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DECEMBER 1, 2018
Viewlink/Indian Newslink Indian Business Awards Special 2018
Independent Panel of Judges
The English Fortnightly (Since November 1999)
ISSUE 405 | DECEMBER 1, 2018
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Chad Wilkie Nevil Gibson Steve Corbett Tony Bacon
Chip Dawson Ray Knight Mike Skilling Maria Taylor
Jeffery Nathan, Ratna Venkat and Ambika Krishnamoorthy
Rrahul Dosshi and Bhavini Doshii and others at the Rainbow Corner Exhibition Booth
Master of Ceremonies Jackie Clarke jokes with Carl Jackson, winner of the Oaks Property
Monique Bradley, who won the AIA Hamper including an Apple Watch, with AIA New Zealand
A Section of the audience at Indian Newslink Indian
Management raffle (two return tickets to Fiji with accommodation for two nights at Hilton
Business Development Manager Jinnie Gill
Business Awards 2018
Doubletree, Sonaisali Island, Fiji), watched by Managing Director Vijay Singh (second
Judges and Sponsors
from right)
enhance Awards value
And entrants, entertainers and many others underscore it
Having organised the Indian
Newslink Indian Business
Awards for eleven years,
we take stock with pride
and acknowledge that the Project,
unique and inimitable as it is, has
grown in stature because of a number
of unconditional contributors.
The most significant among these
have been our fiercely Independent
Panel of Judges, our friendly and
supportive Sponsors, and most
important of all, our enthusiastic
entrants, nominees and people who
offer professional and expert advice
to participants.
Our ebullient team
There are of course scores
of others, our entertainers, the
musical band (‘Gurus of Groove’)
that we created in 2008 putting
together varied talent, our graphic
designers, photographers, printers,
professionals who provide high
quality audio-visual services, our
Masters of Ceremonies, our Front
of House people and of course our
dedicated, extremely hard working
and competent staff.
Each of them has given in no less
a measure in promoting and taking
our Business Awards to the height of
popularity that it has reached today.
Our Judges
When we requested Chad Wilkie,
a taxation and business consultancy
expert to create a Panel of Judges
in 2008, he readily accepted and
has successfully led a team of eight
(sometimes ten) highly-respected
professionals from various fields
of activity, capable of judging the
variety of entries that they receive
every year.
This year’s panel comprised
Chad Wilkie (Chair), Nevil Gibson
(Editor-at-Large, The National
Business Review), Steve Corbett
(Director Commercialisation, AUT),
Tony Bacon (M2M Consultant),
Chip Dawson (Managing Director,
International Business Management
Limited), Ray Knight (Managing
Director, Tree Knights), Mike Skilling
(Management Consultant) and Maria
Taylor (Consultant).
After distinguished services as
Chair for eleven years, Mr Wilkie
has expressed his desire to retire.
We express our gratitude to him
and wish him continued health and
happiness.
Our Sponsors
Sponsors form the single most
important aspect of our Awards
Programme and are in fact the heart
and soul of it. For a newspaper that
is not owned by wealthy people who
can underwrite all expenses, every
dollar must be earned before it can
be spent.
We are extremely thankful to our
Sponsors of the Eleventh Annual
Indian Newslink Indian Business
Awards 2018. Among them are
The Rainbow Corner Group of
Companies (Title Sponsors- Rrahul
Dosshi and Bhavini Doshii), The
Fiji Consulate General and Trade
Commission of Australia and New
Zealand based in Sydney (Major
Support Sponsor- Zarak Khan),
2degrees Mobile Limited, AIA New
Zealand, Charles Pandey Group of
Hotels (Hotel Grand Windsor), Link2
Services Limited, Singapore Airlines,
PIC Insurance Brokers, Manukau
Institute of Technology, Oaks Property
Management, SmartPayroll,
Alexandra Park, Mercury Printz,
Radio Tarana and our Support
Sponsor, the New Zealand Human
Rights Commission.
We hope to have their continued
patronage in the years to come.
Our Graphic Designer, Printer and
Webmaster
Indian Newslink was the first point
of contact for Narendra Bedekar in
2003 as he migrated to New Zealand
with his young family. We have been
working together since then; Naren
has been our exclusive photographer,
having taken more than 15,000
pictures of various events that we
conducted, created scores of logos
(including those of our Awards,
Scholarship, Lecture and other
brands) and designed hundreds
of our in-house advertisements.
He continues to be a part of our
team, despite being pressurised by
time and demand from others. He
has demonstrated his loyalty over
the years, assuring us that Indian
Newslink will always be his priority.
Mercury Printz has been our
world-class printer, creating a series
of print jobs including invitations,
posters, tickets, booklets and other
stationery, not just for our Business
Awards but also for all our brands
and events. We express our thanks
to Ilango Krishnamoorthy (Managing
Director), Chandrabhan Singh
(Production & Graphics Manager)
and Kavita Kumar (Administration)
for their support and for helping us
with difficult schedules.
Raghu Kuncha Koorthy has been
our webmaster managing our three
websites for more than 15 years. He
began with us while in Auckland
and continues his good work from
Melbourne, which has been his
home for the past eight years.
Our Artistes and Performers
Ratna Venkat has been a star
performer at each of our Awards
programmes since 2008, presenting
Bharata Natyam, Kuchipudi, Folk,
Fusion and other types of dances.
Innovative and enterprising, her
partnership with the members of
the ‘Gurus of Groove,’ comprising
Carlyle Fernandes (Bass Guitar),
Elvis Claremont (Lead Guitar),
Hemant Thaker (Keyboards), Joscel
Alexander (Electronic Drums) and
Joseph Alexander (Octopad) has
been providing quality entertainment.
Teenager Ambika Krishnamoorthy
joined us this year to present
a Bharata Natyam number, while
Jeffery Nathan returned after an
interlude.
We hope this partnership will
grow.
We have also had the privilege of
timely help and unconditional support
from Viraf & Pearl Todywalla,
Prince Kumar, Amrita Gillard and
Kartika Singh.
The Managing Director &
Publisher of Indian Newslink Jacob
Mannothra has been a great source
of strength, while the management
and staff including Production
Manager Mahes Perera, Financial
Controller Uma Venkatram and
Sales & Marketing Manager Ronny
Kumaran have been of invaluable
assistance.
Indian Newslink has just stepped
into its 20th Year of Publication.
We salute all of you and hope that
we will continue to deserve your
patronage and help.