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Fred Perpall to speak at upcoming GB Chamber of Commerce Installation Banquet
By Raquel Beneby-Hart
Feb 8, 2012 - 8:00:37 PM

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John Swain, President, Grand Bahama Chamber of Commerce and Lisa G. Turnquest, Second Vice- President and Chairperson of The Installation Banquet Committee

Freeport, Bahamas - Grand Bahama Chamber of Commerce president John Swain and his 2011-2012 Board of Directors will be officially installed at a gala banquet on Saturday, February 18th, 2012 in the Grand Ballroom of the Grand Lucayan Resort at 7pm.

Guest speaker for the event is Bahamian born Fred Perpall, Managing Director of the Beck Group of Atlanta, Georgia. 

Fred’s career at Beck includes a broad range of projects including higher education, religious, athletic, recreational, sustainability and healthcare in domestic and international markets. He has also led the company’s expansion into the Caribbean bridging his international experience with domestic needs in the Bahamas and Caribbean at large. Acclaimed projects under his company’s management include The Princess Margaret Hospital, the College of the Bahamas the Bay Rec Condominiums in Nassau, Bahamas, the Nassau International Airport Commonwealth Bank HQ and Branch Building in Nassau, Bahamas.

Fred brings a highly energetic and communicative style to his clients based on a philosophy of empowering people around him, facilitating of a vision that encompasses everyone and that drives the mission of the organization, and by giving the resources necessary to accomplish the tasks at hand.

Lisa G. Turnquest, Second Vice- President and Chairperson of The Installation Banquet Committee said that Fred is known for his creative mind and innovative thinking and we believe that very soon he will become an international household name. For this we are delighted that he has graciously agreed to join us on the occasion of our installation. His presence at our event serves only to demonstrate the vast networking capacity of the GB Chamber of Commerce.

“For us to be able access someone like this and bring them to Grand Bahama to become involved in the things that we are doing on  the local scene as well as to get his insight from an international perspective is absolutely fantastic”.

President Swain expressed his enthusiasm about the plans for the banquet as well as for Grand Bahama in general saying that it is time that we stop pondering on the negative and build on the positive things that are going on around us. He said that if we continue to cling to the bad news economy we will never be able to overcome it. 

In light of the current economic climate, the Chamber made a decision to reduced the cost of the tickets this year so that more persons would be able to attend, however in doing so they certainly have not discounted any aspect of the event which was a huge success for the organization last year.

The event will open with an elegant Jazz and Art Cocktail Hour featuring saxophone melodies by Mr. Stuart Coakley accompanied on keyboard by Mr. Kevin Tomlison with the backdrop of some of Grand Bahama’s finest artists.

As this is a business networking opportunity Grand Bahama business leaders will certainly benefit from Mr. Perpall’s unique business perspective and outlook and of course the evening will be packed with entertainment provided by the GB Police Pop Band, Miss Racquel Oliver and the Swag Academy who are certain to make our guests “dance their shoes off”.

Naturally there will be some surprises and of course who wants to go to banquet and not win anything….we  have an array of prizes that we are certain our guests will be “tickled to take home”, says Turnquest.

We have no doubt that our guests will have a wonderful time at our banquet as we seek to set the pace for the exciting things we look forward to this year with the Grand Bahama Chamber of Commerce and the island of Grand Bahama as a whole.  

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