Meet the Team

Meet the team driving Aberdeen Convention Bureau, bringing national and international business events to the region. Discover the experts who combine local knowledge with a passion for making every event a success.

Meet the experts

Get to know the faces representing Aberdeen on the global stage, and discover the people who will help bring your next conference or event to life.

Meet Laura

Head of Convention Bureau

Laura is VisitAberdeenshire’s Head of Convention Bureau. Day-to-day, Laura heads the team responsible for attracting business events to Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire. The Aberdeenshire Convention Bureau team promote the region as an accessible conference destination, whilst highlighting local sector expertise, and working with industry partners to attract, and welcome, conferences to the destination. Laura has more than 16 years’ experience within the business events industry, and has worked within visitor attractions, catering companies, hotels, professional conference organisers and city convention bureau.

Here’s three things you might not know about Laura.

  • Laura loves attending music gigs and festivals. Some of her favourite things to see and do in the region include attending larger gigs at P&J Live and discovering more local, intimate gigs within Aberdeen’s vibrant city centre.
  • Her favourite part of her job is the diversity of the role. She loves meeting a wide range of clients and industry colleagues from various backgrounds that she would not have the opportunity to meet in another role.
  • She loves animals and is widely known to live with house rabbits and cats, plus sponsoring a guide dog and a donkey named Jimmy.

Email Laura Wilson

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Rebecca McIntyre

Business Events Executive 

Meet Rebecca. Rebecca is VisitAberdeenshire’s Business Events Executive, working within Aberdeen Convention Bureau. Rebecca’s role is to promote Aberdeen as a leading business events destination, to help secure new international and national conferences and offering destination support to conferences and event planners.

Rebecca graduated from Glasgow Caledonian University with BA (Hons) International Events Management. She has worked in various hospitality roles and previously worked for the National Trust for Scotland.

Here’s three things you might not know about Rebecca:

  • Some of Rebecca’s favourite things to see and do in the region include going for walks, finding new places to explore outdoors and going for spontaneous road trips
  • Her favourite part of her job is welcoming conference organisers to the region and assisting them with planning their events.
  • Rebecca loves photography and often has her camera to hand everywhere she goes

 Email Rebecca McIntyre

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