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Arthur Zuidema
LLB ’89, city
manager, Corporation of the
City of London, London, Ont.
1990s
Anne Archibald
BMT ’99, music
therapist, Shannex Inc., Halifax, N.S.
Lynnette Bain
BComm ’99, VP,
tourism programs & development,
Tourism Windsor Essex Pelee Island,
Windsor, Ont.
Catherine Bedell
BA ’98, managing
editor,
Global Finance Magazine
,
New York, NY.
Brenda Clark
BA ’95, BA ’96, financial
planner, Libro Financial Group,
Arkona, Ont.
Alex Cusenza
BASc ’98, electrical
engineer for automated-guided
vehicles, Daifuku Webb, Farmington
Hills, MI.
Laurie Cusinato
BA ’98, business
development co-ordinator,
Transit-Rail Northeast, AECOM,
New York, NY.
Jeremy Dean
BA ’98, principal,
D. Jeremy Dean Wealth Planning,
Windsor, Ont.
Ian Drago
BHK ’93, principal, Our
Lady of the Annunciation School,
Stoney Point, Ont.
Jeffrey Fraser
BA ’98, president,
Ingenuity Advisory, Oakville, Ont.
Michael Gillespie
BHK ’91, associate
dean, State University New York
(SUNY) Empire State College Central
New York Center, Syracuse, NY.
Thomas Grondin
BA ’92, Aegon
management board, Aegon, The
Netherlands.
Eric Hoffstein
LLB ’99, partner,
Minden Gross LLP, Toronto, Ont.
Gunhild Hotte
MFA ’92, artist,
Zeitgeist/Enduring Landscape art
exhibit, Timmins Museum,
National Exhibition Centre, Oct., ’12,
Timmins, Ont.
Mark Hunt
BCS ’92, systems
architect, London Life Insurance
Company, London, Ont.
Jennifer Jones
BA ’91, chair,
University of Windsor board of
governors, president and CEO, Media
Street Productions Inc., Windsor, Ont.
Melanie Lang
BA ’94, BA ’95, MBA ’98,
CEO, Nakai Group, Moncton, N.B.
Thomas Laube
BComm ’93, owner,
Thomas Laube Wealth Advisory/
FundEX Investments, Grimsby, Ont.
Gregg Lown
BComm ’98, CPA ’04,
director of golf, El Camaleon Golf
Club (Mayakoba Resort), Riviera
Maya, MX.
David MacNeil
MBA ’99, director,
contracts and corporate compliance,
Field Aviation Company Inc.,
Mississauga, Ont.
Merv McLeod
BPA ’90, partner,
McLeod Wood Associates Inc.,
Fergus, Ont.
Joelle Nagle
BA ’99, BEd ’01, teacher,
Windsor-Essex Catholic District
School Board, Windsor, Ont.
Gail Nielsen
BA ’94, MA ’97,
founder and principal coach,
Prohockeymindset, London, Ont.
Jelena Payne
BA ’93, BEd ’94,
commissioner, Community
Development and Health Services,
Corporation City of Windsor,
Windsor, Ont.
Ferruccio Pugliese
BA ’92,
BComm ’94, president, WestJet
Encore, and executive VP, WestJet,
Calgary, Alta.
Wassim Saad
BSc ’97, leading
physician award, International
Association of Healthcare
Professionals , New York, N.Y.
Jacqueline Thoms
BA ’92, BEd ’93,
financial management support
consultant, State Board for
Community and Technical Colleges,
Bellevue, WA.
Sarah Trevivian
BComm ’97,
MBA ’98, account manager,
RBC Royal Bank, Simcoe, Ont.
Kristina Verner
BA ’98, BEd ’99,
MBA ’08, director, intelligent
communities, Waterfront Toronto,
recipient, The Queen Elizabeth II
Diamond Jubilee Medal,
Toronto, Ont.
Jacinto Vieira
LLB ’97, board of
directors, URU Metals Limited,
Toronto, Ont.
Michelle Vincent
BA ’94, CBA ’95,
CME/GME co-ordinator,
Mount Sinai Medical Center,
Miami Beach, FL.
Hok Fung Ying
BA ’90, director, PT
Conch South Kalimantan Cement,
Jakarta, Indonesia.
2000s
Salman Ali
BComm ’05, Canadian
International Freight Forwarders
Association’s Young Freight
Forwarder of the Year 2012;
International Freight Forwarders
Association’s Young Regional
Freight Forwarder of the Year 2012,
(The Americas), Toronto, Ont.
Megan Battersby
BA ’08, owner,
photographer, Megan Battersby
Photography, Toronto, Ont.
Sarah Brophey
BA ’04, team rider,
RCMP Musical Ride, Sept. ’12,
Windsor, Ont.
UWINDSOR GRAD ON “UNDERCOVER BOSS”
Windsor Law alumnus
Lorne Abony
LLB ’94 was featured on the CBS
series “Undercover Boss” on Jan. 4, 2013.
Abony is CEO and chairman of Mood Media, a company valued at $1.3
billion. In the episode, the disguised executive worked hand-in-hand with
employees who provide the company’s front-line services. He is the first
Canadian-born executive profiled on the U.S. version of the hit series.
“This once-in-a-lifetime opportunity with ‘Undercover Boss’ enabled me
to interact and connect with our dedicated employees in the field who
work tirelessly to deliver exceptional service to our clients,” said Abony.
Mood Media provides music, digital signage, messaging, social/mobile applications,
location-based services and scent marketing to such companies as McDonald’s, Gucci,
Nike and AT&T. Serving more than 560,000 commercial locations in 55 countries, Mood’s
products reach more than 150 million people every day. In 2011,
PROFIT
magazine named
it Canada’s fastest-growing company.
With his company’s international reach, Abony says his decision to pursue the combined
US and Canada law degree program at UWindsor has paid off. “My legal education in
Windsor was fundamental in teaching me how to think about problems, how to challenge
traditional ideas and how to subject thoughts to rigorous scrutiny.”
Abony co-founded online skills game site FUN Technologies in 2001 and attracted more
than 25 million registered users. In 2004, he became the youngest CEO of a listed company
on the Toronto Stock Exchange, and in 2006 the Globe and Mail named the dynamic
entrepreneur to its Top 40 under 40 list. In 2005, Abony sold his 51 percent controlling
interest to Liberty Media, for $196 million.
