Martin Kinna
Martin has a wealth of experience under his belt and has been active in the international meetings and exhibitions arena since the early 1970's. For the last 14 years Martin has been the owner and Managing Director of The Convention Partnership Ltd who provides sales, marketing and representation for international congress and convention centres. Martin is a well-respected facilitator in the industry and was a faculty member at the annual IAPCO seminar in Wolfsberg, Switzerland.
Dato’ Ahmad Bakri
Dato’ Bakri served the Government of Malaysia in various capacities from 1966 through 1999.During the growth years of tourism after “Visit Malaysia Year 1990”, Dato’ Bakri served as Director General of the Malaysia Tourism Promotion Board in which capacity he held appointments in local and regional tourism organizations.He also has wide experience in training and development through serving the National Institute of Public Administration (INTAN) and the Asian Pacific Development Centre.He has served as Deputy Secretary General in the Prime Minister’s Department and then, Secretary General and the first Sports Commissioner at the Ministry of Youths and Sports during the Commonwealth Games ’1998 period.Dato’ Bakri has a Masters degree in marketing as well as a post-graduate diploma in public administration.
Mr. T. C. Chun is an energetic and experienced in spite of his age. He is a person who tries to achieve excellence in all his endeavours. He is currently running GoodMILES, a Destination Management Company (DMC) in Brunei Darussalam. He has been in every sector of the tourism field. In his 40 years of experience - airlines, hotels, general sales agents for airline, catering and restaurant business, ticketing agency and tour operator, car hire and training.
He came to Brunei in 1982 and has since contributed immensely towards - "Putting Brunei on the Tourism Map of the world" He has successfully opened the Japanese, Korean and Chinese tourism market into Brunei Darussalam. Mr. Chun has been concentrating on the luxury leisure market and the Meetings and Events industry market over the last five years and has been successful in achieving excellence with many world renown companies in their Incentive and meetings programs.
Jean CHristophe Robles
Chris Robles is the Director of Marketing and Promotion, Brunei Tourism. Born in Versailles, France, in 1960 from a Peruvian father and a French mother, Mr. Chris grew up and studied in France, England and Peru, before starting working in the tourism industry in 1979. He is fluent in French, Spanish, English and Italian, with good notions of Malay. During his 27 years long career in different front line positions in the tourism industry, has worked in about a dozen countries on 4 continents and has traveled for leisure or business around the world to over 40 countries and territories on 5 continents. Before joining Brunei Tourism in September 2003, Chris Robles was the Director of Marketing and Promotion of Sarawak Tourism Board in Kuching, Malaysia. His long experience in the industry has brought him in close contact with the key players in the tourism industry. Chris Robles has organized the first BIMP –EAGA Tourism Fair in Kuching in 1995 and has been one of the key organizers for the popular Rainforest World Music Festival held in Kuching since 1997.
Mohamed Abbas
A PhD candidate and a graduate from the International Islamic University Malaysia, Mohamed Abbas is a pioneer researcher in the M.I.C.E industry with a comprehensive academic background. Prior to his current position, he was attached to the department of Middle East market at Asian Overland Services Tours & Travel Sdn Bhd. His expertise in the tourism industry includes destination marketing, research & development in M.I.C.E, education tourism and health tourism. Presently, He works with AOS Conventions & Events as a Senior Research & Development Executive, based in Kuala Lumpur.
Datuk Ahmad Mustafa
An avid motor sports fan, Ahmad has been General Manager of Sepang F1 International Circuit since 2001. During his time with Sepang, Ahmad has brought the Malaysian Superseries, 4x4 and Motorcross sporting events to the track.
Mohd Rosly Selamat Rosly currently works for the National Tourism Development Department. Prior to this appointment he was Executive Director of the Malaysian Association of Hotels in Kuala Lumpur. Rosly played a major role in managing the Commonwealth Games in Malaysia in 1998.
Edward Liu Edward Liu is the Managing Director of Conference & Exhibition Management Services (CEMS) Pte Ltd in Singapore. In addition to his many activities Edward is the founder and President of the Singapore Association of Convention & Exhibition Organisers and Suppliers (SACEOS).
David Hall
David Hall has been involved in the world of conventions and exhibitions for over 30 years and has held the CEO position at various convention and visitor bureaus throughout the world. David Hall & Associates has consulted various governments in Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe, Australia and New Zealand on the development, operation and international marketing required for convention and exhibition facilities.
Hans Henrik Friis Hans is the Executive Director and Board Member of BR?HLER ICS AG Group of Companies overseeing the 11 companies in the Br?hler ICS Group. He is also Director of South East Asia for Brahler ICS Ltd Singapore and United Kingdon operations as well as International Business Development Director with Brahler ICS AG Germany. Hans has been working with Brahler ICS AG Germany, one of the leading manufacturers of professional conference technology for more than 13 years.
Ernest Bernard Towle Ernest is the Exhibition Sales & Sponsorhsip Manager for the XVIII FIGO World Congress project at AOS COnventions & Events Sdn. Bhd. Operating from an entrepreneur mind set, he works in close corroboration with AOS top level management to structure, modify and package products and services to meet the requirements of the clients he sees. An ardent student of mental gymnastics, he is committed to keep even the most demanding of clients satisfied whilst keeping in mind the exhibition sales and sponsorship objectives and AOS bottom line.
Mohamed Razikin Razikin is the Head of Programme for corporate training and adventure-summer camps for AOS Experiential Education Centre. Razikin has trained and tutored multi national organizations such as American International Assurance, UPS, MERCK and Mc Donalds. He is an experienced international mountaineer with experience climbing Mount Fuji and Japan's Kita Hotaka.
Christopher John Smith
In January 1976, Chris who hails from the UK joined the newly formed company R.E. Rogers based in London, co-ordinating and handling freight for British companies taking part in events worldwide. During this time, he handled exhibitions in Europe, both North and South America, the Middle East and Asia. In January 1980 was transferred from the London office as Operations Manager to the newly opened office, R.E. Rogers Singapore. During the 11th year in Singapore handled a team of 13 staff involved in both the export of exhibition material worldwide for Singapore companies and the inbound and onsite services for events in Singapore and the region. In August 1991 was transfer to head the company R.E. Rogers Bendera, Malaysia and in August 1993 was made Managing Director of the newly formed company R.E. Rogers Malaysia.
R.E. Rogers Malaysia now handle freight for Malaysian exhibitors taking part in events through out the world and act as the official forwarder for exhibitions in Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand and Korea.
Trevor Gardiner
Trevor Gardiner is Managing Director of Amlink Technologies. His career in the meetings industry began in 1987 in Brisbane when he joined Intermedia Convention and Event Management. Over the following five years, Trevor developed the first version of the EVENTS software system. EVENTS has since become a leading software for the management of conferences and events and is now used by more than 1,000 meeting planners in 46 countries.
Lex Granaada
Lex Granaada is the immediate past president of Socity of Incentive an Travel Executives (SITE) and been on the international Board of Directors as Vice President of Member Relations on the Executive Committee for four years. He lecturers on incentive marketing at seminars and universities in Holland, Finland, Turkey and Portugal. In his spare time, he runs Granaada & Partner, a full service incentive marketing company based in the Netherlands.
Allan Riches
Allan Riches is the Managing Director of Intrepid Management Services Sdn Bhd. IMS specializes in educationally oriented tour operations in Brunei and North West Borneo, this includes corporate training, risk management and educational tours. Through his many years of experience, Allan received many different awards such as Churchill Fellowship in 19980 in recognition of his experience and capability in training and personal development. He also received the National Medal award in 1993 for his services to the Australian community in bush fire fighting and administration. Mr. Allan Riches is holding a Bachelor Degree in Education from University of Sydney (1975) and Masters Degree in Educational Administration from Deakin University (1988).
