26th October 2011
Dear Asian Presidents,
One of the commitments I made when doing my presentation and
standing for election for WACS Continental Director for Asia position was, that
I would appoint two assistants, to help me cover the vast area of Asia as
Assistants to the Continental Director.
The idea was to have one in the West and one in the North
and myself covering as much as possible in the South East. This process has
taken me a little longer than I had originally planned, but then again I had to
show protocol and request permission from their respective Presidents. After
this process, I had to present this plan
to the WACS Board meeting that recently took part in South Africa.
I would like to introduce you to Ms. Shang Haling who is the
Secretary General of the China Cuisine Association and will help me promote
WACS in the Northern regions of Asia. And our West Asian representative will be
Baranidharan, P or as he prefers, Barani who works with Custom Culinary based
in Bangalore, India.
We are planning to set up Skype meeting between the 3 of us
to help promote our region and the Chefs of Asia, their tasks will not be
limited to this but also to liaise with various countries who request help that
I cannot meet with in regards to Education, Training, Marketing, WACS’s Chefs
Without Borders program, Competitions and having Universities and Colleges WACS
approved.
Please join me to thank these two dedicated people for their
time and energy they have already started to commit to WACS and the future of
our industry, we look forward to working more closely with our current WACS
family and family members of the future.
Kind regards
Rick Stephen
Continental Director - Asia
