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AMCHAM NEWS Networking is our business
Panama: The Best Place in the World to do Business.
FEBRUARY 9, 2010
Phone: 301-3881 Fax: 301-3882
[email protected] www.panamcham.com
Aquilino de la Guardia Ave and 47 St, Ocean Business Plaza Bldg, 17 floor.
AmCham Events and Committee Meetings
Environmental Committee,
12:00 noon, Tuesday, Febru-
ary 23 at AmCham.
Real Estate Committee, 7:30
AM, Wednesday, February 24
at AmCham.
Tourism Committee, 12:00
noon, Wednesday, February
24 at AmCham.
Organizational Development
& Human Capital Committee,
12:00 PM, Thursday, Febru-
ary 25 at AmCham.
Hydrocarbons Committee,
8:00 AM, Friday, February 26
at AmCham.
Remember to check our web-
site: www.panamcham.com,
to verify the data on your
company page. If it needs
updating, send your new in-
formation to Flor Suárez at
On January 28th the Organizational Develop-ment & Human Capital Committee met at Am-cham with twenty peo-ple in attendance. The topic for this meet-ing was “Procter & Gam-
ble’s experience in mov-ing its regional offices to Panama: Lessons learned”, presented by Wiston Uzcátegui from Procter & Gamble. Procter & Gamble is a multinational company
with consumers in more than 180 countries. In 2007 P&G decided to create a Regional Busi-ness Center in Panama, and Mr. Uzcátegui was designated to relocate P&G Latin America to Panama. In his presen-tation, he explained the challenges they faced in placing the regional cen-ter in Panama, one of them being the reloca-tion of 800 families from all around the world who will work in this Center. He also spoke about the organizational strate-gies, business practices, challenges and concerns that P&G has faced of moving the center in Panama.
Organizational Development & Human Capital Committee Meeting
Photo: Organizational Development & Human Capital Committee Chair: María Eugenia Fonseca
Information & Communication Technology Committee Meeting
On January 29th the Information & Commu-nication Technology Committee met at Am-Cham with eleven in at-tendance for its first meeting of 2010. In this meeting Glenn Tjon, committee chair,
reviewed the ICT achievements for 2009, and talked about the 2010 Strategy, Plans and Objectives. He also proposed 3 different projects that the com-mittee will develop in 2010: Project AMCHAM
2.0, which will increase awareness and collabo-ration between AMCHAM members through the use of the Social Net-working site www.linkedIn.com; Ad-vance Business Leader-ship Forum 2010, a business leadership event that will be worked with the ODHC Committee; and the AmCham/CAPATEC Edu-cation Platform, a joint effort with CPATEC and MEDUCA to implement a learning and education platform for students from Kindergarten through 12th grade Stu-dents.
Photo: Information & Communication Technology Committee Chair: Glenn Tjon
Humor Time
I just had a dream about it
A young woman was taking an
afternoon nap. After she woke
up, she told her husband, "I
just dreamed that you gave
me a pearl necklace for Valen-
tine's day. What do you think
it means?"
"You'll know tonight." he said.
That evening, the man came
home with a small package
and gave it to his wife. De-
lighted, she opened it--only to
find a book entitled "The
meaning of dreams".
On February 2nd Am-Cham and Pangea Restaurant held a So-cial Networking eve-ning for AmCham Members.
In this event the members had the op-portunity to do a tour of this new restaurant, where they could ap-preciated the variety of styles in its various rooms, with thematic decorations from cities
around the world: Nai-robi (Kenya), Singa-pore, Havana (Cuba), Marrakesh (Morocco), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) and Bombay (now known as Mumbai, India).
During the event the members also cele-brated David Hunt’s birthday with a sur-prise cake prepared by the organizers.
Photo: Donald Elder, Am-Cham President.
Photo above: Alejandro Félix de Souza, María Gabriela de Souza, Paola de Miralles and José Gabriel Miralles.
AmCham–Pangea Networking Event
AmCham will be closed on February 15 and 16 for Carnival, and will re-open at noon on February 17
