Peter is a Certified Venue Executive from the International Association of Venue Managers, an Accredited Venue Manager from the Venue Management Association (Asia and Pacific) and has over 20 years’ experience in executive management for public venues across 23 facilities and over 500 major events. Peter has extensive industry networks and has played a pivotal role in establishing and chairing national and international working groups such as the Australia Rectangular Stadia Group and the Australia and New Zealand Government Venue Agency Group.
As Chief Operating Officer of VenuesWest, Peter is responsible for the organisation’s six self-managed venues, and has delivered record financial performance, customer satisfaction and visitation results during this time. Peter is instrumental in bringing numerous World Class Events to Perth. He also led the VenuesWest Incident Response team through COVID-19 and the back in business phase, post pandemic.

Olivia commenced her current role of Head of Operations at Tennis West in early 2020, just as COVID hit the industry and forced lockdowns. During this time, Olivia engaged heavily with the IAVM and VMA webinars and had calls with people in the USA and Australia, to support each other. Olivia comes from a small venue environment, where she has had to ‘wear a lot of hats’ and manage a range of issues. Olivia is now well versed in biosecurity and COVID Safety Plans, as much as emergency response plans, bookings systems, asset registers and staff management. Oliva brought this diverse range of skills and knowledge together as she completed her Accredited Venue Manager accreditation in 2020. Olivia joined the Venue Management Association Board in 2021 and she looks forward to seeing the industry grow and embrace a diverse range of venues and members.

Having held senior leadership roles at a number of theatres and sports and entertainment venues across WA along with two host venues in Sydney for the 2000 Olympic Games, Kyllie has had a successful career spanning nearly 30 years.
A generous and passionate leader, Kyllie has the ability to draw the best out of her team, fostering a supportive team environment. Valuing creative out of the box thinking she challenges her team to be a little better today than yesterday.
In her current role as Catering Manager at RAC Arena, Kyllie is responsible for all aspects of the venue’s food and beverage operation. A typical event for the RAC Arena Catering Team includes service of 30 private suites and concert club feeding over 600 patrons, 5 function rooms serving 1,200 guests, international artists and entourage, 150 production crew, 60 internal staff and over 13,000 ticket-holders at bars and food outlets; and usually all at the same time.

With 27 years’ experience across the gamut of the security, safety and risk industry, Scott is a court and tribunal recognised expert and has a strategic and systematic approach to Security Management and Business Continuity Management. Scott is an industry Thought Leader and is often contacted by various media sources as a “Security Industry Specialist Spokesperson” and expert witness when security and risk related issues surface in the public arena. He has consulted and lectured throughout the Middle East and USA and has and worked with government, industry regulators and industry across all Australian States and Territories spanning the spectrum of security and risk as well as all industry verticals. Scott sits on numerous International security related councils to ensure he stays abreast of world best practice in his field of expertise which directly translates into improved outcomes for his clients.