Specialist Services Holdings Limited PO Box: 2752, Dubai Tel: 04-3472646 Fax: 04-3472148 www.specserve.com Nominee: Ian Rogers Chief Executive Officer Mob: 050-6547272 ianrogers@specserve.com Alternate: David Smith Manager, Sales & Marketing Mob: 050-6134248 david@specserve.com
The Charter Company ME FZE is well established in the region as a supplier of VVIP aircraft for charter and lease. The company also offers cargo, logistics and air ambulance solutions into hostile areas.
The First Group LLC PO Box 191672, Dubai Tel: 04-4097500 Fax: 04-4097600 www.thefirstgroup.com Nominee: Mark Richard Tolner Chief Financial Officer Mob: 050-6401527 marktolner@thefirstgroup.com
standMASTER FZ LLC PO Box 37570, Dubai Tel: 04-8846051 Fax: 04-8841393 www.standmasteruae.com Nominee: Julie Shore Partner Mob: 050-4963536 julie@standmasteruae.com Alternate: Mark Shore Partner Mob: 050-5386051 mark@standmasteruae.com With over 20 years’ experience in exhibition management in the UK, Middle East, Africa, Eurasia, India and Russia. 2009 was seen as the start-up year for standMASTER to establish an exhibition company in Dubai, and has quickly established itself as a major force within the exhibition market. standMASTER offers clients individual and personal services hallmarked by quality proactively and competence. Clients benefit from standMASTER is flexible, committed and careful working methods using their particular competence and local know-how. standMASTER deliberately position themselves as a supplier for the discriminating client. standMASTER provide exhibition stand design and build services. The value add of the standMASTER offering is its knowledge and expertise, competitive rates and focus. standMASTER’s decision to focus on superb customer service was made because our market surveys suggest this is a gap within the market.
The Charter Company ME FZE PO Box 371360, Dubai Tel: 04-7017399 Fax: 04-7017398 www.thechartercompany.ae Nominee: Christopher Neil Turnbull President Mob: 050-9941179 neil.t@thechartercompany.ae Alternate: Zaheer Imitaz Choudary Vice President Mob: 050-4442973 zaheer.c@thechartercompany.ae
Alternate: Arron Gareth Shepherd Executive Assistant Manager Mob: 050-6516685 arronshepherd@thefirstgroup.com Additional: Deborah Ebdon-Thomson Admin & Events Co-ordinator Mob: 050-4517213 deborahebdon@thefirstgroup.com TAC Europe and its specialist operating division, technology Project Services (TPS) provide technical recruitment solutions across a wide range of industries and source staff for skilled and semi- skilled vacancies on behalf of more than 250 of the world’s most respected organisations every day. By actively managing our pre-qualified candidate database and deploying our specialist knowledge of the disciplines and markets within which we operate, we are able to source the best contracts permanent staff and project teams for our clients. We form part of one of the world’s largest recruitment groups, which includes TAC Worldwide, Advantage Glodal, FSS, Strategic and Crone Corkhill.
Tourism Ireland PO Box 262746, Dubai Tel: 04-8137863 Fax: 04-8137814 www.discoverireland.com Nominee: Amanda Burns General Manager Mob: 055-5390137 aburns@tourismireland.com Alternate: Aisling Louise McDermott Marketing Manager Mob: 055-5174007 amcdermott@tourismireland.com Tourism Ireland is responsible for marketing Ireland overseas. The principal objectives of the company are to increase tourism to Ireland and to support Northern Ireland in realising its tourism potential. The team at Tourism Ireland, which consists of 160 staff, devises and delivers world-class marketing programmes in 23 markets globally. Tourism Ireland works in close co-operation with industry partners in Ireland
as well as the overseas travel trade, on-line operators, media and air and sea carriers to encourage consumers to holiday in Ireland. In 2009 Tourism Ireland established an Asia-Hub in the UAE with responsibility for emerging markets in the Middle East and Asia, with representatives in the GCC, India, China and Japan.
Vintage Holdings Limited PO Box 54749, Dubai Tel: 04-2990875 Fax: 04-2990876 Nominee: Suresh Rajagopalan Managing Director Mob: 050-6251967 sureshr@vinhl.ae Alternate: Scott David Rigler General Manager Mob: 050-6403308 scottr@vinhl.ae A company owned on behalf of Marlon Abela, the younger son of Albert P Abela, whose family business has operated in the region and globally for over 50 years, with over 70,000 employees in 43 countries. Major Shareholders Managers Fine and Executive of Chef Middle East (formerly Foods), an importer and distributor of premium foods products to the hotel and restaurant business in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Qatar and Oman. Currently undertaking studies to take Chef into Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. Engaged in growing and diversifying Vintage, by acquisition, to become the premium food service operator of choice in the region. Affiliated to MARC (Marlon Abela Restaurant Corporation), with fine dining restaurants in the UK and the USA, with a view to franchising relevant restaurant concepts and/or operating directly in the UAE and other prime locations throughout the region. By association with MFW (MARC Fine wines & champagnes), we have supplied fine wines into the local market via the designated distributors in the UAE.
Virtuzone Freezone PO Box 487177, Dubai/Fujairah Tel: 04-4486406 Fax: 04-4486405 www.vz.ae Nominee: Neil Petch Chairman neil.petch@vz.ae Alternate: Stuart Donald Client Services Manager stuart.donald@vz.ae Additional: Ulrika Christoffersen Client Services Director ulrika.christoffersen@vz.ae
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