MONTHLY NEWS & UPDATES
September 2022
Greetings,
We are looking forward to our Dutch-Swedish Golf Tournament scheduled for October 3, 2022. You may register or sign-up to sponsor here. We are proud to announce our tournament sponsor is Hydro.

Our Annual Lucia Gala is back this year! Sponsorship opportunities are available. It is a premium event usually gathering over 150 attendees including members, partners, as well as local and national officials within the Swedish-American community in Georgia and the Southeast. Below is a video for you to get a glimpse of what the Lucia Gala experience is like.


Regards,
Ida Pond
Executive Director SACC GA
UPCOMING EVENTS

Golf Tournament 
October 3

SACC Summit in Florida
November 3-4

Lucia Gala
December 10
AUGUST SOCIAL EVENT
We gathered at the Iron Hill Brewery with our new Young Professionals group, where we laughed and made some great new connections over a cold beer. If you want to join our next YP-event, stay tuned on our social media and we will keep you updated. We have many more fun events coming up this fall, that you do not want to miss! Our next event....
WELCOME NEW SACC GA MEMBER

A warm welcome to our new member Oskar Leiton. You can find the link to his Linkedin here!
VISITING BALLARD SPLLP
It is always exciting to visit our members and find out more about what they do and how SACC can be a benefit. Thank you Jonas Jarvholm for hosting us. Jonas is a partner at Ballard Sphar LLP, a national law firm with more than 600 attorneys in 15 offices. Jonas specializes in patent law. He works with large companies both here in the US and in Sweden and manages their patent portfolios.

He has research experience in chemistry, pharmaceuticals, polymer science, materials science, surface science, and nanotechnology. During his doctoral and postdoctoral studies, Jonas developed technologies and materials for nanotechnology applications.
GLOBAL ATLANTA CONSULAR CONVERSATIONS
Congratulations to our SACC GA Board member John Woodward who was recently appointed as the Honorary Consul of Slovakia for Georgia and South Carolina. Read more about it in this article from Global Atlanta.
Trainees- Axe Throwing
Thanks to Dan Fisher of American axes the Atlanta trainees had the opportunity to try out America's new favorite pass time. Pictured are Ashkan Eghtesadi-Azar (former SACC GA trainee), Tindra Falk (J1 trainee at SACC GA member company Greenboom), Hannah Kyller (J1 trainee at SACC GA member company Accountants One) and our SACC GA trainee Lina Nashabat. If your company is interested in hosting a trainee in 2023 now is a great time to post the ad. Please reach out to me and I am happy to talk you through the process.
BECOME A SACC-GA MEMBER TODAY
Corporate Membership
$650 - midsize to large companies, over 50 employees

Business Membership
$275 - small companies, under 50 employees

Individual Membership
$100 - for individuals, not companies

1+1 Individual Membership
$150 - for 2 individuals to join together

Young Professional Membership
$50 - for individual members up to 40
SPONSOR SPOTLIGHT