Lou Schizas nominated for TVO Best Lecturer Award

Lou Schizas, Professor, Sheridan School of Business

Lou Schizas, professor in the Sheridan School of Business, Business Administration – Finance program, has received a nomination for TVO’s 2010 Best Lecturer Competition.

TVO’s Best Lecturer Competition, now in its fifth year, plays an important role in showcasing the province’s great educators. A nomination is a testament to the impact professors have on their students, and their passion for teaching. A panel of independent judges will be looking for lecturers who engage their listeners with passion, flair, and clarity, conveying their academic knowledge with genuine conviction. To check out last year’s award winning lecture, please go to TVO’s Best Lecturer Competition.

The 10 selected finalists will compete in a 6-week pursuit of the Best Lecturer title, as each professor’s professionally produced lecture and accompanying profile piece airs on TVO’s Big Ideas in March 2010.

The winner will be crowned this year’s Best Lecturer and the winner’s school will receive a $10,000 scholarship.

Trevor Bodogh meets CBC TV’s Dragons face to face in Season Four of the hit series The Dragon’s Den

Trevor Bodogh will meet CBC's Dragons in Season Four

Trevor Bodogh, recent Sheridan College, Business Administration – Finance program graduate, meets the Dragons head-on in Season Four of the hot CBC TV series The Dragon’s Den starting September 30 at 8:00 p.m. EDT.

Bodogh, one of the top North American performers in Bike Trials events, an extreme athlete, and a sought after stunt bike performer is also the designer and builder of his own precision extreme bikes. He decided to pursue the Dragons after the attending the high power Virox Future Forum, sponsored by Sheridan alumnus and Virox CEO Randy Pilon. The Virox Future Forum featured top business speakers Ian Portsmouth, Rick Spence, and Sean Wise of the Dragon’s Den, and after speaking to Wise, Bodogh decided that he could formulate a winning business plan and pitch it to the resident investors on The Dragon’s Den.

Bodogh attended the recent Toronto Dragon’s Den auditions attended by about 500 hopeful entrepreneurs, and impressed the producers enough to be invited to join the May taping of the hit television series. Bodogh’s segment is slated to come up sometime in the Season Four episodes, so be sure to keep watching The Dragon’s Den on CBC TV Wednesdays at 8:00 pm.

Bodogh, a top student in the Sheridan School of Business wasn’t shy about asking for assistance to help prepare himself for meeting the Dragons. “I’ve sought out a lot of very useful advice from my business professors at the Sheridan School of Business to be very confident of my pitch for the Dragon’s Den,” said Bodogh, a graduate of the three year Business Administration – Finance program in the Sheridan School of Business.

CBC’s, The Dragon’s Den, now entering season four, is a hit series where aspiring entrepreneurs pitch their business concepts and products to a panel of Canadian business moguls who have the cash and the know-how make it happen. CBC’s Dragon’s Den is hosted by Dianne Buckner and features panel members Arlene Dickinson, Robert Herjavec, Jim Treliving, Kevin O’leary, and W. Brett Wilson.

Halton Chapter, HRPA host networking event for Sheridan School of Business Human Resource Management students

Carmen Braund, Director of Communications, HRPAH, speaks with Sheridan School of Business Human Resources students.

More than 200 Human Resource Management OGC and Business Administration – Human Resources students seized the opportunity to network with Human Resources professionals in the recent HRPAH sponsored event held in Macdonald-Heaslip Hall at Sheridan College, Oakville.

Asking good questions is the key to good networking.

The annual event, sponsored by the Halton chapter of the Human Resources Professional Association (HRPAH), drew an almost capacity crowd to the hall as eager students nurtured links with working HR professionals.

“The point of the event is to get students together with Human Resource professionals so that they can ask intelligent questions about the path to the workplace,” said John Hardisty, past president of HRPAH, program coordinator of the Sheridan School of Business Human Resources group of programs, and the event organizer.

Past president HRPAH, John Hardisty speaks to the networking group at Sheridan College.

Students made good use of the opportunity to connect with a wide variety of Human Resource professionals, HRPAH members, recent graduates, and Sheridan Human Resource professors to talk about employment opportunities and professional development in the casual atmosphere of a wine and cheese reception.

HRPAH organizers got students thinking and talking on stage through several networking activities and rewarded the participants with a wide array of prizes and incentives.

Past president, HRPAH, Mike Bennett answers questions from Sheridan students.

Accounting program graduate Justin Cote takes Distinguished Student Award from Brock U.

Justin Cote, 2006 graduate Business Administration - Accounting, 2009 graduate Brock University

Justin Cote, a graduate of the Sheridan College, Business Administration – Accounting program in June of 2006, transferred his academic credits from Sheridan College and began the Brock University Bachelor of Accounting degree program in the Fall of 2006.

At the Spring 2009 Brock University convocation ceremony Justin was awarded the Distinguished Graduating Student Award presented to the student with the highest major average.

Cote was also awarded the John Edds Undergraduate Prize in Accounting presented at the Spring convocation to the graduating student in the Faculty of Business with the highest average in a Bachelor of Accounting degree.

Cote was also part of the accounting team that represented Brock University and competed in Edmonton at the JDC West Competition where his team placed 2nd place amongst 14 competing schools from across Canada.

” I really would like to thank Sheridan School of Business faculty member Erik Genzer and Accounting Program Coordinator Sally Mitzel for all the encouragement they gave me at Sheridan College,” said Cote.

Justin is currently employed with Deloitte, Chartered Accountants, where is is working toward earning his CA designation.

Lorraine Cipparrone nominated for TVO Best Lecturer Award

Lorraine Cipparrone, Professor, Sheridan School of Business

Lorraine Cipparrone, a professor in the Sheridan School of Business, who teaches in the Accounting in Canada for Internationally Trained Accountants program, has received a nomination for TVO’s 2010 Best Lecturer Competition.

TVO’s Best Lecturer Competition, now in its fifth year, plays an important role in showcasing the province’s great educators. A nomination is a testament to the impact professors have on their students, and their passion for teaching. A panel of independent judges will be looking for lecturers who engage their listeners with passion, flair, and clarity, conveying their academic knowledge with genuine conviction. To check out last year’s award winning lecture, please go to TVO’s Best Lecturer Competition.

The 10 selected finalists will compete in a 6-week pursuit of the Best Lecturer title, as each professor’s professionally produced lecture and accompanying profile piece airs on TVO’s Big Ideas in March 2010.

The winner will be crowned this year’s Best Lecturer and the winner’s school will receive a $10,000 scholarship.

Sheridan School of Business OCMC team prepares for this year’s Ontario College’s Marketing Competition

Sheridan School of Business 2009 OCMC Team is ready to rock!

After a challenging selection process, the 2009 Sheridan School of Business Ontario Colleges’ Marketing Competition team has been chosen and the members are ready to apply their top-notch marketing skills to the rigorous events at OCMC 2009.

The Sheridan School of Business team is complemented by 18 second and third year students from the Trafalgar and Davis campuses from the Marketing and the Advertising programs. The Sheridan OCMC team is now working with their School of Business faculty coaches for 11 challenging OCMC events against students from 15 Ontario colleges.

Sheridan’s OCMC team has a winning legacy and in the past nine years the Sheridan School of Business team has placed in the top three positions 6 times, capturing Gold, Silver, and Bronze Awards overall in the competition. Each year winning team members consistently garner many of the top awards for each of the 11 challenging events at OCMC.

Sheridan School of Business Marketing and Advertising students must undergo a rigorous application process where they are invited to apply for the team by a sponsoring faculty mentor. Applications are reviewed and a select group of students are invited to participate in “The Cage Match”, a skill testing, nerve-wracking event where students prepare and deliver a marketing case scenario in a tight time-limited competition. The winners of this highly competitive event comprise the OCMC team.

In all, more than 350 students from 15 Ontario Colleges meet annually for the Ontario Colleges’ Marketing Competition. They make the journey from all regions of Ontario to represent their peers, their college, and their business program in a student-friendly, industry-sponsored test of skills. Each year a college is chosen to host the event at their college and in their community. The Ontario Colleges’ Marketing Competition is now in its 29th year – this year’s event is hosted by Mohawk College in Hamilton – and the 30th annual OCMC will be hosted by Sheridan College in 2010.

Sheridan College Orientation welcomes first-year School of Business students to Sheridan

Marketing Program Graduate, Mike Alves addresses the new Sheridan Business students.

More than 600 first year Sheridan School of Business students from Davis and Trafalgar campuses attended the recent New Student Orientation events.  The new student orientation events, developed based on the Fall 2008 School of Business pilot program, were a great success encouraging the largest student turn out to date.

Third year Advertising student , Sherry Lindsay shares her college experiences.

The new program kicked off with a School of Business Welcome Session designed to welcome new Business students and introduce them to their faculty and the many other college support people who will be most important to them. Senior and graduate students spoke to the new Business students offering advice on how to relax and enjoy college life and most importantly how to survive college until graduation.

School of Business students Lindsay Sherry, 3rd Year Advertising, Nick Hale, 2nd Year Marketing, Sparkle Grant, 3rd Year Marketing, and Hina Syed, 2nd Year Office Administration (Legal) shared their Sheridan School of Business experience and advice with new students.

Professor Doug Greewood is pleased with the student turnout.

Graduate Marketing student and Ontario Colleges’ Marketing Competition (OCMC) multiple award-winner spoke of his business school experiences, the lasting friendships made, the need to become involved in college life activities and committees, and the opportunities for employment after graduation.

The initial Welcome Session was followed by School of Business program-specific orientation sessions lead by faculty. In these sessions, students were able to meet with their program faculty and ask in-depth questions about their program of study and become familiar with their upcoming courses and academic expectations of the School of Business.

Sheridan students enjoy the Orientation BBQ

Following the academic program, students took part in interactive sessions with Sheridan’s Student Services group who outlined the support services available to them and the essential information they needed to know before starting classes. Students and guests were then invited to spend the afternoon enjoying a free BBQ lunch, live music, and a Campus Fair showcasing Sheridan College services, clubs, events, and student government.

Sheridan's Student representatives make sure Orientation is a success.

New faculty for Sheridan School of Business programs

Professor Greg Ball

Greg Ball

Greg Ball joins the Sheridan School of Business from a successful pharmaceutical marketing career with primary teaching as professor in Sheridan’s Marketing program. Most recently Ball was a principal with Isis Management Consulting where his projects included work in oncology strategy, commercial assessment of vaccine, biotech strategic options, strategic planning for a drug discovery company, and launch team management for biologicals.

Prior to this, Ball was with Bayer Healthcare where he was senior Vice-president, head, institutional (specialist) business, pharmaceuticals division and earlier at Bayer he was Vice-president, marketing, pharmaceuticals division, where he was responsible for a product management group of 23 employees and $234 million in annual sales.

Ball’s education includes an MBA in Marketing and Finance from York University, and a B.A. in Economics and English Literature also from York University. He has completed the Canadian Securities course and the Canadian Investment Management course.

Professor Golnaz Golnaraghi

Golnaz Golnaraghi

Professor Golnaz Golnaraghi is a Student Advisor for the Sheridan Marketing program and is dedicated to student success and retention.

As part of her past experience she worked as manager of external relations for the Toronto Region Immigrant Employment Council. Golnaraghi’s prior positions were as Senior Marketing Manager for KPMG, a Commercial Account Manager for RBC Financial and as a Marketing Coordinator for Arthur Andersen.

Professor Golnaraghi is currently a pre-doctoral candidate in Business Administration with Athabasca University. She has an interest in cultural diversity and one of her recent assignments on this topic is being considered for publication. Golnaz has an MBA in Strategic Management from the University Of British Columbia and a Bachelor of Commerce degree in Marketing also from the University of British Columbia.

Professor Tim O'Shea

Tim O’Shea

As an executive managing human resources teams, Tim O’Shea has worked in the U.K., North America, Europe, and the Caribbean. Professor O’Shea has helped fashion collective bargaining agreements in Canada and Cuba, as well as bargain face-to-face with different unions in a plant closure situation in Ontario. O’Shea is a hands-on human resources executive with experience that will greatly benefit our Human Resource Management program students.

Tim’s experience most recently includes being the Senior Director of Human Resources with AstraZeneca PLC in Canada, the U.K. and the USA. Prior to this O`Shea was the Industrial Relations Manager – Re-engagement, for Labatt Breweries of Canada / AMBEV – where he managed the industrial relations portfolio. Prior to that O`Shea was the Director of Human Resources in Toronto and Cuba for Labatt Breweries of Canada.

His former position was Vice-president of Human Resources & Corporate Leader-coach in Toronto with National Trust Company, a member of the Scotiabank Group. While there he was Team Leader, managing strategic and operational planning processes and an HR business plan of $185 million.

His previous position was Director of Corporate Human Resources for the famous Canadian icon J.D. Irving Limited, in New Brunswick, a family-owned diversified maritime manufacturing conglomerate with a 125-year history in Canada.

Tim has a Master of Arts degree, Faculty of Social and Applied Sciences from Royal Roads University in British Columbia. Tim is a fellow of the Institute of Canadian Bankers, he has completed the Canadian Securities course and is a graduate of the Canadian Outward Bound Mountain School 14 day senior course in wilderness survival & teambuilding.

Professor Sarah Carter

Sarah Carter

Sarah was a full-time professor at Sheridan College for 13 years from 1986 to 1999 in the School of English and General Arts & Science and returns to Sheridan in the School of Business as our professor of Business Communications. Most recently since 2008 Sarah has been a partial-load professor in the School Of Business at the Davis campus.

Professor Carter’s previous position was as a Learning Skills Counselor at the University of Western Ontario.

Prior to this Sarah worked in the U.K. as a Consultant Assessor in the Centre For Enabling And Learning Technologies for the University of Southampton in England. Her previous position was as an English teacher in the Bellemoor School and as a Learning Assistant at the county unit for visually challenged students at the Toynbee School in Southampton U.K.

Prior to originally joining Sheridan College, Sarah worked as a study skills instructor and counsellor at the universities of Waterloo, Guelph and at Wilfrid Laurier University. Professor Carter has master’s degrees and honours B.A. degrees in History and in English from the University of Guelph.

Neil Robb joins Sheridan School of Business as acting Associate dean located at the Davis Campus

Associate dean Neil Robb

Gerard Mercer, Dean of the Sheridan School of Business is pleased to announce that former ACES associate dean Neil Robb has agreed to join the Sheridan School of Business as an acting associate dean to assist us during the transition phase while a search is conducted for a new Business associate dean. Neil was an outstanding associate dean during his Sheridan tenure, so we are pleased to have him join us. Robb’s primary location will be at the Davis campus with program responsibilities across all Sheridan Campuses.

Associate dean Robb will be responsible for the Office Administration, Banking and Wealth Management, E-commerce Management, Financial Planning OGC, and Applied Business Management programs during his tenure with the Sheridan School of Business.

Henry Katz nominated for TVO Best Lecturer Award

Professor Henry Katz nominated for TVO Best Lecturer Award

Henry Katz, Coordinator of the Sheridan School of Business, Financial Planning, Ontario Graduate Certificate, program has received a nomination for TVO’s 2010 Best Lecturer Competition.

TVO’s Best Lecturer Competition, now in its fifth year, plays an important role in showcasing the province’s great educators. A nomination is a testament to the impact professors have on their students, and their passion for teaching. A panel of independent judges will be looking for lecturers who engage their listeners with passion, flair, and clarity, conveying their academic knowledge with genuine conviction. To check out last year’s award winning lecture, please go to TVO’s Best Lecturer Competition.

The 10 selected finalists will compete in a 6-week pursuit of the Best Lecturer title, as each professor’s professionally produced lecture and accompanying profile piece airs on TVO’s Big Ideas in March 2010.

The winner will be crowned this year’s Best Lecturer and the winner’s school will receive a $10,000 scholarship.