Adam Suckling

Copyright Agency is an important Australian cultural, copyright and commercial organisation, that generates over $130m pa for publishers, writers and artists

My major achievements were to:

• Completely recast strategy, putting Australian story telling and digital front and centre
• Successfully advocate for policy settings to support Australian content production
• Negotiate major commercial agreements. We also met or exceeded budget each year
• Won a highly consequential Copyright Tribunal decisions, that set the price of content
• Represent the organisation and members at festivals and international conferences
• Successfully complete a major digital transformation program with eight strands of work

Major achievements were to

• Successfully campaign with film/television producers for policy changes to reduce piracy
• Successfully manage policy and public affairs around the acquisition of all of Fox Sports
• Completely restructure the function to better support the transformation program

I had two roles. General Manager Wholesale and Director Policy and Corporate Affairs

Major achievements were to:

• Develop and negotiate ACCC approved agreements that were a fundamental part of reducing the cost of Hollywood content from over 70% to 50% of revenue
• Negotiate with Disney to get Disney channels on Optus' network.
• Successfully managed wholesale area, which covered around one third of Foxtel's customer base and hundreds of millions of dollars in annual revenue.
• Oversaw policy development and all Foxtel advocacy on Australian content policy

• Provided financial advice to Singtel's representatives on overseas investments
• Oversaw Singtel's assessment of major investment in new mobile network
• Managed a team of financial analysts and reported to the CFO

Major achievements include

• Obtaining ACCC regulatory decisions that were worth billions of dollars to Optus
• Successfully arguing for changes to legislation to enhance competition
• Representing Optus on industry groups and at Parliamentary hearings

• Responsible for supporting major infrastructure and investment group and sales groups
• Successfully managed public affairs outsourcing of management of Telstra IT to IBM
• Provided policy, and communications advice to support major sales to governments