AmCham Events and Committee Meetings

CSR Committee, 7:30

AM, Tuesday June 2 at

AmCham.

Tourism Committee,

12:00 noon, Wednesday

June 3 at AmCham. The

meeting will have 2

presentations: “Pearl

Island Sustainable Tour-

ism” and “The New

Summit Radisson Hotel”

Reactivation of the Leg-

islation & Taxation

Committee, 7:30 AM,

Thursday June 4 at Am-

Cham.

Hydrocarbons Commit-

tee, 8:00 AM, Friday

June 19 at AmCham.

Tourism Committee,

12:00 noon, Wednesday

Jennifer Simpson is the

chair of the Environmental

Committee.

She is the co-founder of

Simpson Furones Interna-

tional and a member of the

American Society of Inte-

rior Designers.

She has been a professional

designer for over 30 years,

working primarily on large-

scale projects. A third-

generation designer, she has

worked in Saudi Arabia,

Africa, Asia and the Pacific

Islands.

She is also a member of the

Colorado Chapter of the

U.S Green Building Coun-

cil and is in the process of

obtaining her LEED AP

certification (Leadership in

Energy and Environmental

Design Professional Ac-

creditation).

AMCHAM PERSONALITY

Amcham NEWs

MAY 26, 2009

Networking is our business

Phone: 301-3881 Fax 301-3882

amcham@panamcham.com

Aquilino de la Guardia Ave and 47 St, Ocean Business Plaza Bldg, 17 floor.

AmCham member Mi

Oportunidad is a sub-

contractor for a U.S. State

Departmen t -approved

cultural program that

sends young Panamanians

to the US for up to two

years to work and study

while living with an

American family. The

following candidates have

successfully completed

their USA work-study

programs and have

Billingual Employee Candidates:

returned to Panama. They

are bilingual and available

for interviews at no cost to

AmCham members. Their

résumés are available at amcham@panamcham.com

All of the candidates are

looking for permanent,

full-time daytime posi-

tions. Those currently

taking university courses

in Panama City are in

evening programs that will

not affect a day job.

Antonio Hector Guelfi Sánchez: Second Trimester of

Procedural Law (Master’s), Universidad Interamerica-

na; B.S. in Law and Political Science, ULACIT.

Evelyn E. McNulty Guerra:B.S. in Law and Political

Science, University of Panama.

Rosseline Morales: Courses in Medicine and Maritime

at Universities in Chiriqui.

Karla Him Petrocelli : BS in Tourism (Hotels), Uni-

versidad Latina de Panamá; working on a degree in

Public Relations at the University of Panamá.

Shantall Barnett: BA in Marketing and Publicity, Uni-

versidad Interamericana.

Isseneth Corrales: Studying English (finished 3d se-

mester) at Universidad de Panamá.

Jeimy Domínguez: B.A. in Economics, Universidad de

Panamá.

Please make checks out to “American Chamber of Commerce.”

Most banks, including

ours, are now rejecting

acronyms on checks. Con-

sequently, they are not

accepting checks made

out to “PANAMCHAM,”

“ A m C h a m , ” o r

“AmCham Panama.”

Please let your accounting

office make checks out to:

“American Chamber of Commerce.”

There have been several

new additions and a few

updates (with increased

discounts) to the Member

Discount Program.

Check out the new offers

at www.panamcham.com/

members/discount.asp.

Member Discount Program

HUMOR TIME

A good chess player

A man went to visit a

friend and was amazed to

find him playing chess

with his dog. He watched

the game in astonishment

for a while. "I can hardly

believe my eyes!" he ex-

claimed. "That's the

smartest dog I've ever

seen." mmmmmmmmmm

"Nah, he's not so smart,"

the friend replied. "I've

beaten him three games

out of five."

Environmental Committee

The AmCham Environ-

mental Committee invited

Ms. JuliAnne Murphy,

Marketing Director of

Panamá Pacífico to its

May monthly meeting.

Twenty-four people came

to hear about the topic “A

new city is born in the old

Howard”.

ODHC Committee

The ODHC committee

met on May 21 to hear

the presentation from

María Teresa Mendoza

about “New General

Regulations for Preven-

tion of Labor & Profes-

sional Risks, hygiene and

Security in the Work-

place.”

AmCham Director of Communications visits US

Last month María Floren-

cia Suárez, AmCham Di-

rector of Communications

and Membership Support,

visited the US state of

Colorado as a Goodwill

Ambassador under a schol-

arship from the Rotary

International Foundation

and the sponsorship of the

Panama South Rotary Club.

Ms Suárez traveled with

two other young profes-

sionals from Panama and

visited different business

and rotary clubs in Boul-

der, Northglenn/Thornton,

Denver Tech, Littleton,

Summit County, Castle

Rock and Colorado

Springs. While there, they

made twenty vocational

visits, offered twelve lec-

tures about Panama and

doing business in Panama,

and talked about the activi-

ties that each performs in

her daily work, all in Eng-

lish!

The Rotary Foundation

Scholarship covered travel

expenses, while Rotary

members in each city pro-

vided food and lodging.

Photo: María Florencia Suárez with Annie LaFolie (Team Leader), Nixia

Guerra (Lawyer), Diana Falcon (Account Executive, Advertising Agency).

Written by: Jilma Batista.

AmCham is looking for a

new Chair for Transporta-

tion & Logistics Commit-

tee. Anyone interested

p l e a s e c o n t a c t

D a v i d H u n t a t

dhunt@panamcham.com

or 301-3881.

CLASIFIED Member relative interested in Intership

Daniel Arturo Ochy Ozores

is the nephew of Jaime

Figueroa, an AmCham

individual member. Mr.

Ochy is in his third year in

International Business

Administration at Suffolk

University in Boston and is

interested in an internship

from June until August.

Curriculum available in

AmCham’s office.