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IN PICTURES: Vinnies CEO Sleepout 2015 (+34 images)

34 Photos Allan Swann (ARN)

ARN caught up with the channel's tech bosses braving a brutal wet winter night as part of the 10th annual Vinnies CEO Sleepout held at Sydney's Luna Park. Photos By Allan Swann

  • Sydney's Luna Park on a drenched winters day

  • The cold wet night was hair raising enough

  • What CEOs will do to keep warm...

  • 2GB's Ross Greenwood broadcasting live

  • Volunteers braving the miserable weather

  • Torrential downpours didn't stop all night

  • Torrential downpours didn't stop all night

  • Sleeping it rough... and wet

  • Enablis (formerly Azzurri) CEO Jon Evans

  • The bumper car alley proved to be a favoured spot for those trying to escape wet skies and wet floors

  • Avnet GM and VP for ANZ, Darren Adams

  • A total of $23 dollar of Vinnies money was the only currency allowed to be spent on pillows, sleeping bags, food and water - ensuring that CEOs had to make some tough choices to get through the night

  • At around 9pm the target was already over $5 million

  • The Daily Telegraph, Network 10 and Triple M pundit Joe Hildebrand was MC for the night, discussing his own troubled past

  • Vinnies NSW president, Ray Reynolds exemplifies the charity's ethos: "Give a hand up, not a hand out."

  • Vinnies NSW CEO, Michael Perusco, describes the "lonely, desperate and scary time" that faces the newly homeless

  • Bernie Fehon, the creator of the Vinnies CEO Sleepout, laid out how it was founded, and thanked all the volunteers involved

  • Gabrielle, a victim, which Vinnies managed to help get back on her feet performed her own composition "This Pill" about her addiction and homelessness

  • Gabrielle, a victim, which Vinnies managed to help get back on her feet performed her own composition "This Pill" about her addiction and homelessness

  • CEOs had to eat what those at homeless shelters do

  • The stand selling limited edition "Pillows of Hope" which were made by struggling screenprinters who Vinnies have helped

  • Limited edition "Pillows of Hope" which were made by struggling screenprinters who Vinnies have helped

  • Martin Kosasih, director of Virtunet

  • Julie McDonald (Vinnies GM, Fundraising and Communications), and Karl Sice (Head of Staples Technology Solutions)

  • The grand ensemble celebrating 10 years of CEO Sleepouts in Sydney

  • The Governor General Sir Peter Cosgrove stayed the night as part of the Sleepout adding: "For the homeless, it's always raining."

  • Matt Codrington, managing director of Lenovo, organising his bed

  • Andrew Thomas, CEO Thomas Duryea

  • Snooze time

  • Anthony Woodward, director and CEO Bulletproof, stuck in a onesie by his staff after they beat his donations target

  • Tony Simonsen, managing director Avaya

  • Robert McAdam, CEO, Pure Hacking

  • Some braved it outside

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