Leveraging business relationships
Infusion's Toronto-based president, Alim Somani (BASc '01, Electrical Engineering), talks about leveraging business relationships to create international expansion opportunities.
Infusion's Toronto-based president, Alim Somani (BASc '01, Electrical Engineering), talks about leveraging business relationships to create international expansion opportunities.
Tim Jackson (BA '92, Chartered Accountancy Studies) is co-founder and partner in the Waterloo Region chapter of Social Venture Partners, an organization that aims to match investors with worthy community organizations.
The 2010 Polanyi Prize in physics was awarded to Anne Broadbent (BMath '02, Combinatorics & Optimization) who is a Post-Doctorate Fellow, Institute for Quantum Computing.
Tanya Grygaski (BASc '02) is working with the St. Lucia Red Cross to provide water and sanitation to citizens of the Caribbean nation who have been affected by Hurricane Tomas. She was also deployed to Haiti following the deadly January 2010 earthquake.
Peter Cebo (BMath '09) owns and and operates Go Teach English in Korea, a recruiting service that helps university graduates find teaching jobs in Korea.
Natalie Macneil's (BA '08, Political Science/Arts & Business) blog, She Takes on the World, recently won blog of the year at the international Stevie Awards for Women in Business. Earlier this year, Forbes added her blog to its list of the 10 best career sites for women.
Randy Marks (BASc '91, Civil Engineering/Management Sciences), president of TRK Engineering and TRK Helicopters, discusses his business of buying and selling helicopters.
Tim Jackson (BA '92, Chartered Accountancy Studies) discusses how private capital can be invested for public good and earn a return.
Rogerscasey Canada's new Managing Director, Investment Counsel is Ruo Tan (PhD '91, Combinatorics & Optimization).
Lejla Odobasic (BAS '06 Architecture Studies; MArch '09 Architecture) and Liana Bresler (BAS '07, Architecture Studies; MArch '10, Architecture) hope their combined thesis projects, Jerusalem/Sarajevo — in between cities, will bring people together to a more secular place where religion doesn't separate them.