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| Christine Hewitt - Distributor for Conference Online Western Australia Christine has previously worked in the USA as a legal secretary and later moved into the real estate industry. Spanning a period of 14 years in these industries, she honed her skills in marketing and public relations. Since returning to Australia, she has worked in the tourism industry where, for the past 10 years, she has been extensively involved in organising large international tourism events, as well as the development of and training in website and tourism database systems. She brings to the team a wide range of organisational and marketing skills. |
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Val Sanders - Managing Director, Conference Online Pty Ltd
Val has a background in management. First through twenty five years in Law Practices ultimately holding the position of Office Manager/Paralegal of a large legal firm and later in her own two Travel Agencies. Val is the vision behind Conference Online as she saw the gap in the market place and is passionate about maximising customer service through technological solutions. She brings to the company her extensive experience in corporate management, the travel industry, conference management and e-commerce. |
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Michael Chase-Smith - Director, Conference Online Pty Ltd
Michael has over 27 years experience in the technology industry, the last 18 years providing consulting services to the travel and conference industries. Michael has held senior management positions with travel and technology organisations in Australia and overseas and has been involved with the growth of one of Australia's leading Corporate Travel Management Companies, World Travel Professionals since 2002. Michael has a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics, a Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance and is a Fellow of the Financial Services Institute of Australasia. |
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Jock Robertson - Legal Counsel
Jock acts in the capacity of in-house legal Counsel. He is an Australian Lawyer with 30 years general legal practice experience including that of Senior Partner of a large non metropolitan Australian Legal Firm. Jock has travelled extensively throughout the world and now devotes most of his working time to Conference Online. |
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Julie Jerbic - Events Specialist Julie commenced her career as a Paralegal in a Queensland Law Office for 5. She left Australia to travel the world and finally settled in London where she remained for 14 years. Julie returns to Australia to join Conference Online, her family's business. In London Julie initially worked for Virgin Atlantic in reservations after which she worked for four prestigious London companies as their Event and Membership Manager. Julie solely managed up to 48 events per annum. Julie was given a standing ovation for her amazing work and dedication at her recent final event in London. |
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Narda Skelton - Senior Systems Project Manager
Narda has worked in web and multimedia development since 1996, freelancing at various high profile companies in Sydney such as Adobe, Macquarie Bank, ShowAds Interactive, Brand Dialogue (formerly the digital arm of Young & Rubicam), Coca Cola Amatil and Armstrong, Miller and McLaren. In 2000 she returned to Queensland and began specialising in database driven web sites, systems analysis and usability design, working at several boutique creative agencies and the eMarketing department of Tourism Queensland. |
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Joshua Zhang - Software Engineer Joshua has lived and worked in China and has vast experience in Wireless Union Systems, Storage Management Systems, Geographic Information System, Web Base Data System. Joshua has now settled in Australia and has become a vital part of the upgrades of Conference Online technology. |