Jordan Speakman (AMBA) is now a Senior Trade and Investment Officer for Northeast Asia at Alberta’s Ministry of International and Intergovernmental Relations in Edmonton.
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Mackenzie Lovsin (BCom) is excited to announce that he has started his career at Deloitte in Vancouver. He is working toward writing the CFE and becoming a CPA.
Published in: Winter 2015
Scott Macdonell (BCom) was selected 13th overall in the Canadian Football League draft by the Ottawa REDBLACKS and made the active roster for the team. Scott played for the Queen’s varsity football team from 2010 to 2014.
Published in: Winter 2015
Jessica Beakbane (BCom) has started a new job with Chubb Insurance in Toronto. She was excited to be trained by a fellow Queen’s alumna, Caroline DuWors (Artsci’09). Jessica received the 2014 Queen’s Student Alumni Association Volunteer of Distinction Award in April at the QUAA Alumni Awards Gala.
Published in: Winter 2015
Patrick Wong, AMBA, was named CFO of Toronto-based Retail Ready Foods Inc., a private, multinational that trades and distributes physical protein assets.
Published in: Winter 2016
Evan Sequeira, BCom, after final exams spent three months in Belize teaching health in secondary schools before starting a job in financial services in Toronto. There, he discovered a way to merge his background in finance and his passion for mental health by joining Capitalize for Kids – a non-profit organization supporting children’s mental and brain health at Toronto’s Sick Kids Hospital. Founded by Jeff Gallant and Kyle MacDonald, both BCom’11, the enterprise continues to organize an annual investors conference, which has raised more than $4 million for the hospital over the past three years. In November, the group launched the Capitalize for Kids Student Challenge, in which university students will compete in a portfolio-management challenge to become “Canada’s top student investor”. Visit capitalizeforkids.org/challenge for details.
Published in: Winter 2017
Devon Bolton, EMBA, died in December 2019. As a gifted young filmmaker, he directed several acclaimed short films alongside his sister Kirsten. Devon continued his career as a commercial director, working with agencies in Canada and the U.S., before becoming a creative and marketing adviser. After he, Laurel Walzak, EMBA’14, and Ron Bettin, EMBA’14, met in the EMBA program, they became colleagues, co-founding FitNeff.
Published in: Fall 2020
Casey Burgess, CQEMBA, has been promoted to the positions of Executive Assistant City Attorney and Chief of the Municipal-Regulatory Section of the Dallas City Attorney’s Office.
Published in: Summer 2017
Casey Burgess, CQEMBA, is beginning his second term as Mayor of the City of Wilmer, Texas, after running unopposed in this year's general election.
Published in: Summer 2016
Stewart Campbell, CQ-EMBA, accepted a new role at Roche Genentechâs global headquarters in Basel, Switzerland, where he heads up Global Product Strategy for the Breast Cancer Franchise, the companyâs largest portfolio. Roche leads all biopharmaceutical firms in oncology product development in pursuit of finding a cure for cancer, spending more on R&D than virtually any other company in the world, Stewart reports.Â
Published in: Winter 2016