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Los Angeles Chapter · No. 27 · January 2015
Newsletter
A WORD FROM ROGER WACKER - JANUARY
2015
Dear Members and Friends,
As 2014 comes to an end and on behalf
of my wife Angelle Grace and the Los
Angeles, CA. Swiss American Chamber of
Commerce, I want to thank all of you for
another super year.
It has been an honor to serve as your
chairman for the past 24 years, leading
our Swiss community to the highest
level of excellence in the Los Angeles
community.
Our dynamic board members are
already collaborating on the 2015
calendar, strategizing development and
growth while incorporating our future
generations dreams. Establishing and organizing the line up for
topics, speakers and exciting new guests is the pulse that keeps the
heart beat of our chamber pumping.
I want to thank everyone especially my wife, Angelle Grace Wacker,
for putting these events together with our coordinators Linda Cain,
Lisa Benavidez and Debbie Toyoshiba, and for making our chamber
a source of inspiration for our community. Their efforts in managing
the attendance and making each event memorable, deserves a very
special mention.
Thank You !
2014 was also one of reflection on what our chamber brings to
the Swiss- American community and how we can continue to be
a relevant source of inspiration and engagement. Our goal for
2015, is to attract an even larger audience with decidedly more
focused meetings, as well as introducing a format of social business
mixers promoting interaction and discussion to build economic
opportunities and development.
I would like to reflect upon the chamber occurrences that have
given us abundant knowledge, much joy, amazement, sadness, the
opportunity to engage with our peers and laugh with our associates.
Personally and professionally I am very grateful to have shared all
these moments with my family, friends and colleagues.
February is our Entertainment Industry and “Oscar Awards” inspired
event. Our chamber honored former mayor Mr. Richard Riordan
for his contributions to the City of Angels as well as American actress,
film director and producer Mrs. Rosanne Arquette.
Our April event featured a Swiss born sustainability advocate,
Dr. Mathis Wackernagel, Ph.D. president of the Global
Footprint Network. He delivered to us a very important message
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A WORD FROM OUR
CHAIRMAN - ROGER WACKER
IN LOVING MEMORIES
DR. HANS VON LEDEN
2014 SWISS AWARDS
FORMER LOS ANGELES
MAYOR RICHARD RIORDAN &
ACTRESS ROSSANE ARQUETTE
BALANCE IN OUR
ENVIRONMENT &
Chapter Calendar
HEALTHCARE
DR. MATHIS WACKERNAGEL, PH.D.
DR. MORRY WACKSBERG, M.D.
BEVERLY HILLS 100 YEAR
ANNIVERSARY
STANLEY BLACK &
DR. EDWARD O. TERINO
THE BEAT GOES ON
JOHN FITZGERALD &
DAVID SCHEINFARB
HEALTH IS WEALTH
DR. SANDHYA PRUTHI,
MR. MARTIN NAVILLE &
MR. SPIKE HUMER
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on measuring our ecological footprint and how we can help humanity, nation by nation, to avoid
ecological bankruptcy.
Our evening also featured Dr. Morry Waksberg, the son of a holocaust survivor and graduate of
Harvard and UCLA medical schools. As we adopt the Affordable Healthcare Reform Act, his message
enlightened us on what we can expect as policies are implemented. The oldest Swiss watch company,
Du Bois & Fils presented their stunning watch collection.
In June we celebrated the 100 year anniversary of the City of Beverly Hills. We were honored to
feature Mr. Stanley Black, real estate tycoon and philanthropist as our special guest. We thank him
for all the charities he supports especially the Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles.
Dr. Edward O. Terino, acclaimed plastic surgeon, was our speaker on the art of surgery and were
entertained by Bossa Nova singer Bianca Rossini.
Our summer recess was followed by a spectacular event that included John Fitzgerald, master
drummer and communication expert. He brought a percussion instrument for every guest and after a
few minutes we were communicating in sync with rhythmic energy.
Sailing and being on the open sea is a favorite pastime of mine, so I was especially delighted to have
Sheriff David Scheinfarb, from Marina del Rey, as our guest speaker. The Sheriff is president of
the Challenges Foundation and his passion is giving our wounded warriors an opportunity to sail on
the legendary sailing vessel, Emerald.
As we grow wiser we realize health is wealth. Dr. Sandhya Pruthi from the Mayo Clinic, a
medical group that ensures the highest levels of patient care and service. Their teams of doctors
provide synchronized care and serve as a quarterback in keeping us healthy.
The year was also marked with a visit from the CEO of the Swiss American Chamber of Commerce
Mr. Martin Naville. Mr. Naville is a tremendous leader and inspiration to us all.
Advisor and performance consultant, Mr. Spike Humer reminded us that we all have unique and
special qualities and that we have the capabilities of making a difference in this world by doing more
from the heart.
Unfortunately this year did not go by without a terrible loss to our Swiss Camber community. We
were very saddened by the loss of Dr. Hans von Leden. He was a frequent guest at our Chamber
events and will be sorely missed !
Our Holiday Dinner will be held on December 11th at The Beverly Hills Hotel which will close out our
season. This event will feature festive surprise guests, holiday cheer and Nestle chocolate.
As always I want to thank the board, and especially my wife Angelle Grace, for the tireless effort in
connecting our Swiss and Los Angeles communities through our events.
Those of you that are not yet members, and would like to become one, please consider a corporate or
friend’s membership in support of this great organization and the events that are presented.
I wish everyone a very happy, healthy and Prosperous New Year and I look forward to having you
join us for our 2015 exciting line up of stimulating speakers.
With best personal regards for a happy and healthy 2015.
Roger Wacker
A Special Thank You To
Angelle Grace Wacker
We wish to express our appreciation to CANDY BOX
PRODUCTIONS, LLC for generously sponsoring this
issue of our newsletter.
angelle@candyboxprod.com
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2015 SACC BOARD MEMBERS
Roger Wacker, Chairman - Credit Suisse
Ronald Hirt - Vice Chairman - Newsletter Editor, Primary Color
Angelle Grace Wacker - Vice Chairman - NIA Capital, Inc. and
Candy Box Productions
Lichtenstern Jean-François* - Consul General of Switzerland
Dr. Ilona Casellini, DMD - Secretary - Swiss Quality Dental
Ferdinand Burmeister - Treasurer - The Basler Group
Giancarlo Pala - Membership - Nestle
Vicki Burkhard - BM - Burkhard Consulting Services
Miriam Wizman - BM - Wizman Insurance & Financial Planning
Tilmann Gruber - BM - Sony Pictures
Dr. Flora Zomorodi - BM
*Advisory Member
ADMINISTRATION:
Linda Cain - Administration & Event Coordinator
PASSINGS
DR. HANS VON LEDEN, 95, EAR, NOSE AND THROAT SPECIALIST TO
ENTERTAINERS, LAWYERS AND MINISTERS
We were very sad to learn of the passing of our friend Dr. Hans
von Leden on March 5, 2014. Dr. Von Leden was actively involved
in our Swiss American Chamber of Commerce and a frequent
attendee at our dinner functions.
You will be dearly missed !
Dr. Hans von Leden, 95, an ear, nose and throat specialist who
taught at UCLA and USC and treated voice disorders in singers,
attorneys, teachers, politicians, pastors and other professionals,
died March 5 at his home in Los Angeles, his family announced.
No cause was given.
Known as a go-to doctor for entertainers stricken with laryngitis,
Von Leden often traveled to Las Vegas, Reno and elsewhere on
short notice to relieve a singer’s or actor’s symptoms. For decades in his private practice, he
treated all manner of patients whose voices had been strained or overused. Together with Dr.
G. Paul Moore, Dr. von Leden transformed how physicians and speech-language pathologists
work together to assess and treat voice disorders.
Hans Victor von Leden was born Nov. 20, 1918, in Breslau, in what is now Poland. His father
was a prominent Catholic physician who fled to the United States in the late 1930s to avoid the
advancing Nazis. The younger Von Leden followed and settled in Chicago with his family.
After receiving his medical degree from Chicago’s Loyola University in 1941, Von Leden
focused on the fields of otolaryngology and plastic surgery while at the Mayo Clinic in
Rochester, Minn., and then became a throat specialist in Chicago.
During his tenure as a professor at Northwestern University in the 1950s, Von Leden and
a colleague gained notice for using a camera mounted on a helmet that a doctor wore
while examining patients. On closed circuit TV, medical students were able to watch the
transmissions from a periscope lens pointed into the body cavity.
In 1961, Von Leden and his wife, Mary Louise, moved to Los Angeles, where he took a teaching
position at the UCLA Medical School and opened
his practice. In 1966, he moved across town to
become a professor at USC; he retired from the
university in 1985. He also served for a time as
president of the Los Angeles County Medical Assn.
He is survived by his children, and will be
remembered with respect and gratitude by the
generations of voice professionals working to
advance the field and ideas that he helped create.
He will be missed by his many friends and
colleagues.
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THE 2014 SWISS AWARDS
HONORING FORMER LOS ANGELES MAYOR RICHARD RIORDAN AND AMERICAN
ACTRESS, FILM DIRECTOR & PRODUCER, ROSANNE ARQUETTE
Thursday, February 20, 2014
Richard Riordan, Former Los Angeles Mayor
Rosanna Arquette, American Actress & Goodwill
Ambassador for The Womanity Foundation
Music by Johnny Polanco and The Johnny
Polanco Band
On a February evening scented with orange and
jasmine blossoms, the SACC gathered to honor
two very unique humanitarians with the 2014
Swiss Awards. As is our tradition, Chairman
Roger Wacker started the evening with heartfelt renditions of the Swiss and American
National anthems.
Academy-Award winning Swiss producer Arthur Cohn introduced our first recipient Rosanna
Arquette, whom he had the pleasure of working with on the film White Lies (1997). We all
enjoyed a clip from the movie The Whole Nine Yards (2000) that Ms. Arquette starred in with
Matthew Perry and Bruce Willis.
Chairman Wacker presented the Swiss Crystal Award to Ms. Arquette for her work as the
Goodwill Ambassador for The Womanity Foundation, whose mission is to empower girls and
women to shape their future and accelerate progress within their communities. On accepting
the award, Arquette said, “The great part about being an actor is doing wonderful things in the
world. We are all ambassadors of humanity.”
Rosanna Arquette is Womanity’s first goodwill ambassador. Appointed in 2010, Arquette is
devoted to peace, justice and the advancement of women around the world. She works with
Womanity to spur action at all levels of society in pursuit of our goals. Arquette is best known
for her star-making performance opposite Madonna in Susan Sedelman’s 1985 hit Desperately
Seeking Susan. Arquette won the BAFTA Award as Best Supporting Actress and was nominated
for a Golden Globe for this role. She has appeared
in over 70 films.
Richard Riordan, Former Mayor of Los Angeles
from 1993-2001 is a noted humanitarian for
education. Chairman Wacker announced some
of Riordan and the Riordan Foundation’s
accomplishments like his “Rx for Reading”
program whose goal is to teach children how
to read and write. The Riordan Foundation has
distributed over 21,700 computers and 128,000
books to schools.
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Mr. Riordan immediately captured our admiration for his tale about riding his bike once from
Stockholm to Geneva. He made us laugh with his “most embarrassing moment as Mayor”
story when he visited a senior center in Van Nuys. He thought one 90-year old woman looked
familiar but she said she never met him before in her life. When he asked if she knew who he
was, she said, “No, but I’ll take you to the front desk and you can ask them who you are.”
Venture capitalist Bill Draper has made an impact on Riordan’s “common sense” thinking. He
encouraged us to take a few risks in investing. Riordan told us his five keys to leadership are
courage, caring, empowering others, relentless pursuit of goals and a sense of humor.
After the 1994 Northridge Earthquake, Riordan was faced with the monumental task of getting
the city running again. Instead of taking months to do studies, he empowered his staff to make
decisions quickly. He thinks the future of Los Angeles fares better than the rest of the state and
country although we are not training enough young people in complicated high tech job.
Mr. Riordan, on closing said, “Treat everyone with respect. It’s magic what you can do in life.”
Johnny Polanco and his band provided the evening’s wonderful musical accompaniment.
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FINDING BALANCE IN OUR ENVIRONMENT AND HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS
DR. MATHIS WACKERNAGEL, PH.D., GLOBAL FOOTPRINT NETWORK,
DR. MORRY WAKSBERG, M.D. MUSIC BY ALEC MILSTEIN AND MILSTEIN MUSIC
Wednesday, April 23, 2014
Our evening in April was spent in learning new
perspectives in balance from renowned experts in
the environment and healthcare.
Mathis Wackernagel is a Swiss-born sustainability
advocate. He is President of Global Footprint
Network, an international sustainability
think tank with offices in Oakland, California;
Brussels, Belgium, and Geneva, Switzerland.
The think-tank is a non-profit that focuses on
developing and promoting metrics for sustainability. His awards include the 2012 Blue Planet
Prize, the Kenneth Boulding Memorial Award, and the Zayed International Prize for the
Environment, an honorary doctorate from the University of Bern, and a Skoll Award for Social
Entrepreneurship.
He is also co-creator of the Ecological Footprint, a data-driven metric that tells us how much
nature we use compared to how much we have. Footprint accounts work like bank statements:
tracking our ecological income and expenditures. How much do California residents take? How
much can Californian ecosystems regenerate?
Imagine if human demand on nature was monitored as closely as the stock market. Then,
designers would be shaping products, buildings and cities that fit within the budget constraints
of our one-planet Footprints. In such a world, all humans could prosper and development
could succeed because we would be living off the planet’s income rather than its liquidation.
Among the points Dr. Wackernagel and his team make are that humanity uses more resources
than the earth produces. 17% of the population consumes 80% of the resources. Global
consumption is unevenly distributed, favoring only a few and is also extremely inefficient.
Their goal is to help humanity, nation by nation, avoid ecological bankruptcy. Ecological assets
are the underlying wealth for which any other wealth depends.
Dr. Morry Waksberg is the son of Holocaust survivors Jack and Ida Waksberg. He was born
on March 29, 1947 in a Displaced Persons Camp located in Stuttgart, Germany. One year later,
in 1948, the Waksberg family moved to Detroit, Michigan where they founded the Michigan
Holocaust Museum. He attended medical school at Albert Einstein School of Medicine,
interned at Harvard Medical School and completed his residency at UCLA Medical School.
Dr. Waksberg practiced medicine at UCLA for many years before starting his own private
practice as an ophthalmologist. He has worked as an advisor to President George H.W. Bush,
Assemblyman Paul Koretz and Assemblyman Tom Hayden on health related policy issues.
Dr. Waksberg, a long time member of The Stanley Black Problem Solver Group. He was the
independent candidate for the California 54th District. He shares that in the Assembly there
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is one doctor and in the Senate there are no doctors. So out of 120 elected officials there is a
single doctor. He has become a strong voice for health care.
In his YouTube video Dr. Waksberg describes how he believes the current healthcare system is
broken:
“It’s important to keep the same doctor or healthcare group because they know the patient’s
history. The more continuity, the better it works. A new doctor may order more expensive tests
that could be potentially harmful to a patient.”
Medical profession motto: “Above all, do no harm.”
With the Affordable Healthcare Reform Act, Insurance companies can’t cancel patients, but
they end the policy and offer a new, more expensive one.
Dr. Waksberg believes he can help change the system by being the only medical doctor in the
House and staying true to the medical motto. We hope he continues in his quest to win a seat.
The evening was enhanced by the uplifting sounds of Alec Milstein and the Milstein Band.
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SWITZERLAND EMBRACES BEVERLY HILLS: OUR 100-YEAR ANNIVERSARY!
STANLEY BLACK, REAL ESTATE TYCOON AND PHILANTHROPIST,
DR. EDWARD O. TERINO, ACCLAIMED PLASTIC SURGEON
MUSIC BY BIANCA ROSSINI, BRAZILIAN MUSICIAN, ACTRESS AND AUTHOR
Thursday, JUNE 19, 2014
The Swiss and American National Anthems never
sounded as good as they did at our June meeting
as we celebrated our 100 year anniversary with
two of Los Angeles’ most prominent citizens: Mr.
Stanley Black and Dr. Edward Terino and the
multi-talented Bianca Rossini.
“If you have much, give of your wealth; if you
have little, give of your heart.”
…that philosophy sums up how colorful Beverly
Hills real estate tycoon and philanthropist Stanley Black has managed to combine a dynamic
business life with a wealth of humanitarian endeavors and prosper for more than a halfcentury.
The native Angelino attended Los Angeles High School and LA City College before serving
an 18-month hitch in the U.S. Navy. Following discharge from the service in 1954, he joined
the highly successful and sought after Buckeye Realty & Management Company to be trained
on every aspect of commercial real estate. Whether it was finance, construction or the overall
management of office buildings, they did it all and they did it right. After two years at Buckeye,
Stanley struck out on his own and joined forces with Alan Kaplan to establish KB Management
in 1957. When Kaplan died in 1985 the families decided to go their own ways by opening their
own offices. Stanley was joined by his son Jack, and Bob Barth and together they formed
and opened Black Equities. Always aimed with an open door policy and giving his personal
attention to every detail has enabled Black Equities to grow into one of the finest and largest
real estate holdings firm in the U.S.
With all the success, Stanley (and his family) has been very active with charitable giving and
support. Among his most notable contributions is in 2004, he made a large donation to the
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA), which
renamed its garden the Joyce and Stanley Black
and Family Healing and Meditation Garden. In
2013, he donated another $15 million to the CHLA.
As a result, the former Gateway Building facing
Sunset Boulevard was renamed the Joyce and
Stanley Black Family Building.
He published a book called Thoughts to Live By
which he proudly gives to businesses and social
acquaintances. It’s a tradition that Black’s father,
Jack Black, started when he was working in
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the garment industry. “It was his hope that these ‘thoughts of the day’ would capture one’s
conscience and pave the way to a better life,” Black writes of his father in the introduction to
the fifth volume of his own booklet. The 80 or so pithy sayings that appear alongside the Ten
Commandments in the most recent booklet say a lot about how Black considers business and
life. “It’s the empty can that makes the most noise,” reads one. “The best exercise is reaching
down and lifting people up,” goes another. (The Jewish Journal)
A graduate of Amherst College and Yale University, Dr. Edward O. Terino brings a unique
combination of art and surgery to his practice. Dr. Terino is a Certified Diplomat of the
American Board of Plastic Surgery and a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. He has
served on the teaching staff of several universities, including UCLA, USC and Stanford.
Dr. Terino worked voluntarily at the Albert Schweitzer Hospital, in Haiti, and also throughout
Central and South America, helping impoverished people by performing free surgeries on
deformed and maimed children.
Dr. Terino frequently teaches and lectures here in the United States and abroad, and was
recently honored with the “Traveling Professor” award from the prestigious American Society
for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery. His textbooks The Art of Facial Contouring and Sculpting Faces
in Three Dimensions are best sellers in the medical field.
Dr. Terino is not only world renowned for his accomplishments as a plastic surgeon, but as an
innovator in the specialized new techniques of three-dimensional face contouring. Recently,
Dr. Terino was invited by the Pope to personally present the latest developments in his field.
He also has been featured in numerous news articles and television shows. You may have seen
him on FOX News, BBC, KTLA, The Discovery Channel, The Learning Center, as well as in W,
Elle, Glamour, Lifestyle, and People magazines.
He is a pioneer in the development of many of today’s techniques such as “Somme Lift” and the
very successful “IN STYLE Lift” which tightens the lower face and neck.
At the forefront of Los Angeles’ current wave of Brazilian music and becoming a significant
voice in Brazilian music is Rio de Janeiro-born, Los Angeles-based Bianca Rossini, renowned
for her sensuous performances of Bossa Nova, Samba and Bolero. Her multi-faceted career
includes feature film and television acting roles opposite stars including James Spader Hector
Elizondo, Richard Dreyfuss, Christian Slater, Dick Van Dyke and Dom DeLuise. Bianca
also appeared in movies Moon Over Parador, The Fast One, Brainiacs, Mobsters, and Bad
Influence. Bianca has composed music for TV series The Sentinel and Chicago Hope. She
produced and hosted more than 100 episodes for weekly Los Angeles TV talk show, The Bianca
Rossini Show. Bianca has authored three books: Love in Black and White with photographs by
Michael Kenna, Bilingual Edition (English/Portuguese), A Brazilian Heart - Rubies, Murder
Love and Other Poems, and Julia - Confessions of a Brazilian Super Model. Bianca’s new CD
Meu Amor follows her internationally acclaimed Kiss of Brasil original Bossa Nova album.
It was a real pleasure for all who attended to get to be in the presence of such notable friends of
the Swiss American Chamber of Commerce.
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THE BEAT GOES ON: FROM LAND AND SEA
JOHN FITZGERALD, MASTER DRUMMER & COMMUNICATIONS EXPERT
DAVID SCHEINFARB, MARINA DEL REY DEPUTY SHERIFF AND PRESIDENT OF
CHALLENGER FOUNDATION
Thursday, October 16, 2014
Passion was the word that defined a special
evening in October for the Swiss American
Chamber of Commerce. What seemed like an
unusual pairing of guest speakers proved to be a
most entertaining evening by these two unique
storytellers.
John Fitzgerald led the group outside on a variety
of percussion instruments to demonstrate how
music and rhythm allow us to communicate on a whole new level.
Mr. Fitzgerald said, “The focus of the evening’s drumming was communication; what drives
communication? Are we in “sync” with others? What rhythmic “energy” do we need to inspire
and lead others? Drums of all sizes and shapes were used along with hand held percussion
instruments; shakers, tambourines, bells and blocks. They represented the diverse voices,
both loud and soft, that are present in any community, and necessary for a rich and productive
dialogue.”
“I had a great time and love this work and what it can accomplish for organizations and
individuals, everything from pure fun and celebration to insights into team function, diversity
awareness.”
After a lovely dinner of fried green tomatoes, whitefish and ice cream sundaes, we had the
pleasure of hearing Marina del Rey Deputy Sheriff David Scheinfarb talk about his passion
project, Challenges Foundation and the legendary sailing vessel, Emerald.
Sheriff Scheinfarb is the President of Challenges Foundation, an accredited Wounded Warriors
Project resource, that provides sailing experiences and an introduction to the world of sailing
and seamanship free of charge to youth, adults and Veterans of our community who face life
and/or physical challenges.
The historic American sailing vessel Emerald was built in 1923 in Oakland, CA and first sailed
in 1924. In May 1963 she sank in four minutes after hitting a break wall in Redondo Beach.
All four passengers and their dog were rescued, sadly, a parrot was not. The boat was raised
by legendary diver and Body Glove co-founder Bob Meistrell and restored to her full glory
by Challenges Foundation founding member Nicolas Coster. Another notable footnote in the
Emerald’s lore is as the death site of Beach Boy Dennis Wilson, who dove off the ship and
drowned in 1983.
Scheinfarb described the experience, “There is a special feeling being out on the boat, out at
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sea, powered by the wind, when their faces light up and take the helm, or feel the ocean breeze
sweep past. Observing the tidal ebb and flow, the coastal birds, the sea lions and the dolphins,
hearing the water lap gently past the boat as we make our way along the coastline, – they get
a feeling of peace, a feeling of tranquility – something that is outside the grind of their daily
lives.”
He offered this analogy about the Emerald and its passengers, ”You may get hit or even sink,
but there is always hope and a way up to a life worth living.” He graciously accepted a donation
from President Roger Wacker and the Swiss American Chamber of Commerce for Challenges
Foundation.
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HEALTH IS WEALTH
DR. SANDHYA PRUTHI, THE MAYO CLINIC, MR. SPIKE HUMER, GLOBAL PUBLISHING
GROUP MR. MARTIN NAVILLE, CEO, SWISS-AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE,
CHAIRMAN OF ZOO ZURICH, INC. BEN WOODS, CLASSICAL AND FLAMENCO GUITARIST
Thursday, November 20, 2014
Mr. Martin Naville, CEO of the Swiss-American
Chamber of Commerce started the meeting
with his positive assessment of the state of
affairs between the Swiss and US. Research and
innovation are two of the top areas of interest
between our countries. Naville, in his other
major role as Chairman of Zoo Zurich, shared a
charming video of elephants swimming in their
new sanctuary. He promised any visiting member
of the SACC-LA would receive a private tour of this fantastic zoo.
Think how much your daily life would be enhanced if people would just LISTEN to you! In
our personal health, family life and businesses we are often in such a rush that we neglect to
listen to those closest to us and unfortunately, that also includes those we are in contact with
professionally.
Rest assured, there is a world-renowned medical group who WILL listen! President Roger
Wacker shared his own personal positive experience with The Mayo Clinic before introducing
Dr. Sandhya Pruthi, a consultant in the Division of General Internal Medicine at Mayo Clinic.
She is an associate medical director of the Breast Diagnostic Clinic. Dr. Pruthi also serves as
medical director of patient experience at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MI, helping to ensure the
highest levels of patient service. She currently holds the academic rank of associate professor of
medicine in Mayo Clinic College of Medicine.
Mr. Wacker talked about his uber doctor appointment that was so extensive it entailed a twoday itinerary and a team of specialists. Even with the best care available in Los Angeles, this
kind of a comprehensive review would take nine months to schedule. Dr. Pruthi was part of
this team of integrated physicians at the Mayo Clinic Model of Care. The needs of the patient
come first in this coordinated comprehensive care plan. A team of doctors on a synchronized
schedule evaluates each patient. Your primary physician then serves as your quarterback in
analyzing the best plan to keep you on a healthy track.
In addition to the million patients that pass through their doors, the Mayo Clinic serves an
additional 200 million globally through its tele-medicine programs and 32 clinics across the
US. Dr. Pruthi shared some of their breakthrough research in pancreatic and breast cancer
treatment and regenerative medicine.
Mr. Spike Humer is widely recognized as a thought-leader and world-renowned expert in
leading and inspiring companies, organizations, and individuals to achieve more, have more,
and be more. He’s been called the “mentor’s mentor” and is highly regarded as a master
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marketing strategist and performance acceleration expert. Humer serves as a trusted advisor
and performance consultant to entrepreneurs and individuals from virtually every walk-of-life
and in countless industries. He is an acclaimed author, speaker and creator of “The 10 Day
Turnaround Methodologie,” “Rapid Success Technologie,” and “The Overnight Entrepreneur”
seminars, book, and workshop series.
Mr. Humer’s topic was “Start Marketing from the Heart: How to Build Your Business by Being
Who You Are.” He asked us, “What woke you up this morning? Today is a great day to do
something wonderful! Make a difference with the people you interact with in life.”
Mr. Humer advised us to “recognize what we do and who we serve. What makes you, your
business and your product unique? How do you get your client to say this about you: ‘I’m better
off because I was able to do business with this person. I’m important to this person.’”
According to Humer there are only FOUR ways to implement change:
1)
2)
3)
4)
STOP what you are doing wrong
START what you need to do
Do MORE of what works best
Do LESS of what doesn’t work!
Remember to do it from your heart!
Our evening was further enhanced by the beautiful musical accompaniment of Ben Woods on
guitar as we enjoyed poached pear salad, fresh Chilean sea bass and ice cream sundaes.
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Chapter Calendar
Event Date: - Wednesday, February 18, 2015
Time:
- 6:15 Reception, 7PM Dinner
Event Topic: - TBD
Speakers: Location:
- The Beverly Hills Hotel
Event Date: - Thursday, May 21, 2015
Time:
- 6:15 Reception, 7PM Dinner
Event Topic: - TBD
Speaker:
Location:
- The Beverly Hills Hotel
Event Date: - Thursday, October 15, 2015
Time:
- 6:15 Reception, 7PM Dinner
Event Topic: - TBD
Speaker:
Location:
- The Beverly Hills Hotel
Event Date: - Thursday, November 19, 2015
Time:
- 6:15 Reception, 7PM Dinner
Event Topic: - TBD
Speaker:
Location:
- The Beverly Hills Hotel
Event Date:
Time:
Event Topic:
Speaker:
Location:
- Thursday, December 10, 2015
- 6:15 Reception, 7PM Dinner
- TBD
- The Beverly Hills Hotel
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