Robyn Rutledge (BCom) is a managing director and partner at investment firm TSG Consumer Products in San Francisco, CA.
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Robert Rutledge (BCom) has been appointed Principal of Genstar Capital LLC and is based in San Francisco, CA.
Published in: Summer 2012
Jacqueline Sharp (BCom) is a co-founder, Senior Managing Partner and head of communications and stakeholder engagement at Navius Research, a consulting firm with offices in Toronto and Vancouver. Navius forecasts and communicates the economic and environmental impacts of energy and climate change policies. While Jacqueline has particular expertise in the carbon capture and storage fi eld, she also assists clients with public opinion research, education and consultation strategies, and stakeholder engagement on a wide range of energy and environmental topics. Email: Jacqueline@NaviusResearch.com or visit www.NaviusResearch.com
Published in: Summer 2012
Laurie Sproule (EMBA) accepted an appointment as General Manager with 3M Interamerica in 2008. Working out of Trinidad, 3M Interamerica is responsible for eight islands in the Caribbean: from Dominica in the Leewards, down the Windwards, and across to the Dutch Lesser Antilles, as well as the Caymans. From Trinidad, 3M also covers Surinam and Guyana in South America. Laurie looks forward to keeping up with the Class of 2000. Hard to believe it’s been almost 10 years!
Published in: Spring 2009
David Stapely (EMBA) is completing his fifth year of living and teaching in China. He is currently teaching the Humber College (U Toronto) business program to Chinese students and doesn’t know when he'll return to Canada for good.
Published in: Summer 2008
Rebecca Tascona, BCom, AMBA’05, is the new Campaign Cabinet chair of United Way Waterloo Region Communities. Rebecca is the regional president of BMO Private Wealth Southwestern Ontario. She joined BMO in 2005 and has held a variety of positions in the organization, most recently as COO, BMO Wealth Management. Rebecca and her husband, Andrew Koloshuk, AMBA’05, recently moved to Waterloo with their two young sons. She says they are enjoying exploring southwestern Ontario.
Published in: Winter 2020
Justin Thouin, BCom, lives in Toronto and leads LowestRates.ca as its co-founder and CEO. The company was recently ranked No. 9 on Deloitte's Technology Fast 50, and No. 11 on the Canadian Business Growth 500. Justin's accomplishments were recently featured in an article in The Globe and Mail.
Published in: Summer 2019
Justin Thouin (BCom) is living in Toronto with his wife Susan, an ER physician, and their two daughters Madeleine (4) and Cassandra (1). He recently founded the mortgage, insurance, and credit-card comparison-shopping sites LowestRates.ca and LowestRates.com. He would love to hear from former classmates and can be reached at justin@lowestrates.com
Published in: Summer 2014
Justin Thouin (BCom) and his wife Susan (BSc ’01) welcomed their first child, Madeleine Anne, in January 2010. They live in Toronto, where Justin is the Vice President of Business Development and Product Management for CryptoLogic Inc. and Susan is an emergency room physician. They would love to hear from old friends.
Published in: Spring 2010
Carrie Truman (BCom) and Ben Keys (PHE/Arts’00) are proud to announce the birth of their daughter Rebecca Jane Keys on May 31 at North York General Hospital. Rebecca weighed in at 8 lb., 9 oz. and was welcomed with love by her big sister Natalie.
Published in: Winter 2011