during this period was The Church. He produced the band's first hit single, "The Unguarded Moment", and debut album, Of Skins and Heart. Gilbey left ATV Northern Songs at the time that the company was acquired by Robert Holmes a Court, and established a venture with MCA Music. During the next eleven years Gilbey built one of the most successful independent publishing companies in Australia and signed writers such as Allan Caswell, INXS, Noiseworks, Peter Blakeley, Tommy Emmanuel, Sharon O'Neill, Shona Laing, Don Spencer and Wa Wa Nee, as well as producing hit records with The Sunnyboys and Doug Mulray. Subsequent to this, Gilbey became the Senior Executive VP of BMG Records in Australia, and led the development of one of the first transactional music web sites as well as the development of the enhanced CD. In 1978, Gilbey, along with Peter Hebbes, Ross Barlow and Jack Argent, launched The Golden Stave Luncheon. 187 members of Australia's music industry attended the first charity event at Sydney's Sebel Townhouse in 1978. Gilbey became the founding chairman of the Golden Stave Foundation. He was founding chairman of Export Music Australia. Gilbey received the Order of Australia Medal (OAM) in 1992 for his contribution to the music industry and charity. Publishing history In 1999, Bantam published Gilbey's How To Survive The Y2K Crisis In Australia, In 2000, Seven Stories Press published Gilbey's MP3 And The Infinite Digital Jukebox, Business history Gilbey co-founded Bigfatradio.com in 2000. In 2001 was Gilbey appointed to the post of CEO of Lake Technology, an ASX-listed company with a focus on Digital Signal Processing. He led the company until its sale through a friendly takeover to Dolby Laboratories in 2005. Following the sale, he consulted to Dolby's Consumer Division on global consumer strategy for two years. He and Dr Silvia Pfeiffer founded Vquence, a video metrics and semantic research business. Gilbey stepped down as CEO in October 2007. In 2007, Gilbey, Karl Rodrigues and Bruce Marshall founded Gilbey, Rodrigues and Marshall. The business uses the principles of crowd psychology to interpret online social networks. In 2009, Gilbey began serving as a consultant to the ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science based at the University of Wollongong to help develop a strategy to commercialise some of the centre's intellectual property in energy capture and conversion and medial bionics using electromaterials, 3D printing and nanotechnology. In 2010, he started teaching