Alumni Notes

Eric Windeler, BCom, LLD’15, has been awarded the 2017 Queen’s University Alumni Humanitarian Award. Eric and his wife, Sandra Hanington, founded Jack.org in 2010 after their son, Jack, died by suicide while in first year at Queen’s. Eric has built Jack.org into a national youth mental health charity with a staff of 22, supporting the volunteer work of more than 2,500 young leaders at over 150 Jack chapters in high schools, colleges and universities in every province and territory across Canada.

Miles D.A. Protter (BCom) is enjoying life tremendously in Perth,where he runs the Australian business of JMJ, a management consultancy. He has learned to surf and kite board and notes that it is a very steep learning curve when you take up those activities later in life. He is excited about his daughter Lily getting ready for university. Miles has gotten involved in taking groups of young men and their dads to help at an Aboriginal school in Alice Springs during winter break.

Peter Drabble (MBA) is pleased to announce that Washington International Business Ventures (WIBV), the consulting firm he launched from an office on “K” Street in Washington, D.C., with no clients, and a phone that never rang, when he and his wife had a baby on the way, is celebrating its 20th anniversary. WIBV assists clients doing business between North America and Japan in the renewable energy, water management and environmental sciences sectors.

Iain Bruce, BCom, after retiring in 2015 from his position as a Senior Managing Director of NYC-based Ambac Assurance Corp., is now operating Barrell Mill Advisors, LLC, an independent consultancy in credit-risk management and related fields. He has immersed himself in not-for-profit board work in and around his hometown of Westport, CT. He is the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society and Vice-Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Westport Weston Family YMCA Foundation. As a member of the Board of Trustees of the Westport Library, he chairs the Building Committee responsible for the Library's $19.5M renovation. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Staples Tuition Grants, an organization providing needs-based university-tuition assistance to graduates of Westport's public high school. He continues to serve on the Smith School of Business Advisory Board and Global Council.

Iain Bruce, BCom, after retiring in 2015 from his position as a Senior Managing Director of NYC-based Ambac Assurance Corp., is now operating Barrell Mill Advisors, LLC, an independent consultancy in credit-risk management and related fields. He has immersed himself in not-for-profit board work in and around his hometown of Westport, CT. He is the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society and Vice-Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Westport Weston Family YMCA Foundation. As a member of the Board of Trustees of the Westport Library, he chairs the Building Committee responsible for the Library's $19.5M renovation. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Staples Tuition Grants, an organization providing needs-based university-tuition assistance to graduates of Westport's public high school. He continues to serve on the Smith School of Business Advisory Board and Global Council.