Month: January 2022

Omicron & Beyond The season to be merry is well over and hopefully most had good fun, and had the opportunity for personal down time, family time and social time. 2021 was a tough year for many, professionally and personally including missing quite a few of our friends and colleagues who chose to leave Malaysia during the pandemic. So much to reflect on and yet time to leave what are memories of another Covid year behind. Time to be in the year of the two’s, for those phonetically inclined, its “Two Oh To Toooo” .. Did you hear the wood pigeon? Onwards comrades, time to be present, practical and to look out to the possibilities that business and life will offer for us in 2022 and beyond. So how are…

Over 2021 we lost 4 of our board members, most leaving Malaysia and heading to pastures greener. Although it was a big hit to loose so many in such a short period of time, we feel blessed that 4 members have stepped into the breach and have been elected and legally confirmed to their positions on the board from January 2022. They bring diversity of background, gender, ideas and new energy to the board. Our new directors include Rob van Harren (Dutchman & Director of Leviat SEA & India, a subsidiary of CRH), Jayanthi Theverajah (Malaysian Citizen and Head of Education, Asean Region, Enterprise Ireland), Jasmine Cheung (PR specialist and Co-Founder of Estilo Media)  and Donal Crotty ( Executive coach and Chair with Vistage Malaysia). Donal has also been elected…

They say better late than never, well in ICCM we finally got to hold our AGM as an in person event on December 10th 2021 in Healy Macs, Changkat. All formalities were handled and agenda completed with an attendance of 40 members and associates assuring we were beyond quorum. A great and safe evening was had by all with appropriate adherence to SOP's. Big thanks you to our sponsors Healy Macs, MFE Formworks, Teknicast, AGS Relocation and Amee Philips! Been a long time since we have been able to hold a F2F networking event, but we look forward with optimism to 2022 when we plan to hold such events quarterly.