Jayson Chakkalakal, AMBA, in March accepted a new role as Product Manager, Marketing, for PCM Canada (formerly Acrodex) in Edmonton. Jayson’s new role entails managing Evolve, an end-to-end SMB IT solution with a focus on the Canadian market.
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Andrew Dawson, BCom, moved to Amsterdam in early 2020 as global-strategy manager for tea with Unilever. Now he manages a global brand expansion as the global Tazo brand manager. Andrew tells us that he recently returned from a two-part trip to Switzerland. The first part was spent training for his scheduled May 2022 climb of Denali, the highest mountain in North America. The second part of the trip took him to the summit of the Matterhorn. To date, Andrew has climbed three of the Seven Summits (the highest peaks on the seven continents): Kilimanjaro in Africa in 2010 with his dad, Mike Dawson, BCom’78, and family; Aconcagua in South America in 2017; Elbrus in Russia in 2019; and Mont Blanc in France in 2020. “People debate what the tallest mountain in Europe is, so I climbed both,” he says.
Published in: Fall 2021
Kevin Dong, MFIN, accepted a finance manager role at VersaCold Corporation on April 8, his 8th wedding anniversary, after working at Kimberly-Clark for 18 months.
Published in: Summer 2016
Ray Dubois, EMBA, in November 2014 accepted a role with Merlin Entertainment LLC, as Director of Projects, Asia, where he is working on the Legoland theme parks in Nagoya, Japan, and Chuncheon, South Korea. Merlin oversees 104 attractions in 22 countries, including The London Eye and Madame Tussauds.
Published in: Winter 2017
Joseph Edgar (CQEMBA) has started a new company, TenantCloud.com, a marketplace for tenants, landlords and service professionals that provides free renter resumés and property-management software. The company has grown substantially, and its software is now used in 25 countries.
Published in: Summer 2015
Laurel Walzak, EMBA, has been appointed Chair of the board of directors of the Canadian Women’s Hockey League (CWHL).
Published in: Winter 2018
Steven Sapinsky, EMBA, and his wife Loren announce the April birth of their son Taylor, who joins big brothers Kingston and Carter in making the family’s household more energetic than ever.
Published in: Winter 2016
Curt Walker, EMBA, was named Chief Administrative Officer of the First Nations Health Authority in Vancouver, B.C., in September. He joined the organization following a four-year term as CAO for Lil'wat Nation. Curt is a Certified Management Accountant and was recently awarded a fellowship by the Society of Management Accountants of Canada for his contributions to society and the advancement of professional management accounting.
Published in: Winter 2016
Andrew Gabriel, BCom, GDA, joined KSV Advisory, a boutique professionalservices firm providing financial advisory services to distressed businesses and their stakeholders across North America. Andrew recently merged his background in accounting and his passion for music by joining the board of Mozart Project, a non-profit focused on developing young classically trained vocalists as well as promoting a classical repertoire to younger generations.
Published in: Winter 2018
Tyler Hennick, BCom, has joined the Agricultural Transformation Agency in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, as a Project Leader on a one-year contract.
Published in: Summer 2017