Terry Kwan is currently the Head of People Development of Swire Hotels. He has over 28 years of HR management experience across hospitality, exhibition and convention, and facility services industries. With his notable experiences, he has led the team in strategic HR planning, performance management, compensation and benefits, talent development and management coaching. Launched in 2008, Swire Hotels is a group of individual hotel brands who set out to craft extraordinary hospitality experiences for our guests. In 2013, Swire Hotels set up Swire Restaurants to manage its growing roster of stand-alone restaurant operations. With the rapid expansion, Swire Hotels and Swire Restaurants have more than 2,800 team members in total.

Edward is a People Development Specialist with 25 years working within the lifestyle industries of hospitality, leisure, and tourism gaining experience in business operations and human resources. Edward is a chartered member of the CIPD, past chair and committee member of FLIGHT (Future Leaders in Global Hospitality and Tourism), Member of the Trainers Learning Skillnet panel (Ireland), and a Bacchus Society Mentor of the year winner at Oxford Brookes University. He is also a member of the Hospitality Apprenticeship Board responsible for overseeing the external quality assurance (EQA) of endpoint assessment. Edward has been working with the organization since 1999, which has always had a good reputation for its learning offering within the hotel sector and has been a good aid for recruitment and retention.

Panos Almyrantis has an academic background in post-graduate studies in the United States and distinctions in sales management, operational services, and hotel management in Greece and abroad.  He was awarded as an esteemed European Hotel Manager in 2014 by the European Association of Hotel Managers.

As Head of Hospitality, Andrada leads Beekeeper’s effort to help hospitality organizations improve communication and ultimately drive employee engagement and performance. Previously, Andrada served as Executive Director, Luxury Internal Communications and Engagement at AccorHotels and Executive Director, Communications & Strategy at Fairmont Raffles Hotels International. In that capacity, she collaborated with Beekeeper to bring the nearly 50,000 frontline employees working together as one dispersed, yet united, team. Andrada also served as a consultant with McKinsey & Co., working on strategy and organizational transformations with large multinational companies in the EMEA region. She holds an MBA from the Wharton School and an MA in International Studies from University of Pennsylvania.