Subs/guests

This morning’s breakfast meeting had the following subs and guests:

Rebecca Hill was subbing for Zoe Antin of Opus Telecom
Liz Marsh was subbing for Richard Houldsworth of Splat Print
Colleague Anna-Maria Aller was subbing for Paul Marmor of Sherrards Solicitors
Johnny Mindlin was subbing for Gavin Morton Holmes of Destiny

New members

Nigel Hakkak of Red Brick Financial Services was welcomed as a new member to the group. Nigel specialises in mortgage broking.

The 60-second round

Johnny Mindlin, subbing for Gavin Morton Holmes of Destiny
Gavin is looking for referrals to companies or organisations that have staff filling in forms away from the office; he is particularly interested in introductions to asset finance companies or car dealerships.

Anna-Maria Aller, subbing for Paul Marmor of Sherrards Solicitors. Anna-Maria presented Sherrards, a law firm with offices in St. Albans and Central London.

Rebecca Hill, subbing for Zoe Antin of Opus Telecom
Zoe is looking for referrals to companies that have staff who work from home or are mobile. She is particularly interested in introductions to large franchise operations or companies moving offices.

George Emsden, In2 Consulting
George told a story of how a lady developed cancer to demonstrate how things in life can change. He encouraged everybody to make a list of the insurance policies or cover they currently have in place and then discuss it with him to see how cover could be optimised.

Liz Marsh, subbing for Richard Houldsworth
Liz presented Splat Print, a specialist printing firm based near Old Street in London.

Louise Hassett, Delfont Mackintosh Theatres
Louise would like to receive referrals to people, companies or organisations that are interested in entertaining at one of DM’s theatres.

Kirsty Joly, Perfectly Tempered
Kirsty told everyone how she has been successfully working with Tom Harrow to host high quality chocolate and wine tasting events. She would like referrals to people, companies or organisations that would be interested in holding similar type events.

Hiten Thaker, Revolution Creative Agency
This week Hiten is specifically looking for referrals to PR or marketing companies that outsource design work.

Mab Ayuub, Olive Telecommunications
Olive Telecommunications is a mobile phone specialist. Mab is looking for referrals to people, organisations or companies that travel to Europe a lot (e.g. Haulage, sales reps, etc).

Alexis Garnaut-Miller, The Happiness Centre
Alexis is looking for referrals or introductions to people that work in mobile phone call centres to explore the provision of osteopath lead workplace assessments.

Roy Duncan, RG Duncan Accountancy Recruitment
Roy is looking for introductions to companies or businesses that are not too happy about how their accountancy department is being lead.

Nigel Hakkek, Red Brick Financial
Given possible signs of recovery in the homebuying market for first-time-buyers, Nigel is looking for introductions to anyone looking to buy their first home.

Mike Nightingale, Green Park Insurance
Mike is looking for introductions to people requiring specialist property insurance that would perhaps not be covered by usual insurance policies, for example, thatched houses or homeowners undertaking more than £15k work of renovations.

Phil, HSBC
Phil is looking for introduction to commercial customers that are not entirely satisfied with their current banking arrangements.

Jamie Denham, Sliced Bread Animation
Jamie was doing his 10 minute presentation this morning.

Caroline Hampstead, Copywriter
Caroline explained how she makes things ‘readable’ and some of her recent work. She would like to meet marketing managers of companies or organisations.

Christian Ingerslev, Danesoft
Danesoft specislises in designing websites and undertaking online surveys. He says to look out for the new BRX survey coming out.

Justin Beavis, World Dive Centres
Justin spoke briefly about how World Dive Centres will be renamed Unvisited World from 1 June. He is looking for introductions to people involved with economic development and tourism for resorts and destinations.

Des Sutton, Man Bites Dog
Man Bites Dog is a provider of IT services to small and medium sized companies. Des would like to meet anyone who works for an IFA with 10-30 employees. He would also like introductions to companies or people that have an influence in the design of IT solutions for companies.

The 10 minute presentation
The presentation was delivered by Jamie Denham of Sliced Bread Animation. He showed us animated videos of three projects that Sliced Bread Animation has recently been involved in.

(1) the first video was created for a high street retail bank to market their new investments products,

(2) the second was developed to market a new form of medication

(3) the third was created for a manufacturer of household products to support with communicating changes to the global business to staff internally.

For some of these clips, Sliced Bread were simply provided with a soundtrack and asked to design the animation around it. All three videos were created for blue chip clients.

Any other business
The BRX Bond Street Away Day to Brussels will be taking place on Thursday, 28 May. Everyone taking part was reminded that they need to be in the Eurostar terminal by about 06.20. The train leaves at 06.59!!!