Jeremy Okolisan (MBA) is pleased to announce that Eva Rose arrived on the morning of June 18 to the delight of her older sister Amanda and her overjoyed mother Lee-Ann. Eva is doing very well, under the protective eyes of her big sister and doting mother. Dad says golf instruction is scheduled to commence early next month. Jeremy is a principal and the Vice-President at Byrne Engineering, a consulting engineering firm based in Burlington, ON.
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Andrew Outinen, MBA, after 15 years in the medical device industry, launched his own business, a Tail Blazers Health Food Store for Pets franchise in Etobicoke (Toronto).
Published in: Winter 2016
Chris Radcliffe, BCom, has launched a new product, the Go Intranet Accelerator, which was recently brought to market with Habanero Consulting. Go is designed to help organizations modernize their digital workplace communication and collaboration on Office 365. connectwithgo.com
Published in: Summer 2016
Erin Zipes (BCom) recently accepted the position of Assistant General Counsel at Shopify, an Ottawa-based commerce-platform company.
Published in: Winter 2015
Erin Zipes (BCom) recently accepted a position as Legal Counsel at Nordion, an Ottawa-based health sciences company. Email: erinzipes@hotmail.com
Published in: Winter 2012
Dave Rodgerson, EMBA’00, and Carl Boutet, AMBA’05, recently connected at the Retail Council of Canada’s “Store” conference. Carl was there to promote his new book, The Great Acceleration: The Race to Retail Resilience. Dave was at the conference to represent infrastructure services provider Kyndryl as its partner, retail business development. Dave tells us he also recently accepted a new role as a strategic adviser to Oongalee Technologies, a digital out-of-home advertising and entertainment network in the restaurant space.
Published in: Fall 2022
Dave Rodgerson, EMBA, is now the industry solution executive for Microsoft Canada, leading its retail practice. He is also a director for startup iSign Media and sits on the board of advisors for Ryerson University’s School of Retail.
Published in: Winter 2019
Dave Rodgerson (EMBA) recently joined Microsoft Canada as a Distribution Industry Business Development Manager. He continues to reside in Toronto.
Published in: Summer 2014
Dave Rodgerson (EMBA) has assumed a new role at IBM Canada, where he is a Senior Managing Consultant in the Retail Strategy and Transformation practice. In addition to helping clients develop new approaches to their customer experience, he has been speaking across the country on consumer adoption of new technologies. Email: rodgerso@ca.ibm.com
Published in: Winter 2013
Dave Rodgerson (EMBA) was recently promoted into a new assignment at IBM. He now has responsibility as IBM’s Senior Marketing Manager, Retail Industry, for North America. Over the past several months, Dave has been speaking across the United States and Canada about consumer adoption of new technologies.
Published in: Summer 2011