The Starlight Children's Foundation has welcomed Maree Reason-Cain as Public Relations Specialist. She was previously Corporate Affairs & Media Advisor at yourtown, a charity providing services to tackle issues facing young people, for more than six years.

Maree previously ran her own consultancy, C4 Marketing and Communications, for nearly 16 years, following in-house roles within the agriculture and hospitality sectors. 

Karena Noble has taken on a permanent role at IHG Hotels & Resorts as Senior Manager, Corporate Affairs, Australasia Pacific. For the past year and a half, she had been running her own consultancy, Karena Noble Communications, working on projects for clients, including hotels conference AHICE, Stockland, and IHG.

Backed by over two decades' experience as a senior communications professional, Karena has led comms teams across the travel, tourism, and hospitality sectors, including at EVT, Voyages Indigenous Tourism Australia, Switzerland Tourism and hotels investment fund, Pro-invest.