Ford & BMW.

AJ holds a BFA from Punjab University Chandigarh (India), an Advanced Diploma in Multimedia and Web Design from Arena Multimedia and is certified in software management and Adobe Illustrator CS.

He is proficient in: Macromedia Flash (all versions), Adobe CS, HTML, CSS, DHTML, Dreamweaver, 3D MAX, Morphing and warping in elastic reality, Zbrush and Swift 3D.

His capacity to create stunning dynamic web content coupled with his wide arsenal of design tools provide our clients with award winning designs, a seamless integration of art and systems creating web applications that are efficient and effective

Ken Ngo has a Masters degree in Information Technology. He is an extremely talented programmer and has been responsible for developing many of the diverse and complicated Internet applications that run the Blue Pie and Magic Blue Creative core systems and infrastructure projects for our customers.

He is at the forefront of his field of expertise, using the most advanced and cutting edge technology available and preferring to work with open source languages and applications.

Ken has a real passion for analysing and programming and he has developed into an IT professional that is able to solve just about any programming issue and always with a smile.
He is very popular with our staff and his calm and cool nature make him invaluable to the team when solving complex problems.

Janice Marie is the founder and principal songwriter of the internationally acclaimed and Grammy award winning R&B group 'A Taste of Honey'.

During her career she has developed strong relationships within the entertainment industry and now represents Blue Pie in the US as a consultant for our growing overseas business development teams.Her business associates and contacts include household brands and names such as Coca Cola, Frito Lay, The New York Lottery, Burger King and Old Navy.

She is also an ambassador for the charity Hurricane Healing