Eguono Onoyovwi Omotayo, MBA, was recognized with the 2021 "Catalyst Honours Champions Emerging Leader Award" from Catalyst Canada for her commitments to advancing diversity and inclusion in the workplace and her community. Eguono is the director of product, enterprise client relationship management at CIBC and founder of Teo Consulting, a career-coaching company.
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Taylor Ostoich, BCom’15, married Jake Woloshyn on Sept. 16, 2023 at the Toronto Hunt Club.
Published in: Spring 2024
Richa Pareek, MBA’15, and Krishna Pandey, MBA’15, welcomed their son, Arjun, in July 2021.
Published in: Fall 2022
Matthew Reeves, BCom, is a co-founder of Together, a Toronto-based software company that helps firms manage internal mentoring programs. “Our software helps streamline the process of finding and engaging in a mentoring relationship for employees, while also making it easy to administer for HR,” he explains.
Published in: Winter 2020
Sanchit Sachdev, MBA, has published his first book. Kanya, is a sci-fi novel that takes place in the 2050s in the midst of a world war. “It's about the purposeful journey of a girl, from poverty to successes, who uses business management frameworks to navigate through the Algorithm of Nature,” explains Sanchit, who lives in Toronto and works in the advisory and deals group at PwC. He’s also busy building a health-care tech startup for the child surrogacy market that, he says, “helps donors and recipients for greater success in birthing new lives.”
Published in: Fall 2021
Ashraf Saleh, MIB, recently acquired his Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountant (CICA) and Canadian Risk Management (CRM) designations. Ashraf currently works as a senior consultant for PricewaterhouseCoopers. He is part of the risk assurance department, providing services including internal audit effectiveness, performance assurance, managing risk in IT, business resilience and optimizing controls.
Published in: Summer 2016
Jawwad Siddiqui, BCom, continued to build and scale his second start-up, sharpscholar.com, after graduation, adding five members to the SharpScholar team. He has also begun sharing his learnings as an entrepreneur via a personal blog at jawwad.me.
Published in: Summer 2016
Adam Smith, AMBA, writes that he and his wife, Jayde, welcomed a healthy and happy baby boy, Nathan Smith, in November 2018.
Published in: Summer 2019
Tracee Smith, MFin, was appointed to the board of trustees of the National Arts Centre Corporation. Tracee is the CEO and Artistic Director of Outside Looking In, a charity she founded in 2007.
Published in: Winter 2018
Claudio Soares, EMBAA, has taken the position of executive lead, research and innovation with Providence Care in Kingston. He continues his roles as head of the Department of Psychiatry at Providence Care and Queen’s University, and executive lead for the Canadian Biomarker Integration Network in Depression (CAN-BIND).
Published in: Winter 2019