René Seifert - Entrepreneur & Global Citizen

After a week of work in the “enjoy the silence”-mode in Rovinj, yesterday had an very inspiring dinner with Ralph Schonenbach, CEO of Trestle Group in Zurich, an offshore outsourcing consultancy. We exchanged our experience and challenges in that field and it always shows: You are not alone. As usually, one of the major challenges is not just initiating an offshore relationship, but effectively governing it with all that comes along with quality assurance etc.

Just touched down in Munich, before proceeding to Bangalore tomorrow morning. On Monday evening, Patrick J. McGovern,
Founder and Chairman of International Data Group (IDG) will be guest at an event of the organization “The Indus Entrepreneur” (TiE) where even I got admitted as a say, semi-Indus Entrepreneur :-) This gentleman will be really a great gig as he has overseen IDG’s launch of more than 300 magazines and newspapers in 85 countries, including such globally recognized titles as Computerworld, InfoWorld, Macworld, Network World, CIO and PC World. Will try to post something here about this event.

Apart from that, I wanted to share some amazing pictures. In my nerdy ways I am rather stingy with expressions like these, but somehow it was really making a long dream come true: Flying with a little plane over the beautiful coast of Croatia. So last Wednesday, Nenad Delic from Delicair and me took off from the little grass strip of Medulin in a Cessna 172 with the callsign 9A-DNB in Southern direction:

After a right turn we set our course over the island group of Brioni, further to my home town Rovinj which looks so amazingly beautiful from the air with the islands Katarina and Crveni Otok (Red Island) in the background:

Further north towards Porec, then turned east over the Istian peninsula, climbing to 4000 ft in order to safely cross mount Ucka. The view to which you get exposed then in the Kvarner Bay with the city of Rijeka at the left is absolutely breathtaking:

After a small overflight of the Island Cres, we basically headed back via a little overflight of the ancient Colosseum of Pula and landed safely back on our grass strip of Medulin. Without exaggeration, an unforgettable tour whose impressions still follow me in an energetic way even a few days later.