The Global Next Generation Award

Back in 2019, the RWTA excitedly announced Demi Hiriaki from Iceland Cold Storage as the Winner of the 2019 Frank Vale Award.

This is the first step for young leaders to progress over the span of  a year to an international platform, the GCCA Next Generation Award (NextGen).

This International Award annually acknowledges talented young people within the industry, who have demonstrated to their employers that they have the potential to make a positive contribution to the development of the industry and become future leaders in the cold chain sector.

The Global NextGen competition was to be held in the USA in September 2020; but as the pandemic dictated, this was cancelled and the International Competition was instead held virtually this week.

This final competition was to seek a winner from three great contestants from around the world. These competitors included our very own Frank Vale Winner, Demi Hiriaki, Chief Operations Officer of Iceland Cold Storage, Luca Quaresima, the Europe Operations and Logistics Manager from Newcold and Zeshan Hassan, Continuous Improvement Leader from Congebec Inc in Canada.

We are pleased to invite you to view the presentations of the three professionals, below!

https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/recording/4231235616622678796

On this occasion, Luca Quaresima was the overall winner this year, and we would like to pass our congratulations to him from Australia on behalf of the RWTA.  

We would also like to take this opportunity to thank and congratulate Demi for participating at world class level and representing Australia in it’s very best light.

She has worked hard to be part of this competition in the most challenging of circumstances and did an excellent job and did herself, company and RWTA proud!

Well Done Demi Hiriaki!