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C E L E B R A T I N G I A N H O R N E We have had some exceptional women pass through employment at AHA|SA on their way to building solid careers and they include Wendy Bevan, who worked with me closely over several years and is now the CEO of KESAB, and Jodie Van Deventer who was AHA Communications Manager in the 2000s and is now CEO of Ai Group. And Margo Hill-Smith who was my right-hand Government Relationship Manager with the introduction of gaming in the mid-nineties. Margo went on to become a senior manager at the then Wine Federation of Australia and importantly established the AHA Women in Hotels network with her inaugural WIH Chairperson, Patricia Hurley, some 30 years ago. Thanks for joining me tonight. But I would like to make special mention of Wally Woehlert. Wally had a unique capacity and knowledge, was Deputy Vice President of the Association for a period and then as head of a restructured Gaming Care, he was integral to our response to all-things liquor, allthings gaming, and all-things legal. He had discipline and wisdom in his thinking and application that was more valuable than two or more people. He was a rock that kept us grounded. People said, ‘Well, when Wally goes, you’ll need at least two people to replace him.’ True, we simply couldn’t replace Wally, there is only one of him. We also have exceptional men and women who have made a career at AHA|SA. With Anna at the helm, they will broaden our Association’s horizons even further with long term team members Lucy Randall, Anna Caretti and Didier Vollerin being in their 18th year, Katherine Taylor 16, Lorraine Kranz, John Hilton, Nicole Checker and Owen Webb at 13, and Liz Turley 12. We’ve been blessed with incredible staff and stability - and it is the staff that are the engine room of the association, both in AHA|SA and our parallel organisation Gaming Care. AHA|SA CEO Ian Horne with Wally Woehlert. Manufacturers & Suppliers Commercial Refrigeration & Foodservice Equipment | Stainless Steel Fabrication | Exhaust Canopy Units | Ware Washing Units | Laser Cutting & Folding 3A Brandwood St, Royal Park P 8447 3999 enquiry@ctpl.net.au www.ctpl.com.au “Mr Ian Horne - Champion for hospitality. CONGRATS & THANK YOU! Enjoy a happy and healthy retirement.” - Con Tsoubarakis Family & the CTPL Team 26 | Hotel SA | www.ahasa.asn.au Back to Contents
C E L E B R A T I N G I A N H O R N E But we found Anna who has brought a whole range of skills, different ways and different styles. So as the CEO of some 30 years (over two stints), I’ve been blessed to have 2ICs who have been outstanding. PREMIERS Now Premiers are a bit different. I’m already on my ninth, the first being amicable John Bannon and the current equally amicable Peter Malinauskas. In his former life with the SDA, Peter will rightly claim some success in his dealings with AHA, in particular over part day holidays but at the very least our partial loss gave us the opportunity to exercise our creative skill with our moderately AHA/MTA funded campaign that went something like “You can put lipstick on a pig but it’s still a pig”. The term ‘it’s a pig of a deal’ referring to the deal conjured up between a then very conflicted Business SA, some salivating independent grocers desperate for all businesses to pay so they could to sell wine inside supermarkets, and significantly, a much more astute SDA secretary. We did take some comfort in running a Derryn Hinch inspired ‘Shame, Shame, Shame Business SA’ full pager ad in The Advertiser, expressing our disapproval at one of our own side’s treachery! And we dipped our lid to a strategically clever SDA State Secretary. Premier of SA Peter Malinauskas with AHA|SA CEO Ian Horne. PERSONAL LIFE It’s quite incredible that I ended up spending most of my career in employer associations because I had no natural affiliation with the business community. Some of you would know that I’m the son of a Churches of Christ Minister of Religion. Churches of Christ in that day were ‘anti’ several things that I now hold dear to my heart, namely gambling and alcohol. I was born in Queensland, my dad was a Salvation Army Officer who defected to the Churches of Christ (I suspect in pursuit of my mum). As a three-year-old, we moved to Adelaide in 1957 to take up residence in the church manse next to the church on Brooker Terrace in Cowandilla. “Thank you Ian Horne for your outstanding service to the AHA” from Harold and the team at Concept Collections PRODUCT SUPPLIER WINNER RESTAURANT & CATERING AWARDS SA | 2016 | 2019 | 2022 conceptcollections.com.au Back to Contents www.ahasa.asn.au | Hotel SA | 27
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