As the executive director of Hamilton's Innovation Factory, Ron Neumann (BASc '83, Systems Design Engineering) is charged with building an innovation centre to create jobs and wealth.
This year's recipient of the Governor General's Gold Medal and the Chartered Accountants of Canada cash prize of $5,000 is Vicky Au (BAFM '10, Accounting & Financial Mgt; MACC '10, Accounting, Professional).
Dale Henderson (BASc '70, Electrical Engineering) is the new Ward 9 councillor for London, Ontario.
Five Waterloo alumnae are recipients of the prestigious 2010 Canada's Most Powerful Women: Top 100™ Awards, Canada's most recognizable award for the country's highest achieving female leaders in the private, public and not-for-profit sectors: Barbara Orser (BA '79, Recreation and Business) - Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation Champions Award; Lesley Conway (BES '83, Urban & Regional Planning) - Scotiabank Corporate Executives Award; Michelle DiEmanuele (BA '87, Political Science) - Xstrata Nickel
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.