Jason Schroeder

Jason Schroeder is the Events & Venues Manager at the Otago Uni Students Association (Ori/Re-Ori/Starters Bar/Union Hall), Festival Director of the Dunedin & Auckland Craft Beer & Food Festivals, Director of  Get Gold which manages bookings for NZ’s largest club night ‘Mono’ in Christchurch as well as bookings for other student events across the country, & Co-Director of Common People Entertainment.

Jason has a strong history working in student events as well as booking tours & festivals across the country. He has also managed artists such as Summer Thieves & Ha the Unclear. Jason can mentor on booking tours, putting together a show and a budget, booking festival & support act shows and basically anything to do with concerts & events.

Paula Yeoman

Paula Yeoman is the co-owner and co-director of NicNak Media alongside Nicole Thomas.

NicNak specialises in artist management and entertainment publicity, and recently launched a new media initiative, Lil Sister, for emerging acts. NicNak also runs a boutique record label for a small roster of Aotearoa artists.

Before establishing NicNak Media, Paula worked as a journalist, with more than 20+ years’ experience in NZ and the UK. She now fronts the management arm of NicNak and is across the day-to-day management of Theia (and Theia’s te reo Māori project TE KAAHU), Paige, Nganeko and TOI. She also works closely with many other NZ artists as a mentor with MMF.

Paula and Nicole are two-time recipients of MMF awards – in 2017, they won the award for ‘Emerging Manager of the Year’ and in 2021, they won ‘Manager of the Year’.

Paula is involved in the day-to-day management of the artists on the NicNak roster and is able to assist in all areas relating to management including pairing artists with writers, producers, engineers, photographers, videographers; helping with funding applications; budgeting; strategy and planning for new releases; touring; branding, developing assets (bios, press shots); social media and creating content.

Dorothy Power

Dorothy first cut her teeth within the NZ music industry working in label management (local and international), publicity and promotions for Flying Nun, Warner Music, and Festival Mushroom Record companies. After a successful start to her music career, she took her skills, knowledge, and enthusiasm over to Europe 17 or so years ago and is predominantly now based in London. Since landing in the northern hemisphere she crossed over into the live production side of the business and has worked on some of the world’s most well-known music festivals across the UK and Europe. Working alongside the AEG Global Partnership team, amongst others, she has been part of production teams that deliver large scale festivals and events at multiple venues including The O2 and Hyde Park. Additionally, she helped set up and produced a boutique music, arts, and literature festival.

Splitting her time between UK/ EU and New Zealand Dorothy has also worked on various festivals on NZ soil including camp operations management for Rhythm and Vines, event producer for the inaugural Auckland Craft Beer and Food Festival for Live Nation and OUSA at Auckland’s Spark Arena, Rhythm and Alps, Snowboxx in Wanaka (sadly cancelled due to covid).

Alongside music festivals Dorothy is a skilled producer of brand-led award-winning events for global drinks brands, and is accomplished in delivering experiential, consumer-driven activations, whilst executing all on-site operations, including sponsorship engagement across the UK and Europe.

Throughout her career she has worked with many local NZ artists and a huge selection of touring internationals, as well as major global partners on sponsorship activations and delivery including Hendrick’s Gin (and the full William Grant Portfolio), Bacardi, Ray Ban, Playstation, Lululemon, Peroni, Birra Moretti, Veuve Cliquot, and Hunter, to name but a few.

Dorothy can mentor on Sponsorship, Budgets, Major (and not so Major) Events.