Cees
Cuijpers and Xanny Disjad give the guests a very informal welcome.
Paul Strachan
This year’s ‘Movers & Shakers’ Charity Networking event
took place at the Centara Grand Mirage Beach Resort on Friday the 3rd of
December. This was indeed the biggest networking event that has been staged
here in Pattaya.
Last year’s event, which was held at the Village, was a
huge success so expectations were high as business people from the region
descended upon the grounds of the Centara.
Tracy
Cosgrove form the Melissa Cosgrove Children’s Foundation thanks Cees
Cuijpers for all his hard work in setting up this year’s Movers & Shakers.
But what is ‘Movers & Shakers’? Well, it’s just that:
it’s a platform for active players in the community to network, meet new and
old friends and a means of raising funds for local charities.
The evening started off with a drinks reception replete
with a live jazz band and it soon became apparent that this was going to be
extremely well attended. The face of networking has changed somewhat over
the last twelve months, partly due to the success of the Lighthouse Club,
which has redefined networking into a non-exclusive informal get together.
Movers & Shakers take it one step further, with live
music and glamour in a 5 star setting. The music continued with a
performance by Princess Music, then guests were ushered into the main
ballroom where they were surprised to find two VW Cocktail Vans inside the
ballroom along with a wonderful finger buffet and free flowing beer, wine
and whisky.
Paul
Strachan (right) interviews for PMTV Rony Fineman, the managing director of
Nova Groups whose condominium project The Cliff were also a primary sponsor.
The entertainment continued with two Brazilian dancers
taking to the stage, who were then followed by a brief speech by the main
organizer Cees Cuijpers and the lovely diminutive glamour model Xanny Disjad.
They thanks for many sponsors of the evening including
Kone Thai lift public company represented by its Managing Director Marc
Spiegel; Siam Royal View CEO Roland Steiner, Rony Fineman, the managing
director of Nova Groups whose condominium project The Cliff was also a
primary sponsor.
There then followed a swimwear fashion show with
glamorous models from Ariz Event design and entertainment including the
beautiful Emmy Kamonrat Ladseeta adorned with high end swimwear from the
Katalina Collection.
And the night continued well until its official ending
time of 10:30 p.m. with the draught Carlsberg from Fluid Asia keeping the
temperatures of the men down as they were surrounded by not just the models
but also all the lovely ladies of Pattaya who had made an extra special
effort for this event.
In one of the many interviews on Pattaya Mail
Television Cees Cuijpers said that he was delighted with the turnout of
nearly five hundred guests and that everything had went according to plan.
Movers & Shakers, he said, would be even bigger and better in 2011.
(L to R)
Graham Macdonald,
Deborah & Simon Philbrook enjoy the evening.
Marc
Speigel from Kone and Kobi Elbaz from The Cliff grab the spotlight with
Xanny Disjad.
Princess
Music performs for an excited audience.
This is
definitely one of the fun tables at the party.
Supermodel Emmy Kamonrat Ladseeta struts
her stuff in swimwear from Katalina.
Coyote
dancers from Insomnia add a little spice to the proceedings.
The ever
popular samba dancers are certainly movers & shakers.
