Alumni updates

76 Anthony Vanelli, BSc (math.), MSc (math.) 78, was named provost and vice-president academic at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ont. He assumed his new position on August 1, 2020.

Patricia Abbott, BA (journ.), is celebrating 30 years as conductor of the English Montreal School Board Chorale and 40 years with the Chorale du Gesù as a founder and conductor since 1982.

Gina Cody, MEng, PhD 89, will be featured in a book published by Simon & Schuster titled Extraordinary Canadians (written by Peter Mansbridge) that will be released this fall.

82 Brian Howlett, BComm, was appointed president and CEO at Hemlo Explorers Inc. (formerly Canadian Orebodies Inc.), a mineral exploration company with a portfolio of properties in Ontario and Nunavut.

88 Brenda Shanahan, MBA, was named a member of the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians.

89 Michael Singer, BComm (acct.), was named interim CEO of Aurora Cannabis.

Benoit Arsenault, BA (econ.), was appointed vice-president, business development for Quebec at Raymond James, a division of the American financial services company Raymond James Financial.

Michael Winzap, BA (poli. sci.), was named Ambassador of Switzerland to Samoa, as well as Ambassador of Switzerland to New Zealand accredited to other Pacific Islands.

92 Eric Poteet, BComm (fin.), was named head of North American institutional foreign exchange sales for Toronto Dominion (TD).

93 Geneviève Dussault, BA (psych.), GrDip (institutional admin.) 99, was appointed senior account director at Tam-Tam\TBWA, a Montreal-based marketing and communications agency.

Karen Hogan, BComm, GrDip (acct.) 95, was nominated by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to be Canada’s new Auditor General.

95 Tamir Moscovici, BFA (film prod.), joined talent agency The Directors Network as a director for commercials and branded content in the U.S.

96 Jennifer Hayes, BA, MBA 01, was reappointed as Commissioner of the Canadian Dairy Commission by Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food Marie-Claude Bibeau. Hayes has held the position since 2017.

Heather Kirk, BComm (fin.), was named senior vice-president and chief financial officer at Groupe Sélection, the largest private retirement complex developer in Canada.

Dominique McCaughey, BA (hist.), MA (hist.) 02, was named chief executive officer at the Montreal-based organization Agence Ometz.

97 Andrew Chlebus, BA (soc.), GrDip 99, was named vice-president of business solutions at LG Canada.

99 Mary Chronopoulos, BComm (econ.), EMBA 06, was appointed vice-president and chief financial officer at Énergir Inc. She assumed her new role on April 6, 2020.

Monique Hutchins, BComm (mrkt.), was named corporate secretary at Oxford Mining Corporation, a gold explorer focused on highly prospective and underexplored areas of Northern Quebec.

01 Massimo Iamello, BComm (acct.), GrDip 08, was named partner at MNP LLP, one of the largest full-service chartered accountancy and business advisory firms in Canada.

Henry Kwan, BA (econ.), was named sales director at Vanguard Canada. Elisa Gruber Lustig, BComm (fin.), was hired as director of private investing at Ballentine Partners in Waltham, Mass.

02 Audrey Lefebvre, BA (comm. studies), was named vice-president, director of operations and client lead at Tam-Tam\TBWA.

03 Marie-Hélène Beaulieu, BA (comm. studies), was hired as head of brand partnerships and strategy at The Unknown Group, a Montreal-based content marketing and strategy agency.

Pauls Calitis, AMBA, was appointed chief operations officer and member of the supervisory board at airBaltic, the flag carrier of Latvia.

Nicolas Dinh, BEng (comp. eng.), Ranjit Sarai, BEng (software eng.) 03, and Miro Pavletic have developed STACK, a mobile app launched in Canada that aims to simplify how consumers save and spend money.

Joseph Galluci, BComm (mktg.), MBA (investment mgmt.) 08, was appointed to the board of directors of Skyharbour Resources.

04 Jarad Pesner, BA (classical civilization), was appointed senior business developer at Solotech, an audiovisual and entertainment technology company, in Ottawa, Ont.

06 Robert-Paul Juster, BA, was named the Sex and Gender Science Chair by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Institute of Gender and Health. Juster, a researcher at the Centre de recherche de l’Institut universitaire en santé mentale de Montréal, will focus on LGBTQI2S wellness and resilience. Arda Yapar, BComm (fin.), was named finance manager of alternative investments at Montrusco Bolton Investments.

07 Marion Morris, BA (comm. studies), was appointed senior director of strategy and operations at BICOM Communications.

08 Kristen Petitclerc, BA (poli. sci.), was hired as a lawyer at Renno & Vathilakis, a litigation firm located in Montreal.

09 Andrea Clarke, BSc, MSc 12, MBA 17, was named senior director of Community Engagement and Social Impact in the Office of the Provost at Concordia.

Patricia Lanoie, BA (comm. studies), was named director at Romeo & Fils, a Montreal-based production house.

14 Iain Farmer, MBA, was appointed vice-president of corporate development at Osisko Gold Royalties Ltd.

Katerina Fragos, BComm, was named to the 2020 “30 

Michael Sabia, LLD, was named chair of the Canada Infrastructure Bank. The bank was established by the federal government in 2017 to help spur revenue-generating infrastructure projects through public-private partnerships.

Sarah Volstad, BA (journ.), was hired as legal counsel at Astaldi, a construction multinational based in Rome.

15 Manel Menouar, BA (poli. sci.), was appointed senior policy advisor to the office of Bill Blair, Canada’s Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness.

16 Sasha Alcoloumbre, BA (western society and culture), wrote, directed and produced a film called Trois Mois. It was featured as part of an LGBT Film Series at Never Apart in Montreal last February. Massimo Cannucci, BA (Eng. lit.), was named media copywriter at Valtech, a global digital agency. Antoine Landriault-Arbour, BComm (fin.), was named senior associate at Diagram Ventures.

17 Khatidja Kassam, MBA, was hired as communications advisor at Bonjour Startup Montreal, which aims to promote entrepreneurial innovation in the city. Sara Baron-Goodman, BA (journ.), was named senior copywriter at 1Milk2Sugars Communications. Charles Vennat, EMBA, was named CEO of 48North Cannabis Corp.

18 Julie Rollet, BComm (mktg.), was named content project manager at Valtech.

19 Daniel Herrera, EMBA, was named chief corporate development officer at Medcolcanna Organics, a Calgary-based medical cannabis company.