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October 19, 2009
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Donna & Mick Jagger
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| CGI US-India President Donna Morea once spent a night partying with Mick Jagger. Want details? Of course you do. Read on. |
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Donna told the story Friday morning at the DC Rainmaker Breakfast Roundtable at the Tower Club. She’s center with Albon & Oblon’s Seth Berenzweig, DC Rainmaker queen Nancy McCarthy, Helios HR CEO Kathy Albarado and TSI CEO Marta Wilson. The story goes: Donna was working as a photographer in NYC in ’77 (she was an art major in college) and was asked to shoot a Dolly Parton concert. She was turned away at the door, but cried her way in and was seated at a table with Mick, Bianca Jagger, Jerry Hall, Candice Bergen and Lorne Michaels, among others.
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Mick Jagger circa ’77. “When I sat down he mumbled something in my direction, and it turned out he was offering me a slice of pizza,” Donna says. She happily accepted and after taking photos that would appear in the New York Post and Newsweek, he invited her out. “He asks if I want to go to the Windows on the World with him and his friends for an after-party, and I was like ‘YES!’” Donna says.
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Donna, circa now, talked some business at the meeting too. She says the company has been growing mostly organically the last few years, and she's hungry to make an acquisition, but the right one. “We’ve walked away from some name companies because their culture was so different from ours, we couldn’t see ourselves working together.” And if Donna ever leaves CGI (a rarity she admits) that it would likely be to run her own thing.
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DC Chamber Gala
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There were some tech luminaries at the DC Chamber of Commerce Awards Gala on Saturday night at the Waldman Park Marriott. AOL Chairman Emeritus Ted Leonsis and Mobomo CEO Barg Upender. The Caps took home the Economic Impact of the Year Award and then downed the Nashville Predators 3-2. (BTW, do you know Alex Ovechkin is on pace for 92 goals?)
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Networks Solutions Shashi Bellamkonda, who was kind enough to send these pics, and Councilman Marion Berry. Shashi, perhaps the most well-connected social media guy we know, told the former mayor it was an honor to meet a civil rights leader.
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