Matthew Meredith has over 20 years experience in the international exhibition and event organizing industry. Having started his career with the Montgomery network (now re-named Allworld Exhibitions), he organized business events across many industrial (b2b) sectors in Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, China, Hong Kong, Philippines, Japan and Thailand as well as the Middle East and Africa. Upon leaving the Montgomery Network he became Marketing Director for dmg world media (part of the Daily Mail group of companies), a specialist publishing, conference and exhibitions organizer for both the b2b and b2c sectors based in the UK and North America. He then became Chief Operating Officer for ITE exhibitions a b2b organizer specializing in trade events in Russia, Eastern Europe, Turkey, the CIS and Africa In 2005 he was appointed as Group General Manager for the Singex Group of companies which manages the South East Asia's largest exhibition and convention centre Singapore Expo. Mathew holds a Law degree from Birmingham University and an MBA from Cranfield University.