Katherine Wong Too Yen (BCom) left the Sales and Service team at Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment following the 2015 IIHF [International Ice Hockey Federation] World Junior Championship with Hockey Canada, to pursue a new role as Social Media Strategist at Equitable Bank. She recently received the University of Toronto Sports and Business Association's 2015 Young Achievers Award. Katherine continues her role as Social Media Editor at theScore. Follow her on Twitter @kwongtooyen and @theScore.
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Blake Macdonald (BCom) recently joined PwC in North York, ON, and is working towards attaining his CA designation. Email: blakejmacdonald@gmail.com
Published in: Winter 2013
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Katarina Wittkamp (BCom) has combined her love of business, teaching and mindfulness in a new venture whereby she provides mindfulness-based stress-management seminars to businesses in Canada. Participants leave with a new roster of tools for managing the stresses in their lives, giving them access to greater balance, peace and ease of mind.
Published in: Winter 2015
Chris Deane (EMBA) walked his daughter down the aisle this past summer at the Kurtz Orchard in Niagara-on the-Lake, Ont. Two dreams came true that day, Chris reports — Lauren’s, and his dream of walking her down the “orchard aisle”.
Published in: Winter 2015
Patricia McLeod (MBA) has moved to ENMAX Corporation and was promoted to Vice President, Corporate Responsibility, accountable for the compliance, ethics, corporate sustainability and policy governance programs for the ENMAX group of companies.
Published in: Winter 2014
Leigh-Ann (Ottenhof) Fingland (EMBA, BA’93, Ed’94) moved into a new role at Queen’s School of Business in July 2013. She is now Director of Operations for the Queen’s Commerce program.
Published in: Winter 2014
Jeff Gallant (BCom) is now offering his own investment portfolio through Alignvest Capital Management in Toronto. You can reach him at jgallant@alignvest.com
Published in: Winter 2014
Danny Iny (EMBA) has written a recently published book titled 'Engagement from Scratch! How Super-
Community Builders Create a Loyal Audience, and How You Can Do the Same!' It features contributions from major industry players, including Guy Kawasaki, Brian Clark, Mitch Joel, and many others. Visit www.EngagementFromScratch.com for more information or email iny.danny@gmail.com
Published in: Winter 2012
Caroline (Caro) Chagnon (BCom) died on August 14, 2014, in Montreal, aged 26. She had been diagnosed with stage-four melanoma during her third year. Despite the obstacles she faced, many of her classmates were unaware that Caro was ill, and she was able to persevere and graduate alongside her classmates and friends. Writes her former housemate Katie Shotbolt (BCom’11), “Caro had the strength and grace to continue to smile and find beauty in her day-to-day activities. She enriched the lives of everyone she met. Our class was lucky to have had the chance to get to know someone so bright and strong.”
Published in: Winter 2015
Sonja Verbeek (EMBA, MPA’01, BA’87) recently joined the senior management team of the Kingston Police as Director of Human Resources, after 16 years at Queen’s. Sonja had worked as a Project Officer with the CIDA-funded Queen’s Family Medicine Development Program in the Balkans from 1997 to 2004. For the past nine years, she was Director, Office of the Vice-Principal (Research), where she played a key role in such initiatives as the renewal of the Queen’s Strategic Research Plan and the launching of the Queen’s research magazine, (e)AFFECT.
Published in: Winter 2014