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business will be launching a new patented oil in Australia.
1993
Susan Jamieson has now been with the Commonwealth Bank for over a year, after a stint with Colonial heading up insurance products and managing integration issues arising from Colonial’ s purchase of Legal & General and Prudential. On a personal front, Susan and Jon have a daughter Kate who has just turned four.
Janet Mitchell is pleased to report her marriage to Richard Smith on 4 March 2001. The service was at St Peters in North Sydney with the reception at the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia. On their honeymoon they hope to catch up with MBA classmates – Katharine Seymour, Paul Littman and Chris Bratchford who will all be in London.
Brett Sargeant married Belinda Waugh in 1999. Their first child, Emma, arrived in December 2000. Brett is working for Toll Transport based in Brisbane.
1994
Richard Gillman has decided to leave Deloitte Corporate Finance to pursue an opportunity with the M & A team at Morgan Stanley in Hong Kong. He left Deloitte early September 2000 followed by a month’ s“ gardening leave”, neatly timed to coincide with the Olympic Games. In other news, Richard and Irena Tai celebrated their marriage at a party in Centennial Park in May last year. Contact Richard at: richard. gillman @ msdw. com.
Steven Crayn has moved from Goodman Fielder to Venture Capital Partners. True to its name, VCP is a venture capital firm that invests across a range of industry sectors in fast-growing, exportorientated, small- and mediumsized businesses. VCP also provides a range of consulting services, including strategic consulting and preparing R & D grant applications. On the home front, Steven and Janet now have two children, Kieran( aged three) and Talia( aged 15 months) keeping them busy.
1995
John Rotenstein has joined Ariba Inc, a US-based B2B
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e-commerce company, as a trainer in the Asia-Pacific region.“ I’ m happy being back in the Internet sphere,” says John,“ and I hope to meet up with my AGSM classmates as I travel around Asia. Who’ s for dinner?”
Samiuela Taufa married Ofa F. Faka’ osifolau( a native of Tonga) in December 2000. Samiuela is currently doing some retail / distribution ventures in Tonga. Any former classmates who would like to check out what he’ s up to can visit: www. nomoa. com.
1996
Wolfgang Muller was married on 16 September 2000 in Switzerland.
Stephen Chey is living in Taipei with his wife Naomi and looking after regional telecom clients in East Asia for Deloitte Consulting.
1997
Derek Woodhouse has moved on from Ajilon to work as client advisor at Credit Suisse First Boston Equities Private. Derek’ s new contact details are( w) Tel:( 08) 9260 5707, e-mail: derek. woodhouse @ csfb. com.
Frances Lien would like her alumni colleagues to know that she married Allen Guo on 3 March 1999 and gave birth to a beautiful baby girl, Elizabeth, on 6 July 2000.
1998
Gerard Moody has moved to Perth from Sydney and joined Mainsheet Corporate, the management consulting practice of Freehills.
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1984
Danny Samson is professor of management at the University of Melbourne and has started the Foundation for Sustainable Economic Development there. This involves a research team that is building and disseminating knowledge in the areas of environmental sustainability for business, human resources management practices and the management of innovation, including e-business.
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1997
Ameeta Shah writes to inform that she is residing in Nakuru, Kenya, with husband Ashish. They are now the proud parents of a baby boy, Dil, who was born on 9 January 2001.
1998
Julian Fenwick’ s career has undergone a change after 16 years in hospitality and retail. He’ s been appointed national sales and marketing manager for the Legal Technology Group at Blake Dawson Waldron( lawyers). Julian says he finds it a fascinating position, developing and marketing a broad range of Internetdelivered products designed to streamline legal compliance for business.
1999
Pat Mackintosh is now resident in the sunshine state and is involved in management consulting.
MBA
1989
Bruce Everett has gone on sabbatical for a year to undertake theology studies.
1991
Knox Cameron is working for KPMG, and is on a two-year secondment to the company’ s international headquarters in Amsterdam. He works in the office of the global chief information officer undertaking technical research and evaluation. His wife and four children have joined him, and they are enjoying the experience of another culture and the opportunity to see Europe.
1992
Puay Koon( P. K.) Ho is now the ERP systems administrator for Lion Nathan Australia.
1994
Ben Crawford was busy last year as executive producer of olympics. com( among other jobs), the official Web site of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. The site was the most ambitious
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ever produced in Australia, serving over a billion page impressions to a global audience. His input was as a contractor( publisher and business development director of local firm Gadfly Media) on the IBM e-business site. Gadfly was awarded the content management role for olympics. com in late 1998 by winning a worldwide tender, following partnering with Microsoft and ninemsn to supply content for some of their biggest sites in Australia.
Sonny Navaratnam is now manager, operations / business expansion catalyst with the Leading Edge Group.
1997
Mark Freddie Dodson and wife Rachel Dodson( Nila)( EMBA’ 00) left Sydney for 12 months on 31 January for a round-theworld honeymoon. They will be visiting Hawaii, Canada, California, Mexico, Florida, the Caribbean, Peru, Chile, Argentina, Brazil and Europe, travelling under the guise of Dodson and Company.
1998
Bei Li and Yandong( Gordon) Guo( MBA’ 98) are now in Beijing, China. Yandong is a management consultant at Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu and Bei Li is working at Nokia as an information specialist. Bei Li reports that life in Beijing is nothing out of the norm – they have just bought a car, apartment and mortgage. They shall be moving into their new place this year.
Simon Sut-Keung Wong has set up a property consultancy firm in Shanghai, China, called Citybright Property Consultancy. Simon says he would like to hear from his AGSM colleagues and alumni on Tel:(+ 86 21) 6418 5116 or(+ 86 139) 1638 8767.
1999
Jörg Tuchen is happy to announce the birth of his second child, Lucas Stefan Tuchen, born on 4 September 2000. His key benchmarks were 52 cm in length and 4.45 kg in weight. ✪
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