Sidd Mukherjee (EMBA) is a Senior Manager at Ernst & Young in its Advisory practice, where he will be advising the industry on building an intelligent supply-chain management function. For the past ten years, Sidd has played key roles in contracts and supply-chain functions on international megaprojects. He started his career as a project engineer and moved into a project-manager role that involved managing projects in the oil-and-gas and power sectors for large public-sector clients.
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Nick Pateras, BCom, Artsciâ13, and Matei Olaru, BCom, have been part of cannabis tech startup Lift & Co. for the past few years. Matei is currently CEO, and Nick serves as VP of strategy. Last year, the pair took the company public on the TSX Venture Exchange. Nick says Lift & Co. was recently selected by the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario, the provincial regulator of cannabis, as its exclusive provider of mandatory training for all cannabis retail staff in Ontario.
Published in: Summer 2019
Chengbo Qian, BCom, GDA'12, successfully completed his Chartered Professional Accountants (CPA) Canada designation and took on the role of Financial Services Manager with Air Canada at its operations centre in Brampton, Ont. Chengbo recently made an impromptu trip to Israel and now looks forward to exploring more of the world while building a career in the airline industry.
Published in: Summer 2016
Chengbo Qian (BCom) and his wife Tanimar (Oor) Narkmun are pleased to announce the birth of their daughter Paige Nichapa, born Nov. 23, 2014. Chengbo is currently working as an Audit Senior with Ernst & Young in Toronto and Oor is excited to be starting the QSB Master of Management Analytics program this June.
Published in: Summer 2015
Meena Rajput, MBA, got married in July. “It was a beautiful outdoor ceremony held only two days after Ontario opened up into Phase 3 of COVID restrictions,” she writes, adding that some of her fellow alumni from the class of 2012 were in attendance. Meena and her husband also recently moved into a home in Mississauga, Ont. She works in consulting while pursuing a holistic-nutrition certification.
Published in: Fall 2021
Jerome (Jerry) Rizzo, EMBAA, died on April 11, 2017, after a battle with brain cancer. He was 52. He is survived by his wife Henriette; his daughters Emily and Julianna; his parents George and Janice; and siblings Julie Rizzo-Regenauer (Michael), Robyn Rizzo and Christopher Rizzo (Karen). Jerry dedicated 21 years to the United States Marine Corps. His service included volunteering as a Forward Air Controller in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom; deployment in the peace-enforcement operations in Kosovo; and participation in Operation Strengthen Hope, the 2006 evacuation of American and Allied citizens from Lebanon. He was also selected as one of four Marines Corps F/A-18 aviators to serve as a Topgun instructor. Jerry was the inaugural Executive Director of the Leadership Programs at Cornell’s business school, a position he held until 2016, and was also a Senior Lecturer of Leadership
Published in: Winter 2018
Kelsey Roberts, BCom’12, and Jacob Martin, BCom’12, were married Feb. 20 in Toronto with many Queen’s graduates in attendance, including 25 former classmates.
Published in: Spring 2022
Thomas (Tom) Rutherford, EMBA, died on August 2 at age 62 of cancer. Tom grew up, in Ottawa and had a long career in banking, working at Canada Trust, Canada Permanent, and Royal Trust. He was proud of returning to school for his EMBA at Smith. In 2013, he moved to Vancouver. He is survived by his sister, Jane, and brother, Kelly, as well as nephews and nieces.
Published in: Fall 2020
Craig Sabine, EMBA, has taken on a new role as Director of North American Energy at Navigant Consulting. He will continue to support Canada's largest and most dynamic energy, infrastructure and utility companies with strategic advisory services, optimizing processes and investments.
Published in: Winter 2016
Beau Sackey, AMBA, has written Come and Thrive, a book to help newcomers to Canada and young people find work and start their careers. Beau says he was inspired to write it while teaching at Seneca College. There, he often found himself helping students (including many immigrants) improve job-search and job-interview skills. “Assisting my students this way got me thinking about how I could impact more people in an effective way,” he says. The book is available at comeandthrive.ca and Amazon.
Published in: Winter 2020