Queen’s Venture Network’s Second UPstart Business Pitch Competition

Entrepreneurs, investors, alumni, students and a panel of seasoned judges attended the Queen’s Venture Network’s second UPstart Business Pitch competition in November. Two alumni shared $25,000 in prize money at the event hosted by Kevin McCracken, MBA’97, at Cisco’s Toronto facility. The overall winner, pictured at left, was John Hui, CQEMBA’15, co-founder of Twiage — a communications tool for emergency medicine. The runner-up, pictured at right, was Altair Ioffe, MBA’17, GDB’15, founder of Ioffe Biotechnologies, a life-science start-up dedicated to optimizing human performance.