Young Entrepreneurs hold luncheon talk with visiting property services expert from UK.
The Young Entrepreneurs Association of Brunei (Y.E.A.B.) held a luncheon talk with guest speaker Mrs Denise
Gardiner, Managing Director of Property Services (Haslemere) Limited, a property letting agency in Surrey,
UK yesterday. The luncheon talk was sponsored by Dato Hamdillah H A Wahab, CEO of Brunei Liquified Natural
Gas (BLNG), one of the advisory committee of Y.E.A.B. and acts as a mentor and advisor to the members of
Y.E.A.B. Mrs Gardiner has completed a management buyout this year after originally joining as property manager.
She now owns the company. She has been involved with property throughout her working life. She started as a
secretary in a Solicitor's office, but soon joined an estate agent in Ceshire where she became the letting manager.
In 1967, however, she moved to Building Design Partnership, a firm of architects in Manchester, where she became
the project administrator for a multidisciplinary team of 40 designers, engineers and other professionals working
on the Halifax Building Society's New headquarters Building. After this, she moved back to estate agency as a
branch manager in 1974. The Y.E.A.B. members expressed appreciation in the experiences shared with them by Mrs
Gardiner and how she managed to juggle a successful carrier, marriage and children which young entrepreneurs
would have to deal with in this day and age. As a member of the advisory committee of the Y.E.A.B., Dato
Hamdillah, who attended the luncheon, added to that of Mrs Gardiner's experiences and mingled with the Y.E.A.B.
members throughout the luncheon. The Y.E.A.B. is holding events throughout the year that may interest any budding
or established young entrepreneurs.
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