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In Bermuda, arts and culture can be an enabler for progress

Published: 20 March 2017

Desautels alumna Lauren Merkel (MBA'13) makes the case that Bermuda’s best resource for moving the island nation forward is its arts and cultural capital. Ms. Merkel is a senior consultant at...

Desautels alumna runs for city council in Colorado

Published: 31 March 2017

Melissa Youssef (MBA'91) is stepping into municipal politics in Durango, Colorado. She is a civically-minded member of the community and a successful businesswoman; Ms. Youssef is VP of the local...

Eytan Bensoussan on mentoring, entrepreneurship and modern business banking

Published: 21 April 2017

Eytan Bensoussan (BSc’05, MBA/LLB’10) loves a challenge. He has studied math, bio-chemistry, political science and management. In his career life, he worked for McKinsey & Company, the Globe...

CEOs, academics and how to run a restaurant

Published: 21 April 2017

Desautels Associate Professor Karl Moore was recently interviewed on The Grilled Podcast to discuss his development as a businessman and academic, collaboration and bringing CEOs in to speak to his...

The Desautels alumnus at the centre of a CAE/JAL joint venture

Published: 26 April 2017

Quentin O’Mahony is a long way from his Abbottsford, BC home. He lives, works and plays in Japan as the General Manager of CAE’s joint flight-simulator and flight training venture with Japan...

Student-mentor programs hit their stride

Published: 28 April 2017

As students looking to start their careers realize the value of getting sound advice, the number of student-mentor pairings in Canada is growing at a rapid rate. The growth and evolution of the...

Swimmer, Pharmacist and bank CEO: a Desautels alumnus’ journey

Published: 2 May 2017

Barclays Bank Kenya CEO Jeremy Awori (MBA’96) more or less fell into banking. He started out as a competitive swimmer, but when his Olympic dream fell apart he went to the UK on a scholarship and...

Luc Papineau’s next big thing

Published: 4 May 2017

After four years as VP and Director at Valeurs Mobilières Desjardins, Luc Papineau (BA’81, MBA’91) thinks it’s time to kick his game up a notch by doubling VMD’s Montreal-area advisors and diving...

New podcast by Desautels alumnus looks at growth through company founders’ stories

Published: 9 May 2017

Deron Triff (MBA'98) has had an enviable career; he’s worked for PBS, TED, and Scholastic. Now, he’s founded a new media incubator with another former TED executive, June Cohen....

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