Kylie Perkin
( Vice-President & Management Committee)
Kylie Perkin is a Sunshine Coast-based public relations practitioner and personal publicist to Tony Chi, one of the worlds foremost hotel, restaurant and bar designers. She has lived on the Coast since December 2002 after moving from Hong Kong where she worked for 14 years.

During her time in Hong Kong, she spent 10 years as Global Public Relations Director of Regent International Hotels (RIH), the Hong Kong-based luxury hotel brand. She worked with the company's legendary founder, Robert H Burns; the Four Seasons group when it acquired the company in the early-1990s; and briefly with Carlson Hospitality Worldwide when it subsequently acquired the brand later in the decade.

After resigning in August 2000, she established her own public relations business in Hong Kong, working mainly in the hospitality industry. In September 2000, she acted as Public Relations Director for the then Regent Sydney (now Four Seasons Hotel Sydney) throughout the Olympic Games. The Regent was the official hotel for the International Olympic Committee during the Games. Several years before that she helped plan and organise The Regent Hong Kong's celebration for the return of Hong Kong sovereignty to China in mid-1997, with 3,000 guests and media from around the globe.

Kylie is an expert in all aspects of public relations and marketing in the hotels and hospitality industry. She has extensive media contacts in Asia, Europe and the United States, as well as Australia, and has opened new hotel properties around the world. More recently she has acquired substantial experience in the restaurant and bar side of the hospitality business in Asia.

Kylie is passionate about organisation and detail, as well as the community in which she lives. Since moving to the Coast she has played a key role in organising fundraisers such as the Sunshine Coast Helicopter Rescue Service Gala (celebrating 25 years of the service) and Flemington at Flinders (at Matthew Flinders Anglican College).

She loves to travel and entertain, and likes nothing more than a good glass of French bubbles (a passion she shared with her friend Cindy Mackenzie), power yoga and tennis (although not all at the same time). She lost her own father to inoperable pancreatic cancer and has helped support and care for several girlfriends with breast cancer.

Kylie is delighted to be part of the Cindy Mackenzie Breast Cancer Foundation Management Committee and to work both to honour the memory of her friend Cindy and assist breast cancer sufferers on the Coast.