Liz Northeast

With a prolific career in the music business spanning over 20 years, Liz Northeast is currently the SVP, EMEA for B2B music distributor, FUGA - a Downtown company. Northeast has fiercely championed the independent sector since her career began, curating a legacy shaped around her core principles of community, mentorship and advocacy for mental health and wellness. Liz’s passion for community initiatives began at the start of her career when she was active within Australia’s community radio scene. Volunteering at fundraising events for renowned stations across the country, Liz moved into PR, radio and TV with Australian indie label and distributor, Creative Vibes. Alongside this, Northeast established a successful career as a DJ touring clubs and festivals across Australia. Going on to spend an over 8 year tenure with The Orchard, which saw her driving the company’s international expansion and leading label management teams across Europe. Her VP role at AWAL saw Liz lead the UK Artist and Label Development team, a position that redefined, reshaped and upskilled the local and global teams as a whole. Whilst there, she supported the rollout of a meditation and yoga programme, as well as being involved in company-wide wellbeing days for staff. Joining FUGA as Client Relations Director during lockdown in 2021, Liz was quickly promoted within a year to become General Manager, UK where she has been fundamental to FUGA’s meteoric growth of UK staff. Now FUGA’s SVP of EMEA, her years of experience championing the independent sector sees her overseeing FUGA’s eclectic roster of label talent across the full EMEA region. Northeast has been recognised across the industry - named to Billboard’s 2025/2026 Global Power Players list, inducted into the 2023 Women in Music Roll of Honor, featured in shesaid.so’s 2022 Alternative Power List, and celebrated in the 2024 Kindness & Leadership, 50 Leading Lights UK list. She also serves on the board of the Association for Electronic Music. Her expertise has led to panel talks and moderations for the likes of Big Sound, Reeperbahn, BMC, IMS, AIM Connected and interviewed by IndieCo in a fireside chat for Finnish conference, Music x Media.