My night at the Celtics game
Part of my role at IBM is to be part of marketing/sales efforts. This includes client briefings, meetings, presentations, and the occasional evening event. This past Friday, I was asked to attend an evening at the Fleet Center to watch a Celtics game (they played the Knicks), have dinner, get Premium Level seats and hang out in the IBM luxury box, not necessarily in that order. Myself, the VP of Marketing for Lotus (Lotus is a software company IBM bought in the mid 90s, they are a very large company in the Boston area and have as large of a presence as IBM in the technology industry here in Boston), and one other person were going to be entertained by some executives of the Fleet Center. This is what happened.
We had dinner in Mr. Jacob’s private dining room. <a href="http://www.bostonbruins.com/meet/management/jacobs.html">Mr. Jacobs </a>owns the Fleet Center, the Bruins, all the concession for the Fleet Center and is extremely wealthy. During dinner, <a href="http://espn.go.com/abcsports/columns/mcdonough_sean/bio.html">Sean McDonough </a>joined us and discussed the latest in his negotiations with the NY Mets to call their games. I then watched the game between the Premium Level seats, where I ran into a partner I used to work with at PwC, and the IBM luxury box. Very good times.