Connie Blair, BCom’09, and her husband, Stéphane, welcomed daughter Audrey on May 31. In 2019, Connie moved to Nanning, Guangxi, China. She is looking forward to sharing this international experience with her daughter.
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Reza Sarshoghi (EMBA) and Cal Bowry (EMBA), teammates in the Class of 2009, recently published a book on small business management, Dream Beyond Borders: Priceless Lessons for Every Entrepreneur (www.dreambeyondborders.com). Written for business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs unable to seek business advice from a consultant (“…or the Queen’s EMBA program,” they say), the book contains Reza’s insightful and practical experience in starting many small businesses since coming to Canada from Iran. Email: sarshoghi@sympatico.ca or cal.bowry@queensu.ca
Published in: Winter 2013
Cal Bowry (EMBA) and Reza Sarshoghi (EMBA), teammates in the Class of 2009, recently published a book on small business management, Dream Beyond Borders: Priceless Lessons for Every Entrepreneur (www.dreambeyondborders.com). Written for business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs unable to seek business advice from a consultant (“…or the Queen’s EMBA program,” they say), the book contains Reza’s insightful and practical experience in starting many small businesses since coming to Canada from Iran. Email: sarshoghi@sympatico.ca or cal.bowry@queensu.ca
Published in: Winter 2013
Graham Booth (BCom) is currently the Corporate Planning and Development Manager at the Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE). OCE is a leading not-for-profit organization that works with industry and academia to drive the translation and commercialization of research originating from the province’s colleges, universities and research hospitals, to create new technologies, products, services, jobs and businesses.
Published in: Summer 2014
Bram Bregman, AMBA, has accepted a new role as a commercial insurance broker in Ottawa at Arthur J. Gallagher, the world's third largest insurance and risk-management services firm. Between serving clients and raising three children under the age of three, Bram is keeping busy! bram_bregman@ajg.com
Published in: Winter 2017
Christopher Carr, AMBA, recently accepted the role of country director, Canada with Touchplan. Headquartered in Boston, Touchplan has developed a web-based collaboration tool for the construction industry to reduce project times by 20 per cent.
Published in: Winter 2020
Nitin Chadha (MBA) and his wife, Himani, were blessed with a baby boy, Shaurya, born Dec. 13, 2013.
Published in: Summer 2014
Meet an Alumna Emily Chambers, BCom’09, MMA’14 During her time in Queen’s Commerce, Emily Chambers loved learning about statistics and operations research. That led her to return for her Master of Management Analytics degree. Upon graduation, she moved to Florida to work for The Walt Disney Company, where she’s now an integration consultant. My team members are internal consultants for business lines throughout Disney, providing analytic solutions that enable them to make more informed business decisions. This could be as simple as creating reporting dashboards to provide valuable business insight, or it could mean building complex decision models that are fully integrated into the business processes. My role is to bridge the gap between our business clients and the technical experts on our team, such as computer scientists, statisticians and data scientists. What I enjoy most about working at Disney is the endless opportunities available. In the four years I’ve been with the company, I’ve been able to work with ABC Digital, A&E Networks, Disney Theatrical Group, and now Disneyland Resort in California. There are always new challenges, so I can’t imagine ever getting bored here. One of my latest projects was developing the revenue-management system for Frozen the Musical, which recently joined The Lion King and Aladdin on Broadway. A career highlight for me was attending the opening night of Frozen. It was surreal to finally see the show come to life and made me so proud to be part of an organization that is unrivaled when it comes to creating magic. I’ve always been involved in music and played in a samba band at Queen’s. More recently I sang in the Candlelight Choir at Epcot, where I performed on stage with celebrities such as Whoopi Goldberg and Neil Patrick Harris. That’s just one of the perks of working for Disney!
Published in: Summer 2018
Adam Cotterall, AMBA, and his wife, Lyndsay, are excited to share the news that baby Kate (“Katie”) Sydney Cotterall joined their family on May 28, 2019. She was born at Royal Columbian Hospital, weighing in at 8 lb 5.6 oz, with a full head of hair.
Published in: Winter 2020
John Coutts, BCom, left Nestlé Canada's marketing team in Toronto to join the Corporate Development team at Parkland Fuel Corporation in Calgary.
Published in: Winter 2016