Management

Read profiles of management alumni who are making a mark. Got a tip? Email Shelley LaMorre at shelley.lamorre@dal.ca with your profile ideas.

Alumni Spotlight

Brittany Bartlett (BComm’09)

Hiring it forward: Brittany Bartlett (BComm’09)

Brittany Bartlett’s (BComm’09) own co-op experiences as a student helped propel her career. Now, as a Senior Manager with KPMG’s Halifax Audit practice, she is benefiting from Dalhousie’s co-op program in a new way, by hiring co-op students to help reach organizational goals while staying connected to her alma mater.

May 21, 2017 / 0
Monique Woroniak

Monique Woroniak (MLIS’2008) speaks on libraries, Indigenous communities and building relationships

by Miriam Breslow Libraries are recognized as community learning centres. Monique Woroniak also sees them as places of opportunity that can help to reset the relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people. The School of Information Management (SIM) graduate returned to Halifax recently to give the 2017 Dalhousie–Horrocks National Leadership Lecture, and explained why libraries are […]

February 8, 2017 / 0

Lindsay Clowes and Laurel Schut (MES’16) celebrate their first harvest with FOUND

by Miriam Breslow Lindsay Clowes and Laurel Schut (pictured, L & R) hadn’t even graduated from the Master of Environmental Studies program when they dug into an ambitious initiative. “We defended within two days of each other in April 2016 and officially graduated in October 2016,” says Schut. But in May, the two launched FOUND, […]

January 12, 2017 / 0
Maria Artuso (MBA’15)

Maria Artuso (MBA’15): one of Ottawa’s Forty Under 40

Written by Miriam Breslow “Surreal” is how Maria Artuso describes the moment she learned that she had been named one of Ottawa’s 2016 Forty Under 40. Bestowed by the Ottawa Chamber of Commerce and the Ottawa Business Journal, this honour goes to 40 accomplished and rising businesspeople in the city. Artuso, a manager at RBC […]

November 28, 2016 / 0
MBA at Dalhousie Victor Pellegrino

Always keep learning: Victor Pellegrino (MBA’06)

Earning an MBA degree mid-career was not on Victor Pellegrino’s (MBA’06) radar when he began an undergraduate degree in ancient history. However, the Dal MBA that Pellegrino pursued in his early forties has proven invaluable in continually furthering his career.

September 27, 2016 / 0
Monique Woroniak (MLIS'08)

Impacting, and making a change: Monique Woroniak (MLIS’08)

Customer Services Librarian, Winnipeg Public Library Monique Woroniak is the 2008 recipient of the Louis Vagianos Medal, awarded to an MLIS graduating student who combines the capacity for blending originality with practical thinking and the courage to seek solutions to professional problems outside the mainstream. Monique has worked in the Winnipeg Public Library system since […]

June 15, 2016 / 0
Ming Yeung

Aspiring finance professionals: Ming Yeung (MBA’07)

Senior Manager, Global Banking and Markets Compliance, Scotiabank Ming continued his studies after completing his MBA(FS), earning a BEd from Brock University in 2009 and a LLM from York University in 2011. He also began his banking career, joining eTRADE Canada as a project manager in 2008, responsible for product development and management of online […]

June 15, 2016 / 0
Empower Women

Building a better world: Cindy Jensen (BComm’84)

Founder and Managing Director, BOLDMOVES CHINA Cindy has held diverse positions from coast to coast and continent to continent since graduating from the commerce program. She spent 10 years working with Frito-Lay in Vancouver before making an industry jump to work with Telus Mobility. In 2002, Cindy and her husband decided to pursue entrepreneurial opportunities […]

June 15, 2016 / 0