GV hit the beach and rock Dizzy’s in Camps Bay

Well, it was that time of year again when the Global Vision  team and families hit the beach, play some volleyball / frisbee, and then head to Dizzy’s in Camps Bay for drinks, food and music.

Our end of year function was a blast – with an added special treat this year: Flat Stanley playing live for us! Compliments of our newest board member, the highly esteemed Mike Joubert of Brandsrock. 

      Left to right: Jon Jacobson (CEO), Shan Beerstecher (Client Services), Mike Joubert (Boardmember), Leanne Rosen (Client Services), Andy Mac (Flat Stanley)

The day started with a lekker Nando’s lunch in our canteen to get us ready for an afternoon on one of the world’s most beautiful beaches. (How lucky are we to work 15 minutes from here?) -----------------------------------------> We couldn’t have asked for better weather – sunny and warm, beautiful blue skies and a unusually “warm” sea (as in you don’t get an ice cream headache after standing 15 seconds in the our icy cold waters).

Aside from the fun, we also had Jon, our CEO give a short, yet great speech that summed up 2009 for us and what lay before us. Below some excerpts:

“It has been a long road that has got us here to the point where we are on the cusp of great global success. We have ridden everything anybody could think of throwing at us, dusted ourselves off and started again to the point where if I’m not being figuratively hit in the face I take that to mean something’s not right.” 

“I met the man (Hasso Plattner, co-founder and former CEO of SAP, the worlds 4th largest software company…And the biggest investor in Global Vision) actually last week Saturday and what a great role model for understated success. Global Vision is that kind of company we expect to be successful because we believe we are the best. We believe this to be so and perception is reality as anyone will tell you. However our people our culture and our values are what this business is all about and because of this we don’t brag, we are.” (I love that)

“As I was saying our people are the core of this business. We are a bit maverick I suppose but we’re nice, decent mavericks with a strong work ethic. I am incredibly proud of the people I work with on a day to day basis…”

And with that, the festivities continued and many embarrassing moments were captured forever on film, which guaranteed  will be e-mailed internally at whim throughout the year by GV staff when the time is right. :-)

So here’s to kissing the back-end of a global recession good-bye and coming out of it stronger than ever before!