Thursday, January 21, 2010

Žemaičiai, Vilnius, Lithuania

Žemaičiai. The home of Zeppelinos. Old Nom Nom Nom.

Andreas Dax - WebSphere Sales Manager for CEEMEA region. Does not drink beer, Vienna native, his grandmother just turned 95. Up till now IBM-er for life with a brief Telco experience in between. Avid skier, programmed his own bartering exchange Jagooa (svahili origin) and MeetMe.at. Dawkins and Darwin fan, creating and following memes.

Aleksander Oleszkiewicz - WebSphere Technical Sales and Service Manager for IBM in CEE. Likes a little bit of everything, Warsaw born and based, grand-grandfather was from Lithuania, but not from the time of great Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth. Had a company, was programmer and also teacher in Palace of Culture in Warsaw. Six years odl son Leon, is on the Canon side of photo enthusiasts divide, sailing with big boats on great Polish lakes, reading Shock Doctrin - The Rise of Disaster Capitalism and he always wanted to be a policeman. To serve and protect.

Read the menu 5 times really fast. Didžwhat?

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Imperio Mexicano, City Park, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Imperio Mexicano in the midst of City Park shopping center. "Decent and good value if not award winning Tex-Mex food" as they would put it In Your Pocket. Colorful Cotrugli MBA Alumni gathering.


Jože Perko - Marketing Manager at Schneider Electric in Slovenia. Born, bred'n'tried in Ljubljana, used to be part of Iskratel team before joined Schneider Electric marketing force in Slovenia. Passionate about his family, regular visitor of Sunny Studio sauna sessions. Cotrugli Alumni. What book? Energy isn't free, but learning to save it is. (S.E.)

Dejan Božič - Treasury Department Manager at ACH, originally from Podnanos, his grandfather was in RAF and brought first English words to the village. He used to work for BDO and Energetski Sistemi - on of predecessors of GEN-I, an electricity marketeer.

Listening to IBM SWG SVP Steve Mills' podcast while driving. Is there a law against it?

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Hilton, Budapest, Hungary

Buda castle Hilton - best hotel, best view. Top.

Rade Bogdanovic - Soon to be announced new WebSphere Channel leader for IBM in CEE. Belgrade native, used to live and work in South Africa, magnificent Cape and Jo'burg, among others worked for CA and SUN, has 14 year old son - just kicking in adolescence, reading Fowles' Magus, plays guitar in his band The Spanks - they played at Beer Fest - and will one day fully get back to painting, music and writing. (He)art on!

One Big Gentlemen Company. Blue Martini for Blue Ladies.

Gold Center, Budapest, Hungary

Gold Center - Yoga, Squash, Poker and ... a very good Restaurant! Gold.

Viktor Geczy - Software Group Technical Manager at IBM in Hungary. Originally from Miskolc, plays guitar in his band Superfly and reads Szlenblog - the könyv. One day he will have his own music studio, while still developing business, for fun. You've got to move - by Superfly

Jozsef Holderith - Driving Large Software deals for IBM in CEE region. Budapest native, just finished building his house and very soon expecting his second child. Way to go! Reading The Watchman and eating özgerinc = doe = female deer for all you lay people out there :)

Laszlo Boa - WebSphere Sales Specialist at IBM Hungary. Grew up in Nagykanizsa, just about to be blessed by his second child, passionate photographer with his Nikon firmly in his grip and reading one of the Predators. Great guy to work with.

Find the deer in the central letter forest of gold.