From an interview with Nilson Junior, Senior Growth Marketing Manager, RBC Ventures. Nilson Junior is Senior Growth Marketing Manager with Ownr, an RBC Venture dedicated to helping entrepreneurs in Canada start, manage, and grow their business. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Advertising and Marketing from the [...]
From an interview with Christopher Gonsalvez, Senior Manager, Global Procurement, RBC Ventures. Christopher (Chris) Gonsalvez is a procurement expert. He worked for major corporations in the consumer packaged goods industry, buying everything from diaper material to labels, adhesives to aerosol cans. Now as Senior Global procurement manager at RBC, Chris [...]
From an interview with Yenyu Lai. After graduating from university in Taiwan with a major in music, Yenyu Lai went into the music industry as a recording engineer and composed music for television and commercials. The post-production field was highly stressful, so after several years, she took the opportunity to [...]
July 1st is Canada Day. Each year on this day there are celebrations and festivities in communities all across the country. However, with the tragic revelations of unmarked graves found at former Residential Schools in Saskatchewan and B.C., this Canada Day will be a more contemplative event for many Canadians. [...]
From an interview with Prince John, Commercial Account Manager. Prince John came to Canada in 2018 from Chennai, India. Things were going very well in his career back home. He was assistant VP at a major bank—everything was set up. But the question of where he saw his kids growing up [...]
From an interview with Xiaolun (Lucy) Zhang. Xiaolun (Lucy) Zhang came to Canada with her mother to visit a family friend in Vancouver in 2011, and that friend suggested Xiaolun should come to Vancouver to study. When they returned to Beijing, Xiaolun and her parents began researching international studies [...]
From an interview with Syed Hashir Sher. Like most young people, Syed Hashir Sher was a dreamer, imagining how life might turn out in his future. Then things changed. He shifted his energy from thinking about success to researching and planning to make it a reality. Before coming to [...]
From an interview with Prateek Singh Bawa. Prateek Singh Bawa hadn’t really considered moving to Canada or anywhere else for that matter. After completing his Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Delhi, India, his plan was to gain some industry experience before starting an MBA. He worked for global [...]
From an interview with Mehmet Akgul. Mehmet Akgul completed his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Istanbul, Turkey. He remembers taking a twelve hour bus ride from the city to visit his parents in his hometown of Konya. In 2017, Mehmet took a twelve hour flight [...]
From an interview with Neha Khandelwal, Senior Manager, QE Strategy, RBC. Before coming to Canada, Neha worked as an IT professional in India and the U.K. She has fifteen years of experience in Quality Engineering (QE) and Enterprise Consulting and has worked across various industries including insurance and banking. Neha [...]
From an interview with Avani Singh, Banking Advisor, RBC. Going abroad to study was a dream for Avani. Only a handful of people from her small town in India had ever left the country for their education. Yet when she was 16, she decided that she [...]
From an interview with PK Gyamfi-Aidoo, Product Designer, Movesnap, RBC Ventures. PK is a strategic product designer with Movesnap at RBC Ventures, along with being a designer and photographer. Born in Ghana, PK moved to South Africa with his family when he was five years old, where he lived [...]