DIVISION REPORT
Western Australia/Northern Territory
Chris Meadwell (Mediterranean Shipping Company), Jason Louis (BGC), Rowan McClarty (WA Division Director), Kevin Allen (Equifax) and Brenda McGee (Credit Solutions).
Mariana Pereira, Elny Martin (both SV Partners) and Warren Myers (CMP Recruitment).
Cheryl Donaldson (Vinidex), Adam Doyle (NCI) and Julie Boyce (Summit Fertz).
Presidents Report
more and more organisations centralise credit operations to the East Coast or outsource the function altogether to a third party. This has impacts not only on our overall membership but makes identifying and recognising our Young Credit professionals all more challenging. We did find this year however, two very deserving finalists in Scarlett D’Agnone from Westrac and Vaibhav Gupta from Metroll who both excelled in their interview, which ultimately saw Vaibhav take out the State title – congratulations again to both candidates. WA was this year able to realise an ambition this year in what it has not been able to achieve in the past, our very own Synergy taking out the Credit team of the year award! Having come very close in preceding years, the win was well deserved by the Synergy team, and I can say that working in the same industry, I know how passionate and committed this team is to what they do and making
As the curtain closes on another calendar year, there has been plenty of opportunity for us to review and reflect on the previous year, and how fortunate we have been to live in the West, where COVID has been wholly controlled and we have been able to go about our business as close to normal as you can get it in these unprecedented times. Following a successful first half of the year where we were able to hold our usual events under somewhat normal circumstances (some restrictions were in place however) we turned the straight into the run home to Christmas, rounding out our year with our EOY Sundowner event held upstairs at the Aviary Bar, overlooking the magnificent skyline of the Perth CBD. In what has been an extremely positive year for the WA Division, we have achieved membership growth of 16% YoY, in what is a challenging environment given that our stocks of credit professionals continue to decrease as
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