Ms. Sonja Vodusek is a native of Yarrawonga in Victoria, Australia. She received separate diplomas in hotel and business management from the Blue Mountain International Hotel Management School (BMIHMS) in Sydney and the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, respectively.

Prior to joining The Peninsula Hotels, she had 16 years of experience holding various executive management positions in the luxury hospitality sector at Four Seasons hotels in the United States, Japan, Ireland, Australia and the Czech Republic.

Her prior experience in Japan includes a six-month internship as Room Attendant for the Sheraton Grande in Tokyo as part of her diploma requirement for BMIHMS, and two and a half years as Consulting Director of Rooms at the former Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo at Chinzan-so.

She first joined The Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels, Limited (holding company of The Peninsula Hotels) as Hotel Manager at The Peninsula New York in 2010 and relocated to Manila as General Manager in 2011 before joining The Peninsula Tokyo in 2015 as the first female General Manager of a Tokyo Luxury Hotel.