Features

01 Where in the world is Christie?

02 Who are Christie’s customers?

Interview with

03 Paul Salvini, Christie Chief Technology Officer

Global offices

05 Christie expands into Australia and New Zealand

07 Christie’s South African team

09 In every edition

Issue one | March 2013 Welcome to The LoopThe Loop is a global employee newsletter intended to connect Christie® employees with events and information coming from Christie locations everywhere. The Loop has only one editor, but hopefully it’ll have 1500+ contributors – all of you.

I spent several weeks talking with Christie employees from all over the world and representing all levels of the company to find out what they would like to hear about and what they wish others knew about them. People told me they want to know about the business, about our customers and about each other. They want to hear about events and successes and share information and milestones.

The Loop will be published regularly and is intended to meet your information needs in the way you want to get it. That’s one of the reasons we choose the name “The Loop.” Because this newsletter isn’t just about sending out information. It’s about hearing back from you and using your ideas and suggestions to shape the content of future editions. This is your newsletter, so I hope you’ll get into The Loop!

Audrey Heutzenroeder Global Employee Communications Specialist

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Features

Where in the world is Christie?Christie® was founded in 1929 in Hollywood, USA as the Christie Film Company. We moved into professional projection systems in 1979 and with the acquisition of Electrohome in Kitchener, Canada in 1999 established Christie’s digital projection operations. Today we have offices all over the world with an office in Australia opening as recently as December 2012.

// You can find out more about our Christie offices around the globe by clicking on the locations on the world map

Who are Christie’s customers?Christie’s Mission Statement

At Christie we help our customers create and share the world’s best visual experiences.*

So what does that mean? Who are our customers? How are they using Christie® products? Christie products are used in surprising, brilliant and innovative ways all around the world. Here are some of the businesses and industries where you’ll find Christie products.

*// You can read Kenji Hamashima, Chief Executive Officer, Christie’s full memo about Christie’s mission, vision and business values by clicking here

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You’re the Chief Technology Officer. What is your job?

I’m looking at the future. I want to find a new path or paths for Christie® that will help the company achieve its goals.

My team and I are looking at the technologies, markets and partnerships that Christie might want to pursue now for implementation in two to five years’ time.

My passion is in applying creativity to business and technology – and that’s precisely what I want to help Christie to do.

Tell me more about your team. What do they do?

We’re a small group, just 22 people, subdivided into three teams:

The Research and Innovation team has the mandate to foster a culture of innovation at Christie. They help the company uncover and harness its innovative power through events such as the Innovation Café – where people from all areas of the company can interact, brainstorm, and share ideas. Christie has incredible people, but we haven’t traditionally had many opportunities to pull our collective wisdom and creativity together.

The New Business Initiatives team is working on finding new markets, exploring different business models and looking at new ways we can engage with our customers. Part of their work is mergers and acquisitions – looking for technologies that will help us grow as a company and get access to skills and knowledge that will help us grow.

The Advanced Technology Group is exploring new technologies for our business – technologies that could actually replace the way we work today or change the way we work. We’re looking at advances related to projection, advances in display technology beyond projection, and advances in the software and solutions that create a complete customer experience. This team also works with university researchers to push the boundaries of what’s possible and manage our growing intellectual property portfolio (including patents).

You mentioned the Innovation Café. What does innovation mean to you?

Innovation is a valued quality at Christie. It’s right in our vision statement. Innovation is newness and change. It’s about how we can do things differently to better serve the needs of our customers.

The Innovation Café is simply one tool that we’re using to collect ideas and bring people together. We’re helping to create an environment where we can collaborate across regions and departments, explore new ideas and develop new opportunities.

Is that why you launched the Innovation Café?

Yes. The Innovation Café gives everyone an opportunity to be innovative together. We meet with groups of employees to discuss and brainstorm different topics. Everyone brings a different perspective. They bring their past experiences. They bring ideas from books and movies. Every single person has something unique to share. And people don’t have to be techies to participate!

What does innovation or being innovative look like at work?

Innovation is all about doing new things that add value to the company. I want our employees to have a very broad view on the role of innovation. It’s not just about being more technically advanced. That’s only one element. We can have great technology and still not be successful if we don’t have other things in place – ways to reach the customer, a sound business model, the right ecosystem, a healthy corporate culture. Every single person in the company can help with that.

How can people be more innovative at work right now?

We can start right now with people being more aware of what’s going on in the company. That awareness can drive innovation by showing us how things are and how they can be different.

We’re asking staff to be on the lookout for things we can change as a company that will help us to be stronger – even little things or just the germ of an idea can grow into something bigger. If they have an idea, people can send it in to: innovation.cafe@christiedigital.com.

Interview with

Paul SalviniChristie Chief Technology Officer

Brimful of ideas, enthusiasm and espresso, Paul Salvini talks about innovation and how we can all become more innovative.

“ I’m looking at the future. I want to find a new path or paths for Christie that will help the company achieve its goals”

Paul Salvini, Chief Technology Officer

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Christie expands into Australia and New ZealandOn December 1, 2012, our newest team members joined Christie when Christie’s acquisition of VR Solutions Pty. Ltd. (Australia) and VR Solutions (India) Private Limited was completed.

For more information, contact Avalon Studt, HR and Administration Manager, Christie Australia.

Michael Bosworth General Manager

Ben Masters Design Engineer

Brian Ellwood TSO Manager

Chris Sheldon Network Engineer

Greg Spence Business Development Manager

Jim Gray Business Development Manager

Alisdair Paterson Director of Technology, Support, Solutions and Systems

Avalon Studt HR and Administration Manager

Amanda Frost Logistics Support

Andre Paulke Systems Engineer

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The members of VR Solutions (India) Private Limited became part of Christie’s existing team in Bangalore. VR Solutions Pty. Ltd. (Australia) became the face of Christie® in Australia and New Zealand.

These acquisitions open up the Indian and Australian markets for Christie – markets that have a big appetite for Christie’s products and solutions.

Before joining Christie, VR Solutions was a Christie partner (dealer of Christie products) and an installation integrator for more than five years. These new Christie members offer a wealth of expertise in design, sales, and service of visual technology solutions.

“ …We’ve accomplished many innovative projects in advanced visualization, oil and gas, live events and corporate display sector….Becoming part of Christie is a natural progression for us.”

Michael Bosworth, General Manager, Christie Digital Systems Australia

Here’s the team in the Banyo, Australia-based office.

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Christie’s South African teamOn June 1, 2012, Christie opened its first African office in Johannesburg, South Africa. Annalise Hodgson, Office Manager, was alone in the office that day. She recalls:

Global offices

The Christie® Africa office, working with its partner network, sells, services and supports every country in Africa (except for the French-speaking countries in North Africa, which are serviced by Christie France). This huge continent has diverse populations and cultures, dynamic economies and political situations and challenging geographies. But it’s also full of opportunity.

Christie has already had sales in these African countries: Botswana, Egypt, Israel, Kenya, Mauritius, Nigeria, Réunion Island, Rwanda, South Africa and Zimbabwe. The vast majority of African customers are interested in cinema and business products.

“ I remember feeling an incredible excitement, but also, at the same time, apprehensive. I had just returned from an intense 10-day training program in customer services [in Christie’s UK office], and the only thought going through my mind was ‘Would I recall all I had learned over the past few days?’ Phil Lord, [Territory Manager, Africa], my new boss, lives in KwaZulu Natal, an hour’s flight from Johannesburg, and would commute weekly….Knowing that Phil and the UK team were just a call away was a huge comfort.”

Inventions South Africa shared with the world

The CAT scan The computed axial tomography scan, or CAT scan, was developed at Tufts University in the UK by South African physicist Allan Cormack and Godfrey Hounsfield of EMI Laboratories. Their achievement secured them the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Oil from coal Sasol is the world's first – and largest – oil-from-coal refinery. It is situated in Sasolburg in South Africa and provides 40% of the country's fuel.

Heart transplant The world's first heart transplant was performed by Dr. Chris Barnard in Cape Town, South Africa, on December 3, 1967.

Speed gun The South African-made speed gun was developed by Somerset West inventor Henri Johnson. The device accurately measures the speed and angles of speeding objects such as cricket and tennis balls. Johnson's gizmo is sold in cricketing countries and in the US and Europe.

Kreepy Krauly The swimming pool vacuum cleaner was invented in 1974 by Ferdinand Chauvier, a hydraulics engineer who came to South Africa from the Belgian Congo in 1951. Chauvier invented a machine that cleans swimming pools automatically, efficiently powered by the ordinary operation of the pool's filter.

The Christie African team targets these countries for sales in 2013

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1 Nigeria • • •2 Uganda • •

3 Tanzania • •

4 Angola • •

5 Botswana • •

Chris Grandin, Technical Services Supervisor, Annalise Hodgson, Office Manager and Tyron Ackerman, Junior Field Engineer, at the inaugural celebration of Christie’s South Africa office.

Phil Lord, Territory Manager, Africa

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For more information, contact Annalise Hodgson, Office Manager, South Africa.

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The Innovation CaféThe Innovation Café is a series of 1-hour meetings where the Research and Innovation team, led by our Chief Technology Officer, Paul Salvini, meets with employees from all Christie® locations and departments.

Watch for an Innovation Café coming to your Christie location!

Doing IT betterKeep your computer content secure. Whenever you step away from your PC, lock your Windows profile. It’s easy to do:press the windows key + L

orselect Ctrl, Alt and Delete simultaneously and select “Lock this computer.”

ReminderDon’t share your Conference Calling ID or moderator PIN codes. Treat this information as confidentially as a password.

When you’re setting up a conference call, only share the toll free number(s) and participant codes with callers.

Recommended readingWhat business-related books are you reading? Share you recommendations here.

Margie Campbell in Kitchener recommends The SharePoint Shepherd’s Guide for End Users by Robert Boque.

This highly visual, step-by-step guide will help you learn how to use all of the common features of SharePoint. There are more than 116 tasks explained – something for every user. Find out more about the book and see samples at sharepointshepherd.com.

Your photosWe had big snowstorm in Kitchener on February 8. One determined employee used snowshoes for their commute into the office!

Photo submitted by Craig Leach.

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Trivia game Christie and coffee the world over

As you’ve seen in this edition of The Loop, Christie’s a global company with a big presence! So is the Starbucks Coffee Company. In fact, whichever Christie® office you go to, you can share a Starbucks coffee with your colleagues – except in five of our locations. Which five Christie locations do not have a Starbucks in the same city?

Submit your answers to Employee Communications. We’ll draw a winner from the correct answers submitted.

Let’s hear from youWe want to hear from you. If you have questions, comments, ideas for articles, suggestions for improvement, photos, book selections or other content you want to contribute, send it to Employee Communications.

When your contribution is used in The Loop, you will receive a Christie tote bag that’s ideal for shopping or beach trips. In keeping with Christie’s commitment to environmental leadership, this tote bag is made from 100% recyclable materials.

Coming up in the next edition of The LoopAll things engineering at Christie, including a discussion with Jennifer Smith, Vice President of Engineering

Bruno Tavares and our new office in Sao Paolo, Brazil

A tour of our Cypress office

Undercover bosses of Kitchener

Whatever YOU decide…

…and so much more.

…and underscoring everything we doIn November 2012, Kenji Hamashima, Chief Executive Officer, Christie, shared with us Christie’s Mission and Vision Statements and Core Business Values. These statements and values are shared by every Christie employee and define our organization’s approach to engaging with others, and our long-term aspirational goals.

// Click here for Christie’s Mission Statement, Vision Statement and Core Business, Values

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