Jonathan Lithwick (BCom) recently joined S&E Sponsorship Group and is leading the development of Scotiabank’s hockey and arts sponsorship strategies.
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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.
Published in: Spring 2021
Colin Lynch (BCom) recently joined McKinsey & Company’s Chicago office. Over the past year, Colin graduated from Harvard’s MBA program, spent the summer working in Canadian politics, and travelled to five continents (he’s trying to find a way to visit Australia to complete the tour, he says). In April, he was elected to Queen’s Board of Trustees and welcomes QSB graduates’ thoughts and suggestions on “anything Queen’s.” He can be reached at colin.kr.lynch@gmail.com
Published in: Winter 2012
Imola Major (BCom) celebrated with friends and family as she and David MacPhee (Sc’06) were joined in marriage this past August in Toronto. Imola and Dave are currently living in San Diego, CA, where Imola is in her second year of a doctorate in audiology (AuD) and Dave is working on his PhD.
Published in: Winter 2011
Rob Marsh, BCom’07, and his wife, Vanessa, have welcomed Maxwell and identical twins Logan and Chase since marrying in 2019.
Published in: Spring 2022
Ashok Raghupathy, MBA, and his wife, Maha, welcomed the arrival of their daughter, Anusha, in July 2017.
Published in: Winter 2018
Biswajit Das, MBA, joined PwC Canada as a Director in its Consulting Group. He is advising clients how to effectively win in the technology landscape that is evolving with the FinTech disruption in the financial-services sector.
Published in: Winter 2016
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.”
Published in: Winter 2020
Natasha N. Myles (BCom) recently launched a social enterprise she had started during her graduate studies at Columbia University in 2010. LIFT Investments (www.liftinvestments.org) is a non-profit, social investment fund dedicated to alleviating poverty and developing local economies in East Africa. LIFT invests in profitable small- and medium-sized businesses and offers training to fill skill gaps and promote workers to higher-paid jobs. In its first project, LIFT is working with three coffee companies in Rwanda, while also raising funds for its next project in Kenya. Email: natasha.myles@liftinvestments.org
Published in: Summer 2012
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.
Published in: Spring 2023