SACCI & Shirlaws breakfast workshop on: 'How to attract and retain quality staff in a tight market'

Date: 20 February 2008, 7.15am-9.15am

Place: Zurich Financial Services Australia Limited, 5 Blue Street, North Sydney NSW 2060

Around thirty SACCI members and guests enjoyed a rich breakfast, excellent networking and an inspiring presentation by Oliver Christen from Shirlaws.

  SACCI Breakfast Preparation              View out of the Meeting room of Zurich Financial Services:

                                                          The Harbour Bridge

Vivid conversation already before the presentation:      4Tables with 6seats each were set up:                    European Catering looked after everyone, incl. Andrew McLaren (ANZ):)

Miriam Cogar (Lufthansa),                                         Damiano Nicolaci, Michelle Kok (ANZ)

David Fraser (Credit Suisse)                                      Urs Schaller (MC Sun), Martin Drevikovsky, Michael

Oliver Christen (Shirlaws), Marcel Svatos (SACCI)       Schai (Hiestand International), Christophe Biollaz

                                                                              (Lindt)

 Presenter Oliver Christen (Shirlaws)                         A laid-back atmosphere                                           Steven Rivet (Zurich) - clearly          Oliver Christen (Shirlwas) in action

                                                                                                                                                          impressed

Ongoing presentation from Oliver Christen (Shirlaws)    Oliver Christen (Shirlaws) sharing his secrets           "Tell me more, Oliver!":

                                                                                                                                                           Martin Drevikovsky, Michael Schai (Hiestand),                                                                                                                                                            Christophe Biollaz (Lindt), Damiano Nicolaci, Linda

                                                                                                                                                           Murray (Shirlaws)

After the delicious breakfast and the inte-    Networking: Christophe Biollaz (Lindt), Mira Gallic      Lively discussion after the workshop: Michelle Kok (ANZ)

resting presentation, there was anew the     (Polyglot), Renaud Tinel (Nespresso) Urs Schaller      Linda Murray (Shirlaws), Oliver Christen (Shirlaws), Nicolai

chance of valuable networking.                   (MC Sun),Beat Knoblauch (Beat Knoblauch &            Gundlach (Nglobal)

                                                               Associates), Damiano Nicolaci

Discussion about Hiestand's Croissants: Marcel Svatos    Networking: Patrick Burkhalter, David Addison           Debra Heitmann (Credit Suisse)

(SACCI), Michael Schai (Hiestand International)             (Avanti Events)

Networking: Michelle Kok (ANZ), Linda Murray                Networking: Andrew McLaren (ANZ), Michelle Kok    Networking: Jean Pierre Le -Feuvre (M.E.P. Instruments)

(Shirlaws)                                                                    (ANZ), Stuart Cragg (M.E.P. Instruments), Jean        Mira Gallic (Polyglot), Jacques Reynauds (Polyglot)

                                                                                   Pierre Le-Feuvre (M.E.P. Instruments), Jacques

                                                                                   Reynauds (Polyglot)

Networking: Steven Rivet (Zurich Financial Services),      After workshop networking: David Fraser (Credit Suisse)

Marcel Svatos (SACCI)                                                 Oliver Christen (Shirlaws), Nicolai Gundlach (NGlobal)

                                                                                  Debra Heitmann (Credit Suisse), Steven Rivet (Zurich

                                                                                  Financial Services), Marcel Svatos (SACCI)

After a successful and pleasant event: Oliver Christen

(Shirlaws), Marcel Svatos (SACCI) are ready to go over

to their daily work.

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