In 2024, Angela was named Trailblazer of the Year by PARO, a leading organization for women in business, in recognition of her success within a historically male-dominated industry. Angela is co-owner and co-founder of a new enterprise, Good Wares Distribution, a wholesale leader growing emerging brands in Canadian retail. Good Wares was selected as a first-time exhibitor for the national Pharmasave tradeshow in May 2026 and is on track to innovate in the industry.

Timothy’s latest feature film, Finch & Midland, is set in Scarborough and explores the lives of four Hong Kong immigrants who came to Canada in the 1990s seeking new beginnings: a former pop singer reconnecting with his daughter, a woman balancing caregiving and love, a single mother dreaming of a career in real estate and a factory manager facing the limits of advancement. Timothy is a Canadian-born Chinese filmmaker and MFA graduate from New York University. A TIFF Filmmaker Lab alumnus, his short film, 90 Days, was acquired by Sundance Selects, and he received the MAS Award at the Busan Asian Project Market in 2018.

A miniseries adapted from Marissa’s book, Lucky, will premiere on Apple TV in July 2026. The book, which was a Reese Witherspoon Book Club choice in December 2021, is about a tough, talented grifter who has just pulled off a million-dollar heist and who must avoid capture while trying to make a life for herself. Stars of the miniseries include Anya Taylor-Joy, Annette Bening, Timothy Olyphant and Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor. Reese Witherspoon and Cassie Pappas are producers.

My original goal was to build a career in events management — a passion I discovered while serving as VP social for the TMU Business Students’ Union. While my career eventually took me in a different direction, those early experiences helped spark my interest in leadership, organization and bringing people together. Today, I’m the owner of Sona Franchise Consulting, where I help aspiring entrepreneurs transition into business ownership by identifying and scaling franchise opportunities. I’m based in the GTA, where I enjoy staying active, travelling and working on creative projects with my two children. My wife — also a TMU graduate — and I actually met while living at Neill-Wycik Co-op during our time as students — a connection that makes our TMU experience even more meaningful.

Teaching high school students is my passion, coupled with coaching various sports teams, mentoring numerous student clubs and creating dynamic, equitable and vibrant classrooms that spark student growth and lifelong learning.

Winston Thorne, AIA, NOMA, NCARB, CSBA, is the president of Winston Thorne Architect, a Los Angeles-based firm that serves California and Arizona. His professional practice focuses on small-scale residential and commercial retail, higher education, historic preservation and community-oriented projects. Winston’s positions include chair of the Pasadena mayor’s Central Library Technical Oversight Committee, SoCal NOMA’s Altadena Rebuild Coalition, past-president of the AIA Pasadena & Foothill Chapter and the first African-American president of AIA California. Currently, he serves as AIA California’s strategic councillor at the national level. His career embodies his dedication to advancing design, strengthening communities and facilitating the future of planning and development through professional practice and civic leadership.

For the past five years, I’ve been responsible for employee communications, based in the European team of car rental giant Enterprise Mobility. I am also a trustee at a local London, U.K., youth charity in the neighbourhood where I live with my lovely wife and beastly cat. After a two-decade-long career in product marketing at Acco Brands, Sony, Fellowes and Canon Europe, I changed direction and found my calling in internal communication and employee engagement. I did stints at Barclays and AT&T before joining Enterprise Mobility. The jobs and my love of travel have taken me to places around the world that I never thought I’d experience. I feel fortunate to have spent too many hours in local pool dives and to have become a fanatical Arsenal fan — my neighbourhood football club.

Andrea is president and executive producer at FORTE Entertainment, which is celebrating its 10th anniversary. FORTE has become one of the leading unscripted production companies in Canada. Broadcasters include global partners such as Netflix, Paramount+, Disney+, CBC, Bell Media, History and Discovery. In July 2025, FORTE received two Daytime Emmy nominations for the second season of their documentary series, How I Got Here.

My spouse Claudia and I have two daughters and the eldest, Melisa, is a recent graduate of the TMU occupational health and safety program. I began a new job last year at MDA Space as a senior cyber security engineer working on the Canadarm3 project for the Artemis Lunar Gateway space station program.

In my retirement years, I created Peter Stevens Landscape Designer as a continuation of my relationship with Humber Nurseries (in Caledon, Ont.) as a freelance landscape designer, to keep my mind and body active. My classmates, whom I would like to hear from, will remember back in the ’80s, I would pick up my son from the daycare centre and bring him in his carrier to the after-class workspace. Now 44, he is an elementary school teacher with a six-year-old son.

Margaret served the Government of Canada for more than 50 years as a member of the Canadian Armed Forces and as a federal public servant. She retired from the military in 2007 at the rank of colonel, then joined the Department of National Defence to work as a project manager on classified projects including defence cryptographic modernization. She retired in 2025 and is currently self-employed as the CEO of Lofty Aspirations, an art and sewing business.

Retirement has finally rung. I spent 35 years in journalism, including Radio-Canada, CBC, CFCF CTV News, TQS, TVA Montreal, TVA Sherbrooke, CPAC and two and a half years at Canada Post before retirement. I moved recently from the Quebec Townships to Bay of Islands, Newfoundland, to look at the ocean from the living room window while sipping a great glass of wine from my cellar. Enjoying the daily presence of my dear wife of 42 years.