Amy Merriman
Managing Director

Amy founded Event Planet in 2001 and, under her direction, the company has continued to grow and expand over the past 11 years.

Event Planet now manages an impressive list of corporate and government client accounts and is recognised as one of Australia’s most respected event management companies.

Amy provides Event Planet’s clients with a wealth of high-level experience gained managing and producing major corporate and Government events in Australia, Europe and the United States for over a decade.

After graduating from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Commerce, Amy travelled extensively throughout Africa and Europe before a chance encounter at a horse race in France, resulted in her landing a job as an Event Manager with one of the UK’s most respected event management companies, TEAM. She was soon working with TEAM’s high profile IT clients such as Nokia, Cisco Systems, Intel, 3Com and Compaq.

In particular, Amy was responsible for the creation and implementation of exclusive incentive programs for her clients, including specific events across Europe: taking in the British Grand Prix, sailing in Malta, skiing in Switzerland and skidooing on glaciers in Iceland.

After two exciting years based in the UK, Amy returned to Australia and immediately established Event Planet. Since then, the company’s corporate clients have included many market-leading companies and brands: Vodafone Hutchison Australia, Nestle, Coca Cola, Veuve Clicquot, Commonwealth Bank, Microsoft, DHL Worldwide, Fuji Xerox, McKinsey & Co, PwC, Bloomberg, Bonds, The Berlei Group, Sheridan, Audi Australia and many more.

Event Planet has also designed and managed a number of high profile Australian Federal Government forums and conferences, including the National Broadband Network Forum and the Digital Television Switchover Conference for the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy. Additionally, the company has produced the inaugural National e-health Conference, the Australian Indigenous Leadership Forum and a number of key, multi-stakeholder events for Infrastructure Australia.

Laura Sage
Events Director


Laura originally joined Event Planet at the beginning of 2010 as a Senior Event Producer. She became the company’s General Manager in late 2010 and was promoted to Events Director in 2012.

With her organised and efficient professionalism, Laura capably leads the Event Planet team to deliver on every client brief.

She holds a Bachelor of Design in Architecture and Landscape Architecture, which allows her to firmly grasp a complex creative concept and brief, place it into a structured delivery plan and timeline, oversee any event’s “construction” process and offer balanced and sound advice throughout – by being able to see both the big picture and the fine detail at the same time.

Having previously managed a large diversity of events throughout Australia and the Asia-Pacific region, Laura came to Event Planet after just over six years with Hannafords Events, based in both Sydney and Queensland.

Her scope of previous work includes conferences, road shows, corporate parties, product launches, public events and sporting tournaments.

She has capably handled every size of event both indoors and outdoors - from an intimate, 12-person sophisticated dinner to a seamless 3000-guest public event.

As expected, Laura’s previous clients have included many of Australia’s largest corporations. These include Citigroup, Asgard, BT Financial, Optus, Orica, AMP, Uncle Toby’s, Vodafone, Nestle, Asia Pacific Critical Care (Congress) Goldwell KMS, Probuild, Moet Hennessy, Sydney Cricket Ground Trust, Pacific Brands and Sheridan.
She has also managed and produced large-scale events involving multiple stakeholders and clients, such as the Paspaley Polo in the City National series and the Sydney Children’s Hospital Gold Dinner.

As with everything Event Planet does, Laura prides herself on delivering every event within budget while maintaining the client’s corporate reputation and ensuring a high level of integrity and professionalism.

Alexis Vaughn
Senior Event Producer

Joining the team in 2010, Alexis brings over 12 years experience in both international and domestic event production to Event Planet.

With her natural flair for creative and design, Alexis takes great pride in producing individually - customised themed events for Event Planet's clients - developing bespoke concepts and design layouts for their varied range of event needs.

Alexis started out in the industry in 2000 as a group travel manager and by 2002 was hosting incentives in the Asia-Pacific region, Europe and the USA for a portfolio of corporate clients, creating custom touring programs and designing themed galas everywhere from hilltop villages in France to deserted islands in New Caledonia.

Alexis' career has seen her produce exhibitions, road shows, product and policy launches, incentive programs, conferences, seminars, fundraising events and ministerial meetings in locations right around the globe for a wide range of corporate, government and association clients.

She currently manages events for Vodafone Hutchison Australia, Infrastructure Australia and Xstrata Coal, as well as a mixture of other portfolio clients.

Her past projects have included events for Konica Minolta, Nokia, The Australian Hotels Association, Greenwood and Freehills James Gardie, Macquarie Bank Oracle, AusAID and Football Federation Australia.

Alexis thrives on the weird and wonderful challenges associated with event production and is passionate about delivering unique, memorable events executed to perfection.

Adam Niewand
Senior Event Producer

Adam joined Event Planet as a Senior Event Producer in 2011, bringing with him a unique blend of cross-industry experience – as well as his own creative spark and unending enthusiasm.

He currently heads Event Planet’s team managing our role in the Department of Health and Ageing’s National Change and Adoption Program for electronic health (e-health) records across Australia.

Working within a consortium of experts, including McKinsey and PwC, on an event of national significance is a perfect fit for Adam. He not only gets to manage the event requirements of a broad-scale, multi-stakeholder project, but is able to utilise his individual blend of health industry experience, event management industry background and much-needed technology skills.

Adam has been working in the Australian event industry for almost a decade. He started his career in 2002 with Global Telehealth in Melbourne, specialising in video conference events. As the company grew, Adam moved in to the role of General Manager and, in 2006, accepted the challenge to establish a Sydney office housed at the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP).

The business went from strength to strength and in July 2007, the RACP purchased Global Telehealth's event management team, bringing the management of all RACP events and meetings in-house.

Adam was appointed RACP's National Events Manager, became responsible for establishing this new in-house team and soon had a team of eight staff based in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. With Adam at the helm, the team ran literally thousands of meetings, events and conferences both in-house and off-site, across Australia and New Zealand, including the RACP Congress for 1200 delegates, numerous gala dinners, corporate events, policy launches and scientific meetings.

It is this wealth of health industry events experience that Adam now offers Event Planet's clients.

Raphael Chambers
Digital Producer

Raphael Chambers joined Event Planet as a Digital Producer in early 2012. Raph has a passion for all things digital and over 4 years experience in the areas of user interface design, client side scripting, server side programming and database administration. He also has in impressive track record working with more complex systems such as servers and the monolithic kernels that power them - aka ‘‘the whole stack’.

After graduating with a diploma in Web Development from TAFE Sydney, Raph commenced his career developing and maintaining websites and web based applications with a focus on usability and accessibility. Prior to joining the Event Planet Team he was directly involved in variety of projects for high profile corporate clients such as Energy Australia, P&O and RSA.

Raphael prides himself on staying up to date with current innovations and trends in the online realm by actively contributing to open source projects and monitoring the exciting technology developments such as mobile and geo-location services and the plethora of social media and marketing applications.

Raph relocated to Sydney after being involved in the promotion and entertainment industry for various ski and snowboard events in the Southern Lakes region of New Zealand for 6 years.

Monique O'Callaghan
Event Manager

Since joining Event Planet in 2010, Monique has demonstrated a natural initiative and flare for event management.

Her role as Event Manager has seen her actively support our Senior Event Producers, provide creative input on various events and capably manage the bookings and logistics for many of the great venues and experienced suppliers Event Planet sources and works with.

Monique has played a critical role in the delivery of several important recent Event Planet-managed events, including Paspaley Polo in the City Series, which is hosted annually in five capital cities around Australia; the Vodafone Ashes Series Launch; Sheridan Spring-Summer and Autumn-Winter Trade Shows; as well as the widely-acclaimed Clicquot in the Snow for Moet Hennessy.

A graduate of the University of Technology, Sydney, where she attained a Bachelor of Tourism Management, majoring in Event Management and Marketing, Monique completed her university course internship with Hannafords Events.

Working with Event Planet has now given Monique the opportunity to further develop her organisational and client management skills, as well as enjoy the excitement and adrenaline rush that is part of our daily life in event management.

Sophie Burrell
Event Manager

Sophie joined the team as an Event Manager in 2012 and brings experience, professionalism and excellent organisational skills. Sophie's enthusiasm for events make her a valuable asset to our clients. Sophie relishes a challenge and this, coupled with her warm personality, make her a key part of the Event Planet professional service team.

Prior to joining Event Planet, Sophie worked as part of the Hugo’s Group Events and Catering team, where she developed her client management and supplier liaison skills across many aspects of the business. Her experience included working on a variety of events across both the corporate and private sectors including product launches, special events, meetings, corporate team building, weddings and parties. Sophie was entrusted with a high profile client portfolio including clients such as BMW, Nissan, Integ, Wild Oats, Jenifer Hawkins, Avon and ACP.

Sophie is a graduate of the University of Western Sydney, where she attained a Bachelor of Business and Commerce with a Major in Marketing and Sub Major in Events. Whilst studying she gained valuable work experience with Global Action Sports and also supervised events for Stedmans Hospitality Agency.

With any event that falls under Sophie's responsibility at Event Planet, our clients can expect commitment, a quality result, a can-do attitude and a very valuable staff member to have on-site throughout their event.

Sophie Moschos
Event Co-ordinator

Sophie joined the Event Planet team as Event Coordinator in 2012 after working in London. Sophie holds a Diploma of Event management, Tourism and Marketing as well as Hospitality Management from TAFE South Australia, which inspired her travels overseas to gain experience in the hospitality and events industry.

Initially working for Berkeley Scott Recruitment in London as an Event Consultant, Sophie managed accounts for various headline venues including the 02 Arena, Twickenham Stadium, Wembley Stadium, Royal Albert Hall and Alexandra Palace. Through the successful management of these venue accounts Sophie was promoted to a Function Supervisor role at Alexandra Palace. The events at Alexandra Palace ranged from single day conferences and weddings to multi-week events requiring up to 80 staff per day for up to 32,000 guests. These events included the Jay Z 2009 Concert, the Annual Alexandra Palace Fireworks and Beer Festival, the International Make Up Artists Trade Show and the 2009 World Darts Championships. Following this, Sophie then moved to become an Event Manager for the premium London venue Ill Bottaccio.

Sophie’s in-house venue experience is an invaluable resource for Event Planet, especially taking into account her experience with a wide range of corporate and private event styles including special events, press launches, film and photo shoots and weddings. Sophie prides herself on being organised, approachable and eager to hit the ground running on the agency side of event management and she is a very welcome addition to the Event Planet Team.

Jane Jones
Finance Manager
Jane has been Event Planet’s Finance Manager for the past eight years. She is also Finance Manager for all of Jupiter Management Group’s other businesses, including A List Guide and Food Wine Sleep.

Jane graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Economics and a sub-major in Japanese in 1988. She began her working life in the hospitality industry -
initially in Sydney, and later, due to her language skills, in Japan - before moving into the finance sector here in Australia.

For several years, Jane worked as the Assistant to the Financial Controller of the large hotel marketing company Allegiance Marketing, part of the Accor Group.

Prior to joining Event Planet she worked for EntArt, an entertainment industry specialist accounting firm that, at the time, looked after a range of notable showbusiness clients, including the children’s entertainment phenomenon, The Wiggles; the singer, Diesel; and, the pop group, Mental As Anything.