One local restaurateur is stepping out of the pandemic and into the future with a new restaurant concept that he believes will solve some of the biggest challenges facing the industry.
By day, Ryan E. Watson holds down a regular job as a chief human resources officer, but by night, when the city comes alive, he’s a fast-talking, gavel-wielding charity auctioneer from Raising the Bid.
University of Ottawa grad who built Shopify’s engineering department from a few dozen developers into a global workforce of thousands is relishing his new role as adviser and investor at Denver-based software startup DreamTeam.
That’s up from 10 per cent in the previous quarter and more than four percentage points higher than it was in late 2019, before the pandemic triggered a dramatic shift to remote work that hollowed out office towers across North America.