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Irene Scholl-Tatevosyan didn’t aspire to be an attorney as she grew up. She didn’t expect to wield her pen to write briefs, motions or contracts because she wanted to be an animator. “I love to draw,” she says. “Art is a beautiful way of storytelling, and I enjoy storytelling in a visual medium.” While a […]

Irene Chiu is a lawyer with roots in medicine. Since childhood, she’s looked up to her parents: her obstetrician-gynecologist father and her cardio-surgeon mother. “Even in 2023, the fields of cardio-surgery remain male-dominated,” Chiu says. “So, for me, having a mother who excelled as a cardio-surgeon showed me what women can accomplish. I couldn’t have […]

It takes courage to leave everything you’ve ever known behind and start over in a new country, but it takes a special kind of person to pull that off amid a global pandemic. A little more than three years ago, in early 2020, Ilse Moreno packed up all her belongings, put her then-13-year-old dog Lolo […]

For almost 25 years, Kitchener, Ontario-based D2L has provided learning platforms, content and programs to help instruct students from kindergarten through college, as well as for adults looking to improve and build on job skills.  Founded in 1999 by President and CEO John Baker, then a 22-year-old, third-year engineering student at the University of Waterloo, […]

Indra Maharaj once jokingly told her mother that if she ever got a boat, she’d call it “The Winding Path.”  Indeed, her legal career has twisted and turned. Version 1.0 had Maharaj immersed in civil and commercial litigation in Winnipeg, Manitoba, with her eye on the partner track. Version 2.0 involved her moving to Alberta, handling […]

When she first stepped into the office of a company to be interviewed for an internship position, Inaiê F. Mendes Reis could never imagine the responsibility she’d shoulder only a few years later. As she explains, “when I was 27, I was already in charge of South America for my company.” That immersion, she says, […]

During her first week on the job at Ironclad Developments, Lauren Clemens remembers her boss handing her the file to an upcoming sale of five buildings for upwards of $70 million. The sale price had a lot of zeros after it—more than she’d seen on almost any other transaction. Entering the field of real estate […]

It’s all about the resilience, says Isabelle Melody. In a world where phishing no longer involves poles or nets and jamming has nothing to do with breakfast, what’s needed is resilience to combat modern threats ranging from GPS jamming and spoofing to more sophisticated cyberattacks meant to cripple critical infrastructure. That’s what Orolia’s products—such as […]

Everyone loves a good story about making an impossible situation possible—but no one more so than Iván Diego Durontó of AES Argentina. With only a month to complete a monstrous financial task—the likes of which the Buenos Aires-based energy company had never before completed—Durontó and his team actively collaborated with an AES Argentina multidisciplinary team […]

It’s an image at once historic and haunting: a nine-year-old Vietnamese girl, naked and screaming in the street, black smoke billowing in the background. To many, Nick Ut’s Pulitzer-winning photo, taken in 1972 near a small Vietnamese village, about 25 miles northwest of Saigon, is a timeless token to the horrors of war. But for […]