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Janet Tan-Collis Chief Executive of East West Planners with over 35 years in the Meetings, Incentives, Congress, Events Industry. |
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Herve Joseph-Antoine Since 2012, Herve Joseph-Antoine is the Global Managing Director of Pacific World, global Destination and Event Management company leader headquartered in Asia and operating in 30 countries around the world including Asia, Europe, Middle East and Africa. Pacific World formed an alliance with ACCESS Destinations in the United States, forming the first and largest MICE integrated Destination offering with more than 100 destinations and 500 MICE experts worldwide. In the past 2 years, Pacific World received many awards such as “Top Business Events companies” in Asia by CEI Magazine, and also leading Inbound Travel Agent in Indonesia and Best Incentive Award in Malaysia. |
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Nancy Tan One of the original architects of Ace:Daytons Advertising, Nancy is a pioneering member who has nurtured many Singaporean institutions. In 1994 she mooted Ace:Daytons Direct, an offshoot agency specializing in events management, conferences, conventions, exhibitions and promotions. |
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Wee Min Ong, CMP Marina Bay Sands is an integrated property with 2,561 hotel rooms, 1.2million sq ft of Meeting & Expo space, 300 retail shops and 60 restaurants. Marina Bay Sands is the leader in the hosting of Business Events and is the main meeting facility in Singapore. |
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Sam Lay, CMP Sam Lay is the head of Asia Pacific meetings operations for BCD M&I where he is responsible for driving the implementation of strategic meeting management programme (SMMP) initiatives across the region. Prior to this, he was the regional meetings lead for MSD in Asia Pacific and Japan where he led a regional team in developing SMMP capabilities for the organization. Before MSD, Sam spent more than 5 years in Suntec Singapore as the Assistant Director of Business Research where he oversaw the incubation of new business accounts and the development of key convention center projects in the region. Sam brings with him more than 15 years of experience spanning across diverse business sectors in the MICE industry. He has a business degree specializing in International Tourism and he is also a CIC certified meeting professional. |
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Selina Chavry Selina, a Global citizen and Australian National, has been in the events industry for twelve years living and working all over the world before moving to Singapore in 2012. |
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Eileen Hair Eileen leads the Automotive and Commodities cluster of SingEx Exhibitions, a subsidiary of SingEx Holdings which is wholly-owned by Temasek Holdings. She is responsible for defining the strategic directions and driving the execution of the events under that cluster including Tyrexpo Series which spreads across Africa, India, Singapore and United Kingdom. |
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Chandran Nair Mr Chandran Nair is the General Manager (Project Management) of Singex Venues Pte Ltd, the company managing Singapore Expo. He has brought with him 29 years of vast experience in the exhibition and convention industry, as well as venue management. In addition, Mr Chandran has served as a committee member in the Trade Fair & Trade Mart Committee, World Trade Centre Association, USA and as a General Manager in the World Trade Centre Club, Singapore. Fuelled by his passion to raise the new generation, he have been actively lecturing in various educational institutions, allowing the new generation an opportunity to glean from his industry experience. |
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Jimmy Lau Jimmy spent 40 years in the MICE industry. He served in various appointments, including President of Reed Exhibitions Singapore and Managing Director for Experia Events where he co-founded Singapore Airshow. Having been closely associated with the commercial aviation and aerospace defence industry for more than 20 years, he co-founded Singapore’s first low-cost airline “Valuair” in 2005. He is a member of the Youth Aviation Advisory Board Singapore and Chairs the Licensing and Disciplinary Committee for the Malaya Racing Association and the Marketing Communication Committee for Singapore Turf Club. Today, he runs his own security firm, providing manpower and security equipment for hotels and commercial buildings. Jimmy is ACTA certified and as an Adult Educator, his job relates to the direct development of people within the security industry. He is particularly keen in international marketing, working in cross-cultural environment and brand building. Jimmy also served as President of SACEOS from 1998 – 2002. |
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Daniel Chua, CMP Daniel Chua is Founder and Chief Executive of AONIA Private Limited, a client-enabler that architectures and delivers highly-customized motivational and inspirational Events that help organizations attain the fullest potential of their team and stakeholder relationships. |
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Chandran Nair Mr Chandran Nair is the General Manager (Project Management) of Singex Venues Pte Ltd, the company managing Singapore Expo. He has brought with him 29 years of vast experience in the exhibition and convention industry, as well as venue management. In addition, Mr Chandran has served as a committee member in the Trade Fair & Trade Mart Committee, World Trade Centre Association, USA and as a General Manager in the World Trade Centre Club, Singapore. Fuelled by his passion to raise the new generation, he have been actively lecturing in various educational institutions, allowing the new generation an opportunity to glean from his industry experience. |
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Edward Liu, PBM Mr. Edward Liu is the Group Managing Director of Conference & Exhibition Management Services (CEMS), which operates in Singapore, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam. In China, CEMS organizes four tourism exhibitions, including the Beijing International Tourism Expo (BITE) series, which is the largest event of its kind in Beijing. |
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Lloyd TAN Lloyd is passionate about Exhibition & Conference and he believes that “it really works!” |
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Jimmy Lau Jimmy spent 40 years in the MICE industry. He served in various appointments, including President of Reed Exhibitions Singapore and Managing Director for Experia Events where he co-founded Singapore Airshow. Having been closely associated with the commercial aviation and aerospace defence industry for more than 20 years, he co-founded Singapore’s first low-cost airline “Valuair” in 2005. He is a member of the Youth Aviation Advisory Board Singapore and Chairs the Licensing and Disciplinary Committee for the Malaya Racing Association and the Marketing Communication Committee for Singapore Turf Club. Today, he runs his own security firm, providing manpower and security equipment for hotels and commercial buildings. Jimmy is ACTA certified and as an Adult Educator, his job relates to the direct development of people within the security industry. He is particularly keen in international marketing, working in cross-cultural environment and brand building. Jimmy also served as President of SACEOS from 1998 – 2002. |
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Wee Min Ong, CMP Marina Bay Sands is an integrated property with 2,561 hotel rooms, 1.2million sq ft of Meeting & Expo space, 300 retail shops and 60 restaurants. Marina Bay Sands is the leader in the hosting of Business Events and is the main meeting facility in Singapore.
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Felicity Zadro BA in Social Sciences (Journalism) UTS, MA (Communications Management) UTS |
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Felix Rimbach Dr Rimbach was identified in very young age with extraordinary talents in math and analytics. He earned multiple degrees in computer science, engineering and business administration to finally earn his PhD in Marketing and Algorithmic Science. With multiple books and academic research contributions in A-journal publications and functions in top universities, he has become a leading researcher on Marketing, Technology and Analytics. As the youngest General Manager in the DaimlerChrysler Group, he ran the Asia, Australia and Africa analytical IT operations for all Finance companies for around 10 years. In cooperation with the largest global IT hardware and software suppliers, he developed a wide range of finance portfolio quants, business process applications and marketing solutions. In the last 5 years, Dr Rimbach successfully launched several start companies with strong and unique market position and multi-million revenues in Asia, Europe and the US. Dr Felix Rimbach is now the regional director for R&D at Globibo (one of the largest event technology companies managing over 1000 events a year) as well as Turnkey Business Solutions (a market-leader for sophisticated payment clearing and loyalty analytics solutions) |
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Chester Chu Chester graduated from the University of Reading, England with a BA (Hons.) in Business Economics in 1987. Upon graduation, he joined Singapore Airlines and over his 10-year experience with the airline, held a variety of management positions in Singapore, Hong Kong and Malaysia. Chester moved to Reed Exhibitions Singapore in 1997 as the Project Director for Asian Aerospace, the largest aerospace and defence event in Asia at that time. He subsequently developed and managed a portfolio of international trade shows and conferences in Singapore in a variety of industries including electronics manufacturing, pharmaceutical manufacturing, healthcare and education. After 11 years with Reed Exhibitions, Chester joined MCI Singapore in 2008 as Director – Institutional Division. In addition to his role as Regional Director (Asia Pacific) for the Million Dollar Round Table (based in Chicago, USA), he led the MCI Singapore Association Management & Consulting team in developing and implementing strategic plans in the Asia Pacific region for international professional associations to grow their presence in the region.
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