Members in the News


The Brightest Lights: CEO of Wardrop recognizes EWB’s leading role in creating global engineers
Engineers without Borders, James Haga, October 28, 2008

Kofi Annan, former United Nations Secretary-General, said in an address to the engineering community, “Let me challenge all of you to help mobilize global science and technology to tackle the interlocking crises of hunger, disease, environmental degradation, and conflict that are holding back the developing world.”

For an engineer, there’s nothing like a stiff challenge. We pride ourselves on our unique ability to overcome complex challenges—to innovate and apply practical solutions that work for people.
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The Mayor's Race: And He's Off
The Globe and Mail, Peter Cheney, October 25, 2008

The Dark Horse

Meet Rocco Rossi. He's never been elected to anything. Yet, in Toronto's political backrooms people are asking: Could he be the right guy to take on David Miller? As Peter Cheney found, Mr. Rossi isn't playing it coy. If he finds support, he'll run.

The making of a politician is part calculation and part witchcraft - kingmakers work their speed dials, the force of money and influence boil and stir, and a candidate moves toward his date with destiny.

And so it was the Rocco Rossi stood outside the University of Toronto's Convocation Hall and schmoozed an A-list crowd that had gathered to honour the late Dr. Sheela Basrur. Mr. Rossi was hard to miss, a giant figure with a shaved cranium, the build of circus strongman, and a high-wattage smile that has been described as "the most amazing in Canadian public life" by no less than Michael Ignatieff.
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Student group aims to impact entrepreneurs
ROBYN YOUNG FOR METRO CANADA, October 20, 2008 05:35

Gaurav Jain is only 23 and already vice-president of business development for a cutting-edge mobile solutions company.

How did he get to be so successful at such a young age?

Jain and his classmate Kunal Gupta hatched the idea of Polar Mobile last year while still cramming for exams and completing work placements at the University of Waterloo.

The idea became a reality in February when Canada’s largest publisher — Rogers Publishing Limited — bought in to Smart Solution, an application they built that delivers content to consumers who use mobile devices such as the Blackberry and Apple’s iPhone.
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RoaDor Industries Ltd. Announces New Credit Facility and Appointment of Directors and Officers.
VAUGHAN, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - October 7, 2008)

RoaDor Industries Ltd. ("RoaDor") (TSX VENTURE: RDR.V) announced it has entered into a new $1.325 million credit facility that will provide additional capital to RoaDor for continued future growth. The new credit facility was entered into with CEO Capital LP No. 1 and David Williams, a director of RoaDor. The terms of the credit facility have been negotiated at arm's length between RoaDor and CEO Capital LP No. 1.

The credit facility is for a two year term maturing on September 30, 2010 and bears interest at the rate of 16% per annum. During the term, the loan payments will be interest only with the principal due and payable on maturity. The credit facility is secured by a registered security interest over all assets of RoaDor, subject to certain pre-existing security interests, in favour of the lenders.
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TGO Consulting bolsters its executive team in anticipation of rapid growth.
MARKHAM, ON, October 09, 2008

Blair Hicken has been appointed to CIO and Steve Ewing has been hired as VP of Sales & Marketing. The increased strength at TGO’s executive level will facilitate the company’s expansion into new lines of business, building on the strong base of 20 years’ experience in ERP implementations. TGO Consulting announces new additions to the executive team.
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Are your breasts online? They should be.

Schick Quattro for Women launches virtual, interactive Booby Wall in support of Rethink Breast Cancer.
TORONTO, Jan. 10 /CNW/

There are a lot of breasts on the internet, but there's nothing like this. In support of Rethink Breast Cancer, Schick Quattro for Women today launched the Booby Wall, a virtual, interactive exhibit of breasts designed to educate Canadian women about early breast cancer detection by encouraging them to show their breasts some TLC.

The Booby Wall (www.boobywall.ca) was created to bring Rethink's Touch. Look. Check. (TLC) early detection program to life. Women across Canada are encouraged to touch and look at their breasts and then take a picture of their breasts to upload to the Booby Wall. This ever-growing online gallery is designed to remind women about the importance of breast health.
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Natural and organic foods fuel the taste for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games

Hain Celestial Canada named first-ever official supplier of natural and organic grocery products at the 2010 Winter Games
Toronto, ON July 22, 2008

Vancouver 2010 will be the first-ever Games to feature a distinctly organic flavour with today’s announcement that the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (VANOC) has welcomed Hain Celestial Canada as the Official Supplier of natural and organic packaged grocery products for the 2010 Winter Games.

Hain Celestial Canada — known for popular healthy foods such as Yves Veggie Cuisine, Terra Chips, Earth’s Best baby food and Imagine organic soups — has received exclusive Official Supplier sponsorship rights in the natural and organic packaged grocery products category for the 2010 Winter Games. The agreement also includes sponsorship rights for the Canadian Olympic team for Beijing 2008, Vancouver 2010 and London 2012. The agreement enables Hain Celestial Canada to use 2010 Winter Games marks for promotional purposes.
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TGO Consulting Counted Among Top Finalists for the 2008 Microsoft Partner of the Year Award in Information Worker Solutions, Performance Management
MARKHAM, ON, June 16, 2008

Today, TGO Consulting announced it has been selected as a finalist for the Microsoft Partner of the Year award in Information Worker Solutions, Performance Management. "We are very excited to be nominated as one of two finalists for the Microsoft Partner of the Year Award in Information Worker, Performance Management. Being recognized as a finalist truly speaks to the experience and success TGO has in delivering end-to-end business intelligence and performance management solutions for our customers. We are equally thrilled to be the first in Canada to Achieve Microsoft's Performance Management Specialization." Orgad Gratch, CEO, TGO Consulting.
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There's nothing 'soft' about the non-profit sector
Rocco Rossi, chief executive officer of the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario
May 19, 2008

In the past 100 days or so, at least seven people have been saved using defibrillators and training that we have helped fund in Ontario arenas and recreation centres. Being able to directly link actions we have taken to lives saved is the greatest job satisfaction I have experienced in my entire life. Working with passionate colleagues who are driven first by a cause and not by a commission is a tremendous pleasure.

Those experiences and many more like them are available to all who enter the not-for-profit (NFP) sector. More and more executives are making the leap.

Some, however, are held back because they have bought into one or all of three myths about moving to the sector. I want to examine and respond to all three in the hope that more of you will consider joining me.
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TGO Consulting is First in Canada to Achieve Microsoft’s Performance Management Specialization

Markham, ON – April 8, 2008 – TGO Consulting today announced that it is the first Canadian company to receive the Performance Management specialization designation from Microsoft. The Performance Management specialization is a sub-set of the Microsoft Information Worker Competency. By achieving this Specialization, Microsoft technology partners demonstrate that they have the skills and knowledge necessary to successfully implement and support Microsoft® Office PerformancePoint™ Server 2007 for customers.
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Rocco Rossi - The Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada
Climbing his way into our hearts
By: Marc Kilchling, SUN Media
February 24, 2008

What do Mount Kilimanjaro and First Canadian Place have in common?

Both are part of the Seven Summits.

The former is the tallest mountain in Africa and, combined with other notable peaks, including Mount Everest, are the tallest mountains on each of the continents.
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Towers Perrin study debunks five common workforce myths
Stress, Technology and Bosses not always the enemy
Toronto, ON
February 28, 2008

Some of the most pervasive beliefs about the workforce have recently been challenged by findings from Towers perrin's Global Workforce Study - among them, that workers are highly stressed, that they resent the demands of new technologies and that they dislike their bosses.

To understand what drives employees to perform and succeed, Towers Perrrin recently surveyed nearly 90,000 employees in 18 countries, including 5,000 in Canada. The survey, which explored the drivers of wrokforce engagement - employees' willingness to go the extra mile to help their companies succeed - also dispelled many of the myths that surround today's workforce.
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PEO Member saving lives and making a difference

Rocco Rossi of Heart and Stroke Foundation raised over a million dollars 100% of which goes to putting AED's Defibrillators in public arenas and stands to save over 3500 hundred lives per year - that is making a difference.
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Jim Eckler President and CEO, SCI Logistics
Logistics Quarterly Volume 13, Issue 5 – Executive Interviews
Monday, January 21, 2007

LQ: Has your company been engaged in acquisitions or M&As [mergers and acquisitions] and how has this impacted your agility and price? (Russ Doak) Jim Eckler: Yes, M&A is a very important part of our growth strategy. Last March our firm acquired AMG Logistics, which is a high quality 
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TSI Group names Managing Director for new division,  
TSI Executive Search 
November 5, 2007 , 2007

TSI Group (TSI), one of Canada's leading professional services firms, proudly announced the launch of TSI Executive Search, a new division specializing in the recruitment of corporate executives and senior level managers. Michael Mundy was introduced as Managing Director of TSI Executive Search by Pamela Ruebushch, TSI's President and Chief Executive Officer.
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Fundraising: Heart and Stroke Foundation
Energetic CEO to climb Toronto's tallest towers for charity
By Erika Beauchesne, Globe and Mail
Fri, November 30, 2007

After Rocco Rossi cycled the length of Yonge Street, people kept asking him, "how are you going to top that?"

It's the word "top" that stuck with him.

The latest fundraising campaign for the Heart and Stroke Foundation in Ontario will have the 45-year-old sweating his way up Toronto's seven tallest towers over the course of one weekend. His trek will total 29,028 stairs - a height equivalent to that of Mount Everest.
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Charity's CEO all heart
Rocco Rossi's passion for fundraising will take him up Mount Everest – T.O.-style, that is.
By Brian GrayRocco, Sun Media
Fri, November 30, 2007

Rossi doesn't have time to ask the "What ifs?" about life. He's too busy discovering the answers.

Chances are the CEO of the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario has cycled or paddled by you at some time over his three years at the helm of one of the largest charities in Canada.
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Nobody's Business
Rossi ready to climb for the heart
By Erika Beauchesne, Globe and Mail
Fri, November 30, 2007

Rocco Rossi - the money-raising maniac - is at it again. Today, Mr. Rossi, CEO of the Heart & Stroke Foundation of Ontario, is announcing his latest fundraising stunt.

Themed on mountain climbing, the idea is to have a group of senior business people join Mr. Rossi in climbing the stairs of seven of the tallest office buildings in Toronto.
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Saxon plans expansion of small cap fund line-up
Proposed offering includes Advisor Series
Toronto, Ontario: November 1, 2007

Saxon Financial Inc. (TSX: SFI) announced that a preliminary simplified prospectus for three new funds has been filed with all of the securities regulators across Canada: Saxon Microcap Fund, Saxon U.S. Small Cap Fund, and Saxon Global Small Cap Fund. Saxon plans to make the funds available in Advisor Series, Investor Series, B-Series (institutional), and F-Series. The funds will be managed according to the same value investment style has been applied in the 22-year Saxon Small Cap fund.
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McMillan Binch Mendelsohn LLP has added international disputes partner Robert Wisner to its Toronto office
Toronto, Ontario: June 25 , 2007
Toronto, Ontario: Monday, June 25, 2007: McMillan Binch Mendelsohn LLP is pleased to announce that Robert Wisner has joined its highly regarded Litigation and Dispute Resolution group as partner. His practice will focus on international arbitration and litigation, foreign investment protection and international trade.

Returning to McMillan Binch Mendelsohn after four and a half years at a boutique firm specialising in investor-state arbitration, Mr. Wisner has extensive experience in international commercial disputes and expects to carry out a mixed commercial and treaty-based international practice.
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Heather Gomes: working smarter, not harder
By Lana Winkler in Women's Post
November 9, 2007

“I never dreamed I'd get into finance”, she said with a grin. Tall and light, with the honey-blonde kind of beauty one would expect from an actress, Heather Gomes, the current CFO of Virgin Mobile, does not fit any preconceived ideas of what a finance professional should look like. “I never really enjoyed math and sciences when I was in school”she said – “I was more into art and the humanities, but I liked the challenge of finance, so that's what I took.”

This love of challenge led Heather to major in business at McMaster University, from which she graduated in 1985. While there, her focus was actually on marketing rather than finance, but she found after graduating that there were major opportunities available for accountants.
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Business Meets Spirit: Pamela Ruebusch
By Lana Winkler in Women's Post
August 20, 2007
Pamela Ruebusch knows that it takes more than business smarts to successfully run a company. Courage, empathy, and ambition are all elements of a great leader — and as founder, president and CEO of TSI Group, Pamela has proved that she embodies all of these. Started in 1990, TSI is now one of Canada’s leading human resources and business solutions companies. “I believe that there are two planes of reality,” explains Pamela. “What we think, and what we do, and ultimately, I think we create our own reality.”
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A Healthy Balance: Beena Goldenberg
By Lana Wrinkler in Women's Post
August 10, 2007
Whappens when you combine a fascination with science, passion for health
and forward-focused ambition? You get a visionary in the form of Beena
Goldenberg, general manager of the Canadian division of the Hain-Celestial Group, the world's largest natural and organic food company, which also now specializes in natural personal-care products.
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Golden Dragon Added to Gulliver's Travel
Canadian Golden Dragon Resources Ltd.
June 19, 2007
Canadian Golden Dragon Resources Ltd. ("Dragon") announces the appointment of Rene Gulliver, to its board of directors. Mr. Gulliver is a broad-based Senior Financial and Business Executive with extensive experience in Financial, Operational, General Management and Leadership. A graduate of the Richard Ivey School of Business with an Honours B.A. in Business Administration in 1979, he went on to complete a C.A. in 1982 with additional training at the Canadian Institute of Business Valuators.
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Real Bergevin - NuComm International
May 2007
More than a decade ago, Real Bergevin discovered he had a talent that would flourish in the nascent call-centre industry. He has turned his ability to establish and maintain the centres into a $100-million-a-year business that employs more than 4,000 people around the world and is still growing.
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