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About
UsThe holding company of North Byron Parklands, Billinudgel Property Trust, is a 100% Australian owned group of like-minded people with a long history working in entertainment and the arts. These are our key team members.
Jessica
Ducrou
Jessica has been a successful music agent and concert promoter in Australia for over twenty years. She has operated her own booking agency Village Sounds for many years, currently representing 
Powderfinger, Bernard Fanning and The Vines plus many more and co-promoting international tours in Australia with her business partner Paul Piticco for the Bloc Party, Supergrass, The Doves and others.
Jessica was the co-founder of Sydney's Homebake festival, the first major music festival to provide purely Australian and New Zealand content, which has just celebrated its 15th anniversary. She is also the major shareholder and co-founder of winter music and arts festival Splendour In the Grass.
Jessica relocated her home and business to Byron Bay in 2002, where she lives with her husband and young family.
Brandon Saul
A qualified lawyer and accountant [though he's never actually practiced either profession] Brandon is passionate about music, art, architecture, urban design, technology and popular culture.
His company, Mixed Media manage and produce a variety of creative industry events including Creative Sydney, the Vivid Ideas exchange and The Qantas Spirit of Youth awards. Brandon is also a founding supporter and vice president of Sydney's largest community radio broadcaster FBi.
Brandon has been living in and around Byron, on and off, for almost twenty years.
Paul Piticco
Since their inception in 1990, Paul Piticco has managed the career of
Brisbane band Powderfinger. Forming Secret Service Artist
Management in the late 1990s, Paul continues to manage careers
of artists and 
bands – currently monitoring the solo career of
Powderfinger frontman Bernard Fanning and The Grates.
In addition to artist management, Paul is Director of Dew Process Recordings, a label he created in 2001. Dew Process has a stable of successful Australian artists - The Grates, Sarah Blasko, Expatriate, The Panics and Bernard Fanning - in addition to releasing the music of international artists for distribution in Australia and New Zealand.
Paul is also involved in the live music arena through the annual
arts and music festival, Splendour in the Grass and tour promotion business
Secret Sounds with business partner Jessica Ducrou of Village Sounds.
Paul was appointed to the Board of Trustees of the Queensland Performing
Arts Centre in 2006.
He lives near beautiful Mount Warning on a property he and his partner purchased in 2003.
Rob Doolan
Rob has been active in community, environment and planning matters in the Byron Shire for twenty-five years. He is a long term shire resident and was a Byron Shire Councillor for a four year term.
Rob has been involved in the planning process for arts and music festivals for the past decade.
With his family, his interests include ecological restoration, together with growing certified organic tropical fruits. Rob is not very good at fishing but continues to try.
Mat Morris
General Manager of North Byron Parklands Mat Morris is an environmental scientist with specialist knowledge across the music, manufacturing and transportation industry sectors.
His expertise covers the development of environmental management systems including risk identification, assessment processes and comprehensive compliance audit systems.
Mat’s prior roles include developing waste avoidance and resource recovery strategies for the NSW EPA, developing environmental management systems with State Rail and as an environmental regulator with the Queensland EPA.
Mat is both a qualified environmental management systems auditor and waste auditor.
He lives with his wife and two young children in Bangalow.
Contact - community@northbyronparklands.com
