Success stories

Susan Blake had the right attitude when she arrived in Canada three years ago. She knew that it would be challenging to find a job in her area of work right away. So, she along with Vincent Amos co-founded the Caribbean Immigrant Network in Durham where she settled….

Fabiola Sicard has dual identities: She’s Mexican-born and a Canadian citizen; she’s the director of Latin Markets, Multicultural Banking for Scotiabank and she’s co-founder of LAMBA, the Latin American MBA Alumni Network. But above all else, Fabiola is passionate about building the profile of what Latin America and its people have to offer Canadian businesses….

“It’s Canada’s fault that I started this company—Canada made me a businessman,” says Dr. Hamid Tizhoosh, founder and CEO of Toronto medical startup Segasist. ”My colleagues and friends—even my family back home in Iran—they don’t believe it. I still cannot believe it. It’s a Canadian metamorphosis. By nature I’m an academic guy, but now I’m running a business. They say: ‘What happened to you?’”…

John Simeone is a faithful listener of CBC Toronto’s Metro Morning. Early on in the year he heard an interesting interview about skilled immigrants trying to find work in their field and mentally filed the name TRIEC as an organization that is working to improve immigrant integration in the city’s labour market.
Fast forward to June 2011. …