Class Notes

Find out what your former classmates are up to now!

Alumni on the move and getting noticed…

BSC ‘2011: Alex Millar, the founder of the fast-growing startup Bonfire will be in New York City to ring the bell during closing ceremonies Tuesday at the .

BMath ’96: Kyle Blaney was in the news talking about Shad Valley’s Ìý

BMath ’91: Eldon Sprickerhoff, Founder and Chief Innovation Officer of eSentire, helps the company announce a major business expansion and office relocating! After fundraising $47M, , and into a much larger space close to the University of À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ.

BMath ’87:ÌýHonorary DMath ’18: David McKay speaks up about the potential for Amazon, Google, Facebook and Netflix getting into .

Kudos!Ìý

Former Math student Ron Glozman, placed at the .

BMath ’07, MACC ’07: Kasia Malz has recently been .

BMath ’05: Peter Szulczewski, is named the . Peter is anÌýe-commerce founder, a University of À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ alumnus and an ex-coder at Google. Following his stint at google, Peter launched ContextLogic, a software company that looks at a person's internet browsing history to predict their interests.ÌýIn 2011 Szulczewski and university friend Danny Zhang re-launched the company as

BMath ’04: Alex Hoff, co-founder of Auvik, has been named a .

BMath '96, MACC '96: Cathy Smith, was of Intouch Insight Ltd.

BMath ’94: Alec Blundell has been appointed as executive vice-president and chief operating officer of the . In addition to this distinction, he has also been names the president and chief operating officer for the CUMIS Group Limited.

BMath ’88: Professor Alison Gibbs was awarded theÌý, Canada’s most prestigious recognition of excellence in educational leadership and university teaching. She recently gave a talk at the University of Manitoba.

MMath ‘74 Computer Science: Hats off to Paul Cotton who was awarded a Technical/Engineering Emmy award for his chairing of the W3C HTML Media Extensions Working Group that produced the W3C standards that are used by Internet streaming services to deliver video content.

BMath ’05: Arda Ocal has been nominated for an Emmy Award in the category of Talent: Program Host/Moderator for MSG Networks.