After an extensive background in senior hotel management with such chains as Regent International Hotels, Ramada and Accor Asia Pacific, Lani Sullivan joined the Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games as Program Manager for Accommodation, Conferences and Arrivals and Departures.

Lani is experienced in hands-on implementation of programming and service delivery involving liaison with the IOC, 100 international and Australian sponsors such as Coca Cola, IBM, and Visa, the 17,000 international media, the 200 worldwide National Olympic Committees, as well as the 350 hotel General Managers involved in the Sydney Olympics and Paralympics.  Negotiating stringent and detailed contracts and managing customer expectations were an essential element in the success of the Games. The size of the task was 1 million room nights at a value of over $220 million dollars.

Lani has been involved in consulting to London 2012 Games during their bid process.  She also wrote the initial concept of operations for Doha Asia Games 2006 and is responsible for contracting accommodation and program operations for World Youth Day 2008 which will see approximately 150,000 pilgrims accommodated in Sydney in a wide variety of accommodation styles from 5 star hotels to camp sites including the setting up of “HomeSafe”, a home hosting program in NSW.

Peter has an extensive background in Venue, Hotel and Event Management.

He is a former board member of the Brisbane Convention Bureau, and was the Chairman of the Marketing Committee for the City of Brisbane in the lead up to World Expo 88.

He is currently

• Joint Managing Director of the Australian Conference and Events Bureau

• Director of  the Asia Pacific Association Executives Congress

• Board  member, Gold Coast Institute of Mental Health

In the past 20 years he has been personally involved in over 200 conferences and events ranging in size from 200 to 20,000.

Peter is actively involved in Association Management and International Conferences and Events.

He is on the management committee of six international conferences in three countries and is an accredited Meetings Manager with Meeting and Events Australia (MEA).