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2015

Connie Lo

Connie Lo, BCom, recently launched a rebranding of her natural skincare company to Three Ships. The company’s mission “is to make beauty products 100 per cent natural and 100 per cent affordable,” Connie says. Three Ships is carried in 400-plus stores across North America and will soon launch in another 450 stores in the U.S. threeshipsbeauty.com

 

Published in: Fall 2020
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Connie Lo, BCom, GDA’15, is the co-founder of Niu Body, a natural and certified cruelty-free skincare company. The company launched in 2017. Connie says Niu Body is now carried in more than 300 retail locations across North America and has been featured in such publications as Elle and on CBC. niubody.com
Published in: Winter 2019
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Santiago Quintanilla, MBA, and his wife, Fernanda, welcomed the arrival of their son, Santiago, in October 2017.
Published in: Winter 2018
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Sasha Ghafir, MFin, and his wife, Ariel, welcomed the arrival of their daughter, Ava, in February 2017.
Published in: Winter 2018
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Ariel Lubecki, MFin, CFA, joined Burgundy Asset Management as Institutional Relationship Manager in February to focus on client relationship management and business development for Canadian institutional clients.
Published in: Winter 2016
Amarachi Miller
Amarachi Miller, MMA, recently joined Xaxis, the programmatic arm of WPP, a British multinational advertising and public relations company. He is the Manager of Data Strategy and Product Marketing for the Americas, responsible for “evangelizing the world's largest data-management platform, Turbine.”
Published in: Summer 2016
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Barmak Ghanbarpour, MMA, and his wife Nazli welcomed their firstborn son, Dara, in October. The family continues to reside in Toronto. 
Published in: Winter 2016

Scott Morrison, BCom, reports that he recently joined Banyan Capital Partners to lead business development and deal-sourcing efforts. Banyan is the private-equity affiliate of Connor, Clark & Lunn Financial Group and currently has approximately $200 million in assets under management, along with the capital to invest an additional $300 million over the next five years.

Published in: Winter 2020

Desislava Nikolova, EMBAA, writes: “Thrilled to share that I have joined Philips as the professional services and solutions delivery leader for Canada.” Desislava lives in Toronto.

Published in: Fall 2021
Remi Ojo

Remi Ojo, GDB’15, MBA’20, MMA’21, BSc(Eng)’14, and members of his family appeared in three episodes of the CBC game show, Family Feud in January 2021. “Can’t tell you if we won! You’re going to have to watch it on CBC Gem!” he says. Team Ojo consisted of Remi, his cousin Tobi Ojo, cousin Tolu Ojo and her fiancé Francis Atta, cousin Adeola Ojo, and brother Toye Ojo. “Fast money was so fun,” he says, but the best part of being on the show was “hanging out and bantering with Gerry Dee.”

Published in: Spring 2022