As an Artist manager, Cathy Oates was able her to follow her passion of carving out pathways for Australian artists to flourish on an international scale. Angus & Julia Stone were the first act to sign in 2006 then in 2017, new singer/songwriter Dean Lewis followed their success and went global. With her major label experience at Sony and EMI Music and more recently Warner Music, Cathy has a strong foundation to extend her knowledge to various marketing consulting roles. She is currently managing Meg Washington, an influential artist whose genre-defying work has been widely recognised over the years.

Cathy recently took on the role of co-programmer of the BIGSOUND daytime conference with colleague Niriko Mclure. Bigsound, based in Brisbane Australia, is focused on the export of emerging and breakthrough Australian Artists.