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Danny O’Neill (CreditorWatch) and Shavantha Mallawa (Credit Source).
John Li, Andrei Gubin, Zarah Butcher, Mark Mansilla and Chen Mi (all mecwacare).
President’s report And we finish the year with applause! It’s been a huge relief for all of our Vic/Tas members to be out of lockdown and out and about once again. Since we last spoke, we have had the opportunity to run one more event, our Pinnacle Awards. With a wealth of knowledge, experience and passion, this year’s awards were a tight competition. A huge congratulations to all nominees and to our winners; z Ricky Forster MICM CCE – Credit Manager z Debbie Ryan MICM CCE – Credit Supervisor Tim Vann, Pauline Mak and Fei Wei (all Jirsch Sutherland). z Spiro Pikoulas MICM – Consultant I had the honour of playing taxi for one of our longest time on council, it has been wonderful to be a part of serving life members; Ian Bartholomew. Ian joined the an institute that recognises how valuable diversity and institute back when it was still known as “The Institute of inclusion is in the workplace. Credit Men”. We are almost at 50/50 women to men on council at Looking around the room, he was pleased to see so present and have a wide variety of ethnic backgrounds many women. I know from my own perspective with my and ages. This mix of people ensures we have a
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Life Member and past national magazine editor Ian Bartholomew was interviewed by AICM CEO Nick Pilavidis and celebrated at our dinner.
