Alberto Heredia (BCom) and Kristen Shamess (ArtSci’07) were married in Aug. 2012 in Toronto. Close friends and family, including many alumni, joined the couple in celebrating the occasion. Alberto is a CA at Detour Gold and Kristen is the Manager of Customer Relations at Porter Airlines in Toronto.
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Aileen Hunter (AMBA) recently joined Dimock Stratton LLP as the Director of Finance and Administration. Dimock Stratton is one of Canada’s most recommended intellectual property firms, with extensive experience as intellectual property trial counsel, and involvement in leading patent, trademark, and copyright cases. As the Director of Finance and Administration, Aileen provides leadership on finance, operations and business issues.
Published in: Summer 2014
Kathy Zhao (BCom) is attending Boston University School of Medicine, currently in the first year of a four-year medical program. Kathy worked in investment banking after graduation before making the switch to medicine.
Published in: Winter 2011
Sanjiv Kalevar, BCom, has joined OpenView Venture Partners, an expansion-stage venture-capital firm, as its newest partner, after eight years with Battery Ventures. Sanjiv is working remotely from his home in Los Angeles for the remainder of the pandemic.
Published in: Spring 2021
Sanjiv Kalevar, BCom, was recently promoted to principal at Battery Ventures, a global venture capital and growth equity firm. He has relocated to San Francisco to help build the West Coast software practice for the company, which also has offices in Boston, New York, London and Israel.
Published in: Summer 2019
Kayla Kingdon-Bebb, BCom’07, Artsci’07, has been appointed CEO of the World Wildlife Fund in New Zealand. Her appointment comes after serving as the director of policy for New Zealand’s Department of Conservation. Kayla obtained her master’s and PhD in land economy after her time at Queen’s and is an expert in treaty law, Indigenous customary law and legal pluralism as it relates to natural resource management policy.
Published in: Spring 2023
Kayla Kingdon-Bebb (BCom, BA’07) is one of 14 recipients of the 2009/10 Canadian Centennial Scholarships. Kayla is studying at Cambridge for a PhD in Land Economy, in the field of Aboriginal Land Rights and Governance.
Published in: Summer 2009
Crystal Kuan and David Brent (both BCom) are pleased to announce their upcoming nuptials, to take place July 4 at the Design Exchange in Toronto. They currently live in London, U.K., where Crystal works at Apollo Asset Management and David at Rolls-Royce.
Published in: Summer 2015
Jeffrey J. Larcina, BCom, says that he’s now director, investments, at Bentall Kennedy, a division of Sun Life Financial. He oversees property investments in all commercial asset classes across Canada for BK's institutional clients.
Published in: Summer 2018
Jonathan Lithwick (BCom) recently joined S&E Sponsorship Group and is leading the development of Scotiabank’s hockey and arts sponsorship strategies.
Published in: Summer 2014