SACEOS 44TH
ANNUAL GENERAL
MEETING (AGM) 2024
Our Partners
Priscilla Leong
Priscilla is the founder and Managing Director of Expotrans Pte Ltd, an affiliate of Expotrans SpA, a company established since 1990 operating as official freight forwarder at major Italian venues. She possesses broad industry experience having worked in security, banking, venture capital, waste management and with the last 20 years in the MICE industry. She loves engaging with people to create win-wins by connecting the dots.
Priscilla is also the current Honorary Treasurer of SACEOS and had served on SACEOS Exco from 2011 till now, separately as Hon. Treasurer, Hon. Secretary, Committee member and VP-Community.
Through the years, Priscilla is very much plugged into the Events industry through her interactions with other industry associations like AFECA, IELA and UFI, keeping abreast of developments in the industry globally.
Our Partners
Mathias Kuepper
As active member of the 44th SACEOS Exco, Mathias served as VP for Professional Development for the past two years. During this time he have had the privilege of contributing to our organization’s growth and success, in particular in the areas of training and development.
One highlight was the launch of the Certified Event Sustainability (CES) accreditation programme as part of our MICE Sustainability Roadmap. He believe that his experience and insights will continue to be of value, and he is committed to continuing serving our SACEOS members by seeking re-election for the 45th Exco.
Our Partners
Sukumar Verma
Sukumar is currently Managing Director (Maritime & Energy) for Informa Markets in Singapore. His responsibilities include a portfolio of B2B industry tradeshows, international sales management and sustainable events implementation.
At SACEOS, Sukumar is Vice President for Industry & Enterprise. As the sustainability lead, he has Chaired various committees and played a leading role in the launch of the MICE Sustainability Roadmap in December 2022, the development of Singapore MICE Sustainability Standards and most recently, the launch of the Singapore MICE Sustainability Certification (MSC) in January 2024. He has also collaborated with the Global Sustainable Tourism Council to develop the GSCT MICE criteria.
Sukumar is also a member of the Industry Advisory Committee for Singapore Institute of Technology’s Hospitality Business Programme, and Republic Polytechnic’s School of Hospitality Advisory Committee.
Our Partners
Adeline Lim
Adeline comes with over 20 years of experience and institutional knowledge in the business events industry for both public and private sectors locally and overseas. Her past experience in STB has built up her strength in partnering stakeholders from different backgrounds, including the government, associations, academia and the business sectors; thus fostering the growth of the MICE industry.
While managing one of Singapore Government’s most significant events at MND, she understands and appreciates how taking an integrated systems approach is crucial to the development of large scale events. Being part of one of Singapore’s largest and most creative MICE venues at RWS, has also horned her appreciation of working hand in hand with venue partners to create meaningful business conversations at the events.
Now that she is part of the Messe Munich family as Exhibition Director, she is glad to be able to continue contributing to the growth of the MICE industry in Singapore. Not forgetting the rewarding experience she had being the program curator at the 2023 Singapore MICE Forum!
Our Partners
Christine Lee
Christine is currently the Marketing Director – Asia at Terrapinn. She is a highly adaptable marketing and digital project management professional with 19 years of experience in the B2B events industry. She joined the exciting world of events as a Conference Coordinator at Reed Business Information (now part of LexisNexis Risk Solutions) in 2005.
She has extensive experience in delivering small, medium, and large scale in-person and hybrid events in Southeast Asia across multiple industries from food & hospitality to electronics manufacturing to technology and aviation.
The highlight of her marketing career was securing the UFI Marketing Award for Brand New Brands for IoT Asia in 2016.
