Rabotalk
WHAT'S NewS Issue 10 October 1996
meeting point
Adrian Aguilera and Francisco Riedl
(Mexico): 'We're fascinated by cotton because
of Mexico's history in this sector. At the turn of
the century, we were the biggest exporter in
the world. Now, we're the biggest importer. We
may have lost cotton, but we didn't lose
textiles - Mexico is the largest exporter of
denim to the US. So all the information has
been relevant. But there is another advantage
in coming to meetings like this: it reinforces
your sense of belonging to a major
organization.The Mexico operation is a small
team, so it's great to see this huge bank and
how it works.'
Liz Hund (Chicago), Izabel Salvucci (Sao
Paolo) and Caroline Hastings (New York):'We
thinkthe numberoffemale professionals here
highlights their growing importance in the
Rabobank organization.'
There was a time - not too long ago - when we could do a group picture of the
Brian Coffey (London) - as a forex expert,
Brian was invited to talk to the meeting on a
number of related areas. 'The main focus was
xjreen currency hedging and commodity
perivatives.The idea is to give our people in
the field new products to put in their
briefcases.'
account managers/trade finance meetings.These days, there are so many
international Rabobankers attending the annual event, that we'd need half the
magazine to picture them all. So here is a cluster of faces from the network...
Rachel Bosman and Frank van
Waesberghe (Utrecht) - both former trainees,
this was their first international meeting as
account managers: 'We couldn't participate for
the whole program because of pressure of
work, but we've tried to make it for the
highlights - especially the green currency
hedging.'
Nina Diyanti (Jakarta): 'Textiles is anything
but a major sector in our market, but I still
think it's useful to gain know-how on specific
areas because you can transfer some of that
knowledge to other sectors, such as
manufacturing which is currently bringing in
good margins for us in Indonesia.'
Carlos Gramunt (Barcelona):'My
specialization? Well, we're such a small office,
everybody actually does everything in
Barcelona. I think l've learnt a lot, especially
about trade finance techniques, and you can
export this know-how and structures to other
sectors.'
