Last week, our entire IBM CSC Morocco9 team gathered at the local IBM office for some networking with the local staff and cool pictures.  @ibmcsc @ibmaotalbany #ibmcsc #cscmorocco9

In our exploring of the office, we found some IBM “letters” and decided to take some fun pictures. Below is a great picture of our entire CSC team on assignment in Morocco.  Top row, left to right is Venkat Umakanth (India), Jessica O’Gorman (Canada), Larry Clevenger (USA), Georges Maamari (Canada), Kent Van Horn (USA), Phillipa Hartley (USA), David Vincent (India), Manasi Raveendran (USA), Kautaka Nakao (Japan), Lucrecia Barrilli (Spain), Adnre Luis Peres (Brazil) and Dushyant Khale (India).  Bottom row, left to right is Alena Nemcova (Slovakia), Ji Hyun Shin (Korea) and Li Jing Wang (China)

As I have mentioned in previous email, we are working in sub-groups.  I am teamed with three others (pictured below, left to right, Venkat, Jessica, Kazu and myself) in working with MASciR (Moroccan Foundation for Advanced Science, Innovation and Research).

One of the other groups is working with Fondation Mohammed V Pour la Solidarite on a Marketing Plan for Women Owned-Cooperatives and Youth Micro Entrepreneurs.  They are (pictured below, left to right Phillipa, Lucrecia, Dushyant and Manasi.

One of the small business owners they have worked with is amal sghiouri (far right on picture below,amal.sghiouri1@gmail.com) who specializes in the manufacturing of high quality Moroccan rugs in a small factory located in Rabat.  Ms. Sghiour was able to bring some of carpets to our hotel for the entire team to look at and we did purchase a few.  For those of you who visit my home in Rhinebeck, NY, you will see the carpets I am holding displayed on the walls. I have attached her business card to this blog.  Please feel free to send her an email.  The carpets her company produces are high quality and reasonably priced.