2011-2012 CMESA Team
Name: Lee Fridman
Position: President
Program: Management Economics in Finance
Career Goal: Business/Financial/Project management for developing firms, preferably in warm climates.
Favourite thing to do @ UofG: Live there – class all day, gym, lunch @ The Bullring, study all night.
If you could have one superpower: The ability to get by without sleep.
If you could have lunch with any one person from history: John Nash, Tim Berners-Lee, Steve Jobs, Larry Page, Arianna Huffington… there’s no way to pick one!
Title of your Biography: “Everything, All the Time.”
Pet Peeve: Bad grammar, bad elevator manners, people who speak inaudibly low…
Name: Ryan Stroble
Position: Vice-President External
Program: Marketing Management
Career Goal: Become a leading innovator and creator of a socially conscious, sustainable and profitable business model, which I could teach and mentor to young entrepreneurs.
Favourite thing to do @ UofG: Homecoming and meeting new people in all of my classes. And I’ve never painted the cannon, but future me says it was an awesome time!!!
If you could have one superpower: Travel at the speed of light and adapt to any environment to survive, one minute I’m here next minute I’m on Jupiter with a margarita.
If you could have lunch with any one person from history: Albert Einstein, Martin Luther King Jr., Jim Carrey, George Carlin, Dave Chapelle
Title of your Biography: BOOM: Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever
Pet Peeve: Smoking cigarettes indoors, War, and pouring a bowl of cereal but finding out you have no milk.
Name: Samantha Cherry
Position: Vice-President Internal Affairs
Program: Marketing Management
Career Goal: To work for a large sports organization (NHL– fingers crossed) in the marketing/event management/sponsorship department
Favourite thing to do @ U of G: Attend homecoming & commerce formal – It’s a rule
If you could have a superpower: Teleportation or do anything I want with the snap of my fingers
If you could have lunch with anyone from history (dead or alive): Gary Bettman- Commissioner of the NHL (NETWORKING PEOPLE!!!)
Title of your biography: TOO much at one time – The Samantha Cherry Story
Pet Peeve: People saying LIKE (I’m working on it too lol)
Name: Chris Hilliard
Position: Director of Marketing
Program: Marketing Management
Career Goal: Build brands, innovate, and make a difference.
Favourite thing to do @ UofG: You actually think I can just pick one?
If you could have one superpower: I think it would be really cool to be able look at a book or article and just be able to know what it says without having to actually take the time to read it.
If you could have lunch with any one person from history: Crosby & Ovechkin
Title of your Biography: Marketing & Life
Pet Peeve: People that bring things up and then go “I can’t actually say the rest”.
Name: Yosra Mohamed
Position: Director of Academic Affairs
Program: Management Economics in Finance
Career Goal: Become Chief Financial Analyst at a top financial company
Favourite thing to do @ UofG: Toss up between hanging out – and sometimes studying – in the UC second floor and giving tours at the UofG.
If you could have one superpower: The ability to turn everything I touch into skittles – by will only!
If you could have lunch with any one person from history: Steve Irwin
Title of your Biography: “…And they said it would be hard!”
Pet Peeve: People who can’t sit still/fidgeters.
Name: Andrew Wright
Position: Director of Finance.
Program: Accounting.
Career Goal: Work in the corporate aspect of professional sports.
Favourite thing to do @ UofG: Spend quality time in the gymnasium.
If you could have one superpower: The ability to fly.
If you could have lunch with any one person from history: Wilt Chamberlain.
Title of your Biography: Life, one joke at a time.
Pet Peeve: Bad grammar/people who wear headphones while driving.
Name: Jena Mesih
Position: Director of Events
Program: Human Resources Management
Career Goal: To go as far as I can and to be completely happy with it
Favourite thing to do @ UofG: Sit on Johnston Green when the weather is nice!
If you could have one superpower: Super speed. I’m always multitasking because I have a lot to do… I’d LOVE to be able to zip through tasks fast!
If you could have lunch with any one person from history: Sigmund Freud. I feel like it would be an incredibly interesting conversation
Title of your Biography: Make it Happen.
Pet Peeve: Bad table manners.
Name: Thomas Beckett
Position: Director of Engagement and Outreach
Program: Management Economics & Finance
Career Goal: World Bank. Travel abroad.
Favourite thing to do @ UofG: Eat. Sleep. Drink Coffee.
If you could have one superpower: Predict the Future
If you could have lunch with any one person from history: Howard Schultz, Otto Frederick Rohwedder, Liz Murray, Randy Pausch, picking one is just too hard.
Title of your Biography: Awesome: A How-to guide.
Pet Peeve: When People bite their forks.
Name: Michelle Slotwinski
Position: Director of Corporate Relations
Program: Public Management
Career Goal: To work Public Relations for a company that still allows me to travel the world
Favourite thing to do @ UofG: Walk through the Arboretum
If you could have one superpower: Photographic memory
If you could have lunch with any one person from history: Lance Armstrong
Title of your Biography: Michelle Slotwinski – A Bridge over Troubled Waters
Pet Peeve: Slow walkers
Name: Alex Griffiths
Position: Director of Corporate Development
Program: Human Resources Management
Career Goal: Living somewhere warm, working as an Investment Portfolio Manager.
Favourite thing to do @ UofG: Spend quality time with friends in the Athletic Center.
If you could have one superpower: See into the future.
If you could have lunch with any one person from history: Red Auerbach
Title of your Biography: There is no finish line.
Pet Peeve: Slow walkers
Name: Christine Raby
Position: Secretary
Program: Marketing Management, Co-op
Career Goal: to find myself happy doing a job in the field of marketing, hopefully in the area of brand and campaign creation
Favourite thing to do at UofG: grab a latte at Starbucks and wander leisurely around campus – I love to take the time to enjoy the campus instead of just rushing to class!
If you could have one superpower: to stop, slow down, and speed up time at will
If you could have lunch with any person in history: Audrey Hepburn (or maybe breakfast? At Tiffany’s?)
Title of your biography: “That Time I Got Lost” And Other Similar Stories
Pet peeve: people who slurp or chew loudly
Name: Christian Geronimo
Position: Chairperson
Program: Management Economics in Finance
Career Goal: Own the Toronto Raptors, so we can have a real NBA team
Favourite thing to do @ UofG: Intramural Manhunt…. It’s going to happen
If you could have one superpower: Be faster than the speed of light
If you could have lunch with any one person from history: Abraham Lincoln
Title of your Biography: Me, Me, Me…… It’s all about you
Pet Peeve: Long OSAP lines :S
