Meet The Team

Ross Miles-Cadman

GENERAL MANAGER Ross became our General Manager in 2019 after spending the past two decades abroad working in five-star hotels from San Francisco to Shanghai.

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Melanie DeCourcy

DIRECTOR OF SALES This New South Wales native started her career at Yulara in the shadow of Uluru and has been a member of our team for 15 years.

melanie.decourcy@shangri-la.com

Allan Horne

DIRECTOR OF BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT Allan has called Australia home for 13 years and worked in Brisbane and Melbourne before settling in Cairns.

allan.horne@shangri-la.com

Aaron Habgood

EXECUTIVE CHEF Aaron worked in hotel kitchens across Sydney and London before moving here in 2013 and says Shangri-La The Marina, Cairns helped him find his “own true style”.

Rachel Renton

FOOD & BEVERAGE MANAGER Venues along the Queensland coast – from Noosa to Hamilton Island – have been home to Rachel since taking on her first hospitality leadership role in 2006. Gavin Maloney

DIRECTOR OF DISTRIBUTION & LEISURE

BUSINESS Events Australia research is telling us Australian organisations are ready to get together.

The BEA’s Domestic Corporate Sentiment Research, released last October, shows an “encouraging 81 per cent of decision-makers are planning events one to two years from now” with that number a 6 per cent hike on the May 2021 data.

Taking that further, 60 per cent of businesses claim future events will involve “some form of travel”.

At Shangri-La The Marina, Cairns we’re seeing this sentiment reflected in the inquiries currently received by our Director of Business Development Allan Horne.

And we’re ready to host, with an experienced team that’s at full strength and working full time.

So, take the time to flip through Event by Shangri-La, our magazine funded by a Tourism Australia Boost grant, to see what we offer here in Cairns.

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