Tanvi (Jain) Manser, MIB, and Armin Manser, met in the MIB program during Armin’s semester as an international exchange student. Several MIB alumni and exchange classmates traveled to India from around the world to celebrate the couple’s wedding in November 2016.
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Ed Martin, EMBA’14, has been named director of the Memorial Centre for Entrepreneurship at Memorial University in Newfoundland. Ed has a professional background in educational technology, television production and international development. Previously he was CEO of an education technology startup that was bought by Carnegie Learning.
Published in: Fall 2022
Bryan McCann, BCom, joined the Toronto offices of Oliver Wyman, a global management consultancy, in 2014. His clients in Canada and the U.S. have included a flight-simulator manufacturer, a major American retailer, a Canadian government agency and three major global banks. He is also one of the global co-chairs of GLOW (Gays, Lesbians, Bisexual and Trans*) at the firm, one of the top LGBT+ employee resource groups in the world (as ranked by The Economist). In his spare time, Bryan has climbed Kilimanjaro, skydived, hiked Machu Picchu, run the Chicago and Philadelphia Marathons, and successfully made challah bread from scratch.
Published in: Winter 2017
On Top of the World Megan McDonald, MBA’14, goes mountain climbing to help soldiers and veterans. Sixty-five years ago, Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first to reach the top of Mount Everest. This past April, Megan McDonald headed to Everest, where she met Sir Edmund’s son, Peter Hillary — a two-time Everest conqueror himself. Megan works for True Patriot Love (TPL), a charity that supports Canadian military and veterans’ families. Her trip to Everest was part of a TPL expedition. The team included ill and injured soldiers and veterans, as well as business executives from across the country. Everest was a once-in-a-lifetime experience, Megan says. Led by Peter Hillary, the TPL team trekked to base camp on Mount Everest, then summited the 20,000-foot peak of Lobuche East, which sits near Mount Everest in Nepal. “It was beautiful and challenging, and I consider myself incredibly lucky to be the member of the team at True Patriot Love that leads the recruitment, fundraising and development of the expeditions,” Megan told us. Of course, it was all for a good cause. The Everest expedition raised $1 million, with funds going to help military families — everything from dealing with mental health and physical rehabilitation to transitioning back to civilian life.
Published in: Summer 2018
Bhairav Mehta, EMBAA’14, has joined Amazon as its director of data science AI/machine learning and trustworthy shopping experience. He also continues to manage his startup, Erudition Inc., which he founded in 2014. “I travelled to over 12 countries in 2019-2022 to grow my startup and give keynote speeches at leading global technical conferences and symposiums.” Bhairav lives in San Jose, Calif., and has a daughter, Arya, who recently started third grade.
Published in: Spring 2023
Bhairav Mehta, EMBAA, joined Microsoft as the director of data science in the Azure operating system and security organization. He also continues to work at Erudition Inc., a company he founded in 2018, which offers training and consulting in cloud computing, big data, data science, machine learning and artificial intelligence.
Published in: Fall 2020
Bhairav Mehta, CQEMBA, was promoted to the position of Senior Data Scientist, Battery and iOS Power Log, at Apple Inc., in Cupertino, CA in April. In his spare time, he continues his work at DataInquest Inc., a company he founded in 2014 that offers training in big data, data science, machine learning and artificial intelligence.
Published in: Summer 2017
Caroline Mierins, BCom’14 married Matthew Parrott, BCom’14, at the Boston Public Library on Oct. 15. Classmates Roslyn McLarty, BCom’14; Jacquline Paré, BCom’14; Andrew Dolinski, BCom’14; Chadwick Mitchell, BCom’14; Jonathan Valeriati, BCom'14, GDA’14; and Daniel Sampieri, BCom'14, GDA’14, were in the bridal party.
Published in: Spring 2022
Erica Pearson, BCom, founder of Vacation Fund, was presented with the RBC Women in Fintech & AI Award in April during the 3.0 Summit. She also took home the inaugural Peopleâs Choice Award for the âmost innovative and impactfulâ pitching company at the fifth annual Fintech & Financing Conference hosted in April  by the National Crowdfunding &  Fintech Association.Â
Published in: Summer 2019
Bettina Pierre-Gilles, EMBA, member of the boards of Calgary Co-op and Exaltexx, has completed the Directors Education Program of the Institute of Corporate Directors. She is also in the process of launching the first utility-scale solar project in Alberta.
Published in: Summer 2016