Las Vegas Sands and its subsidiary Venetian Macau Limited announced that Wolfram Diener will join the organization in June 2005 as vice president of convention and exhibition for the convention and expo center being built at The Venetian Macao Resort Hotel Casino on the Cotai Strip. Diener will also be responsible for trade show operations for the company in Macao.

Diener brings to the company twenty years of international convention center and marketing experience. During this time, Diener has held leadership positions with convention and trade show operators in Europe and Asia. Most recently, Diener was the general manager of Shanghai New International Expo Center Co., Ltd (SNIEC), one of the busiest venues of its kind in Asia-Pacific. Prior to his position at SNIEC, Mr. Diener was the managing director of the noted trade show organizer, Messe Frankfort.

Diener will oversee all operations of VML's Venetian Macao Convention and Expo Center as well as the overall planning and management of VML's trade show operations.