CV Magazine June 2017

June 2017

In this issue...

Delivering Game Changing, Technology-Driven Business Models Procter & Gamble Words of Gratitude to the Whole Subway Family MIA Sp. z o. o.

Creating Countless Opportunities MicroStrategy Incorporated Innovation in Legal Services PJS Law Food for Thought Procal Dairies Pty Ltd

Delivering Results Arena Solutions helps companies in a wide array of markets to deliver higher quality products to market faster at a lower cost. We caught up with Senior Director of Demand Generation Umesh Malhotra to learn more about the innovative solutions this dynamic firm offers.

Also inside this month...

Enviro-Stewards Inc. / IBS Global Consulting / Ecobank Ghana / Moroccan Cargo Partner / Four Seasons Site Development Ltd / Helix Dynamics Advisors Group Ltd / Aspire People / Quantum 9 / Microstrategy Incorporated / Enviro-Stewards / Shikatani La Croix / Perform Air International, Inc. / Johnnie Johnson Housing / Rent a Car Niger / Allen Medical Group

Editor’s Note

, Welcome to the June edition of Corporate Vision Magazine, which has been filled to the brim of news and innovative features from across the globe.

Located in central Bucharest, DentalARIA is a dental clinic, pioneering new technologies within the industry.

This revolutionary clinic offers medical treatments of the highest standard to achieve that beautiful smile.

Elsewhere in this issue, we discovered how a one-lady operation in the attic of an office turned into one of the most reputable education recruitment agencies in the UK. Finally, recipients of the Finest in Freight Award, Moroccan Cargo Partner, discuss the global market place and the rapidly expanding need to transport goods throughout the world.

I truly hope you enjoy reading this edition.

Jessica Daykin, Editor Phone: +44 (0) 203 725 6842 Email: jessica.daykin@ai-globalmedia.com Website: www.corp-vis.com AI Global Media, Ltd. (AI) takes reasonable measures to ensure the quality of the information on this web site. However, AI will not assume any legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy, correctness or completeness of any information that is available through this web site. If errors are brought to our attention, we will try to correct them.

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Contents

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6. News 8. Creating Countless Opportunities 10. In Total Control 14. Delivering Results 20. Delivering Game Changing, Technology-Driven Business Models 26. Food for Thought 32. What I Know, What I Have and What I Am 34. A Passion for Water 38. Words of Gratitude to the Whole Subway Family 44. Work in the Pipeline 48. Longevity Speaks Volumes 50. Building Sustainability Leaders 54. Long in the Tooth 56. Banking for a New Africa 60. Site Developers Build Great Company 62. Broad-Ranging Expertise in Private Equity 66. A Global Technology Leader at the Heart of our Connected World* 68. Changing the Way Businesses Fund Their Growth 72. Exceptional Results Every Time 74. Knowing the Drill 77. Innovation in Legal Services 79. Pioneering Spirit 81. Results-Driven 83. Mind Over Matter 85. Cargo Company get Service Delivery Just Right 87. Experts in the Field 89. Emission Control Gets Company off the Ground 91 The Island of Luxury Development 93. A Great Place to Stay 95. Client Focused 97. The Science of Life 99. Online Accounting is Less Taxing with Online Services 101. Aspiring to Greatness 105. Winner’s Directory

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Banking that fits your life.

www.cibc.com Our vision is to be the leader in client relationships.

We will build the most trusting and enduring client relationships by putting our clients at the centre of all that we do. We will listen intently to our clients, offering them what they need, and striving to exceed their expectations.

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EVENTS, PRODUCTION, DESIGN. We specialise in delivering experiences that create stories and long lasting memories.

Maya Events is a Hong Kong based conceptual event management firm, founded in 2005.

Our international and dynamic teams speaks English, Cantonese, Spanish, Frnech, Portuguese and Italian.

We offer professional and comprehensive event services and manage events from conception to execution or simply assist in specific areas such as hiring performers, creating designs or dealing with the production.

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MINI Supports Great British Entrepreneurs MINI have joined the NatWest Great British Entrepreneur Awards as a Premium Partner for the 2017 awards programme. MINI has been a sponsor of the NatWest Great British Entrepreneur Awards since its conception, and this year will once again be awarding a brand new MINI Countryman to an entrepreneur to use for six months.

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NEWS

, Now in its fifth year, the NatWest Great British Entrepreneur Awards has celebrated some outstanding entrepreneurs who have gone on to become household names.

Previous winners include David Buttress - former CEO of Just Eat, Julie Deane - Founder of The Cambridge Satchel Company, James Watt - Founder of BrewDog and Alexander Solomou - Founder and CEO of TheLADbible Group.

Creator of the Awards, Francesca Russell, said: “Having your company branding on a fun, iconic car is a great way of improving your business exposure, and we’re thrilled that MINI are giving this opportunity to an entrepreneur again this year.”

This November will see award ceremonies held across five UK cities, including London, Cardiff, Birmingham, Manchester and Edinburgh.

Last year saw MINI sponsoring the ‘Small Business Entrepreneur’ category at the awards, and rewarded the winner, Nom Noms World Food, with the use of a new MINI Countryman to help with exposure for their business.

Award winners, Lisa Sohanpal and Dr Imrat Sohanpal from Nom Noms World Food, make healthy, internationally-inspired meals for busy families. What’s more, they send a meal to a child in India for every one that is purchased in the UK. It is inspiring stories like these that are celebrated at the NatWest Great British Entrepreneur Awards, which recognises some of the country’s most impressive entrepreneurs.

Lisa says: “The car looks amazing with our branding, and it suits the Nom Noms brand totally. It’s fun, quirky and will certainly grab attention and curiosity on the streets of London. Things like this are so important in assisting small businesses to get the exposure they need, and thanks to MINI UK this will definitely help us.”

Ian Waspe, Corporate Development Manager at MINI says: “MINI is a true British icon and we are therefore delighted to be a partner of the NatWest Great British Entrepreneur Awards for the fourth year in a row, celebrating the very best of British talent.”

“The MINI line-up is now complete, with five distinct models, that all have the very latest MINI design and technology and we are thrilled to offer a branded Countryman to a budding entrepreneur for six months.

This latest, bigger Countryman represents a fantastic opportunity for business with a large boot and lots of space for passengers, as well low CO2 emissions and a high specification which includes navigation. All of this comes with the same distinctiveness and personality that MINI is famous for and we wish all applicants the very best of luck.”

The NatWest Great British Entrepreneur Awards is open for applications and will celebrate entrepreneurship across several categories including Innovation, High Street, Start-Up and Creative Industries. You can enter here: www.greatbritishentrepreneurawards.com.

The NatWest Great British Entrepreneur Awards acknowledges the hard work and inspiring stories of British entrepreneurs and businesses in Great Britain.

You can find the details of the 2016 NatWest Great British Entrepreneur Awards winners here.

Interviews with judges, winners, partners & sponsors can be arranged upon request.

Apple’s Announcements Signal That the Ship Will Soon Sail on Voice-Activated Technology As the announcements from Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference sink in, developers will seek to unpack the implications of the new technology in a range of settings. Asynchrony Labs, a mobility partner of Apple, says that Apple’s HomePod announcement shows the growing importance of voice as a new technology battleground – not only for Apple in competition with Amazon and Google, but for app development more widely.

Bob Elfanbaum, cohead of WWT Asynchrony Labs, comments: “HomePod is not the only indication of voice control’s growing primacy to come out of this year’s Developer Conference. Improvements to Siri are coming in September as part of iOS 11. No company that is currently developing apps – for either consumer or business use – can afford to ignore this. We will soon see iOS apps that don’t include native voice control and messaging as a minimum go the way of the dodo.”

Ben Boswell, UK & Ireland Director of World Wide Technology (WWT), which acquired WWT Asynchrony Labs in June 2015, and which is opening an Asynchrony development lab in London, warns that companies are in danger of missing the turning point on voice-activated technology.

Ben says: “Products like Amazon’s Alexa have been on the market for a while, and the significance of Apple’s announcements this year are not that they introduce anything especially new.

Instead, they signal that the ship will soon have sailed on voice-activation.

“App development is a cut-throat area of digital business, and one in which ease of use is a massive contributor to success. Improvements in voice assistants are continuing apace and this is a gift to those companies that can get on board. For companies developing voice for front-end consumer apps or other business tools, collaborating with an R&D partner is going to be increasingly important.”

For more information about World Wide Technology, visit www.wwt. com.

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Creating Countless Opportunities We interviewed Michael J. Saylor about MicroStrategy’s work, his own role as CEO and the importance of technology in the wider industry following the firm’s success in winning the prestigious CEO of the Year – Virginia award.

Founded in 1989, MicroStrategy is a leading provider of enterprise software platforms. The company provides powerful enterprise analytics, mobility, and business intelligence (BI) software solutions for some of the world’s largest organisations.

Their scalable platform delivers enterprise capabilities and user-friendly tools that helps organisations arm every individual across the enterprise with intelligence—meeting the needs of both business and IT users. With their solutions, organisations can maximise the value of information and unleash the full potential of their employees.

“While others have grown through mergers and acquisitions, we have remained focused on sustainable, strategic growth. That means we aren’t purchasing other companies or outsourcing our technology.

Rather, we’ve developed our own technology and talent internally, maintaining the technical integrity of our platform and authenticity of our culture. For the last 25 years, this unique approach has defined our growth and has been instrumental in the lasting value we deliver to our customers.”

Michael begins the interview by telling us more about the company in his own words.

“Our growth is tied to our customers and their evolving needs. While every customer has unique technology requirements, MicroStrategy succeeds because we get to know our customers, ask for feedback, and work together to create solutions that help them gain a competitive edge and drive them towards long-term success.

“Our customers span a variety of industries, from retail, to banking, insurance, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, consumer packaged goods, manufacturing, telecommunications, and federal and municipal government.

Customers include Whole Foods Market, Coach, Netflix, United States Postal Service, Hilton Worldwide, McCain, and more.

When MicroStrategy went public in 2000, we had 100 competitors.

Today, we are the only remaining independent company of that original group.

In terms the process the firm takes to promote their growth; Michael explains the key principles they adhere to and the customers they serve.

“We aim to serve customers on the following arc: traditional, evolutionary, and revolutionary.

Firstly, we know that we need to meet our customers where they are and help them transform their current data assets into actionable intelligence with powerful reporting and analytics.

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Secondly, we help enterprises evolve beyond simple data analytics. We become a change partner for our customers, helping them extend BI to everyone across the company with tools like powerful mobile analytical apps. Thirdly, we help our customers look beyond the state of the market today.

“For example, our Usher technology, when deployed to employees’ mobile devices, generates telemetry data that gives organisations a 360-degree view of how people move throughout the enterprise.

Combined with powerful backend analytics, this solution opens new opportunities to drive change and reach new levels of efficiency. We help our customers move through each phase by partnering with them to deliver solutions that fit their unique needs and make them more competitive in their respective industries.”

Michael then turns his thoughts on how he keeps himself motivated as a CEO, the challenges he has had to overcome to be successful in this position and the essential key attributes that a senior leader must possess.

“MicroStrategy has been a leader in the business intelligence space since 1989. For more than a quarter century, I’ve learned a lot as a CEO and have one

overriding goal: that is to build the best company possible. I’ve seen seven generations of the MicroStrategy core product, ebbs and flows of the tech market, and shifts in the overall economy.

I’ve seen ‘big data’ grow and transform from an IT-only concern to one that can empower the average business user.

MicroStrategy stands in a unique position to help enterprises seize the opportunities presented by these trends. I’m motivated because there’s still a lot of work to be done. We’re not here to simply offer solutions that make life a little easier—we’re committed to fundamentally changing the way enterprises do business.

“Simply having an idea does not guarantee you’ll get rewarded.

Learning this was humbling and helped me mature. In 2008, I wrote The Mobile Wave and successfully predicted the way mobile would transform our daily lives. Soon after, I built up new products within MicroStrategy.

Some of these products did not pan out, others were successful, but didn’t quite fit into MicroStrategy’s core product.

The process taught me that to be truly successful, you must commit to an idea so deeply, it’s worth the future of the business.

It was challenging to let some of these technologies go, but, as a result, the future of MicroStrategy was set into motion.

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“The key is recruiting, building, and motivating a team of winners. To be successful, you need a brilliant team that sees precisely what’s missing in the market, can conceptualise targeted solutions, and can execute. One of my top priorities has always been to do whatever it takes to bring top talent to Virginia, and to retain it. That means investing in your team’s future and challenging them to build amazing technology.”

As an expert in his field, Michael concludes by offering his thoughts on how the technology industry has changed over the years and where it is now, and why it is important that firms such as MicroStrategy Incorporated use this effectively.

“Business intelligence is trending toward self-service, giving folks outside of the IT department access to more powerful functionality, and therefore more independence. This has been amazing for our business and has created opportunities for us to take our platform in an

exciting direction. For example, we just made our powerful data discovery tool, MicroStrategy Desktop, completely free for any user. This product is a crucial component of our platform, and we hope this encourages even more people to make data analytics a regular part of their job.

“To stay competitive, enterprises desperately need analytical tools that can deliver answers to decision makers in an instant.

However, the state of our industry is in flux. Organisations no longer have patience for long deployment timelines or software that’s slow to deliver value. MicroStrategy is ensuring its future by continuing to develop technology that will allow enterprises to do more with less, get value fast, and capitalise on the promise of intelligence everywhere.

helped thousands of companies harness this data for competitive advantage, we are only now at the watershed moment of using this data to drive true transformation. For example, with our Usher product, an employee at an organisation can use his mobile device to seamlessly gain access to facilities, log on to a workstation, and confirm the identity of other employees, vendors, or customers—all while generating an audit trail that’s ripe for analysis. By removing friction across the enterprise, promoting trust, and creating more visibility into every process, we are creating countless opportunities to put data to work like never before. We’re developing the ability to do this for companies as big as global manufacturers, or organisations as familiar as municipal governments.”

“Today, every interaction we have with technology creates streams of data. While we’ve

Company: MicroStrategy Incorporated Name: Michael J. Saylor Web Address: www.microstrategy.com Address: 1850 Towers Crescent Plaza, Tysons Corner, VA 22182 Telephone: +1 (703) 848 8600

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In Total Control ABB’s leading European partner wins Drives & Motor Supplier of the Year award three years in a row.

A poll of over 350,000 people from UK Industry have voted Quantum Controls Ltd to be the ‘Drives and Motor Supplier of the Year’ for the third year running.

UK Corporate Excellence have just presented Kevin Brown, Managing Director, with the company’s latest accolade in April 2017.

Established in 1989, Quantum have been the largest supplier of ABB variable speed drives and motors in the UK since 1994. They have over 100 service and maintenance contracts throughout the UK, and while specialising in ABB products, Quantum offer a

full turnkey solution to the specification, supply, installation, commissioning and after sales maintenance and repair on all brands of drives and motors.

Brown said “We are once again delighted to receive such a prestigious award voted for by the UK Industrial community.

This three year win recognises Quantum as a company that really does put our customers first, with all of our staff receiving continuous training to ensure they are experts in our field.

Alongside this, we ensure that all staff are employed based on attitude as well as aptitude to ensure customer service is the first thing they think of every day - the foundation on which we base our KPIs.”

Kevin Brown, Managing Director of Quantum Controls is delighted to accept the award of ‘UK Drives & Motor Supplier of the Year’ for the third year running

In the past year alone Quantum have doubled the size of their business, serving clients at both a local and national level.

This growth is primarily down to their commitment to investing in people in order to deliver the best experience possible for customers.

Brown continues “Another reason for our success is that we are continuously trying to be innovative by bringing new solutions to our client’s problems.

Every year we are investing in R&D and we have developed several new service and maintenance options delivered through our unique DriveCare packages, which have now become nationally recognised solutions.”

“Furthermore, we are a company of engineers and experts, and working across all industries we understand the problems our clients face each day in each of those industries and we’re often transferring new solutions and innovations from one industry to another.”

“As well as delivering the right solutions to our clients, we have also invested heavily in order to ensure that they truly receive an all-round pleasurable experience with Quantum. We do this in different ways every day, and we encourage all of our employees to do this by giving them the autonomy required to deliver excellent service as standard” says Brown.

“We firmly believe that we have set a level of customer service and technical expertise that is unrivalled in our industry,

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however we also understand the need to keep improving if we are to stay ahead and winning this award for the third year in a row tells us that we are doing something right.”

“Recognition such as this is important for our staff and our clients. Our staff feel assured that they are contributing to a successful business and our clients have the reassurance that they are dealing with a company that has been recognised as the ‘best in class’ in our sector.”

Quantum have seen year on year growth in motor and drive sales, but it is the growing number of service and maintenance contracts that is set to be their biggest area of growth for 2017.

With a network of service centres throughout the UK, Quantum pride themselves on delivering unrivalled 24/7 support to their contract customers.

Michael Eunson of AkzoNobel praises Quantum for their “excellent attitude when attending either a breakdown or a service. Their engineers show a very good knowledge and always take site rules and regulations into consideration, hence why we have Quantum as our site contact for emergencies and service.”

Brown concludes “Every point of contact we have with a customer influences whether or not they’ll come back. We simply have to be great every time.”

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Company: Quantum Controls Ltd Address: 6A Dukes Way, Low Prudhoe Industrial Estate Prudhoe, Northumberland NE42 6PQ Telephone: 01661 835 566 Fax: 01661 833 868 Email: sales@quantum-controls.co.uk Web: www.quantum-controls.co.uk

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Thermal technology (heat pumps, heating systems, cooling and air conditioning, solar systems) is a complex technological unit that requires a high-quality operating fluid for trouble-free operation, as well as everything else related to the operation.

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Delivering Results Arena Solutions helps companies in a wide array of markets to deliver higher quality products to market faster at a lower cost. We caught up with Senior Director of Demand Generation Umesh Malhotra to learn more about the innovative solutions this dynamic firm offers.

From high technology, medical devices to consumer technology and cutting-edge Internet of things (IoT) devices, more than 80,000 users in more than 125 countries depend on Arena to ensure that all aspects of their supply chain work in sync from a single version of the truth to ensure product success. They are particularly important to those who embed complex electronics into a key part of their offering in a high mix high rate of change environment.

This is achieved through relentless innovation and an obsessive focus on customer needs. Arena pioneered cloudbased PLM (product lifecycle management), many years before legacy on-premises PLM vendors began moving from isolated silos toward Arena’s nimbler multi-tenant true SaaS model. With Arena, organizations can scale up or down easily, and deployment can be accomplished in days or weeks, not months or years. Plus, it is easy and affordable to connect suppliers to Arena, which ensures everyone is working off a single version of the truth. Umesh discusses how the company came into being and how far it has come since establishment.

“Arena began as bom.com with BOMControl, a cloudbased solution that managed an OEM’s bill of materials (BOM). The BOM is still the core of Arena’s solution, but since then, the company has continued to innovate by

adding additional modules and functionality: application lifecycle management, quality management, training management, project management, demand analysis and much more.

“Today, Arena has more than 1,000 customers and 80,000 users in more than 125 countries, with some of the world’s most innovative companies as customers, including GoPro, Nutanix and Sonos. Its enterprise business is its fastest growing segment. We now provide a 100% multi-tenant SaaS unified product development platform that encompasses PLM, supply chain, ALM and QMS. This cloud-based delivery provides customers with unparalleled scalability and flexibility. It is a platform that can grow with the company, up or down. In addition, easy and affordable to connect suppliers to the solution. Legacy PLM vendors charge exorbitant fees to connect suppliers, and deployment can take a great deal of time. With Arena, the process is simple, inexpensive and swift.”

Since inception, Arena has continued to outpace the market with new functionality beyond traditional PLM. Today, Arena provides an all-in-one product development platform that unites PLM, supply chain collaboration, application lifecycle management (ALM) and quality management systems (QMS) to drive ideation, innovation, new product introduction, launch and manufacturing in record time. Importantly, this provides

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unparalleled visibility to the product record, both upstream and downstream, to all pertinent cross-functional stakeholders with a consistent, real time, single version of the truth.

As a result of Arena’s constant innovation and the value that it delivers, the company is experiencing very rapid growth.

In the first quarter of 2017, for instance, new customer subscription value grew by 86 percent in Q1 2017 over the same period in 2016, while also besting the prior Q4 2016 record. The company also gained a record number of new customers — 59 percent more than it gained a year ago, with particular strength in winning larger enterprise customers. Total bookings grew 30 percent year over year, and the company’s net new annuity for the quarter grew by 134%, an enormous testament to the rapid adoption Arena is experiencing in the marketplace. Umesh discusses the firm’s product offerings in more detail and how they ensure that the company achieves its client focused mission.

“Here at Arena, our mission is to help companies develop, manufacture and deliver higher quality products faster and at a lower cost than they have previously been able to do. We accomplish this by providing a unified all-in-one platform that encompasses PLM, supply chain, ALM and QMS. “PLM and Supply Chain provides a single version of the truth for all engineering disciplines,

manufacturers, suppliers and even suppliers’ suppliers. It is easy to track engineering change orders, source parts and communicate about issues with all stakeholders, and it’s easy and cost effective to connect suppliers to Arena. Thus, products are completed more quickly at a lower cost with far less scrap and rework than other alternatives.

“Additionally, our ALM module is called Arena Verify, and it’s an all-in-one requirements, hardware defects, software bugs and any/all issues management solution. With it, customers gain unparalleled visibility across the entire product development cycle. Verify connects the PLM and QMS product record real time to all development issues, hardware defects and software bugs while tying back to the product requirements so all cross-functional teams know what is occurring all the time.

“Finally, QMS is Arena’s allin-one solution is designed to define, support and maintain quality management processes and regulatory requirements.

This gives our customers more time to focus on delivering products and services to change the world. Most importantly, all of these functions work together to form a unified solution that addresses the complete product development process.”

Central to the firm’s success is its strong leadership team, including CEO Craig Livingston, who sets the company’s strategic direction and oversees

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Company: Arena Solutions Inc Contact: Umesh Malhotra Job Title: Demand Generation, Senior Director Email: umeshm@arenasolutions.com Address: 989 E. Hillsdale Blvd, Suite 250 Foster City, California, 94404, USA Phone: 001650 513 3500

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all operations. Before joining Arena, Craig served as vice president and general manager of the SME Solutions division of PLM provider Agile Software.

Responsible for the division’s global operations, he oversaw the development, distribution and support of PLM solutions for small to mid-sized manufacturing businesses. His success in that role helped propel Agile to strong growth and a successful acquisition by Oracle.

He is supported by Wenxiang Ma, EVP Engineering and CTO, who is responsible for all Arena product: development, quality assurance and customer support.

Wenxiang also manages all cloud infrastructure operations and oversees technology directions. Prior to joining Arena, Wenxiang worked as senior director of development at Oracle, where he managed the overall development of the nextgeneration Oracle Fusion PLM across worldwide development centers. Before that, as general manager of China Development Center at Agile Software, Wenxiang played an instrumental role in the initial center launch and daily operations while leading a successful acquisition transition by Oracle.

Overall, Umesh Malhotra is proud of how far Arena has come, and discusses the importance of winning this prestigious award and what it means to the firm’s oncoming success.

“This award is a great validation of both the direction and the work that we have been doing to help companies successfully deliver great products faster and at a lower cost. Specifically with regards to the awards for Arena Quality, we are particularly proud, as that capability has resonated strongly with our customers because, in today’s competitive global market, mandatory compliance has become ever more rigorous. The strict requirements of FDA regulations, ISO quality standards, OSHA, SOC and SOX place massive burdens on companies that they must meet. Disparate paper-based and spreadsheet

quality management processes are error-prone, become disconnected, and fail to scale for your global product supply chain.

“For product-centric organizations in industries such as high-tech and medical devices, it is absolutely paramount to adhere to current good manufacturing practices (cGMPs). By welding in QMS to the Arena unified product development platform, Arena makes that possible thanks to our product-centric approach.

“Alongside this, as our growth accelerates, the United Kingdom, in particular, has become an even more significant market for Arena. So, the visibility from this kind of recognition should help increase our footprint there.

With no language barrier and a thirst for innovation, those in the UK are increasingly coming across the pond to investigate alternatives to give them a leg up on their competition.

“Moving forward, Arena’s plans are continuing with the speed and alacrity their market leading development has become renowned for with their consistent innovation and new capabilities to broaden its all-in-one product development platform’s reach. Expect to see Arena increasingly displace large legacy on-premises PLM vendors in the enterprise as their CFOs learn of the enormous dollar savings which can be enjoyed as well as the markedly increased go forward flexibility.”

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A&B Engineering is a privately owned company based in Liverpool and provides design and installation of mechanical, electrical and plumbing services throughout the northwest. The company started life back in the 1950’s and has developed over recent years to be one of the largest in its sector and this year the turnover is circa £40 Million.We are based in the premises that we own in Derby Lane, Old Swan, Liverpool and we have been here for nearly 50 Years.

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Delivering Game Changing, Technology-Driven Business Models P&G (Procter & Gamble) is a top global consumer packaged goods company. As winner of the Most Influential IT Leader of 2017, in the Chemicals and Allied Products Category, we interviewed Rosa Maria Cruz to discover more about the firm’s rich history and the vital role IT plays in their work.

P&G (Procter & Gamble) boasts a rich history of over 175 years, providing superior branded products and services that improve the lives of the world’s consumers daily. They specialise in a wide range of cleaning, personal care and hygienic products, with iconic brands such as Tide, Pampers, Crest and Olay. Their total brand portfolio includes 65+ global brands, serving almost 5 billion consumers around the world.

Rosa begins the interview by enlightening us on her own role in the firm and her thoughts on P&G winning the prestigious Most Influential IT Leader of 2017 award in the Chemicals and Allied Products Category.

“I am part of the global business services business unit, where we provide more than 170 employee and business services, including Information Technology (IT) services, finance, facilities, purchasing, and employee services as well as business building solutions. Currently, I hold an IT executive position, driving disruptive innovation as part of our IT- Next Generation Services (NGS) unit, delivering exponential results at exponential speed.”

“It is both an unquestionable privilege and significant responsibility to win the Most

Influential IT Leader of 2017 award in the Chemicals and Allied Products Category. In my tenure with P&G, I have been rewarded with numerous rich experiences ranging from IT category leadership across seven different P&G business units, accountability for multimillion IT strategic programs investment. I have also enjoyed international experiences around the globe, starting in my native Mexico and all the way to P&G’s corporate headquarters in Ohio, where I have been leading IT strategic contributions for the past 12 years.

“Being now distinguished as Most Influential IT Leader of 2017 in the Chemicals and Allied Products Category, brings all these accomplishments in perspective. Additionally, it is a clear recognition not only for me personally, but for the impact P&G IT is having in the industry, specifically as it relates to driving breakthrough IT innovation that transforms the way business is conducted and creates sustainable value for our P&G business now and in the future.

Rosa goes on to elaborate on these thoughts, telling us what this award means for her and P&G. “It is truly an acknowledgement of the value we bring to the broader business. P&G is a

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very innovative company, and GBS IT has been at the forefront of innovation in recent years in areas such as analytics, information security, virtualisation and overall being considered one of the most progressive shared services organisations in the world. In particular, where NGS are concerned, we proactively seek out external capability to fully contribute to the identification and generation of the next S-curve of shared services, thus driving exponential growth in an open ecosystem where external partnerships are imperative for our long-term success.

P&G role in the IT field is an important one. At P&G, IT is where business, technology and innovation come together to create competitive advantage Rosa explains, a point which she goes on to explain before adding her views on the crucial role innovation plays in the firm’s work.

“We truly own end-to-end all aspects of the IT spectrum.

From planning, design and implementation of enterprise technology systems and platforms, to the successful execution of IT projects in support of P&G’s business strategies, and the corresponding operational excellence of managing global operations

of this magnitude, 24/7, in real time across the globe, in a secure and reliable way. We drive acquisition/divestiture systems redesign, and bring new business-building capabilities powered by technology to serve our P&G Categories and deliver relevant value, becoming a source of strategic advantage.

“Innovation is at the core of everything we do. In terms of NGS, innovation is our lifeblood. We only work on selected portfolio initiatives which represent our biggest challenges, and when solved, will deliver compelling shareholder value. We consciously operate different than the balance of P&G. We are an organisation at the edge, using an iterative and agile operating model, focused on identifying exponential technologies (such as Artificial Intelligence, Robotic Process Automation, Internet of things (IoT) and cognitive technologies) that will drive disruption vs. current approach.

“Freedom to fail, small teams approach and using human capital on demand via our open partner ecosystem are some of the strategies we use to boost innovation and maximise end results. It is definitively an exciting place to contribute, collaborating with brilliant minds both inside and outside our P&G

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organisation where we truly encouraged every single member to develop and learn to their full potential.”

Rosa proceeds to explain three specific case studies, showcasing the contributions P&G are driving in Next Generation Services (NGS).

“This first case study has delivered significant value in the way we managed our Financial Services and Solutions. The accounts receivable organisation is embracing technology to drive shareholder value creation.

Incorporating smart automation solutions such as Robotics Process Automation (RPA) has opened the door to deliver step-change productivity gains.

Leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning is demonstrating the potential to not only drive productivity but also significantly improve overall cash flow.

“The next one is about exploring new talent management strategies. Shifting demographics are changing the way work gets done. It is predicted that within the next five years as much as 50% of the U.S. workforce will consider themselves freelancers.

NGS spent the last year testing what it takes to maximise value of on demand talent. Through this test we realised that while implementing this next generation work system takes a very intentional approach to properly educate, govern and operate, the value unlocked is breakthrough; delivering work with higher quality, faster execution and a fraction of the cost vs. traditional means.

anywhere and via any channel our consumers want to engage with us.”

Staying on these upbeat notes, Rosa shares the firm’s hopes and plans for 2017 and beyond and underlines P&G’s strong commitment to diversity.

“As part of our digitisation strategy, accelerating the business application of IT capability via technology innovation will continue to be one of the top focus areas, together with strengthening the IT skills and technical mastery of our organisation in a world where the rate of change is unprecedented.

“Finally, I would like to emphasise P&G’s strong commitment to diversity, which enables leaders like myself thrive in a global environment. P&G has been consistently recognised within the Top 10 Companies for global diversity by Diversity Inc, and amongst the Best Companies for Multicultural Women.

“For instance, in IT, our people are all diverse business leaders who apply their IT mastery to deliver game changing, technology-driven business models and capabilities. I believe it is an optimal time to join P&G, IT and NGS as the opportunities for challenging yet rewarding work experiences are abundant, while helping P&G win with consumers and shoppers all around the world.”

To learn more visit our global website at http://us.pgcareers. com/

Finally, my third example is around the way we engage with our P&G Consumers and finding innovative approaches powered by technology to serve them better. We are actively exploring the power of cognitive (AI) and deep machine learning to reduce the time to serve while eliminating low value activities in our traditional systems, increase our advisors’ conversational focus and deliver an even better, consumer experience anytime,

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Food for Thought Procal Dairies commenced business in 2003 and is a leading Australian and family owned dairy manufacturing and distribution business producing and selling milk, cream and yoghurt products. As a proud winner of the Australian CFO Top 25 - 2017’s Leading Beverage Manufacturing CFO award, we invited Craig Pound to tell us more about the firm’s work in his own words.

The business has been built largely upon a team of owner driver distributors who deliver daily to over 4,000 cafes, restaurants, food service outlets, catering companies and food manufacturers located in Australia’s two largest metropolitan markets – Melbourne and Sydney. It is the largest independent dairy supplier in these two markets.

The company has a small but growing presence in both the local retail and export markets with the supply of more niche styled dairy products.

This award means a great deal for both Procal Dairies and myself and it is in no small part a recognition of all the hard work the company and its staff and

distributors have put in where the business was established with just $150,000 in shareholder capital with turnover growing from zero to $65m over 14 years employing 120 staff and 45 distributors with a factory capable of producing 120 million litres annually.

In its first 6 years of existence, Procal Dairies operated solely as a distributor of dairy products which were manufactured by third parties. It did not commence manufacturing its own products until 2009 when brand new purpose built factory premises in the northern outskirts of Melbourne were completed.

Funding for this investment was exclusively procured through the banks during the lead up to and in the aftermath of the GFC where the shareholders/directors were not required to pledge private assets as collateral.

The key for Procal in obtaining funding on favourable terms during that time was the experience of the directors and senior management team in being able to construct a robust business case and clearly present a fundamentally sound medium to long term P & L projection and cash flow model.

Starting off by supplying the food service and route business in Melbourne and Sydney, one of Procal’s critical success factors has been not to have an over reliance with any one customer with no one customer ever occupying more than 5 - 7% of the company’s total turnover.

This is one of the reasons why the business has not had a major focus in grocery where, in Australia’s concentrated grocery market, the two largest supermarket chains account for over 70% of total grocery turnover.

Apart from having a deep understanding of the business’s figures, the main attributes of a CFO are to participate and contribute to the development of a business strategy as well as to manage the process and measure its progress against pre-determined milestones.

Being a major contributor in maintaining strong relationships with key business stakeholders whether they be banks, suppliers, customers, distributors or shareholders is also extremely important. It is also about building a strong and committed administration and finance team who have a strong work ethic and are willing to learn and improve their skills.

Through the commitment, dedication and hard work of our people, Procal has won several prestigious industry awards in the past 12 months including the 2017 Victorian Manufacturer of the Year Award in the Food and Fibre category. In just the past week, Procal products were awarded the highest scoring winner in the both the Cultured Dairy Products and the Stirred Yoghurt categories in the 2017 Dairy Industry Australia Awards.

This in addition to numerous highest scoring and gold medal winner awards over the past 5 years with our fresh milk, cream as well as the natural, smooth and Greek yoghurt products.

For me as CFO in the past 12 months, a significant personal achievement has centred around a role in cementing key supplier relationships in a clearly difficult

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Company: Procal Dairies Pty Ltd Name: Craig Pound Email: craig@procal.com.au Web Address: www.procal.com.au Address: MELBOURNE, 6/183 - 187 Northbourne Road Campbellfield VIC 3061 AUS Telephone: +61 1300 776 225

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Australian Dairy Industry, where overall national milk volume has diminished by between 10 - 15 % over the past twelve months following the collapse of questionable milk pricing practices by Australia’s two leading milk processors. This has led to severe shortages of not just milk, but also of cream and butter, with the entire industry having been affected. So far, we have managed this situation quite well and look forward to seeing improved industry conditions later in the year.

My early working life started with the Australian associate of BDO Chartered Accountants firstly in audit and then later in Business Services working as Senior Manager for 5 years. In 1989 I transferred to BDO’s London office in its Corporate Finance department where I was involved with the high-profile Sock Shop administration in 1990 as well doing numerous due diligence and investigating accountant’s reports for clients operating in the travel, textile and manufacturing industries.

In 1992, following my return to Australia, I joined The Original Juice Co. as its Finance Manager and Company Secretary.

The Original Juice grew to be Australia’s biggest fresh juice manufacturer prior to its acquisition by Golden Circle in 2002 where I was appointed as Group Manager of Finance and Operations.

Deciding to focus on other projects, in 2004 I went out on my own and set up an Accounting Practice as well consult to smaller niche type fruit juice manufacturers. Prior to this I had already obtained both my Registered Company Auditor and Registered Tax Agent licences.

Also during this time, I was fulfilling the external accountant’s role with Procal Dairies and was heavily involved with procuring bank finance for the factory construction. I joined the company as its CFO in mid 2010.

Being CFO allows you to play a significant role in setting business strategy, identifying

goals and milestone objectives and measuring and being accountable for its progress throughout the journey. You must be able to work closely with all departments in establishing business investment cases and ensuring that they strictly adhere to strong financial disciplines which must be clearly communicated and understood by everyone concerned.

Where possible, I believe it is vitally important for the CFO to join with other senior staff in developing relationships we have with our key suppliers, customers and distributors as this is the key to enduring business success.

Having been Procal’s CFO for 7 years now, the company has certainly had its fair share of significant challenges growing its turnover from $36m when I first joined in 2010 to $65m today in a highly competitive market.

As far as the remainder of 2017 is concerned, it is a matter of concentrating on the basics and our critical strengths and competencies within an industry which has, for the reasons outlined above, recently endured a great deal of turmoil.

In 2018, the company plans to expand into export markets, particularly South East Asia, with its range of yoghurt products and a proposed investment in new processing and packaging equipment capable of packing milk in either UHT or ESL (extended shelf life) formats. The company always remains on the lookout for other new product opportunities including alternative packaging formats and plant based beverages. With the key advantage of having an efficient and motivated distribution system servicing 4,000 customers, there are many other beverage styled products that can be introduced to complement Procal’s existing product range.

10 KEYS TO A CFO’S SUCCESS 1. Strategy – Be involved in understanding, setting and implementing key business strategies.

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2. Business Relationships – Get to know your key stakeholders, suppliers, customers and distributors very well. Always work to improve these relationships.

3. Staff – Build a strong administration and finance team to support you. Engender enthusiastic performance and encourage them to improve their skill sets.

4. Corporate Risk – Understand the business’s critical risk profile and work to manage and improve it. Establish implementable disaster recovery plans.

5. Rolling Financial Forecasts – Without diminishing the importance of budgets, the trouble is that they can become quickly out of date. Focus equally or give more time to prepare rolling quarterly P & L forecasts out over the next 18 months to take account of updated business conditions at the end of every quarter.

6. Key Performance Indicators – Prepare yourself to be able to quote key daily, weekly and monthly performance indicators spontanteously.

7. Cash Generation – Understand how business performance and beneath the surface subtleties impacts on cash flow. Higher profits do not always translate to cash in the bank. Update your cash projections regularly.

8. EBITDA & EBIT – Understand your EBITDA performance and how new (and indeed existing business) and investment opportunities may or may not improve EBITDA by sale $ or by unit of production. Aim to grow EBIT at a faster rate than the rate of investment in Net Operating Assets year on year.

9. Power of One Sensitivity – Determine what impact a 1% change in price, volume, cost of sales and overheads has as well as a reduction of one day in debtor collections and stock turnover and one day increase in creditor payments.

10. Know your Limitations – Both business and yourself personally.

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What I Know, What I Have and What I Am SecureKey is a leading identity and authentication provider that simplifies consumer access to online services. Following his success in reaching the Canadian CEO of the Month accolade, we interviewed Greg Wolfond to discover more about the company and how he has been successful in his current position.

SecureKey makes it easier for consumers to prove who they are to online service providers, in order to gain access to services without creating any new, hard to remember, user IDs and passwords. Securekey works with leading banks, governments and telecommunication companies and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

“Once we identified what we were attempting to solve, it was really about bringing together the right people and the right partners to tackle the numerous aspects of the solution itself.

Being able to bring together skilled and forward-looking individuals as teammates, partners, service providers and the like, the task of successfully solving a problem becomes much more reasonable.”

CEO of the Month Greg Wolfond begins the interview by revealing the firm’s ongoing strategy, and their approach when undertaking a new client or project.

He then steers us towards his reflections on achieving the Canadian CEO of the Month accolade, and how he keeps himself motivated and positive to be a successful leader.

“We are in the business of authentication and online verification, with an end goal of making it easier for consumers to get things done online. Our ongoing strategy is to make online identity easy for all consumers, across all industries. We are working with partners across a multitude of industries including banking and telecommunication, healthcare and education, government, as well as the sharing economy, to ensure that consumers are safe, secure and have complete privacy in sharing information.

“It always starts with identifying a problem that needs to be solved.

For some companies, that’s making it easier to get from point a to point b, or to rest comfortably when you get to point b. For us, that problem is solving many of the issues around identity fraud and simplifying online access in the digital age.

“It’s very exciting! It’s such an honour to be recognised for this award. We have a lot of projects – one in particular launching later this year – that keeps us at SecureKey very busy. To be recognised shows that our hard work and the hard work of our partners is paying off. This award reflects on the entire team at SecureKey and our partners who have been working very hard to increase visibility of the importance of authentication and online privacy.

“My primary passion is people.

I am always motivated and inspired by the people around me. I believe that success is not possible without a group of talented individuals with the same common goal. At SecureKey, our mission is to put the consumer back in the middle, giving them complete control of their digital assets, to help create

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a safer, frictionless digital works and help lead the world’s digital transformation. Working with the best minds in the business – both at SecureKey and working with our partners – motivates me every day, and drives me to be at my best to lead a superior team.”

For any CEO to be successful, there are always several challenges to overcome as Greg goes on to explain, before revealing his thoughts on the key attributes that make for an award-winning leader of his ilk.

“The technology industry can be tough. Major strides in privacy and security are only effective until the next major data breach or hack, when players in the technology industry are forced back to the drawing board. I founded SecureKey because I saw a fundamental lack of respect for consumers’ digital identities in the market. In fact, my cousin and close friend were both victims of identity fraud, with mortgages falsely placed on their homes.

“I’ve made it my mission to solve this issue of identity and ensure that consumers are given complete control over their identity, allowing them to decide who they share information with and when.

However, solving identity fraud is not an easy task to accomplish. To overcome this, we’ve developed a broad ecosystem of partners across a multitude of industries – including financial institutions, telcos, Canadian and U.S. governments, among others – to develop a product that will help consumers online.”

“I am humbled by the great people I get to work with every day. Much of the success I’ve had over my career is from being able to bring great people together to solve challenges.

Whether it’s the people who work for our company, or people at major institutions like governments, banks, telcos, health services or others, I’ve found the ability to bring together different parties to try to solve problems for consumers. This is certainly the most rewarding and important part in my role as a CEO.” Greg then turns the interview to his opinions of the state of the industry today, and why it is important that technology is used effectively within it.

“The technology industry is constantly changing. We’re advancing in our approaches to online security and privacy – all while hackers are becoming more sophisticated in their attacks to exploit our identities for their own gain. Regardless of an organisation’s size, we’ve come to realise that the threat of a mass data breach is very real and polarising in today’s digital age, impacting both the companies that are attacked, but especially (and most concerning) their customers.

“Technology is a very important part of our industry.

Authentication and identity verification used to be straight forward in person, but the bad guys are active there now as well.

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“Online, the problem is much harder. Data breaches give criminals access to knowledgebased data that helps them impersonate with ease. Identity verification processes take too much time and are fraught with weaknesses. To ensure a better process, we are working on developing a platform that puts consumers in the middle, with complete control of their private information – empowering digital consumers to take back their rights to digital assets.”

Greg concludes this in-depth interview by sharing his future aspirations for the firm.

“Later this year, we’ll be launching a new identity network designed to provide consumers with complete control of their digital identity, to combat identity fraud and the complicated, lengthy and costly validation process that it results in, and to remove much of the friction consumers face today in trying to get things done.

“The new service which recently won grants for its architecture and approach from both the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Science & Technology Directorate and the Canadian Government, which will allow consumers to use their smartphone to verify that they are who they say they are, when they want to get things done online, in person or over the phone. Using trusted sources to verify the three core elements of identity – ‘What I Know, What I Have and What I Am’ – the new service puts privacy first while making it easier and more secure to open or access accounts and services, gain access to and update personal information, control who has access to what records and when, and communicate and share information with trusted destinations and services right from a smartphone when they need to verify their identity.

“It’s safe, secure, and completely under their control, and supported by an ecosystem of trusted companies – including BMO, CIBC, Desjardins, RBC, Scotiabank and TD – committed to providing a better, safer digital ID experience for users.”

Company: SecureKey Technologies Name: Greg Wolfond Web Address: securekey.com

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A Passion for Water Carollo Engineers, Inc. is an environmental engineering firm that specialises in the planning, design, and construction of water and wastewater facilities. As an exclusive winner of the Software & Technology Innovation 2017 – USA, we find out more about the firm’s work with water including its foundation in Phoenix, Arizona back in 1933.

From a single office with three engineers, Carollo has grown to more than 1000 people in 42 offices throughout the United States. Their staff includes civil, structural, electrical, mechanical, environmental, and instrumentation and control engineers, as well as scientists, planners, architects, and CAD designers. Charlie He, an Associate Vice President with Carollo in charge of its decision support system R&D team, begins by telling us about the firm’s work and their thoughts on winning the exclusive Software & Technology Innovation 2017 – USA accolade.

“At Carollo, water is our focus, our business, and our passion.

It’s all we do. And we are experts at managing the most valuable resource on earth while supporting our clients in the protection and enhancement of their water supplies. We are industry leaders in potable water supply, wastewater treatment, and storm water management strategies, as well as direct potable and indirect potable reuse technologies and practices.

“It’s a big surprise, very exciting, especially because we are not a software company. Receiving a phone call from London informing us that we won a software innovation award means a lot to me and my team. Indeed, such recognition and encouragement is one of the best testimonies of Carollo’s successful R&D program. It is a proof of our

passion and dedication to providing innovative solutions to the world’s water challenges.”

Staying on this note of optimism, Charlie then offers his thoughts on the extent to which 2016 was a year of outstanding innovations through the world of software and technology.

He also explains how software innovation has exceeded expectations, increased the possibilities of business expansion, and has improved the overall development of business operations.

“2016 was a year of outstanding innovations through the world of software and technology. Indeed, many exciting milestones were accomplished in the software and technology worlds, including rapid growth in the field of big data machine learning, cloud computing, cyber security, and rapid adoption of business intelligence platforms.

“In the water engineering related software field, we saw the development of Quantitative Microbiological Risk Assessment (QMAR) tools for direct and indirect potable reuse, reliability assessment software for water system resilience to earthquake and other natural disasters, a web portal and several web apps for distribution system water quality modelling, and integrated “One Water” management.

Carollo’s Blue Plan-it® Decision Support System integrated all these new developments in 2016, through the implementation of application service provider (ASP) technology, SQL Server,

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and Tethys web portal, the adoption of the Monte Carlo Simulator, and the creation of an innovative nonlinear solver.”

“However, the Blue Plan-it® Decision Support System has exceeded our expectations. It has enhanced Carollo’s creative problem solving capabilities by applying scenario management, genetic algorithm, full factorial solver, and Monte Carlos simulation to conventional water engineering. This contributes to business expansion, helping us to serve our municipal utility clients as well as those in the industries of power, semiconductor, textiles, mining, food and beverage, chemical, petroleum, and pharmaceuticals.”

Charlie explains that Blue Planit® Decision Support System is a fully customizable integration, simulation, and optimization model suite. He develops this interesting point in more detail.

“Using a commercially available ExtendSim® platform, BPI connects with SQL servers, Tethys Platform, web GIS, a series of external dashboards, business intelligence tools, and specialty model applications to support our clients in making decisions for complex water system challenges. Integrated with our almost 85 years of water engineering expertise, this powerful tool allows our engineers to incorporate chemistry, biology, hydraulics, treatability, regulations, equipment data, cost estimates, and financial and statistics analyses into one platform.”

Finally, Charlie brings things to a close by detailing where he sees software innovation heading in the future and the role that his firm will play in this, underlining that the 21st century is an exciting age for the software developer and that it will continue to grow rapidly in every aspect of our lives.

“At Carollo, water is all we do and now we do it online. We do it using innovative software tools such as The Blue Planit® Decision Support System.

We are committed to bridging the gap between fundamental research and practical, innovative, and reliable solutions for those we serve. We believe that creativity, science, and technology must be integrated with sound engineering to meet the complex challenges facing our industry. Challenges such as aging infrastructure, increasingly stringent water quality and discharge requirements, the movement toward sustainability, and growing water supply shortages require innovative thinking and innovative tools.

“2017 so far has been another promising year for Carollo. As for the Blue Plan-it® team, we are working on training more users, developing new features and establishing new applications.

Several new technologies that we are developing and testing include applying Monte Carlo simulation to water facility design, leveraging big data machine learning for asset management and real time process control, and integrating multiple business intelligence dashboards into our project delivery.

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“The Blue Plan-it® Decision Support System offers a wide range of tailored applications to provide a range of tailored services and products to our public and private clients throughout planning, testing, design, construction management, and operation of water systems. One Model, Many Solutions. One Model, All Project Phases.”

Company: Carollo Engineers, Inc. Name: Charlie He Title: Associate Vice President, Southwest R&D Lead, Decision Support System Lead Email: CHe@Carollo.com Web Address: www.Carollo.com Address: 4600 E Washington Street, Suite 500 Phoenix, AZ, 85233 Telephone: +1 800 523 5826

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Words of Gratitude to the Whole Subway Family Being named as the 2017 Emerging Markets Top 50 – Poland Representative is a big privilege for Mia. It was a real pleasure to participate in the SUBWAY® European Partner Conference in Wicklow, Ireland last November.

At the time of the European Partner Conference late last year we experienced the familiar atmosphere of the company and its business partners and had many fruitful discussions with different suppliers taking part in the event. We started collaborating with Subway in 2015 and after a year, we received our first order from them.

This award is also very precious because we seem to share the same values as the whole Subway family of companies – suppliers like us, whom we met in Ireland. Transparency, sustainable development, an environmentally friendly system, supporting business partners and helping people towards a better life by giving outstanding performance and attitude examples mean very much for us. In addition to these values, we learned a lot during the conference and we are very proud to participate in changing the world’s habits and the creation of a new nutrition culture.

MIA group characteristics We are a Polish shopfitting company. As a group created by Mia and established in 1999 in Krakow, ISM registered in Moscow in 2012 and ISM Kazakhstan in Astana since last month, we have access to a market of about 1 billion consumers covering the whole of Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States, including Russia.

We employ about 100 people in the group and generate a yearly turnover of 10 million Euro with about 2000 manufacturing and 25 general construction projects.

Multinational noble clients Besides Subway we are collaborating in the international market with many other famous clients like: Triumph International, Swarovski, Swatch group, Inditex, Lacoste, Escada, Sephora, Shiseido, Seidensticker, Nike, Philip Morris and many others.

18 years’ international experience During 18 years of international development, we have implemented tens of thousands of various products in production.

We can design the appearance of a fitness centre chain, a Crossfit box, a large sales salon or a small shop-in-shop stand.

Our portfolio includes hundreds of public interior adaptation projects. We specialise in commercial chains, mainly retail and fitness branches.

We also know what a modern office – designed according to the latest trends and ready for adaptation around the world – should look like. We have the know-how and experience in making them the best they can be, because our company interior was also created in this way.

We design public interior space concepts as a standards manual, which allows for later copying of the firm’s visual identification in any part of the world.

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Eye-Catch design and value engineering We also can help clients put other designers’ ideas or their own concepts into production.

In the picture at the end of this article, you can see a counter designed as a real boat for visual merchandising targets of our client Campione, which sells maritime-style clothing. This is an example of how we can increase brand visibility by using its core communication elements. We suggest various material and construction solutions, which will meet budget and commercial expectations.

We find optimal combinations of structure, form and ergonomics within the set financial goals.

Thanks to our optimisation solutions, many customers have improved their furnishings and are now purchasing them for much less. We work using the very advanced Inventor software, which makes it easy to prepare flawless technical drawings.

Our engineers have the knowledge and experience in making a variety of point of sales materials and amazing furniture products, often made from hard-to-find raw materials, using complex technologies. Thanks to the teamwork and close cooperation of the constructors with the production department and our subcontractors, new furniture is created at MIA at a dynamic pace while retaining high quality standards. Our technical documentation,

together with the abovementioned visualisations of interiors and furnishings, is the main tool of the entire company.

Manufacturing in Poland We work with dozens of production plants – proven companies in various industries – on a daily basis. Our components are manufactured by carpenters, locksmiths, glaziers, plastics specialists and others, under the supervision of project managers.

All production is based on our technical documentation.

Finished furniture parts arrive at their final destination, where assembly and final quality control takes place – this is where the finished product is made.

We have also developed our own ERP software, which facilitates just-in-time production, as well as information and quality management throughout the supply chain. Such organisation allows us to flexibly adapt to changing demand and choose the right production solutions for different types of clients.

Transport and assembly organization Thanks to many years of cooperation with shippers and carriers, we use proven transport solutions that enable us to react immediately to changing construction conditions. We can divide shipments into smaller ones and send furniture to distant parts of Europe more quickly, when something unexpected happens while carrying out a

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Name: Dominik Szot Email: dominik.szot@mia.com.pl Web Address: www.mia.com.pl Address: ul. Półłanki 22, PL 30-740 Kraków Telephone: +48 12 264 00 30

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project. We have developed reliable delivery methods to Russia and countries outside of the European Union. We send furniture to distant corners of the world, efficiently taking care of all organisational matters.

Projects recently completed Our recent most interesting manufacture and installation projects are Lacoste in Saint Tropez, Fitness Studio Moving in Nice in France, and equipment for famous department stores in Germany. There was a pressure of time, unknown technologies and changes during production – our daily bread and butter.

As general contractor, we have recently completed 2 shops in Kazan in Russia for the Swedish Gant and Turkish Koton.

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INHUMAN GEAR and or 2nd sport directed business We are a company steady looking for new opportunities.

Besides the above-mentioned retail business we are also very active in the sport market.

Acceptance of the store project by state institutions, shopping centres and various specialists who issue permits and certificates (e.g. a monument conservator) is essential for trouble-free construction. We take care of these formalities for our clients in every country.

In 2015, Mia created its own brand of functional training equipment – Inhuman Gear.

We designed all our sport products with a team of athletes and engineers. Last year, we developed and successfully implemented our flooring for free weight zones. We have a special fitness zone at our company: an Inhuman Gear box, a place where our employees train.

Cookie cabinet and collaboration with Subway As a designer and manufacturer of point of sales materials and also as general contractor we presently offer many possibilities to collaborate with the Subway network.

There are two ambassadors of our brand: Gabriela Migala from Poland and Barni Botje from Romania. Young athletes with extraordinary sport achievements: Gabriela was the 3rd best teenager on Earth last year at the Crossfit Games in California.

In 2015-2016, together with the EPIC team, we developed a Cookie Cabinet, a specialized permanent sales support element that us most likely already used at minimum 1000 Subway stores in Europe. We are very happy to help our clients in the development of new shop equipment and put our set of unique skills to use: a combination of design, value engineering and access to many different technologies.

By developing Inhuman Gear in our company, we show our employees the possibility to create something completely new, fresh and full of modern energy.

Benefits of working with MIA Many clients value the collaboration with MIA, mainly because of our skills in solving problems abroad, at any time of day or night. Others appreciate us for the production and logistics savings that resulted from working with us. Most work with us due to the quality of services we provide and very high standard quality of our products.

At Subway, the claims rate doesn’t exceed 0.03% which means that only 3 out of 1000

Our slogan: “Losers quit when they are tired Winners quit when they’ve won.”

Which has been improved by Gabi Migala: “Winners never quit.

Losers never win.”

Both of them show that every success needs engagement, passion and determination.

General construction activity With our construction schedule, a project manager will guide you in the details of each project. You will be kept informed about the progress of the work and you will receive photo documentation after the completion of each stage. In agreement with you, we will solve any difficulties that arise. We provide advice and help. We are committed to meeting the store completion

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We prepare architectural working documentation in accordance with construction law and regulations of the country where the construction takes place.

Industry projects are consulted with the customer each time, so that all store details can be properly planned and carried out.

Our architectural designs enable preparation of the cost estimate, efficient construction and turnover of the finished facility by all interested parties and institutions. After the completion of the project, we provide an asbuilt design, taking into account the actual state of the premises.

We will plan, schedule, and carry out all construction and finishing works related to the store. Keeping to the agreed cost estimate and individual stage completion deadlines, as well as quality standard control are everyday business for us.

We have experience in carrying out construction investments in many countries at the same time (Russia, France, Germany, Czech Republic, Poland).

If you decide to close your store, we will take care of all formalities for you. We will dismantle the equipment, as well as demolish and bring the premises up to the expected appearance (e.g. development state). We have a lot of experience in the rapid implementation of such ventures.

Omnichannel Strategy and Social Media approach We are also using Omnichannel in our new strategy now for a development of our future where our employers will play a leading role. We discovered that social media has become extremely important and their rush and broad development requires a proper and

entirely new managerial approach.

Therefore, we are already using the internet pretty intensively.

We adapt social media for: A) Better identification of the client’s needs and use them to find what they need more quickly.

B) Ongoing communication on new products, technologies and constructions, inventions and patents.

C) Market trend and shopping habit research.

D) Promotion and sales support of our clients and their brands.

E) Studying our own organisational efficiency and continuous improvement.

F) Gathering knowledge about the market in order to learn together with clients and customers within the global net and an increasingly transparent supply chain.

All of our activities are integrated to provide the best possible delivery of what we have agreed on with the customer in the above points; the customer always occupies a central place in our everyday life.

The future There will be some entirely new cutting edge products equipped with electronics for a shop application.

The most important factor of our success is people. We are focused on their development and we are building a culture of challenge, creativity and managerial power of a team.

By the end of 2017, we should be very famous for 4 reasons: 1. Use of social media application by our employees, 2. Break-through technologies in shops, 3. Kazakhstan projects completed for many companies, 4. Another development in sports world.

The above directions are the pillars of our strategy. We cordially invite you to take a business journey with us. Our doors are open! Your MIA team.

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NEED A LAWYER? John & John Chambers Inc provides services to the entire island of St. Lucia

Specialisations are in Trademarks/patents, conveyancing, succession, debt collection, commercial law, personal injury and insurance and other aspect of law.

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Since its establishment in 2008, JANAAC has been carrying out its mandate of facilitating trade between Jamaica and its trading partners by enabling Jamaica’s Conformity Assessment System to meet international standards and the World Trade Organization’s (WTO’s) Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade.

The Mission of the Jamaica National Agency for Accreditation is to support the effective development of the Jamaican economy by providing Conformity Assessment Bodies with internationally recognized accreditation services.

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Work in the Pipeline Schlumberger is the world’s leading provider of technology for reservoir characterization, drilling, production, and processing to the oil and gas industry. As the Best Manufacturing Facility Design/Build Consultancy – USA award winner, we took the opportunity to profile the company’s work.

Working in more than 85 countries and employing approximately 100,000 people who represent over 140 nationalities, Schlumberger supplies the industry’s most comprehensive range of products and services, from exploration through production and integrated pore-to-pipeline solutions for hydrocarbon recovery that optimize reservoir performance.

Schlumberger is the world’s leading provider of technology for reservoir characterization, drilling, production, and processing to the oil and gas industry. Working in more than 85 countries and employing approximately 100,000 people who represent over 140 nationalities, Schlumberger supplies the industry’s most comprehensive range of products and services, from exploration through production and integrated pore-to-pipeline solutions for hydrocarbon recovery that optimize reservoir performance.

Schlumberger has principal offices in Paris, Houston, London and The Hague.

Revenue was $27.81 billion in 2016. Schlumberger stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange, ticker symbol SLB, on the Euronext Paris, Euronext Amsterdam, London and the SIX Swiss stock exchanges.

Competitive Advantage Schlumberger offers its clients four key advantages:

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Deep domain knowledge of exploration and production operations gained through more than 80 years of experience; The service industry’s longest commitment to technology and innovation through a network of 125 research and engineering technology centers; A global reach in more than 85 countries coupled to strong local experience and the diversity in thought, background and knowledge that more than 140 nationalities bring and; A commitment to excellence in service delivery anytime, anywhere.

Research and Engineering The company was founded by the two Schlumberger brothers who invented wireline logging as a technique for obtaining downhole data in oil and gas wells. Today, it continues to build on the industry’s longest track record of providing leading edge E&P technology to develop new advancements-from reservoir to surface. Schlumberger has always invested significant time and money on research and engineering as a long-term strategy to support and grow its technology leadership. Shortterm business cycles do not affect this. In 2016, they invested $1.0 billion in R&E for their oilfield activities. Schlumberger invests more each year in R&E than all other oilfield services companies combined.

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Schlumberger Products and Services The Schlumberger offerings combine domain expertise, best practices, safe and environmentally sound well site operations, innovative technologies, and high-quality support aimed at helping its customers increase oilfield efficiency, lower finding and producing costs, improve productivity, maximize reserve recovery, and increase asset value in a safe, environmentally sound manner.

Today, Schlumberger products and services include open-hole and cased-hole wireline logging; drilling services; well services, such as cementing, coiled tubing, stimulations and sand control; well completion services including well testing and artificial lift; interpretation and consulting services; and integrated project management. Strong technical and operational support to the field is vital to the success of any complex global operation that includes remote locations.

The key is to provide real-time linkage with world-class experts and knowledge, delivering the latest and best problem-solving capabilities-anywhere, anytime.

The company’s InTouchsupport. com knowledge management tool improves field access to Schlumberger technology centers through the most advanced IT tools, 24-hours a day, seven days a week.

Enhancing core E&P operations to improve production, increase reserves and drill better

wells requires the integration of innovative information technology. Software Integrated Solutions (SIS) offers a unique combination of people and processes, technology and infrastructure, and real-time IT enablers-delivering key value-adding solutions to overcome a myriad of challenges confronting industry operational processes. SIS offers information management, software technology and infrastructure services. Combined with the domain experience available through the Business Consulting group, these enable oil and gas companies to enhance their workflows and achieve their goals.

As the industry’s focus is moving towards maximizing postplateau production and ultimate recovery, oil companies must face more and more resource intensive projects. Integrated Project Management (IPM) is the Schlumberger response to this challenge and a significant growth area for Schlumberger.

IPM activity is characterized by long-term relationships between the customer and Schlumberger.

It offers a combination of engineering, process management and understanding of Schlumberger segment technologies.

As well as providing technology and expertise, Schlumberger often works with local subcontractors to harness local knowledge and experience.

Schlumberger Integrated Project Management (IPM)

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offers project coordination, turn-key well construction, production intervention and production incentive contracts.

Since its inception in 1995, IPM has managed the drilling and completion of over 8,000 wells with over 60 million feet drilled.

The benefits to the customer have included accelerated production, reduced capital expenditure and increased efficiency.

Commitment to Health, Safety and the Environment Finally, it is worth noting that Schlumberger operates in many varied and often challenging geographical environments.

The company has always had an unwavering commitment to maintaining the highest standards of the health and safety of their employees, customers and contractors, as well as for the protection of the environment in the communities in which we live and work.

The long-term business success of Schlumberger depends on their ability to ensure that HSE remains a top priority for the management and each employee. The Schlumberger HSE policy and diverse standards are applied throughout the company. Each employee must maintain up-todate certifications in essential HSE training courses through both traditional classroom and on-line interactive learning. The company’s driving safety-training program is one example of their HSE success.

Company: Smith Services a Schlumberger Company Name: Paul Speechley Email: pspeechley@slb.com Web Address: www.slb.com Address: Building B 3-2 Section no. 8228, Shanghai, 200120 China 0086 182 1754 9547 Telephone: +1 86 21 6700 5662

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South Africa’s leading investigation, forensics and intelligence services company

Our Vision, Mission and Strategy It is an unfortunate reality that the private security and investigation industry is littered with unscrupulous operators who prey on the vulnerable, fly-by-nights who promise the world yet deliver nothing, and incompetents that (no matter how well-intentioned) bungle matters, worsen situations and endanger others.

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This reality has bred a sense of public distrust that has made the business of being an investigator more challenging for professional, reputable operators. At the same time, though, it has enabled Intertel, and others like Intertel that strive for excellence, to stand out from the crowd.

The Maria Hanson Foundation (me&dee registered charity) arrange holidays at the Mablethorpe seaside in two caravans, along with beach huts, for families in this position and for physically and emotionally injured service men and women where very precious memories can be made together.

This is achieved by offering seaside breaks at no cost to the recipients, with every attempt made to cover individual needs and requirements against the many life threatening and shortening conditions which qualify from both adults and children (not behavioural conditions).

Maria Hanson Foundation (me&dee charity)

“If you had a loved one who was living with a life limiting condition, if your family was facing a short and uncertain future together, you would want to make the time they had left together as special as possible�.

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Longevity Speaks Volumes President & CEO of Comfort Dynamics, INC. Tony DeMeo was delighted to have achieved the status of US CEO of the Month in the Manufacturing category earlier this year. We took the chance to profile his own work as a CEO and the firm he heads up.

Tony DeMeo has been the President & CEO of Comfort Dynamics since 1999, so there is no doubt that he is a highly seasoned professional with many years of leadership experience under his belt. Located in San Leandro, California the company provides service, maintenance, installation and design /build work in the commercial/industrial HVAC industry. They specialise in design/build work requiring the knowledge and abilities all three areas of hydronics, airflow, and direct digital controls to meet the demands of the systems and clients they serve.

Comfort Dynamics has the skills and experience to handle the complete spectrum of mechanical services from design, project management and installation through service, maintenance, controls and energy management monitoring.

Their mission is to deliver the most responsive service, expertise and guidance available in their industry. With ‘any system - any size’ in mind, their focus is always on customer comfort and satisfaction.

Comfort Dynamics strives to provide their customers the best of both worlds, that is a responsive service and cost effectiveness of a small

organisation and the proficiency and the know-how of a large company.

Drawing on over 100+ years of combined HVAC experience, their clear objective is to deliver to their clients the highest level of competency, service, and technology available. The firm’s in-house services include HVAC design, installation, diagnostics, repairs, digital controls, energy management and maintenance programs.

Case studies Jones Lang Lasalle - 600 California Street, San Francisco, CA The building is 20 stories of high end professional office space in the heart of the SF financial district. The 20-yearold Building Automation System was starting to have erratic electrical problems for no specific reason. A fully occupied building in need of an entirely new BAS. To complicate the project requirements further, the central plant cooling system utilises a thermal energy storage system based on freezing and thawing 4,800 ton hours of ice capacity daily. The conversion to a new system needed to be flawless, or tenant would complain to management and rents could be withheld if serious disruption to comfort levels was compromised.

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The renovation of the system was recently completed and the tenants were not even aware the project was undertaken. Building management and ownership were very pleased with the smooth transition to the new control system and are grateful for your dedication and perfect execution of the project plan. The new system is operating the building better than the previous and is helping the engineering staff to manage the HVAC needs for the tenants with less time and trouble daily than the original system.

BioRad BioRad is a legacy client.

Comfort Dynamics began providing maintenance and HVAC service for their corporate building first in August of 1999, which including the systems for their Global Data Center. Since that time, Comfort Dynamics has been involved in most their facility improvement projects in over 11 sites.

They have contracted with us for central plant modernisation, Design/build work for labs remodels, air handler, cooling tower, and boiler replacements.

Comfort Dynamics have converted one of their largest manufacturing facilities to RELIABLE CONTROLS, replaced two air handling until which serve manufacturing and lab areas, both with high air quality standards for those environments.

Additionally, Comfort Dynamics are just completing the second modernisation to the data center they began working in almost 18 years ago. Since this relationship began, Bio Rad management has turned to Comfort Dynamics to play a major role in the expansion and modernisation of their mechanical systems to support their business goals. In short, longevity speaks volumes in business relationships like Comfort Dynamics.

AECOM AECOM is a global engineering and energy services company.

Through Comfort Dynamics relationships in Northern California, they have been partner on several facility energy efficiency projects with them, as their mechanical and DDC controls partner. Comfort Dynamics has worked with them on campus modernisation project at college campuses in the SF Bay Area, tackling complex projects with schedule sensitive requirements.

These include boiler replacements, exhaust system modernisation, and redesign, piping system redesign for chilled and hot water, compressed air, and natural gas systems. All undertaken and completed with little or no impact to the occupied and operating facilities in which they are working. San Francisco State, Cal State East Bay, UCSF, Cal Maritime Academy in Vallejo, CA, just to mention a few.

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Oakland Marriott & Convention Center - Hospitality & Convention Facility This is one of Comfort Dynamics largest single projects to date in their 18-year company history.

Marriott ownership was referred to us Comfort Dynamics by the engineering firm they hired to develop a RFP for a complete replacement of the aging control system for both the hotel and convention center. They are essentially a single building with single chilled and hot water plant, which must be managed to serve the needs of both entities.

Comfort Dynamics successfully upgraded the control systems, replaced an 800-ton cooling tower in phases over a weekend without and impact to the hotel guests. Comfort Dynamics identified additional upgrades to the HVAC systems which were approved over and above the original contract value. The engineering department is very happy with the control system and mechanical improvements, plus Comfort Dynamics continue to provide maintenance and service work in addition to ongoing small mechanical projects.

Company: Comfort Dynamics Name: Tony DeMeo Email: tonydemeo@comfortdynamics.com Web Address: www.comfortdynamics.com Address: 823 Estabrook St. San Leandro, CA 94577 Telephone: +1 510 352 8501

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Building Sustainability Leaders Enviro-Stewards Inc. is an engineering firm and Certified B Corporation that helps clients increase their profits, sustain the environment and compellingly benefit society.

A steward is one who manages another’s property, finances or other affairs on their behalf.

Therefore, the Enviro-Stewards name is intended to reflect the firm’s mandate to help its clients conserve their resources and effectively address their environmental liabilities.

Enviro-Stewards was founded in September 2000. The founder and president of the firm, Bruce Taylor, has 20 years of experience in the environmental consulting industry. He has managed wastewater characterization, treatability testing, treatment facility design and implementation, and facility decommissioning, and site remediation projects for semiconductor, aerospace, automotive, nuclear, petroleum, specialty chemical, mining, pulp and paper, electroplating, textile, fabrication, health care, food and beverage industries.

Bruce is also an internationally recognized expert and conference speaker in the field of water and waste reduction, reuse and recycling. When not hard at work, you might find him playing hockey, canoeing, hiking, reading, or serving the disadvantaged in his community.

He tells us more about the firm and what gives it its edge.

“The value of a consultant’s service is primarily based on the caliber of individuals specifically assigned to any given project and the internal functionality of the consulting firm,” he explains. “EnviroStewards corporate policies are designed to attract, develop, and empower staff with outstanding technical competence, integrity, judgement, interpersonal skills, communication, and a desire to serve others.

“Our innovative corporate policies include a profit sharing program open to every member of the firm, compensation time off, and mutual accountability.”

Enviro-Stewards assists organizations in taking a leadership role in corporate social responsibility by offering proven experience that supports the three tenets of sustainability: Financial, Environmental, and Social Sustainability. Gain a competitive advantage while improving the bottom line.

Its approach is to offer a range of services to assist clients with the development and implementation of their unique CSR program.

These services include: • Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) • Sustainability Planning and Reporting • Corporate Charitable Work • Occupational Health & Safety (OHS) • Toxic Use Reduction (TUR)

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Lean & Clean Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Reduction Environmental Compliance Design for the Environment (DfE) Cleaner Production (CP) Eco-Efficiency Pollution Prevention (P2) Energy Efficiency (E2) Water Conservation Product Yield

Public perception and competitive advantage associated with a CSR program can increase the financial bottom line of a company.

“Enviro-Stewards seeks to address problem drivers by improving brand recognition and differentiation, company reputation, and market value,” Bruce states.

“CSR is required of suppliers by some international customers and it creates a point of engagement for staff, which can increase employee motivation, performance, and retention.”

More about Bruce Taylor Bruce Taylor, P. Eng., is a chemical engineer with 26 years of experience in the environmental consulting field and has expertise in the fields of water efficiency, pollution prevention (P2), energy efficiency (E2), lean & clean, sustainable development and treatment process design.

His project experience includes aerospace, automotive, beverage, commercial product, food, manufacturing, medical, mining, nuclear, petrochemical, pulp & paper, pharmaceutical, specialty chemical and textile industries. His international development work includes construction of an orphanage in Sudan, earthquake relief in El Salvador, and initiation of Safe Drinking Water Projects in South Sudan and Kenya.

He presented at the Food and Beverage Environmental Conference (Florida 2011, Maryland 2013), National Environmental Partnership Summit (Chicago 2005, Atlanta 2006, San Francisco 2009, Indiana 2013), Canadian Pollution Prevention Roundtable (Quebec City 2002, Calgary 2003, Ottawa 2004, Victoria 2005, Halifax 2006, Winnipeg 2007, Edmonton 2008, Charlottetown 2009), the Great Lakes Regional Pollution Prevention Roundtable (Erie 2003), Trade Team Canada’s Cleaner Production Trade Mission to Chile (Santiago 2002) and OCETA’s Cleaner Production Training Workshop in Laos (January 2004).

Specialties: water efficiency, pollution prevention (P2), energy efficiency (E2), lean and clean, sustainable development and treatment process design.

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Company: Enviro-Stewards Inc. Email: mail@enviro-stewards.com Web Address: www.enviro-stewards.com Address: 1 Union Street, Elmira, Ontario, N3B 3J9

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Camuto Group LLC About Camuto Group Founded by Vince Camuto (1936-2015), Camuto Group started in 2001 as a shoe design, development and distribution resource for retailers. Over the next 14 years, the company was expanded and diversified, licenses and partners were acquired, brands were introduced and the company was grown into a global business.

The brands comprise over 30 categories, including footwear, sportswear, dresses, handbags, jewelry, swimwear, fragrance and menswear.

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Long in the Tooth DentalARIA is a dental clinic pioneering new technology regarding dental treatment. Situated in a central area of Bucharest, the clinic offers medical treatments to the highest standards.

In the pleasant, relaxing atmosphere of DentalARIA, a team of doctors specializing in the most prestigious dental technology of the moment can offer top results.

The team consists of trained specialists and combines their technical and artistic skills using the latest technology, with a wide range of possibilities for getting that beautiful smile.

Vision : thoroughness, attention to the needs of our patients, customizing treatments and uncompromising.

Mission : Every patient is a member of our team and it treated thus.

Here are the main services that DentalARIA offers its patients.

Consultation The first and most important meeting for both the doctor and the patient. An individual consultation based on confidential doctor/patient discussion after taking information about the status of dental health, general health and the need for treatment that will define the future of the patient treatment plan.

The information on the consultation sheet will be stored in the database respecting strict rules of confidentiality.

Prophylaxis The team focuses on prophylactic treatment because the chances of success are much

higher and costs are lower than for curative treatment.

Brushing daily (both morning and evening) correctly makes the first and most important prophylactic measure. Using dental hygiene auxiliary measures it is also important to floss, use an irrigator, an interdental toothbrush, and mouthwash.

In the clinic DentalARIA every doctor can offer professional cleaning, and patients will be guided by the doctor in order to choose appropriate oral hygiene products.

Personal care and hygiene training undertaken at six months is the primary prophylactic method aimed at prevention of tooth diseases.

Professional cleaning sessions include: detratraj ultrasound, air-flow, professional brushing, advice on personal oral hygiene (choice of toothbrush and suitable auxiliary methods and achieving a correct tooth brushing rhythm).

Endodontics Endodontic treatment is a very important step in treating a tooth, the basis for any kind of reconstruction that that tooth will receive.

mechanical preparation of the root obscuration. Endodontic treatment is done after the tooth has been isolated with a rubber dam to ensure that the treated tooth is removed and preventing the risk of contamination. Root canal length is determined on using the best apex locator available on the market today, ensuring fair treatment of the tooth being treated.

Root canal is done by vertical hot condesarii technique, thus ensuring a good sealing of canals, minimizing the risk of adverse post-treatment.

Prosthetics Prosthetics fall into several different categories, these being: • dental crowns • dental bridges • fixed or movable dentures • inlays • prosthetic crowns Metal-ceramic crowns can be applied on a metallic structure aesthetic resulting in good support.

Ceramic crowns are made in the clinic, but have the drawback of a lower resistance to that of the metal-ceramic crowns. Ceramic crowns are predominantly used for anterior teeth.

In the dental clinic patients can get root canals performed and root canal treatments will be made with the best equipment available, ensuring that teeth enjoy a long life.

Aesthetic crowns are placed on a zirconium support made by milling computerised CAD/CAM data, which shows the qualities of the ceramic crowns and metal-ceramic crowns and their resistance.

This process involves cleaning the root canal and

Prosthetic bridges are made up of at least three elements. They

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can be a bridge with support on the remaining natural teeth or implant bridges. A bridge is made up of columns and the bridge body. The bridges made in the clinic are all aesthetic and may be metal-ceramic or a ceramic bridge supported on zirconium.

Dentures are prosthetic devices that can be removed from the mouth of the patient. They can be full dentures (replace entire dental arch) or partial (replacing a limited number of missing teeth in the arch). In terms of materials, these are largely acrylic.

Implantology The dental implant is a small piece of 100% high-purity titanium that replaces the root of a missing tooth.

It is inserted into the bone through a simple surgical procedure and used to secure the a crown due to the lack of a bridge or a prosthesis.

With a simple incision in the gum, the implant is inserted into the bone which is then covered it with a temporary crown to allow basic functions, such as chewing.

The implant will need 2-6 months for bone integration, (new cells are formed in the bone around the implant, which become integral with the bone.)

This step is performed under local anaesthesia by a trained anaesthetist.

The last step is to place the final crown for the new and permanent crown, thus allowing full function like a natural tooth.

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Company: DentalARIA Email: office@dentalaria.ro Web Address: www.dentalaria.ro Address: Str. Tudor Stefan Nr. 53-55, Sector 1, Bucuresti, Romania

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Banking for a New Africa Ecobank is a modern pan-African financial institution providing financial solutions to businesses, governments and individual customers.

From its inception, the Ecobank ethos has embraced a commitment to enhance economic development across sub-Sahara Africa.

The pieces of an early Ecobank concept began to fall into place at a meeting of the Federation of West African Chambers of Commerce in Mali in 1972.

Members at the meeting began to debate the idea of a private sector institution that would help facilitate trade in the sub-region.

The next landmark date for Ecobank was the 5th of October 1985, when an agreement was reached with the Togolese government for the bank’s headquarters to be based in Togo.

While the 1980s were years of great political upheaval, with coups, civil wars and single party rule prevalent across a significant number of sub-Saharan African countries, the Ecobank Group opened branches in five African states within three years of its establishment in 1988. A second wave of expansion followed from 1997 to 2001, when the group’s coverage increased from five to twelve countries.

Ecobank Transnational Incorporated (ETI), a public limited liability company, was established as a bank holding company in 1985 under a private sector initiative spearheaded by the Federation of West African

Chambers of Commerce and Industry with the support of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). In the early 1980’s foreign and state-owned banks dominated the banking industry in West Africa. Commercial banks in West Africa owned and managed by the African private sector were a rarity. Its founders created ETI with the objective of filling this vacuum.

The Federation of West African Chambers of Commerce promoted and initiated a project to create a private, regional banking institution in West Africa.

In 1984, Ecopromotions S.A. was incorporated. Its founding shareholders raised seed capital for feasibility studies and the promotional activities leading to the creation of ETI. In October 1985, ETI was incorporated with authorised capital of US$100 million. The initial paid up capital of US$32 million was raised from over 1,500 individuals and institutions from West African countries.

The largest shareholder was the ECOWAS Fund for Cooperation, Compensation and Development (ECOWAS Fund), the development finance arm of ECOWAS. Ecobank signed a Headquarters’ Agreement with the Government of Togo in 1985, which granted it the status of an international organisation. This status came with the rights and privileges

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necessary for ETI to operate as a regional institution, including the status of a non-resident financial institution. ETI commenced operations with its first subsidiary in Togo in March 1988.

The Group Today Today, Ecobank is the leading pan-African bank with operations in 36 countries across the continent. It has a larger African footprint than any other bank in the world. Ecobank currently operates in countries in West, Central, East and Southern Africa, namely Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cape Verde, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo Brazzaville, Democratic Republic of Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, The Gambia, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sao Tome & Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe. The Group also has a licenced operation in Paris and representative offices in Beijing, Dubai, Johannesburg, London and Luanda.

It would have been hard to predict in the early days that the group would be running over 1,150 branches within 22 years and be widely acclaimed as the leading pan-African bank. By 2002, its consolidated balance sheet crossed the US$1 billion mark for the first time, and today

Ecobank’s offices serve over 8.4 million customers.

Ecobank has not only become a world-class institution, it is also a torchbearer for a new Africa.

The bank has become part of the mainstream banking culture in 32 sub-Sahara African countries, and many believe that the Ecobank brand has become a dominant expression of banking for millions of people.

Innovative Technology and Branding Technology underpins the strategy of the group. The firm’s One Bank concept is a major initiative designed to ensure that the group operates to the same consistent standards in terms of processes and service delivery anchored on our technology platform. To this end, a Technology and Shared Services Centre has been built in Accra to centralize and standardize middle and back office operations across the group.

Its core banking system has also been upgraded to meet our higher operating standards.

While Ecobank’s 20,331 employees make the group the largest employer of labour in the financial sector in Middle Africa, the bank operates as One Bank with common branding, standards, policies, and processes. This makes for consistent and reliable service to over 10 million customers across this unique network of 1,265

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branches, 2,690 ATMs, and 13,800 POS machines. The bank runs an integrated information technology platform, with all of its operations successfully migrated onto a single core banking application: Oracle FLEXCUBE. Business Segments The Ecobank Group is a full-service bank focused on Middle Africa. It provides wholesale, retail, investment and transactional banking services to governments, financial institutions, multinationals, local companies, small and mediumsized enterprises (SMEs) and individuals.

Banking for a New Africa

Consumer Banking The Consumer Banking division encompasses Personal Banking and Microfinance, providing convenient, accessible and reliable financial products and services to individual customers, leveraging an extensive branch and Automated Teller Machine (ATM) network and Points of Sale (POS), dipsora services as well as mobile, internet and remittances banking platforms.

Ecobank delivers its services through three customer-focused business divisions: Consumer Banking, Commercial Banking and Corporate and Investment Banking. An Integrated information technology platform operated by eProcess, the group’s Accra-based technology subsidiary, supports the three business divisions.

Corporate and Investment Banking Corporate and Investment Banking is constantly aligned to market and growth opportunities. The focus is on transaction banking offering relevant financial solutions to global and regional corporates, public corporates, financial institutions and international organisations. Corporate and Investment Banking also leverages technology to provide strong outcomes for customers.

Its offer includes the following services: Transaction Banking; Fixed Income Currencies and Commodities (FICC); Investment Banking; Security, Wealth and Asset Management; Cards, Loans and Liquidity. The bank’s Treasury and Research department supports Corporate and Investment Banking.

Commercial banking serves local medium corporates and SMEs, the public sector sharing the products of Transaction Banking, Fixed Income Currencies and Commodities, Loans and Liquidity.

Company: Ecobank Email: ecobankenquiries@ecobank.com Web Address: www.ecobank.com

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Joy Lynn Inc

Qualitative researchers

About the Company

What we do

Joy Lynn, Inc. is a US-based qualitative market research and consulting company. We are not just a research vendor. We are a valuable thought partner. We create more AHA moments for our clients and we also have a few of our own.

We specialize in mission critical projects - high impact, high exposure, highly sensitive, highly complex. We uncover learning that can build, rebuild, and even transform the business.

Whatever you need to understand, we are the masters of deep dive exploration.

We focus exclusively on qualitative research. Although there are many facets to this type of research (and we do them all), our focus is in traditional methodologies because that is where we can contribute the most value.

Our job is to not only get answers and insights - it is to create and instill confidence in the research and in the outcome.

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Corinthia Group About Corinthia

Corinthia is a collection of hotels founded by the Pisani family of Malta in 1962.

We are a family-inspired business,whose timeless family values underpin the Spirit of Corinthia.

We like to treat and look after guests as if we were welcoming them back home. We also support and positively encourage one another so that our hotel teams around the world enjoy their work in an inspired yet warmly-spirited fashion.

As a hotel business, we focus on giving honest, discreet service. We see ourselves as leading craftsmen in the world of hospitality, valuing authenticity, passion, precision and understanding in all we do.

Each of the hotels and resorts we have created, in some of the most exciting places in the world, is a tribute to local architecture and cultural traditions.

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Site Developers Build Great Company Site development company founder takes Canadian CEO of the Month Award in the Construction category.

Four Seasons Site Development Inc. was founded in 2003 with the aim of being one of the top 20 road construction companies in the Greater Toronto Area.

is at the core of what they do.

Dialogue and trust, and engaging with key stakeholders during the early stages of a project helps to ensure the outcome is aligned with community values and expectations.

As a company of more than 100 hard-working men and women, Four Seasons pride themselves on the work they do, and building strong and effective relationships with local communities is a vital part of every project they undertake. Just as safety and environmental considerations are of paramount importance, engaging with local communities and being sensitive to the neighbourhoods they work with

Four Seasons Site Development follows industry accepted best management practices through the project management phases of planning, execution, performance monitoring and closure. In the planning phase, the project managers develop project management plans that include scope statement, work breakdown structure, communication plan and risk management plan. In the execution phase, the team assigns resources, executes the PM plan, including the sequence of required tasks and working with the client to manage any required updates to the project schedule and/or project plan.

Four Seasons use industry standard tracking systems to monitor progress and performance against quality, schedule and cost expectations in the project plan. During project closure, they routinely create a lessons‐learned document that identifies preventable issues and measures to prevent recurrence.

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Four Seasons has demonstrated its ability to react quickly to the need for additional resources.

This enables them to scale up and scale down very quickly on any project. This was displayed during the recent Presto implementation project with TTC/ Metrolinx. When the client’s needs changed in November 2015, and required the company to undertake three times the volume of work originally contracted and at the same time complete the project in 25% less time (12 months instead of the originally scheduled 16 months).

Four Seasons were successful in meeting these requirements, through their unique combination of highly flexible, resourceful and communicative site staff, willingness and ability to adapt to changing situations to keep projects moving forward without sacrificing quality or safety, the ability to self‐perform a very wide range of functions, which simplifies scheduling, and strong relationships with a wide range of sub‐trades able to join and integrate seamlessly with their project teams on short notice.

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Company: Four Seasons Site Development Ltd Name: Rohit Bansal Email: rbansal@sitedevelopment.ca Web Address: sitedevelopment.ca Address: 42 Wentworth Court, Unit 1, Brampton, Ontario, L6T 5K6, Canada Telephone: 0019057890111

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Broad-Ranging Expertise in Private Equity Campbell Lutyens is an independent alternative asset advisory firm founded in 1988 focused on fund placement and secondary advisory, and enjoyed the honour of receiving the American Advisor of the Year 2017 accolade, as part of the Corporate Support Awards. We profiled the firm to find out more about what their 100 international executives, advisors and staff do.

The firm’s staff have global and broadranging expertise in the private equity, private infrastructure and private debt sectors. In its fund placement practice, it raises capital globally from limited partners and provides specialist advice to general partners. In its secondary advisory practice, it provides limited partners and general partners with liquidity solutions through the sale or restructuring of portfolios of fund or direct investments.

The firm has offices in London, New York and Hong Kong and comprises a team of over 100 international executives, advisors and staff with global and broadranging expertise in the private equity, private infrastructure and private debt sectors.

Global Fund Placement Tailored fundraising approach - Campbell Lutyens has been raising funds for private equity and infrastructure clients since 1990. The firm takes on a limited number of assignments each year, preferring to work on a tailored basis with each mandate specified and executed to best suit its client.

Global coverage - The firm has a thorough knowledge of, and established relationships with, the principal North American, European, Middle Eastern, Asian and Australian investors and interacts with them on its clients’

behalf in an independent and confidential manner.

Solutions-orientated placement capabilities - In addition to raising capital expeditiously, Campbell Lutyens adds significant value at every stage of the fundraising process, including the provision of: • Detailed pre-marketing strategies; • Industry-leading marketing materials; • Due diligence preparation and co-ordination, and market insight; • Positioning and terms negotiations and; • Tailored investor relations programmes.

Integrated advisory work The firm’s integrated placement, consultancy and secondary advisory work sets Campbell Lutyens apart from other advisers, with core LP relationships and a more thorough understanding of what it takes to build a leading private equity business and attract the best institutional support.

Secondary & Advisory Aa a uniquely positioned specialist secondary advisory firm, Campbell Lutyens acts for institutions wishing to actively manage their private equity, private debt and infrastructure holdings by selling portfolios whether they be direct portfolios, fund portfolios or hybrid portfolios and with or without managers.

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the strategic options, the optimal sale strategy, the secondary offering, the transaction structure, the payment terms as well as manages the auction process by co-ordinating the marketing process, the legal process, datarooms and the production of marketing materials.

It also advises on key negotiations with transaction counterparties and third-parties such as fund managers and their advisors. Campbell Lutyens assists investors to achieve best value for their portfolio of assets efficiently and discreetly, having successfully completed some of the largest global secondary transaction ever closed for private equity, private debt and infrastructure portfolios.

With a unique independent, primary and secondary focused global footprint, supported as required by its primary and infrastructure specialists, Campbell Lutyens 18 strong professional secondary advisory team has a track-record of advising on a range of global secondary transactions as described further on this page.

Fund & direct portfolio secondary sales Campbell Lutyens advises institutions on the sale of portfolio comprising a few to hundreds of underlying assets, local or global assets, relatively recent or more mature assets, concentrated or diversified portfolios. Portfolios

may include assets with the same investment strategy i.e.

Buy-out, Venture, Integrated Finance, PPP/PFI, Energy, etc. or a truly diversified mix of strategies. Campbell Lutyens has advised on the sale of thousands of limited partnerships / funds / fund of funds / co-investments and portfolios of direct interests including both classic and highly complex transactions.

In addition, Campbell Lutyens advises on the sale of single / large / cornerstone funds interests when they are to be divested from a balance sheet, a third-party investment program or a third-party client feeder fund. Those transactions may be run as a straight secondary sale or as a liquidity offering as described below and with or without structuring.

Manager led liquidity secondary offerings Campbell Lutyens provides advice to both institutional investors and managers (General Partners / GPs) on the restructuring, renegotiation, refocusing or resizing of global private equity, private debt and infrastructure funds. Campbell Lutyens’ approach to manager led transactions includes thorough analyses of all stakeholder interests, evaluation of potential options and negotiations between various counterparties.

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Having completed its first such transaction in 2000, it has since then advised on the largest private equity / private debt and infrastructure manager led transactions.

Manager spin-outs & captive portfolio secondary sales Campbell Lutyens advises on the spin-out of fund managers (General Partners / GPs) and fund of funds managers from their parent organisations. The firm has completed several spinout from financial institutions, listed private equity firms and family offices. Campbell Lutyens typically advises parents and managers on portfolio valuations, strategic options and secondary processes to actively manage those transactions. Those

transactions may involve an element of additional financing under the form of follow-on, co-investment and/or blind pool capital - through its unique market positioning, the firm is ideally placed to deliver its clients and all the stakeholders an integrated transaction. Campbell Lutyens also provides merger and acquisition advisory services to managers with direct assets and fund of funds portfolios.

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Finally, the firm have proudly advised some of the most prestigious institutional investors and managers on their secondary transactions; please do contact one of their partners for a confidential discussion about your objectives.

Portfolio refinancing As an alternative to a sale, some investors might prefer to complete a refinancing of a portfolio of funds or direct investments. Campbell Lutyens provides creative solutions to those investors by accessing alternative sources of funding to refinance or recapitalise investment programmes with specialist investors including secondary funds.

Company: Campbell Lutyens & Co. Inc. Name: Cesar Zalamea Email: cczalamea@focusrangeintl.com Web Address: www.campbell-lutyens.com Address: 630 Fifth Avenue, 25th Floor, New York, NY 10111 United States of America Telephone: +1 212 223 8448

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About ICTSI International Container Terminal Services, Inc. (ICTSI) is in the business of acquiring, developing, managing and operating container ports and terminals worldwide.

Established in December 1987 in the Philippines, ICTSI has become a leading operator, innovator and pioneer in its field. After consolidating and strengthening our base and flagship operations at the Manila International Container Terminal in the Philippines, we realized the potential for an independent international terminal operator like ourselves, and launched an aggressive international and domestic expansion program in 1994.

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Bell Helicopter The future of flight

Founded in 1935 as Bell Aircraft Corporation, Bell Helicopter continues to set the pace for the industry and expand the scope of vertical lift.An industry leader with unmatched name recognition, Bell Helicopter was the first to obtain commercial certification for a helicopter. Over our rich 80-year history, Bell Helicopter has delivered more than 35,000 aircraft to our customers around the world.

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With forward thinking in advanced concepts, Bell Helicopter invented tiltrotor aircraft. These unique aircraft lift like a helicopter, then fly like an airplane with twice the speed, three times the payload and five times the range of traditional helicopters. Aerospace and aircraft will never be the same.

Headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, Bell Helicopter has additional plants in Amarillo, Texas and Mirabel, Canada.

We maintain key logistics supply and service centers in Amsterdam, Prague, Canada and Singapore as well as in the United States.

As the world’s premier provider of vertical lift aircraft, Bell Helicopter continues to provide superior customer support and services.

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A Global Technology Leader at the Heart of our Connected World Powered by the research and innovation of Nokia Bell Labs, Nokia serves communications service providers, governments, large enterprises and consumers, with the industry’s most complete, end-to-end portfolio of products, services and licensing. From the enabling infrastructure for 5G and the Internet of Things, to emerging applications in virtual reality and digital health, we are shaping the future of technology to transform the human experience.

Nokia is shaping the future of technology to transform the human experience.

It is innovating the global nervous system, a seamless web of interconnected intelligence that senses and adapts to the world around it – a cognitive, self-learning network that fluidly responds and adapts, enhancing people live and work.

Nokia is pushing the boundaries of what is possible, to create new ways of connecting people and services instantly and effortlessly. From a foundation of integrity, quality and security, Nokia helps its customers navigate the complex choices of the connected world, to unlock its opportunities and enable new and extraordinary experiences in people’s lives each day.

That is why its focus is, and has always been, on people. Nokia creates technology that helps people thrive.

It is through people and culture that Nokia is able to shape technology to serve human needs. Its pursuit of performance

with integrity and sustainability – a culture that stems from the firm’s Finnish roots – is key to why its customers and partners choose to work with Nokia.

From its beginning in 1865 as a single paper mill operation, Nokia has found and nurtured success in several sectors over the years, including cable, mobile devices, paper products, rubber boots and tires, and telecommunications infrastructure equipment.

Nokia’s sector-by-sector success over the years has mirrored its geographical rise: from a Finnish-focused company until the 1980s with a growing Nordic and European presence; to a bona fide European company in the early 1990s; and onto a truly global company from the mid-1990s onward. With the acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent in 2016, the firm further deepens and widens its global reach.

Nokia has been producing telecommunications equipment since the 1880s – almost since telephony began.

It all began when Finnish Engineer, Fredrik Idestam, set

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up his initial wood pulp mill in Southern Finland in 1865, he took the first step in laying the foundation of Nokia’s capacity for innovating and finding opportunity. Sensing growing pulp product demand, Idestam opened a second mill a short time later on the Nokianvirta River, inspiring him to name his company Nokia AB. Idestam’s sense of endeavor would continue to prevail in the different phases Nokia would take.

In the 1960s, Nokia became a conglomerate, comprised of rubber, cable, forestry, electronics and power generation businesses resulting from a merger of Idestam’s Nokia AB, and Finnish Cable Works Ltd, a phone and power cable producer founded in 1912, and other businesses.

But it wasn’t long before transformation would call again.

Deregulation of the European telecommunications industries in the 1980s triggered new thinking and fresh business models.

In 1982, Nokia introduced both the first fully-digital local telephone exchange in Europe and the world’s first car phone for the Nordic Mobile Telephone analogue standard. The breakthrough of GSM (global system for mobile communications) in the 1980s introduced more efficient use of radio frequencies and higherquality sound. The first GSM call was made with a Nokia phone over the Nokia-built network of a Finnish operator called Radiolinja in 1991.

It was around this time that Nokia made the strategic decision to make telecommunications and mobile our core business.

Its other businesses, including aluminium, cable, chemicals, paper, rubber, power plant, and television businesses were divested.

By 1998, Nokia was the world leader in mobile phones, a position it enjoyed for more than a decade.

And still, the business and technology worlds would continue to evolve, as would Nokia.

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In 2007, Nokia combined its telecoms infrastructure operations with those of Siemens to create the Nokia Siemens Network joint venture. The firm later bought Siemens’ stake in NSN in 2013 as the business was emerging from a successful strategy shift and the reality of what Nokia calls a Programmable World of connected devices, sensors and people was starting to take shape.

opens up a world of possibilities.

These can make our planet safer, cleaner, healthier, more sustainable, more efficient and more productive.

Nokia’s insatiable curiosity and pursuit in creating the technology to connect the world continues to drive us to innovate and reimagine to enrich people’s lives and society.

In 2011, Nokia joined forces with Microsoft to strengthen itsposition in the highly competitive smartphone market. Three years later, the firm accepted Microsoft’s offer to buy most of Devices & Services, with the deal closing in April 2014. Nokia emerged from the transaction with a firm financial footing and three strong businesses – Nokia Networks, HERE maps and Nokia Technologies – focused on connecting the things and people of the Programmable World.

Nokia’s transformation was not done. The HERE digital mapping and location services business, an arena entered in 2006, was a key pillar of Nokia’s operational performance. But in 2015, the Nokia Board held a strategic review of the business in light of plans to purchase Alcatel-Lucent.

The result was a sale of HERE to a car company consortium in a deal that closed in December 2015.

The acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent positions Nokia as an innovation leader in next-generation technology and services.

Nokia’s reputation as an innovation powerhouse has been bolstered by the addition of Bell Labs. It joins a future-focused business backed by thousands of patent families, a reflection of Nokia’s innovation pedigree which has produced a huge array of benefits for consumers, business and society as a whole.

The acquisition helped Nokia shape the connectivity and digitalization revolution before it – the Programmable World – in which many billions of people, devices, and sensors are connected in a way that

Company: Nokia Web Address: www.nokia.com

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Changing the Way Businesses Fund Their Growth MarketInvoice is a peer-to-peer finance platform, so the funds are provided by investors from around the globe, including the UK government-owned British Business Bank. MarketInvoice is a member of the Peer-to-Peer Finance Association. As a winner of the Best Peer-to-Peer Finance Platform 2016, we invited the firm to profile how they are changing the way businesses fund their growth.

Here at MarketInvoice, we saw an opportunity to make it much simpler and fairer for businesses to get the finance they need. We’ve removed all the hidden fees, long contracts, slow decision making, and we’ve brought the whole process online.

If you’re waiting for a customer to pay you, we’ll help ease your cash flow challenges. You can sign up, sell an invoice and get funded all within 24 hours. You’re not locked in to any contracts but businesses do use us repeatedly - more than 15 times per year on average. MarketInvoice is changing the way businesses fund their growth.

For decades, businesses have had to rely on banks for funding.

That meant being tied down to long contracts with hidden fees, slow decisions and poor service.

Businesses couldn’t access the funding they needed.

Gavin Williams, Co-founder of FATUnicorn, said about our service, “if everybody used MarketInvoice, everybody would

get paid faster and life would be a lot easier!”

This is our philosophy. We help British businesses grow and succeed. We make their lives easier by making the world of finance more efficient and transparent, at a fair price.

Our founders are Anil Stocker (CEO), Ilya Kondrashov (CFO/ COO) and Charlie Delingpole (co-founder), all of whom are profiled briefly below.

Anil Stocker, CEO - Whilst working in financial services in his early twenties and spending time with many company CFOs, Anil realised how difficult it was for small businesses to raise the funding they needed to drive their business forward. His ambition was to use technology and data to completely reinvent how businesses go about financing their growth, and breathe fresh life into outdated financial products.

Anil co-founded the business in 2011 and has led the growth of the company, team and its culture since launch.

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Forbes Magazine’s Finance ‘30 under 30’ and has won awards for entrepreneurship and innovation. Anil is on the UK government-backed UK FinTech Delivery Panel to drive policy recommendations for the industry.

Ilya Kondrashov, CFO/COO Having spent three years working within one of the world’s largest legacy financial institutions, Ilya was exposed to the outdated service banks were providing to private businesses. He realised that business owners felt let down by their bank, and set out to build a better alternative.

He also represents MarketInvoice in its efforts to promote transparency and fairness within the alternative finance industry, sitting on multiple compliance and regulatory bodies including the P2PFA. Charlie Delingpole, Co-founder Charlie co-founded the business with Anil in 2011, leaving to pursue other opportunities in early 2013. Charlie previously worked in investment banking at J.P. Morgan Cazenove. He is a non-executive director of

The Student Room Group, a company he founded in 2001.

Our investors Our investors consist of a technology investment fund called Northzone, founder of Indeed.com Paul Forster cofounded and multistage private equity group MCI Capital. These are detailed below.

Northzone Northzone is a technology investment fund. The partnership has to date raised seven funds and invested in over 100 technology-enabled companies.

Their current portfolio includes companies such as Spotify, Avito.ru, Trustpilot, WideSpace and SpaceApe The company has offices in London, Stockholm, Oslo, Copenhagen and New York. For further information, visit www. northzone.com. Northzone also renewed their commitment and participated in our 2016 fundraise.

Paul Forster Paul Forster co-founded Indeed.com in 2004 and led the company as CEO through

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rapid growth to a successful exit. Indeed, is a giant of the online job search market and was acquired in 2012 by Recruit Co – one of the world’s largest HR services companies. Under Paul’s leadership Indeed. com grew from start-up to market leader, with over 1000 employees and 140 million monthly unique users today.

MCI Capital MCI Capital is a multistage private equity group based in Warsaw, Poland. With 17 years of expertise of investments in digital economy companies, MCI has realised over 60 investments and 30 exits. MCI Funds’ are active in Western Europe, UK, Scandinavia, CEE and Turkey.

The current portfolio of MCI. TechVentures Fund – a growth technology fund - includes companies such as iZettle, Azimo, Gett, Windeln and Auctionata.

For more information about what we do, feel free to visit our website at www.marketinvoice.com

Company: MarketInvoice Limited Name: Jane Bagnall Email: j.bagnall@marketinvoice.com Web Address: www.marketinvoice.com Address: Floors 2-5, 48-50 Scrutton Street, London, EC2A 4XQ UK Telephone: +44 (0)20 3733 9902

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We help organizations transform data into real-world intelligence and answer their toughest business questions.

What we do We provide powerful software solutions and expert services that empower every individual with actionable intelligence, helping enterprises unleash the full potential of their people and investments.

Our analytics and mobility platform delivers high-performance business applications that meet the needs of both business and IT.

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Quality, Dependability, Commitment Ensuring a Successful Engagement, Every Time Growing your organization is important.

But with each new stage of growth comes new challenges. Sometimes called growing pains, these are natural obstacles that present themselves when it’s time to transform the inner workings of your company to best support your evolution.

And that’s where we come in. We excel in addressing internal challenges, as we’ve helped numerous clients overcome even the most complex of issues.

Let us partner with you and ensure your growth is free of limitations stemming from internal barriers.

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Exceptional Results Every Time Feldmann Nagel, LLC has a reputation for achieving exceptional results for clients in a variety of practices. Their Colorado attorneys are committed to protecting the rights of clients and have earned distinctions from several professional organisations, including Martindale-Hubbell® and Super Lawyers® Magazine. Following their success in achieving the status of Partner of the Year 2016 – USA, we took the opportunity to profile their work concerning personalised case reviews.

As Feldmann Nagel, LLC’s legal team consists of proven and highly experienced lawyers, former state and federal prosecutors, CPAs, judges, military JAGS, law professors, and successful business executives, the firm can provide comprehensive assistance in a variety of legal areas, including any of the following: • Divorce & family law; • Business & commercial law; • Estate planning & probate; • Military criminal defence; • Employment law; • Workers’ compensation; • Criminal defence; • Oil and gas law; • Wildlife law; • Civil litigation; • Real estate law and; • Administrative & regulatory.

The firm’s mission statement The firm’s mission is to obtain superior legal results for their clients, with unmatched customer service, while serving as trusted advisors. At Feldmann Nagel, LLC, they pride themselves with offering the highest quality of legal services by understanding and responding to their clients’ key objectives and goals. They remember that clients look to

the firm as problem solvers in an evolving legal environment.

In addition, the firm are always seeking to thrive through the referrals and opportunities they receive by obtaining superior results.

Feldmann Nagel, LLC is a full-service law firm, comprised of talented attorneys and staff with varied and skilled backgrounds. The firm embrace the passionate pursuit and zealous representation of the clients they serve. They certainly value hard work, being nice (until it’s time to not be so nice!), entrepreneurship, community involvement, family, and a healthy work-life balance.

There is no doubt that they are committed to empowering and inspiring those around them, while staying true to their roots as a Colorado mountain law firm.

Feldmann Nagel, LLC’s legal team is dedicated to guiding clients through their legal journeys and towards the outcomes they need. The firm’s lawyers serve residents throughout the state of Colorado from offices in Denver, Vail/ Edwards, Boulder, and Steamboat Springs. Additionally, the firm also represent clients across the country.

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With diverse educational backgrounds and practical legal experience, the firm’s lawyers have the depth and breadth of knowledge to confidently represent clients as a fullservice law firm. One of the firm’s attorneys is Charles E. Feldmann, P.C. the Chief Operating Officer at Feldmann Nagel, LLC, whom we took the opportunity to profile.

Charles generally focuses his practice of law in courtroom litigation. Practically all Mr. Feldmann’s experience since being admitted to Colorado BAR in 1992 has been focused on winning cases at the trial level.

Mr. Feldmann was named by 2007 Colorado Super Lawyer for being one of the top attorneys in Colorado.

Mr. Feldmann leads the firm’s litigation practice in all areas which include: civil litigation, domestic and family related cases, construction litigation, federal, civil and criminal defence, along with wildlife hunting violations and defending outfitters and landowners in both Federal and State court.

Additionally, he is an aggressive litigator demanding superior results using the litigation

process for the firm’s client.

Mr. Feldmann brings firepower to the courtroom based on his experience & success.

Mr. Feldmann was a former federal prosecutor and defence attorney in the United States Marine Corps and a former state’s prosecutor in Colorado.

Charles Feldmann is a lecturer and instructor with the Department of Defense and with the National College of District Attorneys. Mr. Feldmann has taught prosecutor and defence counsel trial enhancement training at the Naval Justice School and was an adjunct professor at Colorado Mountain College in the areas of criminal and constitutional law. Currently, Mr. Feldmann represents clients across the globe and defends clients internationally and throughout the United States.

He has extensive experience in representing Federal and State Law Enforcement officers, police officers, Sherriff’s Deputies in criminal defence matters and law enforcement employment related matters.

Mr. Feldmann is also a member of the Armed Citizens’ Legal Defense Network, Inc., as a Network affiliated attorney, which

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supports its members through education about the legalities of using deadly force in selfdefence, and in any interaction with the criminal justice system after an act of armed selfdefence.

Finally, it is worth nothing that Mr. Feldmann received his Juris Doctorate degree from the University of Denver, College of law and is admitted to the Colorado BAR and the Colorado Federal District Court.

Company: Feldmann Nagel LLC Name: Charles Feldmann Email: CFeldmann@feldmann-nagel.com Web Address: www.colo-lawyers.com Address: Industry Denver – River North 3001 Brighton Blvd, Suite 343 Denver, CO 80216, USA Telephone: +1 888 458 0991

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Knowing the Drill Clinica Q-Dental, winner of the Pharmatech Innovation Awards 2017, is a dental clinic in Madrid, with more than 40 years of experience in dentistry. As specialists in implants and dental aesthetics and smile design, we took the opportunity to profile aspects of the firm’s work.

The main aim of Q-dental is the pursuit of excellence in all their treatments, since the firm’s inception in 1975. In addition to the latest technological advances in the field of dentistry, the firm’s services are designed to make their clients’ stay as pleasant as possible. They offer a relaxation room so that the patient can enjoy the comfort of a relaxing chair while waiting to be attended to, or after treatments have taken place. Relaxing views of a Japanese garden with various bonsai can be enjoyed whilst sitting in the dental chair.

Dental aesthetics and digital design To achieve excellence in aesthetic dentistry, this is achieved by following a systematic process through diagnosis, communication, planning, implementation of the case and maintenance over time. The Digital Design of the Smile (DSD) is a new and innovative concept, offering some advantages when it comes to achieving the perfect smile.

Thanks to exhaustive planning through external and internal means, a true and accurate communication of the result that Clinica Q-Dental wants is achieved.

Recent DSD cases (Digital Design of the Smile) The DSD is based on a facial analysis, taking dental measurements using digital photographs and high quality videos. By analysing such photos and videos, they understand

the relationship between teeth, gums, lips and smile. On the digital photographs, 2D is designed the perfect smile according to the previously established parameters.

Christian Coachman, a talented Brazilian and Prosthetic Dentist, began to develop the DSD technique after realising that there were problems in the diagnosis. This fact had a negative effect on the final result. Drs. De la Torre joined the international team of DSD since its inception, with Dr. Eduardo de la Torre being one of only two professionals with the highest degree awarded by the DSD (DSD lecturer) team.

With this idea of implanting the DSD protocol, dentists around the world have developed aesthetic, emotional and artistic dental treatments. The DSD (Digital Design of the Smile) aims to achieve healthy, naturally beautiful and aesthetic smiles to favour the self-esteem of their patients

obturation therapy, such as the Tetric EvoCeram. The results obtained are incredibly accurate without having to spend a lot of time and money on them.

cavities or trauma. They are also used in cases of teeth with endodontics, to give consistency to the entire tooth and to avoid possible fractures.

The porcelain Rehabilitations with porcelain sleeves or bridges helps the firm to achieve highly aesthetic results in the problems that they have a single dental piece or to replace absences of one or several dental pieces (aesthetics).

Its main advantages are the aesthetics, the retention and above all the great versatility that they present in correcting defects of size, shape or colour dentar.

They can last for many years, as they are harder than the actual teeth themselves.

What is a sling or crown?

Porcelain crowns are, as its name implies, a highly aesthetic total covering of the tooth that simulates the entire coronary anatomy. They can be made only with porcelain or with a core of another material to give it more consistency like the zirconium that gives the crown the same resistance as the metallic alloys but without the drawbacks of these like margins of the gaze darkened by the vision direct from the metal or stains of the gum itself, or the poor aesthetics of the metal-porcelain crowns.

Composite veneers Composite veneers are an option to rehabilitate the smile and dental aesthetic both quickly and economically. At Q-Dental, they use the latest composite application techniques used in prestigious clinics in cities such as Tokyo and Los Angeles utilising the latest generation materials.

With the use of the most modern technologies such as CADCAM at Clinica Q-Dental, they can realise porcelain crowns or sleeves in a single session, thus improving the effectiveness and reducing the inconveniences of having to go to the clinic several times, in addition to the use of temporary.

The composite used are nanohybrid, photopolymerizable, radio-opaque type based on the latest filling technology in direct

What are they used for?

They are used when a large amount of dental tissue has been lost, for example after a large

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The preparation and placement procedure is very like that of the veneers, but somewhat more sophisticated due to the amount of tooth structure that needs to be removed, in order to be placed. Once the tooth reduction is done, a temporary crown should be made while the laboratory makes the piece, for reasons of aesthetics and comfort for the patient.

Whitening Finally, dental whitening is an aesthetic treatment (aesthetic or cosmetic dentistry) that manages to reduce several shades leaving the whiter, brighter and healthier teeth in the firm’s dental clinic in less than an hour.

At the Clinica Q-Dental, they use the combination of the best whitening products with the cold light technique. Tooth whitening can also eliminate stains produced by drugs or extrinsic causes such as tea, coffee, tobacco, mate, cigarette, red wine, among other substances and foods.

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Company: Clinica Q-Dental Name: Javier de la Torre Ruiz Email: web@q-dental.es Web Address: www.q-dental.es Address: Bravo Murillo 6, Madrid 28015 Spain Telephone: +34 915 930 265

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Innovation in Legal Services PJS Law is valued by clients for exceptional work in transaction and project support in the Philippines. Selected as part of the 2017 Emerging Markets Top 50, the firm today is recognised as an industry leader in view of its important contribution to the energy sector in the Philippines, as advised by the firm’s Energy Partner, Monalisa C. Dimalanta.

PJS Law’s transaction experience cuts across various industries ranging from energy, banking, finance, public utilities, infrastructure, manufacturing, trading, food and retail and business process outsourcing, among others.

Since the firm was established in 1997, PJS Law has been consistently cited by leading legal and financial publications as one of the leading Philippine law firms recommended for energy and projects, mergers and acquisition, banking, capital markets, project finance and restructuring plus insolvency.

Our interview with Monalisa opens with a discussion on the firm’s commitment to client care, and the vital role their lawyers place in keeping the firm innovative.

“Since PJS Law started in 1997, the partners here have put a premium on client care. We are conscious that, in every transaction or project, the firm should be adding value as strategic partners of industry stakeholders.

“Our lawyers are trained to remain at the forefront of innovative legal service and provide exceptional client care.

This would mean at times adopting traditional approaches and in other times forwardlooking strategies, whatever would be responsive to client’s requirements.

“PJS Law’s clients appreciate our ability to understand not just the legal framework but also the technical and financial nuances of a target industry which best serve their interests. The collective experience of the firm will continue to be the drivers for our growth throughout 2017 and beyond.”

Staying on the theme of their clients, Monalisa explains their appreciation of the firm’s expert lawyers, and the essential role of innovation in legal services today.

“PJS Law’s clients are vocal in their appreciation of the firm’s exceptional brand in transaction/ advisory work. They recognise our lawyers’ proficiency in speaking the language of the businesses and industries when advising on legal issues relevant to their respective sectors.

“Innovation in legal services is at the core of the programmes we are adopting in PJSLaw over the last four years. We aim to have these programmes translate into improving how the firm provides legal services to our clients and

will usher us into other areas of practice.”

Concluding the interview on an optimistic note, Monalisa explains her thoughts on PJS Law being selected as part of the 2017 Emerging Markets Top 50 and where she sees the firm heading in 2017 and beyond.

“PJS Law’s selection as part of the 2017 Emerging Markets Top 50 is an affirmation of the efforts and direction that the firm has deliberately set - to establish ourselves as a cut above other Philippine legal service providers.

We are very much grateful for and inspired by this recognition.

months ahead, we see the firm establishing greater foothold in the infrastructure space in the Philippines and in the energy, finance and M&A sectors here over the next few years. For this year, PJS Law will continue to focus on these sectors as we are called on by new clients to do so, based on referrals from existing clients and correspondent counsels. Likewise, we do see the firm establishing a regional presence over the next few years.”

“One of the values PJS Law fosters among our lawyers is the conscious awareness of their responsibility in transactions and projects, that is in the context of the Philippines as an emerging economy. In the

Company: PJS Law Name: Monalisa C. Dimalanta Email: mcdimalanta@pjslaw.com Web Address: www.pjslaw.com Address: 10th Floor 8 Rockwell, Hidalgo cor. Plaza Drive, Rockwell Center, Makati City 1200, Philippines Telephone: +632 840 5025

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The Business Club with Influence

DiB has now earned a reputation as one of the most influential business organisations in the North West, influencing public sector agendas, organising the best attended networking events in the city, hosting high profile gala dinners, attracting prominent speakers, and boasting a membership of over three hundred companies from across the city region.

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Pioneering Spirit BD Consult is a professional marketing communications consultancy firm founded in 2006 by a team of young, innovative and dynamic individuals to provide strategic PR and Communication Solutions to a wide spectrum of organizations.

BD Consult Limited (BDC) offers a wide range of Public Relations Services; these include Strategic Communications Management, Media Relations/Management, Crisis Management, Corporate Social Responsibility Relations (CSR), and Government Relations.

The managing director, Tola Bademosi, is a graduate of management and economics from the University of Ibadan and holds an MBA in marketing from the Lagos State University.

He’s a seasoned communication expert who is passionate about service delivery and result which made him win accounts like Dufil Prima foods, The La Casera Company, Lucky Fibers, Power Gas, Lafarge, Cadbury, among several others.

“We’re not your everyday Public Relations Agency,” explains Tola. “At BD consult, our team of dynamic and creative thinkers assist your organization to achieve tangible business results in an ever-changing business environment by offering exceptional Integrated Marketing Communication solution with special focus on Brand Strategy, Public Relations and Stakeholders Engagement.

“By fusing experience and creativity of our team with in-depth stakeholder insight and innovation, we help you to create, protect and enhance your overall reputation by generating contents and getting your brand stories across quickly and effectively in the most engaging, convincing and persuasive way. BD Consult is a trusted advisor, playing an integral role

in its clients’ success, having earned their trust by continually demonstrating integrity in how it conducts business and by maintaining the highest ethical standards in the industry.”

BDC provides a range of integrated marketing communication services that helps to achieve set business objectives. Its thought process has no boundaries as the team constantly explore deep-rooted reasoning to help tackle both quantitative and qualitative objectives of each brand, and consequently adding value to said brand.

“Our unique media specialists constantly find and create strategic opportunities, write compelling stories and generate incisive content that builds and protects your brand’s reputation,” says Tola.”We actively build mutual relationships and engage journalists from all segments – broadcast, print and digital; turning media contacts into collaborators and collaborators into trusted, long-time advocates for our clients and campaigns.

We are relationship builders and we have the results to prove it!

“We are a collaborative extension of your team and work closely with you to identify key perception issues and together proffer solutions that will ensure a change perception is achieved.

Our team is always ready to help conceptualize and execute ideas that will ensure you own the conversation in your industry and raise your brand above the clutter.”

Corporate issues and crises can negatively impact longterm reputation and threaten an organization’s ability to function properly. When a crisis presents itself, BDC can help by providing insightful, decisive and practical counsel and support.

Its experienced consultants help to identify, manage and mitigate reputational risks. BDC is ready and able to provide effective crisis management solution, undertake stakeholder engagement and cleverly ensure the crisis is nipped in the bud.

Company: BD Consult Limited (BDC) Web Address: www.bdconsult.net Address: Adenike Ogunye Street, Magodo GRA, Phase II Lagos, Nigeria Telephone: +2348023148144

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People, Planet, Prosperity.

Our Edge The value of a consultant’s service is primarily based on the caliber of individuals specifically assigned to any given project and the internal functionality of the consulting firm.

Enviro-Stewards corporate policies are designed to attract, develop, and empower staff with outstanding technical competence, integrity, judgement, interpersonal skills, communication, and a desire to serve others.

Our innovative corporate policies include a profit sharing program open to every member of the firm, compensation time off, and mutual accountability.

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Results-Driven IBS Global Consulting is a leading international business development and marketing consulting firm.

Founded in 2009, IBS Global Consulting is a minority and womanowned privately held business, headquartered in Troy, Michigan, 22 miles North of Detroit. With offices in the United States, India and United Kingdom, and a network of consulting partners in more than 30 countries across the globe, IBS Global Consulting is the gateway to doing business in international markets.

“At IBS Global Consulting, we employ hands-on strategic business development and innovative marketing solutions to help our clients meet their business objectives both domestically and abroad,” explains managing director and principal consultant, Tonya McNeal-Weary.

“Our international team of professionals has more than 45 years of collective knowledge and expertise that gives us a unique advantage in providing professional services to companies across a broad range of industries.”

The firm’s mission is to deliver results-oriented and costeffective marketing and business development solutions to help small businesses maximize revenue, generate growth and develop a sustainable competitive edge in both domestic and international markets “We are passionate about results because our own success is driven by helping our clients succeed!” enthuses Tonya.

“The foundation of our business is based upon integrity, trust and superior service, and our consultants adhere to a high standard of ethical conduct.”

IBS Global Consulting offers a range of high-quality advisory and support services to help start-ups and small and middlemarket companies successfully establish business operations in foreign markets, providing services to both public and private sector entities around the world.

“We partner with our clients to create and implement highimpact marketing and business development solutions that will drive business growth and boost profits,” Tonya embellishes. “ Our goal is to ensure that all marketing and business development efforts are focused on activities that result in a significant return on investment.

“We deliver a combination of value-added and high quality solutions to our clients that immediately result in profitability and long-term sustainability.”

IBS Global Consulting brings professional expertise and personal commitment to all consulting projects to help clients achieve their project goals and, as Tonya explains, the firm offers more than just advice and reports, it focuses on results.

“We help our clients develop new markets and implement marketing strategies across a broad range of high-growth and emerging industry sectors including automotive, ICT, clean technology (including renewable

energy), manufacturing, security and defense, medical equipment, telecommunications, travel and tourism, and consumer goods.”

Tonya McNeal-Weary is a results-driven entrepreneur with a track record of success in building profitable companies in both domestic and international markets. She is highly skilled in the areas of international trade development, export marketing strategy, cross-cultural business strategies, global market research, and international public relations.

Tonya has proven experience in assisting start-ups, entrepreneurs, micro and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in conducting international trade. She has a solid reputation for executing high-level marketing strategies that drive sales, profits and market share growth.

Having earned numerous awards for innovation and entrepreneurship, Tonya is very experienced in developing and implementing SME and entrepreneurial capacity building programs (including programs for women entrepreneurs) for

government and non-profit entities across the globe. She is the Founder of an award winning non-profit organization based in Michigan, and currently serves as the USA Country Representative for the International Society for Small and Medium Enterprises, a NGO based in Delhi, India.

Known as “the Global Business Connector,” Tonya is a highly connected, respected and influential business leader.

She has built key alliances with business leaders and government officials spanning five continents. She has personally interfaced with high level diplomats and ambassadors from countries around the world.

Additionally, she has studied and worked abroad in France, Sweden, Latvia, China, United Arab Emirates, and the United Kingdom.

She also holds an Executive Diploma in Management Consulting from Grenoble Ecole de Management (France), an MBA in International Business from Walsh College (USA), and a Bachelor’s degree in Marketing with an emphasis in Advertising and Promotion from Davenport University (USA).

Company: IBS Global Consulting Email: info@ibsglobalconsulting.com Web Address: www.ibsglobalconsulting.com Address: 101 West Big Beaver Road, Suite 1400 Troy, Michigan 48084, United States of America Telephone: +1 (248) 581-0140

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Living longer, living better Our vision, Living Longer, Living Better, is simply about helping people age well and live independently for longer.

We provide affordable, quality housing and services for older people, enabling them to live independently at home for as long as possible.

We want our services to help people lead a good quality of life, with the right level of support, all at an affordable price.

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Mind Over Matter Best Psychiatry Consultancy 2016 winner, Independent Psychiatry let us know what they have done to ensure that they stay at the top of their industry.

Independent Psychiatry take pride in their confidential, professional and friendly service. They offer advice, assessment and management for all mental health requirements. They also accept GP referrals, understanding the frustration long waiting lists for treatment and diagnosis can cause, they aim to see all clients within two weeks of instruction.

Independent Psychiatry was established in 2008 by its founder members on the ethos of providing the best possible service and care for individuals requiring psychiatric assistance.

Originally based in Glasgow, they have rapidly expanded and now

provide assessments throughout the UK due to their commitment and ability to deliver high quality and comprehensive services to their clients, having built up a diverse portfolio of clients from across the Country.

Independent Psychiatry believe that everyone has the right to be provided with the quality care and assistance they expect, to diagnose and tackle mental health issues. All their services offer a fully independent opinion, and their consultants will always act with integrity in the most professional manner.

Their purpose is to deliver an uncompromising level of assessment and care, and to improve the quality of life for

the growing number of people struggling with mental health problems.

They specialise in working with the mental health legislation and have experts that provide psychiatric opinions for Courts and Tribunals. They also provide medico legal reports, reports for capacity assessment, risk assessment (e.g HCR20), suicide risk assessment, benefit appeals, immigration applications, parental right appeals, the DVLA, action for eviction, personal injury and employment tribunals amongst others. Our psychiatrists regularly assess fitness for trial, criminal responsibility, diminished responsibility, vulnerable witnesses and have expert witness experience.

For individuals (GP referrals only), they can offer psychiatric assessment, diagnosis, advice and treatment. They are also able to carry out diagnostic assessments for conditions such as Autistic Spectrum Disorder (e.g. DISCO), Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Personality Disorders for example.

Our experts have experience in a wide range of areas including Depression, Seasonal Affective Disorder, Anxiety, Postnatal Depression, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Phobias, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Self-harm, Eating Disorders, Alcohol and Substance Misuse, Dementia, Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder, amongst others.

Company: Independent Psychiatry Name: Caron Cassidy Email: admin@independentpsychiatry.com Web Address: www.independentpsychiatry.com Address: Connect Building, 59 Bath Street, Glasgow, G2 2DH, UK Telephone: +44 (0)141 342 4412

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Innovative Radar Surveillance Solutions that Drive Safety, Security and Efficiency

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Cargo Company get Service Delivery Just Right Moroccan Cargo Partner collected the Finest in Freight Award after delivering a great, personalized freight service to their customers.

The global market place is growing and the need to transport goods throughout the world is expanding rapidly. Inventories are now kept at a lower level and the need to transport them to their markets in a timely and efficient manners is increasing. This is where Moroccan Cargo Partner shines - providing the right solution to handle shipments in a very professional and cost effective way.

Moroccan Cargo Partner is a leading organization which provides wide range of Services in the field of transportation by triangular means of air, sea, and

land, to any destination at any time. It is headed by experts, with extensive experience in the field of Cargo Services and it is run by a team of professionals.

Moroccan Cargo Partner develops and manages the most complex supply chain strategies for their clients. They understand that success rests on getting products to customers in the most efficient way possible and select the most appropriate and cost-effective shipping method from a multitude of contracted LTL, TL, air freight and expedited service carriers.

Moroccan Cargo Partner provides a full service of International Freight Forwarder and is capable of complete Air/Ocean, Import and Export consolidation & complete containers. With extensive long-field experience, they have developed a very reliable, extensive and financially secured network in Morocco and throughout the world.

Providing highly qualitative services in the freighting and within the land, Sea and Air triangle, through skilled and professional staff to meet the requirements of its clients. The company is the only one in the

industry offering a choice of air and shipping lines.

The company is founded on three principles; customer orientation, flexibility and high service standards. MCP focus their activities toward meeting their customer’s logistic and project cargo needs and satisfying the demand of each market-place, through years of professional knowledge of the worldwide transport markets.

MCP’s flexibility stems from a one-to-one service allowing clients to place one call to their dedicated manage, who maintains and is responsible for meeting all logistic and cargo needs. Moroccan Cargo Partner then tailor their service packages to meet the client’s exact needs, timeframe and requirements.

The high service standards provided by Moroccan Cargo Partner are made possible and achieved through delivering all services and packages in an individualized way – MCP strive to provide the highest and most advanced standards of personal and technical communications to meet the expectations of every client and partner.

The company have also begun to offer an online platform, enabling clients to manage their shipping and logistic requirements online.

Via the online portal, customers can access their details, current requirements, services being received and manage their invoices online, in real-time and save themselves time.

Company: Moroccan Cargo Partner Name: Elamri Email: smng@moroccan-cargo.com Web Address: www.moroccan-cargo.com Address: 310 Angel Omar Riffi & Boulevard de la Liberte, Etg 3, Casablanca, Morocco Telephone: 00212 522 30 50 70

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YOU DONT NEED TO SPEND A FOUTUNE ON MARKETING

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WHEN IT COMES TO MARKETING, WE DO IT ALL, BUT THAT DOESNT MEAN THAT YOU NEED IT ALL. That’s why we pay attention when you talk and deliver only what you need, so that you can stretch your money further and accomplish your goals faster.

In other words: if you’re craving a fresh perspective and a more targeted approach, our bespoke packages have you covered.

WHICH MEANS YOU GET TO SPEND YOUR TIME IN EXACTLY THE WAY YOU CHOOSE.

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Experts in the Field Helix Dynamics Advisors Group is a premier international Business Advisory professional firm operating more than 15 years in the geographic areas of Middle East, Africa, Europe, Russia Federation and CIS. The company was founded by a team of experts with a background in financial, legal accounting, compliancy and market intelligence. Their subject matter and extensive knowledge and experience included food & beverages, chemical, aviation, IT and communication, FMCG professionals with extensive, hands on, in multinational organizations and large regional corporations, mainly in the industries of Fast Moving Consumer Goods, Pharmaceutical and Healthcare, Telecommunications, HighTechnology, Mass Media & Entertainment, Aviation and Defense as well as Energy and Utilities.

Helix Dynamics Advisors Group specializes in the geographical regions of Middle East, Africa, Europe, Russia and Central Asia countries. They are an independent privately held company with headquarters in Dubai, UAE and local offices in Jordan, Egypt, Cyprus, Greece, Bulgaria, Germany and UK. But they also have research teams covering Angola, Egypt, Morocco, Estonia, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kuwait, Lebanon, Malta, Mozambique, Nigeria, Romania, Russia Federation, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Sudan, Turkey and Yemen to operate as widely as possible.

HDA Helix Dynamics provides a spectrum of Risk, Compliance and Market Intelligence services for the geographical regions of Middle East, Africa, Western,

Central and Eastern Europe, as well as Eurasia countries (CIS). The company maintains a network of local multilingual researchers with extensive experience in market intelligence projects for multi-industries in these countries. Helix Dynamics Advisors Group utilizes locally based Multi-Lingual researchers to offer the depth and insight of their local language skills.

Helix Dynamics Advisor Group’s clients are mainly multinational organizations, semi-governmental organizations and authorities, export insurance companies, financial institutions, aviation, construction / infrastructure contractors, pharmaceuticals and healthcare companies, FMCG producers, IT and communication companies, professional services organizations and utility providers.

Helix Dynamics Advisors Group was established by several partners with valuable international experience of more than 40 accumulated years in legal, accounting, compliance, internal control, fraud and investigations, security as well as information, market / competitive intelligence and market research in several sectors, alongside a specialized team of experts in knowledge management systems and intelligence dissemination applications.

Helix dynamics advisors group has expanded the scale of its services by both vertical and horizontal integration; vertical integration has been achieved by strategic partnerships with

international associations and industry collaborations with institutions and organizations.

Helix dynamics advisors group has alliance partnerships with several associations, institutions and organizations around the globe. While, horizontal integration / organic network has been achieved by expanding the company’s network of advisors and subject matter experts in the middle east and Africa, Europe and Eurasia geographical regions. Currently, this network of researchers and subject matter experts covers more than 110 countries and involves more than 85 and 114 specialized full time as well as ad-hoc researchers and subject matter experts respectively.

Helix Dynamics Advisors Group’s Corporate Values are professionalism, respect, security and confidentiality, client focused advice, and learning and knowledge management.

Professional quality of work is their priority, which they maintain by applying the best possible skills, knowledge and experience to achieve excellence in everything they do.

The company recognises that the quality of the company’s services for clients is dependent on the quality of their people skills.

So they provide education and training opportunities and ensure that their business best practices and culture encourage sharing of information and knowledge among colleagues so that both employees and clients benefit from the company’s growing knowledge.

Helix Dynamics Advisors Group endeavour to foresee changes in the market and proactively bring the most benefit to clients so that they can make the right strategic and tactical decisions and stay ahead of their competition.

The purpose of Helix Dynamics Advisors Group is to nurture business growth by providing comprehensive and practical business services for critical and on-time decision making and specialized support, thus creating a better and safer business environment by helping avoid and fight corruption in high risk geographic areas.

Company: Helix Dynamics Advisors Group Ltd Name: Harry Stavrinides Email: hstavrinides@helixdia.com Web Address: www.helixdia.com Address: 83 Baker Street, London, W1U 6AG, UK Telephone: 00971 4 294 3787

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BEST MEDICAL CARE WHILE AWAY FROM HOME!

We are proud to say that our physicians were trained at some of the top medical schools around the world; they are board certified and/or accredited, fully insured, and fully licensed to practice medicine within their domain countries.

Allen Medical International is an International Medical Group/ International Medical Service Organization, corporately located in the United States, operating out of Los Angeles, Califoria. We have several supporing satellite operations and adminitrative offices in, Austria, China, Hong Kong, Idia, Idonesia, Italy, Mexico, Portugal, Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, and soon in the U.A.E. and the U.K.

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Emission Control Gets Company off the Ground Canadian CEO of the Month – Ontario winners Biorem Technologies deliver excellent air emission control systems.

Biorem is a pioneer environmental biotechnology company that designs, manufactures and distributes a comprehensive line of high-efficiency air emissions control systems used to eliminate odors, volatile organic compounds (VOCs), and hazardous air pollutants (HAPs).

We offer a selection of products that can be tailored to suit application specific requirements.

Biorem ensures optimized long-term performance on every application by custom-designing the solution to meet the individual needs of our clients.

With sales and manufacturing offices across the continents, dedicated research facilities, analytical and microbial laboratories, worldwide sales representative network, and a dedicated service division, Biorem has the resources available to ensure that your project is handled promptly and professionally from conception to completion.

With the largest installation base of its kind in the world, continued extensive research efforts, and over 25 years of experience, Biorem not only offers state of the art technology-based

products – but also peace of mind for municipalities, industrial companies and their surrounding communities.

Biorem offers an array of biological technologies for the removal of odors, Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S), Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) and hazardous air pollutants (HAPs).

Our systems can treat air flows from as little as 100 cfm to greater than 500,000 cfm and are available in many sizes and options from smaller integrated modular units to our larger custom designed field erected systems.

Complex odors associated with specific municipal wastewater treatment processes can be difficult to treat. That is why Biorem offers a robust and cost effective approach by combining our biological technologies.

The first stage consists of a customizable biotrickling filter that is used as a roughing scrubber to remove elevated hydrogen sulfide concentrations, allowing the second stage biofilter to concentrate on the more difficult organic sulfides and VOCs. Biorem has met the challenge in developing the next-generation of biological odor control systems for high profile applications. With

over 20 years of experience in the industry, our team of engineers and technicians can help tailor a solution for your needs. Whether you need to retrofit existing equipment or design a new greenfield facility, we have the resources to make your project a success.

Biorem offers a proven, cost effective line of biogas conditioning systems designed to protect your equipment from the damaging effects caused

by H2S, siloxanes and VOCs typically found in biogas or landfill gas. With increased knowledge of the need for energy independence and for the development of sustainable energy sources, biogas emissions can be converted to a valuable source of alternate energy.

Biorem is the leader in developing high performance, permanent engineered media products. The heart of any biological system is the microbial immobilization matrix. Specific properties are required to address specific applications, and Biorem has developed several medias to provide tailored solutions to complex emissions problems. The first to introduce an inorganic media, Biosorbens® was launched in the 90’s and has enjoyed success for two decades.

Biorem is committed to providing top tier after sales support.

Our friendly and professional field service representatives are always available to provide timely and knowledgeable assistance for any maintenance or troubleshooting concerns you may have.

Company: BIOREM Inc. Name: Derek Webb Email: dwebb@biorem.biz Web Address: www.biorem.biz Address: 7496 Wellington Road, 34 RR#3, Puslinch, N0B 2J0, CA Telephone: 0015197679100ext240

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Designers of Immersive Experiences www.sld.com The opportunity to capture the consumer’s imagination is all too fleeting. It can be gone in the blink of an eye.

This belief – founded on more than two decades of research, hardearned experience and honest evaluation – anchors everything we do to connect people to brands in the retail environment and online space.

Thanks to our Blink Factor and Think Blink processes, we lead the transformation of the customer experience by designing immersive purchase moments that connect in the blink of an eye.

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The Island of Luxury Development Earning the Excellence in Real Estate title at the Caribbean Business Awards 2017, Deon & Associates are taking luxury estate development to new heights.

For almost 20 years, Deon & Associates Limited has been developing both highend and affordable houses on the island of Nevis.

In 1995, Mr. Deon Daniel, the company’s Manager began building homes in Paradise Estate for clients needing a quiet and peaceful home to relax. Valued in price from between US$150,000.00 to US$250,000.00, these two and three bedroom villas fully furnished and complete with pools were the start of Deon & Associates journey to success. With nearly 30 homes completed, it was time to move on to higher heights.

To keep up with the growing market and the need for more upscale property, Deon & Associates Ltd embarked on the Fern Hill Estate Villa Development, which comprises over 50 luxurious villas all in range of two, three and four bedrooms, each complete with its own pool. Developed in three phases, the Fern Hill Estate Villas are designed to provide elegant spaces in which you can live, entertain, and relax. These spacious villas provide from 1800 to 2500 square feet of living space and include great rooms, fully equipped kitchens, air conditioning is included. The designs take advantage of the magnificent views, and natural beauty of the site where one can enjoy romantic sunsets over the Caribbean Sea

from the front veranda, or for a change of scenery, have breakfast on the back veranda with a mountain view. The villas include lush landscaping with tropical trees and flowers. Competitively priced packages include land, and the finished house. See more of Fern Hill Estate Development at www.deondaniel.com.

While constructing homes at the Fern Hill Estate Villa Development, an opportunity arose and Deon & Associates Ltd seized this opportunity to begin constructing the first condominiums on the island of Nevis. With 24 condominium units in two and three bedroom configurations, the beach front condominiums, now known as the Nelson Spring Beach Villas & Spa also include a spa, fitness center, tennis court, office building, pool and beach bar. Each condominium unit is complete with Egyptian marble tiles throughout, Italian kitchens and, stainless steel appliances.

The 3 acres of beachfront property was also landscaped by world-renowned Julie Toll.

By lavishly draping the Hamilton Beach Villas & Spa with the finest amenities like plasma screen televisions, tennis court, 2 swimming pools, restaurant, a state-of-the-art fitness center, spa and 24-hour security staff, these condominiums are likely to be among the most exclusive and finely crafted residences in the illustrious career of Deon &

Associates Ltd. The Hamilton Beach Villas & Spa is the second condominium development to be undertaken by the Developers.

Positioned on almost 6 acres of land, the 79-unit development is built in one, two, three and four bedroom modifications.

Travertine tiled floors and bathroom walls, granite kitchens, modern stainless appliances, wall-to-wall sliding glass doors, air conditioning and roof top terraces all make the development one of a kind.

Having recently completed the first phase of this development, Deon & Associates Limited is presently seeking to have the second phase completed by June 2013.

Depending on the level of investment, clients may qualify for the Economic Citizenship Program offered by the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis, a process which is facilitated by the developer. For clients who require a passport, purchases and building contracts should be

in place with construction to be finalized within 6 months.

Deon & Associates Ltd provides a comprehensive suite of After Sales Services designed to help you realize your dream of owning a perfect Caribbean Vacation Villa.

These include Housekeeping, Gardening and Pool Maintenance.

Over the years, countless buyers have realized that Deon & Associates Ltd provide more than just a second home to their customers; they provide the peace and relaxation inherent to the Caribbean. Whether the client wants a vacation or retirement home, these villas are a great investment with excellent rental demand and lucrative property appreciation. Other developments

by Deon & Associates Limited include the Shaw’s Road Villas, an affordable homes development and Busch Hill Garden Villas. Deon & Associates Ltd is currently reviewing 2 new development opportunities both of which are to become reality soon.

Company: Deon & Associates Ltd Name: Daniel Deon Email: deon@sisterisles.kn Web Address: http://fernhill.deondaniel.com Address: P.O. Box 630, Main Street, Charlestown, Nevis, Saint Kitts And Nevis Telephone: 001 869 662 8011

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Integrated Solutions for Complex Problems

Centre Law & Consulting, LLC is the only company that provides integrated legal, training, and consulting services in federal contracting to both government and industry clients. Founded in 2002, Centre is a certified Woman-Owned Small Business (WOSB) headquartered in Tysons, VA. At Centre Law & Consulting, we specialize in federal government contracting issues. We realize that government contract disputes are very different from typical commercial contract disputes. Our experienced attorneys provide solutions and results that are both effective and cost efficient. We have successfully represented clients before all major tribunals, including the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, the agency Boards of Contract Appeals, and the U.S. Government Accountability Office.

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A Great Place to Stay InterContinental Hotels Group have earned the Best Hospitality HR Leader - South England award.

Denham-based multinational hotel company, InterContinental Hotels Group PLC, or IHG, has over 742,000 rooms and 5,028 hotels in almost 100 countries. The conglomerate is formed of many brands, including Candlewood Suites, Crowne Plaza, Even, Holiday Inn, Holiday Inn Express, Hotel Indigo, Hualuxe, InterContinental, Kimpton Hotels and Resorts and Staybridge Suites.

The company worldwide headquarters and Europe offices are in Denham, Buckinghamshire in England. The Americas office is in Dunwoody, Georgia in Greater Atlanta, the Asia, Middle East, and Africa offices are in Singapore and the Greater China offices are in Pudong, Shanghai.

The company has 4,602 hotels, 3,934 of which are held under franchise agreements, while 658 are separately owned but managed by the group and 10 are directly owned by IHG.

InterContinental Hotels Group began in 1777, with the Bass Brewery, established by William Bass, who trademarked the first ever logo in the United Kingdom, the red triangle that they still use today.

The holding company was sold to UK-based Grand Metropolitan for $500 million, however they focused their core business and purchase of Burger King, so sold IHC to the Japanese-based Saison Group in 1988.

The number of pubs which could legally be owned by brewers was limited by the government in 1989, which Bass circumvented by opening a line of hotels, rather than public houses.

Expansion continued in 1990 with the purchase of Holiday Inn international and growth into North America. Thought the company was not yet known by the InterContinental name it has today.

In March 1998, Saison Group sold IHC to British brewery Bass, which traces its roots back to 1777, when William Bass established the Bass Brewery in Burton-upon-Trent, who began opening hotels under the name to continue selling beer.

In 2000, Bass sold its brewing assets (and the rights to the Bass name) to the major Belgian brewer Interbrew for £2.3 billion and changed its name to Six Continents.

The InterContinental brand was established by Juan Trippe in 1946, when the Pan American Airways owner opened his first hotel under a new division of the Pan Am brand – and named the holding company ‘InterContinental’.

In 2003, Six Continents split into two companies: Mitchells & Butlers took control of the restaurant assets[8] and IHG focusing on hotels and soft drinks, this resulted in the creation of InterContinental Hotels group’s formation, who retained Britvic until December 2005 when it sold its interest in the company by an initial public offering. In April/May 2014 the company reportedly rejected a

$10 billion takeover bid from an unknown party, believed to be Starwood.

In 2006, IHG and Lend Lease Group collaborated to carry out the Privatization of Army Lodging program. IHG Army Hotels is a division of IHG that manages on-post hotels and lodgings in 39 different military locations in the U.S., including Puerto Rico.

Notable IHG properties include The Crowne Plaza Liverpool John Lennon Airport, constructed in the 1930s and used until 1986 as an airport terminal. It has art deco features which led to its listing as a heritage building, and was subsequently adapted to function as a hotel.

The hotel in the Wilshire Grand Tower, which is under construction in downtown Los Angeles, will be the largest InterContinental in the Americas and the tallest building in Los Angeles.

Company: InterContinental Hotels Group PLC Name: Hazel Hogben Email: hazel.hogben@ihg.com Web Address: www.ihg.com Address: Broadwater Park, Denham, Buckinghamshire, UB9 5HR, UK Telephone: 01895512000

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Client Focused Powerweave delivers web and mobile solutions, database software solutions, product information management, IT outsourcing and digital personalization. We take a closer look at the firm and all that it has to offer.

Powerweave is partner to more than 400 companies that expert services and proven technology to bring about digital success.

With a client base spanning the world over, from business to suppliers and clients, Powerweave’s customers truly are the feather in its cap.

Focus on clients’ goals and delivering results Powerweave works closely with its clients to understand their business and its objectives.

It then builds solid strategies to meet those goals and specifications. With more than 200 satisfied customers the firm knows how to get its clients to the top of their niche!

Experts in the market Domain experts, professional team of web designers and developers, cutting edge technology, software developers, 10 years of solid experience, more than300 websites and 200 clients that it hs serviced – clients’ search for internet experts ends here!

One-stop-shop for all website needs Website design, website development, software services, SEO, Internet Marketing, Social Media Marketing – Powerweave

has specialized departments for each service. With synergy between the teams it implements strategies in one concerted effort.

Long-term partners Powerweave appreciates its clients and their business and is committed to their success.

Adhering to deadlines, staying on budget, delivering quantifiable results are the firm’s strengths, and this is how it builds long-term relationships with clients.

Delivery The firm works with techniques that reduce performance risks and project failures and supports them with technologies that enable high levels of communication and control. By working effectively with skilled business resources, using technology platform and tools that facilitate rapid development

and deployment of business solutions across geographical distances, with a processoriented approach, Powerweave sets itself apart from the rest.

Pratik Thakore From being the first employee at Powerweave to becoming COO through several role transitions that involved responsibility across almost all functions, Pratik had a natural yet relentless climb. He cements the two sides of Powerweave-Technology and Business Service with ease, moves seamlessly between the two and drives the one to add strength to the other with ever increasing value for customers.

Pratik has an encyclopedic knowledge of music from 1940’s Hindi to the latest Rock and almost everything between. He fronts a rock band and scripts a cartoon.

Company: Powerweave Web Address: www.powerweave.com Address: Suite 410, 8815 Center Park Drive Columbia, MD 21045 Telephone: +1 443 283 3456

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BETTER TOGETHER The Western Cape Government creates laws for and provides services to the people of the Western Cape.

We work closely with the national government and municipalities in the Western Cape to ensure that the citizens of the province have access to the services, facilities and information they need. We are committed to delivering an open opportunity society for all.

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The Science of Life BioVision, Inc, is a privately held life science company headquartered in the beautiful San Francisco Bay area. CEO and founder, Dr Gordon Yan, was recently awarded the prestigious title of CEO of the Year, after which we profiled the firm’s work.

Dr Gordon Yan, Ph.D., is the Chief Executive Officer and Founder at BioVision, Inc. since January 1996. Dr Yan holds a Ph.D. in Molecular Cellular Biology and M.S. in Molecular Biology from Clarkson University in the year 1992 and 1990 respectively and a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry from Jilin University in the year 1984.

BioVision, Inc., is a privately held life science company headquartered in the beautiful San Francisco Bay Area.

BioVision develops and offers a wide variety of products including assay kits, antibodies, recombinant proteins & enzymes, and other innovative research tools for studying apoptosis, metabolism, cell proliferation, cellular stress, cell damage and repair as well as diabetes, obesity and metabolic syndrome, stem cell biology, gene regulation and signal transduction.

BioVision’s products are currently being sold in more than 60 countries worldwide.

BioVision aims to provide innovative, high quality assay kits, recombinant proteins, antibodies and other research tools to accelerate drug discovery in disease-related areas like cancer, diabetes, obesity, Alzheimer’s disease and so on.

The firm would achieve these goals through a well-defined core strategy and a company culture that fosters integrity, openness, and collaboration, and rewards customer focus, innovation and

ownership. Two examples of the firm’s work are listed below, but many more can be at: www. biovision.com.

Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) In terms of the cardiovascular diseases (CVD), these are the leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. The basis of CVD encompasses damages to the heart and blood vessels that can eventually obstruct blood flow. Diseases under this broad umbrella include coronary artery diseases (e.g. myocardial infarctions or heart attack, angina etc.), arrhythmia, stroke, congenital heart defects and renal/ vascular disorders.

Multiple risk factors for CVD include age, diet, lifestyle changes, genetic predispositions and family history of hypertension, diabetes and/ or obesity. BioVision offers a comprehensive portfolio of products comprising of assay kits, recombinant proteins, antibodies and biochemicals to facilitate research in cardiovascular biology, drug development and biomarker discovery.

• Cardiovascular research categories; • Angiogenesis; • Arrhythmia & cardiac arrest; • Atherosclerosis; • Cytokines, growth factors, hormones; • Diabetes and obesity; • Hypertension; • Ischemia reperfusion injury; • Myocardial infarction and; • Renal injury/kidney disease.

Diabetes, Obesity & Metabolic Syndrome Diabetes is one of the most challenging health problems in the 21st century and one of the most common noncommunicable diseases globally.

It is the 4th or 5th leading cause of death in most highincome countries, with ~366 million diabetics in 2011 and an estimated 552 million in 2030. About 11% of total adult healthcare expenditure in the US and 8-18% in the EU is diabetes related.

Asia is emerging as the epicentre of the diabetes epidemic. India and China have the greatest numbers of people with diabetes, and by 2025, they could each have 20 million affected individuals. The global diabetes drug and devices market is estimated to be a whopping 72.4 billion by 2018. Understandably the number of studies on diabetes over the last 20 years has also been extraordinary.

On the other hand, obesity has also become a world-wide epidemic. For the first time in

human history, the number of overweight people rivals the number of underweight people.

Globally, there are > 1 billion overweight adults with about 300 million clinically obese. Of the 22 industrialised countries, the U.S. has the highest obesity statistics.

About 2/3rd of Americans over age 20 are overweight. About 1/3rd of Americans over age 20 are obese.

According to new statistics released by the CDC, the number of obese American adults (~34%) now outnumber those who are overweight (~33%).

It is estimated that if current obesity trends continue, by the year 2030, 86.3% of adults will be overweight or obese and 51.1% will be obese and by 2048 all adults will be overweight or obese. Obesity-related annual healthcare costs in the US equals about 240 billion. Obesity is also responsible for 2–8% of healthcare costs and 10–13% of deaths in different parts of EU. In the South-East Asia Region, about 300,000 people die of obesity every year.

Company: BioVision, Inc. Name: Gordon Yan, Ph.D. Email: gordony@biovision.com Web Address: www.biovision.com Address: 155 S. Milpitas BLVD Milpitas, CA 95035 Telephone: +1 408 493 1831

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Making you relevant in a distracted world

LET’S DO AMAZING THINGS TOGETHER The Most Progressive Company Powerful Thinking Through Creative Interpretations We’re not your everyday Public Relations Agency.

At BD consult, our team of dynamic and creative thinkers assist your organization to achieve tangible business results in an ever-changing business environment by offering exceptional Integrated Marketing Communication solution with special focus on Brand Strategy, Public Relations and Stakeholders Engagement.

By fusing experience and creativity of our team with in-depth stakeholder insight and innovation, we help you to create, protect and enhance your overall reputation by generating contents and getting your brand stories across quickly and effectvely in the most engaging, convincing and persuasive way.

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Online Accounting is Less Taxing with Online Services Mahoua Tax Accounting Wins Best Online Accountancy 2016 in South Africa, offering services to free up the business schedule.

Mahoua Tax Accounting is a multi-disciplinary comprehensive financial services firm. providing the entire spectrum of financial services and products to businesses of all sizes and across al sectors and industries.

The company focuses on helping business owners maximize their business and retain profits within legal limitations. The company works closely with clients to teach them how to interpret their financial reports and use them as a tool to improve their bottom line. By taking a twelve-month approach to business and tax planning, Mahoua can monitor changes and new developments to make sure the client is aware of future liabilities and current trends in their industry.

Mahoua Tax Accounting aims to give business owners the freedom and time to concentrate on the business’ activities, growth and production, by removing the stresses and time used to carry out accounting, taxation and secretarial functions. With a solid understanding and experience in all forms of accounting, the firm allows business owners to worry about making the money, whilst the taxation responsibilities are taken care of externally.

From individuals filing a simple IT12 salary earner to corporations seeking assistance with more complex tax returns, all customers find the expertise necessary through Mahoua.

The company also offers a complimentary initial consultation to assess companies’ opportunities to save taxes through retroactive filing and to

identify better opportunities and strategies for the future.

The company works closely with each client to fully understand their current circumstances, which they feel gives them the edge when compared with other consultants who offer limited services and only contact the company to discuss figures, without taking circumstances and factors into account.

The company works to find business activities that may result in tax benefits. To help clients to identify tax deductions or credits appropriate for their unique situation. They also work to identify opportunities for potential tax reductions that may have been overlooked. This means that the accountancy firm can align financial strategies more closely with the business

aims and objectives, to create a more harmonious plan and generate more fruitful profits.

The company offers online services to remove the need for clients to visit their office. Giving companies across the whole of South Africa the ability to access the services offered, without incurring travel expenses and wasting time making lengthy telephone calls. With an online documentation upload service, which is fully secured and protected, the company enables all taxation, accounting and secretarial services to be carried out remotely.

Company: Mahoua Tax Accounting Name: Gilas Tsamina Mahouassa Email: gildas@mahouatax.co.za Web Address: www.mahouatax.co.za Address: 16 Panorama Shopping Center, Corner Kliprivier and Jordie Street, Mulbarton, Gauteng, South Africa Telephone: 0027 11 432 4528

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A Dynamic Urban Vision lanterradevelopments.com

Lanterra Developments started out with a vision to build iconic urban condominiums that offered a fine balance of location, luxury and lifestyle.

Our guiding philosophy goes beyond just condominium building to dynamic urban revitalization and putting Toronto on the global map as the new city of the future, with vibrant master planned mixed use communities, sustainable green living and cutting-edge environmental technologies.

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Aspiring to Greatness Established in 2004 by Michaela Powell, Aspire People is the busiest and most reputable education recruitment agency. From a one-lady operation in the attic of an office, Aspire People now houses 50 staff with 40 recruitment consultants. After their success in achieving the Ones to Watch in Education Recruitment – 2017 accolade, we invited them to profile their excellent work in this sector.

Aspire People isn’t just a supply teaching agency; indeed, the business helps teaching, school office and technical support staff discover exciting temporary, permanent and flexible ad-hoc work in educational organisations from academies and schools through to colleges, nurseries and pupil referral units. Aspire People now work with over 2000 education professionals a year across every LEA in Central England.

Michaela Powell, Managing Director and Owner of Aspire People begins the interview by sharing her thoughts on the firm’s recipe for success, the criteria and values they stand by and how they maintain standards as the business grows.

“Our recipe for success is simple - we do what we promise. Of course, there are many values that surround the Aspire People culture but ultimately if you are looking for a recruitment agency that values long-term partnerships you are in good hands. This is apparent in everything we do, from helping aspiring teachers get in to teaching through to the free credible teacher training we provide. When you work with Aspire People - you become part of our family - and it’s about giving something back, everyone at Aspire People is valued from client to consultant to candidate.

“Every member of staff we hire must fit our criteria of values and buy into the Aspire People brand, so therefore we have such a strong culture. No matter whether you speak with MD Michaela, Sales Director Kelly, Recruitment Consultant Emma or Business Development Manager Sam Fisher, you will get a consistent service.

“When I started off as an education recruitment consultant, I knew I wanted to make a difference to the education and supply teaching industry. I set up Aspire People in 2004 and had one main aim: to create an education recruitment agency centred around principled codes of practice, where everything we say we do, we will do.

“To ensure that we maintain our standards as the business grows, we created Aspire People’s Promise to candidates and Aspire People’s Promise to clients. This is to ensure clients and candidates know upfront what they should expect from Aspire People before they decide whether to work us. If they aren’t receiving this service, there is a simple process in place for feeding this back so we can deal with it head on. Every time we receive a piece of information, we use it to tighten our processes and continually improve what we can offer. We receive a great deal of positive feedback about what we do, which we use to reward those that deliver such a high-quality service.”

“Aspire People has turned in to everything I could have wished it to be. We are proud of our innovative services, our attention to detail with customer service and the strong internal culture we have worked so hard to maintain throughout our journey.

On Aspire People’s website, you will find a wealth of teaching jobs and education jobs, teaching resources, downloads and information on them as a company. Michaela goes on to share her thoughts on setting up the company in 2004, how she wanted to make a difference and the crucial role of her team.

“Aspire People are constantly evolving but our recipe for success is consistent throughout the culture of the organisation.

Our strategy doesn’t just focus on the long-term, we never lose sight of what we are doing now.

With an extensive database of education professionals and job opportunities, highly trained

and motivated consultants and a strong internal culture, Aspire People’s future has never been brighter.”

The last word goes to Michaela who underlines how the strong support of her team has massively contributed towards the firm’s success.

“However, I could not have done any of this without the strong support I receive every day from every member of the team and the talented people that work so hard for us in schools. Thank you to all the loyal staff and schools that have stuck by us and made running this business so enjoyable. Thank you for helping me achieve my dreams.”

Company: Aspire People Name: Michaela Powell Web Address: aspirepeople.co.uk Address: Plantsbrook House, 94 The Parade, Gracechurch Shopping Centre, Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands, B72 1PH UK Telephone: +44 (0)121 314 3606

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“If you had a loved one who was living with a life limiting condition, if your family was facing a short and uncertain future together, you would want to make the time they had left together as special as possible�.

Making special memories for families with uncertain futures. mariahansonfoundation.org.uk

Banking that fits your life.

www.cibc.com Our vision is to be the leader in client relationships.

We will build the most trusting and enduring client relationships by putting our clients at the centre of all that we do. We will listen intently to our clients, offering them what they need, and striving to exceed their expectations.

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Australian CEO Top 25 Company: Sydney Airport Corporation ltd Name: Kerrie Mather Web Address: www.sydneyairport.com.au

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