The Illawarra Connection (TIC) recognised its foundation sponsors this week at its August black tie dinner where keynote speaker Rod Matthews spoke about facilitating through complexity and how to utilise the combined brain power of an organisation to navigate.
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President Roger Summerill thanked the foundation sponsors Access Lawyers, Illawarra Mercury, BlueScope Steel, University of Wollongong and WAVE FM for their continue support as major sponsors for the two decades since the business networking body was formed.
Mr Summerill did that by presenting each of them with a trophy in recognition of their role in keeping the region's peak business networking group so strong for so long.
"On behalf of the board, we are very appreciative of the support they provide our organisation and would like to invite them to the stage to accept a token of our appreciation," he said.
Accepting on behalf of their organisations were James Welch, of Access Lawyers, Corinne Whiteman, of the Illawarra Mercury, Stephannie Jonovska, of BlueScope Steel, Melva Crouch, of the University of Wollongong, and Tony Williams, of WAVE FM.
Mr Summerill also announced on behalf of the board that Mrs Whiteman, general manager of the Illawarra Mercury, had accepted an invitation to fill a board vacancy previously held by Peter Dehnert.
He said the TIC website was also getting a facelift to also serve as a membership and dinner database.
It would allow members to log in to their member account, update profile details, complete the RSVP process for networking dinners and pay for membership and additional dinner attendance.
Mr Summerill said that for the October dinner TIC had secured inspirational young achiever Ryan Campbell, who recently launched his book "Born to Fly" about his round-the-world adventure in a small plane.
At 19, Mr Campbell became the youngest aviator to circumnavigate the globe.
