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ASSOCIATION
Joy Thomas
Number Cruncher
Joy Thomas’s achievements as president and CEO of the Certified Management Accountants of Alberta over the past three years, which included doubling student enrolment and helping create a national brand for the professional association, were rewarded with her recent appointment as the president and CEO of CMA Canada. She thus becomes the first female leader of a national accounting body in North America.
ACADEME
Philip Verleger
Energy Market Maven
Why no one’s yet dubbed energy market analyst Philip Verleger the Oracle of the Oilsands seems as mysterious as his
ability to predict the price of crude. Maybe it’s all the alliteration. But still, the University of Calgary’s David E. Mitchell/EnCana Professor in Management at the Haskayne School of Business called US$150 a barrel before the peak and, after changing his mind about the imminence of $200, identified $50 to $70 a barrel as a stabilization point. Checked prices today? The Oracle has spoken.
BUSINESS
Brett Wilson
Businessman at Large
You’ve heard of public intellectuals, right? In the last two years Brett Wilson, founder of FirstEnergy Capital Corp., has carved out a unique (in Canada, anyway) role for himself as a public business person, investor and philanthropist. He’s gained national stature as the kindly dragon on Dragons’ Den and his honorary luncheon as Alberta’s Business Person of the Year last January was sold out weeks in advance with a largely A-list crowd. When Wilson talks – and he does, ever so eloquently – people listen. |
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