(L to R) Ranjith Chandrasiri,
deputy general manager of the Royal Cliff Beach Resort; Pratheep S.
Malhotra, managing director of Pattaya Mail Publishing Co., Ltd.; Joachim
Grill, general manager of the Royal Cliff Beach Resort; Matthew Fryar,
director of revenue management for Sheraton Pattaya Resort; and Arran Ayres,
sales & marketing manager Europe, for the Royal Cliff Beach Resort.
(L to R) Pratheep S. Malhotra,
managing director of Pattaya Mail Publishing Co., Ltd.; Judy Hoppe; Ranjith
Chandrasiri, deputy general manager of the Royal Cliff Beach Resort; Joachim
Grill, general manager of the Royal Cliff Beach Resort; and Bruce Hoppe.
Dr Iain Corness
The June networking evening for the British Chamber of Commerce Thailand
(BCCT) was held at the Royal Cliff Beach Resort, with additional sponsorship
from Brooklands Executives, represented by their MD Barry Willmore.
(L
to R) Roy Lau, marketing communication manager for the Royal Cliff Beach
Resort; and Rudolk Roithmayr, senior sales manager, Europe (Leisure) for the
Royal Cliff Beach Resort welcomes guests to the event.
There was no doubting that the Royal Cliff can present a professional event
after this networking evening. The Promenade Lounge was set up with hot and
cold food stations, the beverage waiters and waitresses were everywhere,
executive chef Walter Thenisch was everywhere, Roy Lau, the new marketing
communications manager was meeting everyone, new GM Joachim Grill put in an
appearance and the ever-smiling deputy GM Ranjith Chandrasiri gave a short
address and was also on hand to make sure everything, and I mean
‘everything’, went correctly.
Barry Willmore from Brooklands Executives was another who kept his speech
short, but was very pleased to report that his company was already getting
firm orders for executive placements in the Interim Management arena.
(L
to R) Matthew Fryar, director of revenue management for Sheraton Pattaya
Resort; Kerati Chantaravisutlert, director of sales for the Pattaya Marriott
Resort & Spa; and Arran Ayres, sales & marketing manager Europe for the
Royal Cliff Beach Resort.
From the BCCT side, executive director Greg Watkins was his usual
‘greg’arious self and he was ably assisted by board member Simon Matthews
(Manpower), who remembered not to wear the pink shirt he wore to the
AustCham evening.
With the good food and ample wine, there was nobody who did not enjoy the
evening. It was also a welcome back to Pattaya for Judy Hoppe who had just
endured a nightmare trip from the US, including five hours on the plane and
a change of crew, and it hadn’t even left the airport! If you have a spare
five hours, ask Judy about it, and her stop-over at Narita airport in a
luxury one star hotel!
(L
to R) Paul Wilkinson, general manager, Eastern Seaboard for AGS Four Winds
International Movers Limited; and Ron Keeley, managing director of the World
of Wine.
One of the happiest folk was Santa Fe’s business development manager Kevin
Morgenstern, whose mother Marjorie did not star in the 1958 film of the same
name, who gladdened the heart of PMTV’s Paul Strachan by saying he enjoyed
the program and it should be beamed to Bangkok.
Another happy chappie was John Howarth, the senior consultant for Montpelier
(wealth management and tax planning), who thought he had won a sex change
operation in the lucky draw at the previous BCCT event at the Bangkok
Hospital Pattaya, but was later relieved to find that it wasn’t - it was a
check-up package!
(L to R) Paul Strachan; Barry
Willmore, managing director for South East Asia of Brooklands Executives
Limited; and Dr. Iain Corness.
The networking evening was also joined by the top man at the Pattaya Mail,
Peter Malhotra, back in action after a year touring Thailand for Rotary
International. Welcome back, Peter, you have been sorely missed.
Maurice Bromley and his sparkling wife Renita (see, I got it right this
time) were there, plus the lovely Duangmanee Yantawattana (Apple), from the
Sheraton’s marketing communications, who sneaked in past the Royal Cliff’s
security by batting her eyelashes at everybody.
(L
to R) Paul Strachan; Ranjith Chandrasiri, deputy general manager of the
Royal Cliff Beach Resort; and Dr. Iain Corness smile for the PMTV camera.
A networking evening anywhere - Pattaya or Chiang Mai - would not be the
same without AA Insurance Broker’s Peter Smith, though his henchman Malcolm
Scorer was absent on this occasion, while another stalwart was Paul (I can
move it) Wilkinson (AGS Four Winds) along with Salam (just Relax) Hoshang
from Asian University.
It was also good to see some new faces at the event, including Suwat
Rerksujarit, the GM of Thai Health Insurance and Anuwat Sanguansappayakorn
(say that after a couple of red wines), the chief finance officer of
Loxinfo.
It really was a first class evening, and everyone hopes that the BCCT can
return to the Royal Cliff Beach Resort sometime soon!
(L to R) Simon Matthews,
director of the British Chamber of Commerce Thailand; Clive Butcher, chief
financial officer of Wright Company Recruitment Ltd.; Ian Grout, M.A.
(Oxford University) teacher of economics and head of International Relations
at Harrow International School.
(L to R) Pornthip Saengrat,
sales manager, East Coast for the Royal Cliff Beach Resort; Kusuma Bualuang;
Warisa Raktham, sales supervisor with Colliers International; and Mark
Bowling, sales manager with Colliers International.
(L to R) Terrence Allen
Collins, project manager for The Vineyard; Pepsi; Patrick Eger from Katalyna
Development & Holding Co., Ltd; and Ken Gibbons.
(L to R) Greg Watkins,
executive director of the British Chamber of Commerce Thailand; John
Howarth, MLIA (Dip), senior consultant for Montpelier (Thailand) Ltd.;
Nicholas Henley, managing director of Talent Technologies; and Joe
Barker-Bennet.
(L to R) Cees Cuijpers (KC)
managing director of Town & Country Property; Brett; Ron Keeley, managing
director of the World of Wine; Shaun; Edward Tracy; and John Black, managing
director of Real Estate Magazine Thailand.
