Ant Mckenna is Executive General Manager of the Australian Live Music Business Council, a national live music leadership organisation with 2,000 members representing the grass roots live music industry. He also provides income stream development consulting to the Queensland Music Festival and Yama Nui Records and was until recently the Director of Programming – Industry Development for QMusic. He also consults for the federal Live Music Office, to provide music industry policy and planning development to a number of regional local governments.

McKenna has 30 years experience in music industry development, organisational development, cultural development, creative industry development, was the inaugural artist representative on the QMusic Board and played in the iconic (pre-social media era!) Melbourne touring act Those Bloody McKennas for many years.