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Photos from the final event of Business Icon Victoria 2010 are now online at www.australianbusinessicon.com/photo-archive/vic/2010/final-event/

Business Icon Victoria 2010 Final Event

Photographs are courtesy of Jorge de Araujo Photography

Benjamin Smith - Winner of WA Business Icon 2010 in action at the final

The 2010 WA Business Icon competition reached its conclusion on Monday with a huge event at the Grand Ballroom of the Hyatt Regency in Perth.

The final four contestants had arrived back in Perth the previous afternoon from their gruelling research expedition to Singapore, leaving little time to rest and prepare.

In front of a panel of eight high profile judges and an audience of over four hundred, the title of WA Business Icon was taken out by Benjamin Smith.

Ben is an Edith Cowan University graduate, currently working in local government whilst studying for a Master of Commerce at the University of WA and tutoring students from ECU’s faculty of Business and Law.

WA Business Icon Final 2010 at the Hyatt Grand Ballroom in Perth

After the initial briefing at Contact Singapore, a part of the Singapore Government, the Business Icon finalists have been grilling our hosts with question after question about this modern dynamic city.

Notebooks are being rapidly filled up with facts and ideas.

Direct from last nights networking event in Perth, the WA Business Icon Finalists attended another networking event with the Australian High Commissioner and staff in Singapore at 8.30 this morning.

Despite getting little sleep and almost no time to freshen up before the meeting, everyone thought it was a tremendous opportunity and many new relationships were established. The finalists took every opportunity to meet and talk with as many people as possible, getting as much background hints and information that they could to assist with their rapid assimilation into the Singaporean business world, education and culture.

By 10am, the finalists were on the other side of the city being briefed by Contact Singapore on all the important statistics, trends and information they need to know.

Photos below show the finalists with the Australian High Commissioner and the breakfast networking event.

Nicky Sandover, Michelle Ham, Benjamin Smith and Calvin Cayles – the final four WA Business Icon contestants announced tonight are winging their way to Singapore overnight before fronting up to the Australian High Commissioner at 8.30 in the morning.

The finalists were taken to the airport from tonights Networking function at Westpac in a very funky white stretch limo courtesy of Bellagio Limousines.

Their task now is to create an innovative campaign for Contact Singapore that attracts young Australian Professionals to live and work in Singapore.

Contact Singapore is an organization within the Singapore government.

The contestants have a hectic itinerary ahead if them meeting representatives from Singapore government and business.

The finalists will be presenting their campaigns at the final in Perth on Monday.