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.
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Tina Bailey (EMBA, MPAâ06) has taken on the role of Executive Director of the Community Foundation for Kingston & Area. This independent, local charitable organization aims to strengthen the community by providing leadership on issues of broad community concern, facilitating philanthropy and building endowments to fund community projects. It is part of a network of 191 such foundations across Canada that are focused on helping Canadians invest in building strong and resilient places to live, work and play.
Published in: Winter 2014
Patricia McLeod (EMBA) was formally appointed a Queen’s Counsel in the Province of Alberta in January.
Published in: Winter 2014
Aaron Lau, AMBA, was promoted to partner in financial-accounting advisory services at Ernst & Young in Beijing. He leads his team to advise companies on a broad range of financial-accounting topics and to create value for companies by embracing the latest technology and by providing innovative solutions.
Published in: Winter 2020
Sameer Abusaifan (MFin) has joined RBC as a Commercial Credit Advisor in the bank’s Commercial Advisory Group in Toronto. Email: ssaifan@yahoo.com
Published in: Summer 2012
Todd Shannon, AMBA, was named Partner and Creative Director at HUMANCONTACT, a creative agency in Toronto’s Distillery District.
Published in: Winter 2016
Aaron Lau, AMBA, and his wife welcomed their firstborn, Ethan, in February. On the career front, Aaron is now a Senior Manager for Financial Accounting Advisory Services at EY in Beijing.
Published in: Winter 2016
Joshua Amiel, AMBA, has been appointed vice-president of sales and account management at MeritBiz, the corporate-travel management division of Merit Travel Group. Joshua has worked in the travel business for more than 15 years. He lives in Ottawa with his wife and two children, aged 3 and 7.
Published in: Summer 2018
Joshua Amiel (AMBA) started a new role at Hogg Robinson Group as Sales Leader for Canada. The company handles all aspects of corporate travel for a wide variety of businesses and recently won a major contract from the federal government.
Published in: Summer 2013
Frank Attaie, CQEMBA, has been appointed Director and Head of the Financial Services and Insurance Sector at IBM Canada. Frank leads a team of industry professionals who are passionate about delivering value to clients, using innovative IBM cognitive solutions and cloud platform technologies to transform their clients’ businesses and help them realize their full potential.
Published in: Summer 2016