For McGill alumnus, seaweed is green gold

Published: 15 February 2017

Jean-Paul Deveau sells seaweed — or rather, products derived from it. His company, Acadian Seaplants Limited, is the world’s biggest producer of seaweed-based fertilizers and products for human and...

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...

EXplorance among Canada’s best workplaces for 4th year

Published: 2 May 2017

Montreal’s eXplorance has made it onto the Great Place to Work list of the best workplaces for the 4th year in a row. EXplorance is a learning experience management specialist that has gone through...

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...

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