Asia/Singapore Saturday, 27th June 2026
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MCI muscles up with OSC acquisition

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BUSINESS event specialist MCI has acquired creative events agency Off-site Connections Event Solutions Australia (OSC) in a bid to expand its resources and enhance creative services to clients.

The move brings a team of 16 to MCI Australia, with event solutions skills ranging from technical production, creative event design and styling, event and brand communication, overall event programme design and all logistics management.

Nick Millis, general manager of OSC will join MCI in Australia as director of corporate and creative events, working closely with Stephan Wurzinger, managing director of MCI Australia.

OSC’s managing director, Peter Kinnane, will join MCI as director of creative events, Asia-Pacific. He will drive the MCI Creative Events and Brand Experiences to corporate and association clients throughout the Asia-Pacific region.

Wurzinger said: “MCI Australia has found in OSC a creative partner who matches our client-centric ethos and constant quest to provide outside of the box solutions. A major milestone for operations in Australia, this acquisition will transform our corporate events offering.”

Boutique travel specialist leads exhibitions-oriented SACEOS

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VETERAN DMC and boutique travel specialist Janet Tan-Collis, managing director of East West Planners Singapore, has been elected president of SACEOS, a post which, in the history of the association, has always been held by the head of an exhibition company.

SACEOS itself stands for the Singapore Association of Convention and Exhibition Organisers and Suppliers, but appears to have all but dropped the acronym and built in a tagline to indicate it covers the wider Meetings, Incentives, Conventions and Exhibitions.

Tan-Collis described her election as a “defining and refining” moment for SACEOS.

“Defining” because “SACEOS could be the private sector MICE platform in Singapore to engage with” for the development of the whole industry, she said, and “refining” because the exhibitions industry “requires a certain amount of refinement – it cannot continue to compete on price and could perhaps create more of its own content with the Singapore branding”.

Tan-Collis aims to champion both causes as well as groom the next-generation leaders to head SACEOS in the future. Half of her exco, she said, comprised younger people.

– Over Coffee With Janet Tan-Collis, TTGmice, August 2013

Kerry Hotel Pudong, Shanghai

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Kerry Hotel Pudong, Shanghai has made Sherryn Bates director of sales and marketing. She was senior director of marketing with two luxury international hotels in Central Europe.

Fairmont Hotels & Resorts

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Carmen Lam is now vice president, sales & marketing, Asia-Pacific for Fairmont Hotels & Resorts. Based in Shanghai, Lam will provide sales and marketing direction to Fairmont’s hotels and support its pipeline of regional developments. She was senior vice president, leisure & brand sales and marketing for Melco Crown Entertainment.

The Langham, Shenzhen

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The Langham, Shenzhen has appointed Tan Guo-Sheng executive chef for its signature restaurant T’ang Court. Tan has worked with gourmet food for over 30 years, having served in numerous international luxury chain hotels and private clubhouses worldwide.

The Westin Resort Nusa Dua and Bali International Convention Centre

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Saraswati Subadia has been appointed director of sales MICE with The Westin Resort Nusa Dua and Bali International Convention Centre in Bali. She has worked exclusively in the MICE sector for the past 12 years and was managing director MICE with Smailing Tour – Ovation Indonesia. The hotel has also promoted Jason Leung to the position of hotel manager and Sally Fadjrina to senior director of sales.

Saraswati Subadia

Imperial Hotel

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Imperial Hotel has appointed Tetsuya Kobayashi as chairman and Hideya Sadayasu as president. Kobayashi was last president of Imperial Hotel and general manager of the Imperial Hotel Tokyo, while Sadayasu has multi-operational experience in numerous departments across the Tokyo property.

Millennium & Copthorne Hotels

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Franz Zeller has returned to Millennium & Copthorne Hotels, this time as senior vice president, Asia. He was senior vice president, operations for Asia-Pacific and Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel’s general manager from 1999 to 2001, and then senior vice president, Middle East and North Africa, Millennium Hotels & Resorts.

Hotel Grand Pacific

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Jimmy Kwan is now director of business development with Hotel Grand Pacific. He was last general manager of Fort Canning Lodge, Singapore, a property owned and managed by the local chapter of the World Young Women’s Christian Association.

Swissôtel Merchant Court

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Jessica Loh has joined Swissôtel Merchant Court as director of sales. With more than 10 years of sales management experience, she was last assistant manager of security, projects & planning at KPMG Services.

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