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.

Preecha Sananvatananont
With training in business and management from Assumption Commercial College, the OPM Executive Program at Harvard Business School, and Executive Development Program at Templeton College, Oxford University, Preecha is now the President of Reed Tradex Company, Thailand. In 1984, He started a career in professional trade show organizer with Tradex, a company he co-found. Supported by a global infrastructure and 80 strong local team members, Preecha is spearheading Reed Tradex into its 20^th year of market leadership. He is also a member of Thailand Incentive and Convention Association (TICA) Board of Committee. 

Sumate Sudasna

Sumate has been in the travel business for over 30 years and has been a DMC for 22 years. He has been on the TICA - Thailand Incentive and Convention Association board of directors since its early years and has chaired all 3 committees, with current duty of Secretary General of the association. He is also current president of SITE Thailand Chapter and has been a member since 1987. In 1993 he was awarded World Incentive Travel Personality for Asia by the organizers of IT&ME and EIBTM and in 1995 was named SITE Member of the Year.

Alwin Zecha
Alwin Zecha is the Executive Chairman of Pacific Leisure Group of Companies which has offices in 19 countries throughout Asia-Pacific. Mr. Alwin has a wealth of experiences under his belt and held different high profile positions in the tourism industry in the last three decades. He has been the First Chairman of Pacific Asia Travel Association - PATA  HRD Council, Councillor of Joint Council of the Travel Industry of Hong Kong - JCTI,  President of  Pacific Asia Travel Association-PATA (two consecutive terms), Faculty University of Hawaii T.I.M. School-EDIT program, Regional Manager of Asia Magazines Limited in North America, New York, World President Emeritus of  International Congress & Convention Association - ICCA, Chairman & Faculty of ICCA/PATA Conference Management Program - CMP.  He was also the Gold Medal Recipient from Austria National Tourism Ministry, World President  of international Congress & Convention Association - ICCA, Chairman of Hong Kong Association of Travel Agents-HATA and Director of Air Promotion Group, France and  Air Travel Corporation - UK. Alwin is holding an M.B.A. from Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and B.A. Economics from Tufts University.

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.

Dr. Joanne Yoo
Dr. Joanne Yoo is an assistant director of Strategic Intelligence Centre at the Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA). Joanne received her B.A. degree from Ewha Womans University in Korea and she was awarded the Australian Government Scholarship to study her MBA in Tourism Management at Griffith University in Australia. Dr. Yoo received her Ph.D. in 2005 from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Prior to joining to PATA, Dr. Yoo lectured a number of tourism subjects, in the area of convention tourism in particular, at universities in Korea and Hong Kong. She is the Certified Hospitality Educator (CHE) designated by the American Hotel and Lodging Association and has published several journal papers on a wide range of topics in leading international tourism and hospitality journals including International Journal of Hospitality Management,Journal of Convention & Event Management and more.

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.

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.

Tom Hulton

Tom Hulton joined the international advertising agency Ogilvy & Mather following a short career in the British army. With O&M, he was based in London and Singapore handling a number of hotel and tourism accounts accounts.. He was the Managing Director of Supranational Hotels and developed this reservation and marketing hotel consortia into the third largest in the world. Tom joined the International Congress and Convention Association as Chief Executive Officer based in Amsterdam. He currently works with IMEX as Director of International Relations. with special responsibilities, for helping to raise the political profile of business tourism within Government circles in Europe.

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 totured 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 11^th 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.