Guest Speaker, Lochi Jackson presented us with an interesting snapshot of business life in South East Asia outlining the many opportunities and challenges available.  He has been employed by Xypex Australia since 1993 and holds the position of Senior Director Business Development (Export). Loch’s business origins are in legal and finance, then moving on to develop a joint venture with Japanese partners in the 1980’s trading agricultural products into Asia and USA before finally settling into the export end of the construction chemicals business developing opportunities and sales for Xypex Australia throughout the South East Asian Region. Loch has extensive experience and knowledge of business throughout SEA and has been the principal driver therein of the Xypex brand and technology. He has worked on projects as diverse as two of Hong Kong’s largest underground rail structures, iconic projects in Singapore such as Theaters on the Bay and Woodlands Customs Checkpoint, Putra Jaya Government Administrative City in Malaysia and in Thailand on new temples and some of the World’s largest retail developments such as Siam Icon a half kilometer long water frontage development on the Chayo Praya river in Bangkok. Loch’s working life is spent between his office in Albury and Xypex SEA Regional office in Bangkok  Thailand from where Xypex Australia are now opening up market opportunities in the emerging Myanmar / Burma and Laos markets. Concurrently with that he is responsible for the re-development of  Xypex business opportunities in the fast emerging Indonesian market. Loch was a first generation member of Albury Hume Rotary Club in the late 1970’s before moving to Melbourne. Loch’s mother Yvonne Jackson is also the recipient of a Paul Harris Fellowship.