Forty Under 40

Ashleigh Kennedy, co-founder and CEO, Neurovine

Business: Digital health company combining AI and wearable technology to help brains heal Born: Ottawa Biggest business achievement: Founded...

Jason Kealey, vice-president of strategy, FranConnect

Business: Franchise management software Born: Gatineau Biggest business achievement: Founded a high-tech startup named FranchiseBlast that supported more than...

Elnaz Kanani K., senior manager of data and artificial intelligence, Deloitte

Business: Business consulting firm Born: Tehran, Iran Biggest business achievement: The network of people around me. Biggest obstacle overcome: Re-starting...

Taylor Johansen, autism program director, Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario

Born: Ottawa Biggest business achievement: Helping CHEO’s YouthNet/RéseauAdo program triple its capacity and reach. Biggest obstacle overcome: Becoming a...

Ken Jennings, owner, Jennings Real Estate Corp.

Business: Commercial real estate company Born: Ottawa Biggest business achievement: Founded a commercial real estate business that now manages...

Dr. Samuel Hetz, owner and medical director, Concept Medical

Business: Advanced cosmetic medicine and medical skin clinic Born: Mississauga Biggest business achievement: Welcoming our 15,000th patient in December...

Kelly Haussler, manager of destination development, Ottawa Tourism

Business: Destination marketing and management Born: Ottawa Biggest business achievement: A tie between helping to develop Indigenous Tourism Entrepreneurship...

Meseret Haileyesus, CEO, Canadian Center for Women’s Empowerment

Born: Ethiopia Biggest business achievement: Reached more than 10,000 people on how to identify and respond to economic...

Shawn Gandhi, world wide head of AI/ML solutions, Amazon Web Services

Business: Cloud platform Born: Ottawa Biggest business achievement: After growing the AWS enterprise business in New York and Boston,...

Kurtis Funai, chief technology officer, Fullscript

Business: Supplement dispensing technology platform Born: Ottawa Biggest business achievement: Building and scaling the Fullscript platform, playing a major...
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