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Global L&Q Updates

It has been an exciting quarter for the Global Learning & Quality Department as we continue to grow and strengthen our team. We had our first global visit to our new Hyderabad office, where Aneesa Davids, our L&Q Specialist supporting Global ADE and Curations, joined us for a week of impactful trainings, team building events, and key strategic discussions. After over a year of virtual collaboration, it was wonderful to have Aneesa with us in person. We also welcomed Nipunika Adiraju as our new L&Q Specialist supporting Content, Client Experience, and MEC divisions. With seven talented team members now onboard — and more growth ahead — I am energised by the incredible partnerships we are building across divisions and look forward to delivering even greater value to our people and business.

Ubed Mohammad

Global Learning and Quality Director | Hyderabad

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Online Events

The Online Event Division continues to excel, demonstrating impressive growth and outstanding delivery of events. In Q2 of this year, the division achieved a remarkable 34 percent increase compared to Q2 of last year. This success reflects the team’s dedication, innovation, and commitment to creating exceptional online experiences for our clients. We are excited to build on this momentum and look forward to even greater achievements ahead!

Svetlana Pantechis

Head of Online Events | Cyprus

Operations Team

Event Highlights for North America Summits

The beginning of this summit season has been quite busy for North America! We kicked off the year with quite a few events taking place all over the country including Dallas, San Diego, Napa Valley, Boston and San Antonio.

All events were very successful with various highlights such as the “Wine Cave Dinner” in Napa Valley, the “Evening Fiesta” in San Antonio and the “St Patrick’s reception” in Boston. What’s next? You will need to wait for the next newsletter where we will be featuring exciting things from the next round of events! As a small hint, the fun fair is making a stop in Boston 😊

Maria Zografou

GM North America Summits | Limassol

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Event Highlights for APAC Summits

The ANZ summit season started with a vibrant and successful CMO ANZ Summit in February. A highlight of the jam-packed programme was the early Morning Yoga session led by a sponsor client and active Yoga instructor on day 2, which was well received by clients and also Marcus Evans team members. The first day of the event ended with a Sunset Picnic including giant board games, tasty bites and refreshing sips.

Team Korea also hosted another fantastic CIO Korea summit, in April at the Conrad Hotel Seoul! The event gave an excellent opportunity for IT leaders to exchange knowledge and insights, with lively networking and engaging in meetings throughout the event and marked another milestone for the team in this new developing market. The evening networking cocktail session offered a relaxed vibe, perfect for strengthening new connections and engaging in meaningful conversations. We also introduced an additional networking session to add value: our Morning Connect Networking Hour over coffee on the second day before the first presentation.

The Private Wealth Management APAC Summit also took place in late April at the beautiful Dusit Thani Laguna Singapore.

Next to come for the ANZ and APAC team are the HR and CFO ANZ Summits early June in Queensland Australia and the first CMO Asia Summit in late June, also taking place at the Dusit Thani Laguna Singapore.

Susanne Kirchhuebel

Event Director APAC Summits | Nicosia

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Event Highlights for EMEA Summits

The EMEA Summits have kicked off with great success, setting a high standard for the events to follow. Both regions showcased exceptional planning, collaboration, and engagement, reflecting the strength and unity of our global team. It’s an inspiring start to a series of Summits that promise to drive connection, innovation, and momentum across our organisation.

Christina Lignos

Event Director, EMEA & APAC Summits | Nicosia

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Linguarama

After an extraordinary journey with Linguarama that began in 1985, Cristina Fiderio is retiring. She often said she was a “Linguarama baby”, having joined the company so young—but looking back, it’s clear that Linguarama Torino became her baby. Over the past 35 years as Manager of the Turin Centre, she has helped it grow into a strong, successful and respected centre.

Through her dedication, vision and deep understanding of our clients, Cristina played a key role in building a solid, close-knit (and largely female!) team in Turin, a loyal group of trainers, and strong relationships with companies in the region.

Cristina has always embodied the spirit of Linguarama: international, professional, inclusive—and always focused on quality.

She will be very much missed, but we’re counting on seeing her often!

Paola Piccinini

Manager Linguarama France, Italy, Spain | Milan

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Linguarama Group is saying goodbye and thank you to Judy Fitzgerald, our national account manager in Germany who had her last day in April 2025. Judy started out 40 years ago as a freelancer trainer of English in our Munich school and soon advanced to director of studies, then centre manager. She later relocated to Berlin as centre manager then became our national account manager.

Judy has had a profound impact on Linguarama, growing successful centres and landing large clients such as Airbus, Bayer and Deutsche Bahn, to name only a few, all of which helped to shape our company’s processes and products, and help keep us competitive.

We thank Judy for lending us her tireless engagement, professionalism, creativity and humour, and for her contributions to sales training, reporting, product development, strategy and many more areas. We wish her a wonderful new phase in life.

Mary Patchin

Linguarama Düsseldorf. Manager Linguarama Germany, NL and UK | Düsseldorf

Greenwich

The team had another successful quarter, growing the business 25%+ year-over-year. Fahad Gilani crossed the USD 1.25 million mark in business halfway through the fiscal year! That’s a great achievement!

Stephen Bruce

Sales Director | Greenwich

Karachi

Our CEO for Europe and NA Conferences, Adnan Quazi, visited the Karachi office for the first time. It was really nice seeing him engage with the team in our new office for EU and US North American Capital Markets. He held some intensive individual and group trainings revolving around the topics of why we choose Marcus Evans as a business and bring value to our clients and how our sales process helps businesses and drives the company towards more revenue generation as well. It was a very productive week ending with a team dinner on Thursday night. We hope to see him again back in the Karachi office with our General Manager, Ritesh Keshvala, very soon.

Yashfeen Zahid

Assistant Director, Conferences Europe | Karachi

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Tokyo

A huge thanks to Derek Conway, our APAC CEO, for flying out to Tokyo to lead an inspiring workshop. He shared so many valuable insights and really motivated us to keep pushing forward. We also got to celebrate the birthday of Bulent Halil, CEO of our Japan and Germany offices — a perfect mix of learning and celebration!

Ray Rosaura

Video Editor | Tokyo

Years of service at marcus evans

Congratulations to everyone who reached a major milestone since the last newsletter!

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Name

Gary Jacobsen
Bulent Halil
Caireen Sever
Thilagawathi Krishnasamy
Les Bernstein
Alia Nadhira Ahmad Azmi
Nur Alia Baharudin
Rica Rovina Karunanity
Angela Villacañas
Catherine Hallem
Jessica Liebenberg
Tomo Kurahashi
Zaheera Ramsamy

Office

Cologne
London
Düsseldorf
Kuala Lumpur
Toronto
Kuala Lumpur
Kuala Lumpur
Kuala Lumpur
Madrid
Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf
Tokyo
Cape Town

Years

30
25
20
20
15
10
10
10
5
5
5
5
5

Years of service milestones reached since the last newsletter up until 16/5/2025

Global L&Q Updates

Online Events

Operations Team

Linguarama

Greenwich

Karachi

Tokyo

Years of service at marcus evans

Name

Gary Jacobsen Bulent Halil Caireen Sever Thilagawathi Krishnasamy Les Bernstein Alia Nadhira Ahmad Azmi Nur Alia Baharudin Rica Rovina Karunanity Angela Villacañas Catherine Hallem Jessica Liebenberg Tomo Kurahashi Zaheera Ramsamy

Office

Cologne London Düsseldorf Kuala Lumpur Toronto Kuala Lumpur Kuala Lumpur Kuala Lumpur Madrid Düsseldorf Düsseldorf Tokyo Cape Town

Years

Gary Jacobsen
Bulent Halil
Caireen Sever
Thilagawathi Krishnasamy
Les Bernstein
Alia Nadhira Ahmad Azmi
Nur Alia Baharudin
Rica Rovina Karunanity
Angela Villacañas
Catherine Hallem
Jessica Liebenberg
Tomo Kurahashi
Zaheera Ramsamy

Cologne
London
Düsseldorf
Kuala Lumpur
Toronto
Kuala Lumpur
Kuala Lumpur
Kuala Lumpur
Madrid
Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf
Tokyo
Cape Town