Colin Lynch, BCom, Artsci’07, was named one of Canada’s Top 40 Under 40 for 2020. The award recognizes up-and-coming leaders. Colin is head of global real-estate investments at TD Asset Management, overseeing investments in more than 650 properties in 120 cities worldwide. Last year, he co-founded the Black Opportunity Fund, which seeks to provide investments and support to Black-owned businesses and non-profits. Also in 2020, he was elected to the boards of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and the Toronto Investment Board. He became an adviser to Toronto-based incubator OneEleven and completed nine years of service on the Queen’s Board of Trustees. This year, he was named a Trustee Emeritus. Colin lives in Toronto, where his partner, Stephanie Zhou, Artsci’14, is a physician focused on addictions.
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Rob Marsh, BCom’07, and his wife, Vanessa, have welcomed Maxwell and identical twins Logan and Chase since marrying in 2019.
Kerri-Lynn McAllister, BCom, a founding team member of Ratehub.ca, has launched Pawzy, an online pet platform connecting “modern pet parents” to pet advice and services. In addition to pledging one per cent of Pawzy's equity to animal charities, Kerri-Lynn has pledged an additional five per cent of her personal equity holding to women in tech initiatives through the Upside Foundation. She and her husband, Koen Van Rompaey (a University of Antwerp exchange student to Smith in 2006), recently welcomed “a new fur baby, Kennedy, a Cavalier King Charles spaniel.”
Karim Nassar, MBA’07, says his career journey has taken him to Paris, Calgary, New York and Toronto since graduation. Currently, he lives in the Toronto area with his wife Yasmine (pictured) and two daughters. He has spent the last four years helping to build Canada’s largest digital pharmacy, Mednow.
Steven Nelson, BCom, was promoted to partner at EY Halifax, where he provides accounting and assurance services to public and private clients. Steven and his wife, Rebecca, live in Halifax with their daughters, Zoe and Grace.