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AACC Speaker Series event "Australian women in business- international success stories"

Thursday, February 17, 2011 from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM (PT)

San Francisco, CA

AACC Speaker Series event

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Australian women in business- international success stories

 

Date: Thursday, February 17th, 2011                                                                Time: 6pm - 9pm

Location: California Room, The Fairmont Hotel, SF
Cost: Free for AACC members, $20 for non members. Members will receive a complimentary drink sponsored by Frank, Rimerman + Co., LLP (The Fairmont provides a $5 drinks menu to our guests)
RSVP: http://aaccyourshout.eventbrite.com

Our distinguished panel of speakers

 

Robyn Denholm, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Juniper Networks

Robyn Denholm is responsible for the company's finance, planning, real estate, field operations, investor relations and internal audit functions. She oversees the company's operational excellence programs to ensure an efficient and scalable infrastructure for all of Juniper Networks.

Ms. Denholm joined Juniper from Sun Microsystems, where she served as Senior Vice President, Corporate Strategic Planning. In that role, she was responsible for Sun's corporate operating system and the global sales and service administration function. She also led Sun's business transformation initiative.  Prior to Sun, she served at Toyota Motor Corporation Australia and Arthur Andersen and Company. She has served on the Board of Directors of Echelon, a world leader in the smart energy network, since 2008.

 

Jane Jordan-Meier, Principal of Jane Jordon & Associates

Jane Jordon & Associates, a boutique training, coaching and advisory firm, Jane is an international communication and media coach with more than two decades of experience in working with executive management in both the government and the private sector in North America, Australia and New Zealand. Most of Jane’s work today is in crisis management training with senior and executive management. Jane is a very successful businesswoman having started two businesses from scratch building them into million-dollar companies. She is a pioneer in media training and her methodology for crisis management has been turned into a book. Jane has also taught at Masters level at the University of Technology, Sydney and undergraduate communication and PR courses at Charles Sturt as well as numerous workshops and conferences. Her book on crisis media management, The Four Highly Effective Stages of Crisis Management: How to Manage the Media in the Digital Age will be released in March.

 

Bobbi Dunphy, Chief International Officer for LifeGivingForce

An internationalist in the true sense of the word, Bobbi has spent the majority of her adult life living and working away from her beloved homeland of Australia. Her career, spanning more than 20 years, has led her to establish homes in such diverse places as Tokyo, Stockholm, New York, Barcelona, London and San Francisco.  She currently works as Chief International Officer for LifeGivingForce (LGF). LGF provides cost effective water solutions in the most difficult settings, leveraging the most advanced water purification technologies and expertise. Since the earthquake on January 12, 2010, LifeGivingForce has provided clean water to hundreds of thousands of Haitians in IDP camps, schools, clinics and orphanages in multiple regions in Haiti. (See link to technology). Bobbi splits her time between the USA and Haiti and focuses on the deployment of cost effective, state-of-the-art water solutions to provide clean water to those in need in Haiti.

When & Where



Fairmont Hotel
950 Mason St
San Francisco, CA

Thursday, February 17, 2011 from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM (PT)


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Hosted By

Australian American Chamber of Commerce



Established in 1981, the venerable Australian American Chamber of Commerce exists to embody, promote and advance the Uniquely Australian Way to Work and Play. This means taking a quintessentially Australian approach to both business and pleasure, allowing for seriousness and fun, success and relaxation.

It means advancing the spirit of Australia and sense of fairness, fun and adventure that we share with like-minded people in the US and throughout the world.

We don’t take ourselves too seriously, yet are driven to succeed. We fervently believe in a balance between work and play, business and pleasure, financial and social endeavours.