Meet the Business Events Sydney Management team

Business Events Sydney's Executive team

Responsible for the overall strategy, administration and events of Business Events Sydney:

• Lyn Lewis-Smith: Chief Executive Officer
• Kalliopi Galanis: Executive Assistant
• Ashleigh Baldacchino: Team Assistant – Executive and Corporate Services

Corporate Services and Strategy team

The Corporate Services team manages finance, HR, database management and IT.

• Sonya Stewart: Chief Financial Officer
• Kylie Lake: Finance Manager
• Kate Militano: Research and Reporting Manager
• Rachael Lunn: HR Advisor
• Gilly Cashell: System Administrator
• Marie Lo: Accounts Assistant

Strategic Marketing and Communications team

The Strategic Marketing and Communications team develops strategic relationships with the public and private sectors to identify new bid opportunities, deliver innovative and creative bid proposals across both the association and corporate markets. The team also manages branding, communications, media and digital channel strategy and execution.

• Hannah Jamieson: General Manager Strategic Marketing
• Zenith Yeung: Strategic Marketing and Communications Team Assistant

Marketing team

• Aliena Conciatore: Head of Marketing
• Rebecca Mills: Marketing Manager
• Jenna Bradwell: Communications Executive
  
• Charlotte Stasiukynas: Marketing Executive
• Damian Wheeler: Graphic Designer

Bidding

• Marie-Claire Henry: Senior Bid Manager – Association 
• David Swagell: Bid Manager – Association
• Suzanna Kenneally: Bid Manager – Association
• Vanessa Ma: Bid Manager – Corporate
• Sarah Knight-Gregson: Bid Executive

Event Delivery team

The Event Delivery team actively works with BESydney’s Strategic Partners and Members and clients to support secured events, facilitating their successful delivery and maximising their economic benefit to NSW, while also providing a high quality experience for delegates and
their host organisations. This team also manages BESydney’s free event planning service, AccessNSW.

• Robyn Johnson: General Manager Event Delivery
• Vanessa Succar: Event Delivery Team Assistant
  
  

Client Services team

• Anne Camenzind: Head of Client Services
• Vivian Chen: Client Services Manager – Corporate
• Peggy Kellner: Client Services Manager – Association

Membership and Events team

• Natalie Young: Client Services Manager – Membership
• Nadine March: Events Manager
• Victoria Robins: Events Manager
• Nathalie Altamiranda: AccessNSW Executive

Business Development team

The Business Development team includes the Sales Research team and is responsible for identifying potential events and actively working to secure them for Sydney and NSW.

• Kristian Nicholls: General Manager Business Development
• Yvonne Jenkins: Business Development Team Assistant
  

Sales Research team

• Monica Varga: Head of Sales Research
  
• Patty Buehler: Client Relationship Manager US
• Martin Boyle: Client Relationship Manager UK/Europe
• Barbara Howlett: Sales Research Manager UK
• Michelle Muscat: Sales Research Executive
  

Client Engagement (Association) team

• Virginia Loyola: Head of Client Engagement – Association
• Darwin Ow: Senior National Business Development Manager

Client Engagement (Corporate) team

• Sinead Yeo: Regional Director – Asia
• Cheryl Siow: Director – China
• Liza Bajracharya: Business Development Manager – Asia
• Jasmine Seng: Business Development Executive – China
  

Consultants

• Ian Stuart: Business Events Consultant
• Paramjit Bawa: Manager India