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June 18, 2009
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Around the World
with Rob Bagguley
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Contest: We want YOU to send us your best photos from today's John Buck Spring Fling, and we'll publish the winners on Monday. Snap your friends, your competition, or anyone that will smile; send them to Maureen Wilkey. Deadline is Saturday at 5 pm Thanks!
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In the coming weeks, we’re bringing you short articles (as usual) on leaders of the top 100 real estate companies in Chicago. Transwestern's resident Welshman Rob Bagguley sat down with us yesterday to chat about business, our fair city, and the Olympics.
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| Transwestern was named the best place to work in Chicago this year by Crain's, beating out powerhouses like Google and Microsoft. Rob, center, with Gary Nussbaum and Fred Ishler cites diversity of ages within the company, a culture that allows open participation, and spectacular office spaces with floor-to-ceiling windows and casual breakout spaces. Rob tells us he spends 20% of his time just walking the office, working out problems. Also, he's glad that during the recession, very few Transwesternites have lost their jobs (despite salary cuts), although focus has shifted since no buildings have sold in the CBD office market this year. |
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Rob's great Sean Connery accent is real (and still gets a smile from Tamara Kos). He grew up in Wales and his first job out of college was finding branches for Royal Bank of Scotland. He also worked on the west coast and in Asia before coming to Chicago in 2000, where he became an avid Olympics advocate, aiming to show off Chicago as a world class city. (We assume he's the one who got the 2012 Games to London, so we're glad he's on our side.) Though unlike some of his countrymen, Rob's favorite sport isn't soccer: he's hoping to see more Formula One racing.
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Red Carpet
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| Where’s Joan Rivers? DIFFA Chicago held its annual gala this past weekend, raising $330k to fund grants for AIDS and HIV-related charities. Commercial Carpet Consultant's Michele Rust, RJA Design's Jake Theisen, and McGregor LLC's Jennifer McGregor turned out at the Field Museum. To top things off, sparc, inc.'s Richard Cassis was awarded the Unsung Hero award for going above and beyond DIFFA's call of duty. |
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Advice for Young'uns
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| “Designtrepreneur” Joe Gebbia was the USGBC Student Series keynote at NeoCon, though he's just four years out of school himself. (After graduating from the Rhode Island School of Design, he founded three businesses: rubber seat cushion maker CritBuns, sustainable online materials catalog Ecolect, and couch-surfing service AirBed and Breakfast.) His advice: young design pros need to keep options open but also not be afraid to go out on their own: A designtrepreneur should be someone who solves problems using design and business, not someone who is broke, Joe says. |
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After listening to Joe, some young designers had a chance to show what they could do. Madison Area Technical School's Michelle Dineen, Jocelyn Olson and Cynthia Hansen, with help from instructor Tiffany Esser, won the student design competition. They're in a room they designed, which incorporated sustainable materials in bright colors, showing that green doesn't have to only mean earth tones and cork board. May their future in interior design be as bright as the colors and their smiles!
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