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Emilio's Passion

THE WEEK THAT WAS
January 17, 2007 – by Dir. Bob Hecks

It was good to see Emilio Zulberti again, and we were impressed by his very professional presentation of “Direct With Hotels”, his online booking service for hotel guests. Emilio is the Founder and Chief Executive of Direct With Hotels (DWH).

The other main feature of the meeting reflected that it was the last RCMN meeting before the L.E.A.P. Leaders Congress on Friday 26 January. There was no RCMN Regular session on Wednesday 24 January, to allow more time for preparing the 4th Congress of this annual event.

Two of the corporate sponsors of the L.E.A.P. Leaders Congress were present to sign their agreement documents with Pres. Porong and Spouse Choi Reaño, President of the Inner Wheel Club of Makati North. Vivec Padmanabhan, Vice President of eTelecare (by the way, the largest and most awarded call center operation in the world) and Mr. Einstein Padua of Airlift Asia Inc. signed for their companies. Later, Mr. Padmanabhan and Mr. Padua representing Airlift Asia told us about their support for the Congress. Both speakers expressed their admiration of the aims and achievements of the L.E.A.P. Congress series in providing an interactive forum and learning experience for youth leaders.

Emilio Zulberti’s talk had two titles: “An Insight into my Missing in Action status from RCMN Activity and Venture Financing in the Philippines.” It was immediately clear that the latter is so much Emilio’s passion that there was little time left to do much about the MIA status. But action we got was enough to make up for the absences and Emilio expressed his appreciation of our warm welcome.

“Most people who are booking a hotel room go to Google and key e.g. Manila/Hotels,” said Emilio. They usually end up booking through online agencies, which take a cut. He went on to explain that people prefer to book direct with a particular hotel to get the best rate and also to establish a direct relationship with the hotel. DWH brings guests quickly to the hotel’s own website and ensures they have an efficient and informative booking experience as well as making sure the hotel offers its best rates on its own site. DWH runs a call center to back up the hotel web sites.

President's Corner

Your club is what you want to make of it

My dear fellow Rotarians with RC Makati North:

Let’s focus on the District’s Annual TRF Testimonial Dinner & Ball, one of the District’s premier Rotary event, that is fast approaching. Again —- the event date and time is Nov. 13, 2009, Friday at 6 pm and venue is at the Rigodon Ballroom of the Peninsula Manila. Tickets to the event: P1,000/guest to cover dinner, raffle, & entertainment.

The following information should give you an idea of the extent of RCMN’s participation, so far, in the coming days and up to the actual date of the event:

Member's Section

Work is My True Passion

KARL STUART McKINNON McLEAN

Born in Gibraltar , August 1, 1955 where my dad ran Shell refinery then moved with my family to Hamburg, then London , followed by Holland where I spent 8 years of my life as my father was on the main board of Shell in London.

I went to a Dutch school which was fabulous as the Dutch are the “freeist” nation in the world. As class prefect I sat on the school board with teachers and parents and my vote had the same power as the teachers.

I played a lot of soccer and earlier cricket.