After 27 Years APRA AMCOS CEO Brett Cottle Is Stepping Down

Longstanding APRA AMCOS CEO Brett Cottle has announced he'll be stepping down from the role in June 2018 after 27 years leading the organisation.

Announced in a statement this morning, APRA Chair Jenny Morris says, "After 27 years leading the organisation we quite understand why Brett has reached the point where he is keen to pursue other priorities in life. He will nevertheless be missed enormously by the Boards, Management, staff and membership of APRA AMCOS.

"In a career that began as the organisation’s first in-house counsel in the late 1970s, Brett has championed the cause of songwriters’ and composers’ rights for more than 40 years and instilled and sustained a culture of dedicated service within APRA and AMCOS, of which we on the Board are immensely proud."

AMCOS Chair Ian James adds, "The operational merger of APRA and AMCOS is today taken for granted, but when it was effected in 1997 Brett’s vision and leadership were critical to its success. The positive and productive spirit in which the two Boards have co-operated seamlessly ever since is testament to the culture created and fostered by Brett."

Cottle himself stated to his staff at APRA AMCOS that 2017 financial results would "again be at a record level" and "nobody is really entitled to such good fortune in their working lives".

In our 2016 Power 50, Cottle placed at #27. 

International recruiting firm Orgers Berndtson will be on the search for the right candidate to fill the prestigious position before Cottle's departure in 12 months.