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Mitel Network’s friendly acquisition of southern Ontario-based Aastra Technologies created a billion-dollar company with 60 million customers around the world, making it the city’s biggest tech deal this year. “(Mitel) started some 41 years ago as two entrepreneurs in a little strip mall in Kanata,” says Steve Spooner, Mitel’s chief financial officer. “To look at
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After 30 years working overseas assignments in emerging markets, Marvin Hough has learned a thing or two about spotting corruption in international markets. Now, as executive-in-residence and academic director at the University of Ottawa’s Telfer School of Management, he is part of a team offering a one-day seminar on anti-corruption tactics. The seminar, which takes
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A lot has happened since Ottawa established a sister-city relationship with Beijing back in 1999. The recently ratified Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement is just one example. The deal, signed in 2012, is a bilateral pact designed to encourage more foreign investment between Canada and China. “FIPA opens the door to more opportunities for
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The owners of NewFound Recruiting haven’t wasted any time. © Photo by Cole Burston. Steve Stanley (left) and Todd LeSage of NewFound Recruiting. Slightly more than three years after it launched, the professional staffing and recruiting firm now has clients from coast to coast and rapidly growing annual revenues. “It’s beyond my wildest expectations what we’ve
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KTL Group is no stranger to OBJ’s Fastest-Growing Companies list, making the cut for the fifth time in six years. “The market for us right now couldn’t be better,” says CEO Matthew Harding. “That’s ironic because the government is consolidating and there’s doom and gloom in the marketplace and on the news. I think for
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Lukta Qiatsuk, Owl (1959), stonecut. © CMH. Photo: Marie-Louise Deruaz Inuit prints have become an iconic part of Canadian art. Yet few know the origins of the craft, or the role played by an artistic tradition from the other side of the world. Inuit Prints: Japanese Inspiration explores the meeting of two graphic arts traditions
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After 17 years at the helm of Espial Group, Jaison Dolvane has seen his share of ups and downs in the high tech world. But with shares of the Ottawa-based digital TV and Internet protocol television software and solutions provider trading near a five-year high and the company’s executives predicting positive cash flow for the
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When Sindy Hooper ran her first Ironman in the summer of 2012, she was in the best shape of her life. She finished the endurance race, which includes a four-kilometre swim, a 180-kilometre bike ride and a marathon, in 11 hours and 38 minutes, just narrowly missing qualification for the world championship by two slots
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Penthouse One at 700 Sussex Dr. is not your traditional downtown office. The two-storey suite, blending both office and entertainment space, is every bit as unique as you’d expect from a couple like Tom d’Aquino and Susan Peterson d’Aquino. Tom is best known for his three decades of work leading the Canadian Council of Chief
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Ottawa is a network of fabulous neighbourhoods, each with its own distinct charm, history, architecture and thriving local businesses. Four of Ottawa’s neighbourhoods – the Glebe, Westboro, New Edinburgh and the ByWard Market – are all older and central, each unique in their own way. Find out which one might fit your personal style #attitude.
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