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Gosse wins two International Business Awards
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AUSTRALIAN Innovative Systems CEO, Elena Gosse has won both a gold and a silver Stevie Award in the 2014 International Business Awards.
Ms Gosse, the co-founder of of commercial and residential water disinfection technology specialists Australian Innovative Systems (AIS), will receive the gold award for Executive of the Year in Manufacturing and a silver award for Most Innovative Company of the Year in Asia and Oceania at a ceremony on October 10 in Paris, France. 
More than 3,500 nominations were received from more than 60 nations and territories in the 11th Annual International Business Awards and Ms Gosse said the awards were testament to AIS’s dedication to “constant innovation, world-class manufacturing standards, exceptional staff and the company’s quest to create safe, economical and versatile products that help protect humans and habitats against waterborne pathogens and the transmission of infectious disease”.
“In the past 15 years the world’s population has grown by over one billion people and global economic output has more than doubled,” Ms Gosse said. “Earth’s finite water reserves are facing increased human and industrial activity impacts which means more germs and bacteria are entering the water which is bad for civilisation and the planet. We must keep our water safe and healthy.
“As a proudly owned and operated Australian business, we specialise in the manufacturing of chlorinators for water disinfection. We believe our technology provides the safest and best way to produce chlorine onsite and inline via the process of electrolysis and is suited to a wide range of industries including aquatic facilities, resort pools and lagoons, utility water, mining and horticulture.
“Inline chlorination is not only convenient and automatic but stops the endless cycle of traditional chlorine dosing and the storage and handling risks associated with dangerous chemicals.”
Ms Gosse paid tribute to AIS’s 60-plus employees who work in a range of roles including administration, management, micro-electronics, chemistry, power systems, electrical and mechanical engineering, water system design, assembly, metalworking and plumbing.
She said AIS boasts a pro-multicultural employment policy at its Brisbane based headquarters and manufacturing facilities and this also gives the company an advantage.
“Just as the Stevies are International Business Awards we believe in fostering an international workforce,” Ms Gosse said.
“As an immigrant myself (from Russia), I believe the advantages this brings to our business are great, including enhanced language skills, cross-cultural innovation, specialist skills and workplace harmony.”
Michael Gallagher, president and founder of the Stevie Awards said, “The quality of entries we receive improves every year. This year’s judges were rewarded with the opportunity to review more than 3,500 stories of business achievement and innovation from around the world.”
Stevie Awards are conferred in six programs: The International Business Awards, The American Business Awards, the Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards, the Stevie Awards for Women in Business, and the Stevie Awards for Sales and Customer Service.
The sixth program, the German Stevie Awards, opened for entries on August 18. Honoring organizations of all types and sizes and the people behind them, the Stevies recognize outstanding performances in the workplace worldwide.
The name Stevie is derived from the Greek expression for ‘crowned’ and the Grand Stevie is 16 inches tall, hand-cast and finished in 24-karat gold. The crystal pyramid held aloft by Stevie represents the hierarchy of human needs, a system often represented as a pyramid that was developed in the 1960s by psychologist Abraham Maslow, who observed that after their basic needs are met, human beings seek the esteem of their peers.
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Details about The International Business Awards and the lists of Stevie Award winners are available at www.StevieAwards.com/IBA.
