People on the Move

Call it a conscious uncoupling or a relatively amicable divorce, but after years of being hitched to big law firms, Ottawa family law lawyer Katherine Cooligan has parted ways with that world to co-found a new boutique law firm, Cooligan Yehia LLP.

When Rick Chase and Adam Kane were separately contacted by an Ottawa recruiter as ideal candidates for a couple of job positions, the men were flattered but not necessarily swayed. But once they learned more about Gifford Carr Insurance Group and the vision its president had for the company, they realized the positions being offered were an excellent fit.

Long-time technology executive Mychelle Mollot is the new chief marketing officer at the Ottawa-based software firm Knak.

Live Nation Canada has expanded its team with new senior leadership in its Ottawa office, announcing award-winning music festival promoter Ali Shafaee as its regional vice-president.

No journalist ever wants to get scooped but to get scooped up, as local news anchor and reporter Megan Shaw has been by Syntax Strategic, is a whole other story.

The Ottawa Senators have acquired a top-performing player, off the ice, anyway, with the hiring of Jacqueline...

For Sara Rossmann, good leadership is about recognizing that we’re all human, we all make mistakes, and we all have our bad days as well as our good days.

“It’s somewhat of a similar role to what I was doing at Keynote but it’s on a bit of a larger scale because the company is quite a bit bigger," said Turk.

As Doug McLarty gets ready to retire from MNP LLP, what he’ll remember most about his four-decade-long career as a chartered accountant in Ottawa will be the people he’s met and the relationships he’s built.

Jennifer Cross, through her new role with MARANT Construction, is now helping clients reconceptualize what their offices could look like.