1. Kia Ora
President Elect, Immediate Past President, CRF Executive, CRF Members, distinguished guests.
What a week, starting last Thursday with a 2 day study tour of ASIC, a days Pacific forum, CRF proper
and next week a 2 day study tour of NZCO.
Delegates, we come to the closure of another very informative and successful conference. I trust
you have enjoyed networking, sampling our culture, food, entertainment and making new
friendships or re-establishing old ones.
We have come a long way as an organization since February 2003 where we had 40 delegates
representing 14 jurisdictions. CRF 2013 has been attended by 181 delegates from 53 jurisdictions
including 30 member jurisdictions. There were many old faces but equally a large number of first
time attendees so I trust we will see you all at Rio in 2014.
CRF membership continues to grow globally. We have had 19 membership applications submitted
since India 2012, 18 approved or which 7 have since paid membership fees and become full
members. If you wish to become a member of CRF, please come and see me over lunch and I can let
you know what is required or go to our web site www.corporateregistersforum.org and all the
details and forms are there.
To all delegates, I trust that you have taken something away from the forum, I challenge you to go
back into your registry and TELL, INSPIRE and REVOLUTIONIZE – Tomorrow’s Registries are upon us.
Don’t forget we have our members forum active again so please make good use of that over the
months ahead.
All the presentations from CRF 2013 will be posted on our web site next week as will a collection of
photo’s taken throughout the week.
Special thanks to our sponsors without whose contribution and help our conference would not
have been such a big success.
Firstly to our platinum sponsors, Foster Moore we thank you for your contribution including
supporting our cultural evening, and for your continued support including hosting and maintaining
our web site and social media.
To the Asian Development Bank, you sponsored over 35 Pacific Island delegates to our conference
and supported our Gala evening, thank you.
Honorable Minister Foss, Rod Drury our key note speaker and to all our presenters, thank you.
Our organizing committee
Jayne Richardson of Just Right Events our organizing partners our own NZCO team, Sarah Steele,
Agnese Abelite, Rachel Homer, Shona Jagger and Julie Newman, a huge thank you team.
To our army of ambassadors, helpers, Stamford staff, thank you.

2. Our sound and lighting crew, many thanks.
David Nottage, your humour, contribution and professionalism have kept our minds sharp and the
conference ticking over, a great big thank you.
Ms Mandy McDonald, on behalf of the Executive and CRF members, we congratulate you on hosting
an excellent thought provoking conference.
I acknowledge the splendid work of our previous Executive (stand). Unfortunately Rosanne Bell one
of our driving forces was unable to attend conference this week due to poor health, we wish
Rosanne a speedy recovery and can I ask Kath to take home our warmest regards. To our incoming
Executive, I look forward to working with you, making CRF better and better.
Now as we close, I would like to acknowledge Juthika Ramanathan of Singapore, a CRF colleague and
friend. Juthika has been involved with CRF since its inception or slightly before, she has been one of
the driving forces to get CRF where it is today. Juthika has served as CRF President on more than
one occasion and served for many years as an ExCo member. Juthika has recently stepped down as
CE of ACRA and taken up a new posting within the Singapore Legal Service. Can I invite Ms Toh Wee
San to accept on behalf of Juthika a small token of CRF’s appreciation.
As you leave, keep Telling, Inspiring and Revolutionizing
Ka kite ano - until we meet again in Rio de Janeiro in 2014.