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FOCM East meets FOCM West

While living in Yuma, AZ in January – February 2016, FOCM was able to pull together a great group of people to celebrate the new office location of Freeman Law.  Tony Freeman, Principal and Founder was having an open house for his Scottsdale location, located at 4248 N Craftsman Ct #100, Scottsdale, AZ 85251, Phone: 480-398-3100.  I’ve known Tony since we were 13 years old, I think.  My twin brother and I were able to contact several  friends from high school and college living in the Phoenix area that know Tony.  Quite a few showed up to the open house.  Another cool thing I thought was that two FOCM members and friends from North Carolina had recently moved to the Phoenix area and so they came and got to meet my twin and the Yuma, AZ Kofa High School alums and I finally got to meet Daniel.  (that was a long sentence)

Heather, me, Sarah, Daniel
Sarah, Heather and Twins
Freeman Law Open House: Kathy Snow, Don Woon, Debbie Ward, Tony Freeman, Chris Matheus, Jorge Pierson, Liza Peralta, Susie Eddins, Jon Matheus, George Aponte

FOCM Activities – January 2016

January 27, 2016 – I remember it like it was yesterday.  I was in the Houston, TX area for a PRA National Sales Meeting and they’d invited vendors that they partner with or were considering partnering with.

As is my custom, I email everyone I know in the area when I’m traveling and invite them to meet me for drinks/dinner.  I was very fortunate that former co-worker Lori Engallina Smith and her husband Wayne Smith joined me that night, along with my co-workers.  I’ve known Lori since 2002 when I first joined ICON Clinical Research’s Interactive Technologies Group.  This was my first meeting of Wayne.  Wonderful people, great Americans.  The ceremony was powerful, such excitement and thrills.  I forget the name of the restaurant, but it was a Mexican restaurant -shocking, I know.

Welcome Lori and Wayne as card carrying members of FOCM!

Lori Engallina Smith

 

Wayne Smith

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And the following day at the PRA meeting, I ran into Dorothy Brown, yes, THE Dorothy Brown.  We’d worked together at Quintiles in the early 2000’s.  Not that long ago, really, no really, it wasn’t, well it doesn’t feel like it was that long ago.

Dorothy Brown

FOCM Card Ceremony

On December 9, 2015, while in RTP on business, Chris McArthur received his FOCM membership card.  It’s taken a while to post this as there were some troubling inconsistencies in his background check but all has been resolved.  A simple mis-identification from the juvenile court system records.  We welcome Chris with full membership privileges.  His 2016 membership dues were waived.  Invoices will shortly be going out for 2017.

Chris and I have known each other ~8 years; having wroked together at ICON in the late 00’s and early ’10s.  Chris is now Director of Business Development at INC Research.

Chris McArthur