Saturday, October 27, 2007

Appreciation Letters 2006: Ras Al Khaimah

This is a letter from the Government authorities of Dusseldorf a city in Germany. RAK was looking to start a twin city agreement with them. Dusseldorf were impressed by the meticulous precision and timeliness in our approach. These were qualities that were associated with Germans!!

Appreciation Letters 2006: Ras Al Khaimah

Media City in Ras Al Khaimah was entirely my initiative and was a hit. A large part of it was due to favourable word of mouth. 'Leading Brands' is an example of a happy investor. We usd to average a license a day with people comming in the morning and leaving in the evening after incorporating their company! It was simplification of procedures and elimination of red tape at its best. It was no surprise that we did more than 50 licenses with requests for office space in the first 30 days of our soft launch

Appreciation Letters 2006: Ras Al Khaimah

Appreciation Letter from the French Consulate. You can read it by double clicking on the image. It basically appreciates the presentation and the speed of response in making available a hard copy. Both speed of response and provision of relevant information were clearly factors in the RAK Success Story.

Appreciation Letters 2006: Ras Al Khaimah


My job at RAK Investment Authority involved making presentations to the visiting business delegations and dignitaries on the profile of the Emirate and investment climate that prevailed there. Letters like this resulted in me being elevated to the job of presenting to the British Ambassdor, Sir Richard Makepeace, as also the French Consul General, the Chinese Consul General, The Azerbaijan Ministerial delegation, The Bulgarian Media Delegation, The Russian Delegation, etal.

Increment and Promotion Letter RAK Investment Authority 2006

In recognition of my efforts in starting the Media City, marketing of the Marjan Island land on freehold basis to international hospitality investors, I was double promoted and given a 50% hike in emoluments.

Appreciation Letters 2006: Ras Al Khaimah

Khaleej Times dated august 13th 2007 to vinodnatesan @yahoo.com

Dear Vinod,

We are sorry to learn that you will be leaving RAK and that you are relocating in India.

It was a pleasure meeting you and sharing your vision of RAK.

Do keep in touch.

With best wishes,

Yours sincerely,

BURJOR PATEL
VICE PRESIDENT-MARKETING

----- Original Message ----
From: Vinod Kunj
To: vinodnatesan@yahoo.com
Cc: natesanvinod@hotmail.com
Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2007 8:08:37 PM
Subject: RAK Half Marathon on 9th February 2007

Dear IRMAN/SMSIAN/LOYOLITE,

Got this mail from a contact.

Congratulations for the Ras-Al-Kahiamah HALF marathon.

FULL marks to you.

You have done yourself proud!

Cheers

A well-wisher

Appreciation Letters 2003 JWT

Appreciation Letters ( Summary)

1 De Beers- Analytical skills

From: Nicola Ellis AT CSOLON01@CSOLONDON_FWL on 2000-09-18 20:58 GDT
To: Vinod Natesan@JWT, Nicholas Graham-Smith ATCSOLON01@CSOLONDON_
cc: Raji Ramaswamy@JWT, Dhunji Wadia@JWT

>Subject: BTS Summary and ROI

Vinod,

>I have now as promised gone through your BTS summary and have to say it is excellent, very well thought through. It is great to have a new perspective on the results. Although many of the conclusions you came to have been discussed, I thought you clearly saw what issues we need to address and came up with some interesting ways to address them.
>
>I particularly liked you analysis of received versus giver as we have never looked at it that way, and I agree that the print could be used more effectively against men to give that extra push. We have always struggled world-wide with the balance between the messages to men and women. It is a tricky thing when you have one product which means such different things to two people.
>
>Anyway the debate will go on. Thank you for stimulating renewed thoughts on
India, I will keep on thinking on this one!

>Well done with your first full summary of research, I look forward to the next.

> Letter no:2 DeBeers -Research Coordination
>
>Srinivas.Madani@dtc.com on 2001-02-20
22:07:33
>
>To: Vinod Natesan/Mumb/J Walter Thompson@JWT
>cc: Nicholas.Graham-Smith@dtc.com,
>Subject: Research
>Dear Vinod,
>This is to express our appreciation for the excellent qualitative study
>conducted by you on the elite segment. The presentation of findings was
>very lucid and, I believe, addressed most if not all our queries regarding
>the concept we are working on for the elites
.
>
>I would like you to thank Proact on our behalf - it is not often that
>qualitative research gives very clear directions, and I think they certainly
>deserve a pat on the back for this one!
>A lot of the credit also goes to the team at HTA for providing inputs on the
>stimulus material and discussion framework, and to you for co-ordinating the
>effort.

Continued….


Letter 3. Sunil Gupta. Ex-GM,JWT MUMBAI. Appreciation-Creative Development
> 2000-09-05 16:56
Sunil Gupta

To: Vinod Natesan/Mumb/J Walter Thompson@JWT, Narayan Kumar/Mumb/J Walter Thompson@JWT, Neville Balsara/Mumb/J Walter Thompson@JWT

cc: Melwyn Dcosta/Mumb/J Walter Thompson@JWT, Gopi Kukde/Mumb/J Walter Thompson@JWT, Deepa Kakkar/Mumb/J Walter Thompson@JWT, MeeraPatwardhan/Mumb/J Walter Thompson@JWT

Subject: Very Impressive People !

Many thanks for the efforts and above all, patience! A special word for Vinod who worked tirelessly for many days, and especially on the research. I'm glad we did the research, as it gave our work and our presentation the added edge of confidence in our recommendations. And also for Narayan and Neville, who bore my incessant pushing with calmness!

We knew the world was watching, and we ensured we remained ourselves!

And you all know it's now a different trip!!!

Cheers

Sunil


Appreciation Letter 4. BlowPlast Industries. Appreciation-Strategic Direction
>
> Kurien Pothan <kurienpothen@vipbags.com> on 2001-01-25
19:19:29
>To: Vinod Natesan/Mumb/J Walter Thompson@JWT
>cc: Melwyn Dcosta/Mumb/J Walter Thompson@JWT
>Subject: (no subject)
>Dear Vinod,
>I heard from Melwyn that you would be moving out of the VIP account as
>part of a reorganisation of portfolios within. I have not been able to
>speak to you and hence thought it best to mail you since I would be
>travelling abroad across the next few weeks.
>This is to tell you that we appreciate your efforts in helping us find
>newer directions in our search for a new and better communication.

> I am sure you would stay in touch
>
>Regards and best wishes,
>Kurien Pothen.
>