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the educational process. It re-
ally enabled me to explore many
different avenues and look at
something that I would be pas-
sionate about and want to do
from a career perspective.”
Jackie Sutherland
Global Gateway Solutions –
President/CEO
“I’m a farmer’s son - raised in farming and solving prob-
lems in family businesses.
The defining moment in
my career was coming out
of graduate school, when I
realized that the power of
computing was revolution-
ary for solving problems
and that you can apply tech-
nology to solve business problems in ways that would
create efficiency and profitability in industries like farm-
ing.”
Darwyn Melnyk –
Iron Solutions – President/CEO
“I think of the advice that I received from my previous
company owner, when I
came to Plant Solutions as
General Manager: ‘You’re
going there as general
manager, you’re not go-
ing to be an engineer, any-
more. You’re going to be
a businessman.’ And that
changed my perspective.”
Jason Ramsingh
Plant Solutions – General Manager
“When we made the decision to only focus on being a
great replacement contractor that only replaces three
products: siding, windows, and doors – that was really
the defining moment that
helped our growth, because
we learned over the years
how to be really good at those
three products.”
Mitchell Spector
Woodbridge Home Exteriors
– CEO
“Early on, I felt very led to be working in the aging servic-
es industry. The pivotal point
was by the time I graduated
from grad school, I recog-
nized that I was not just here
to do a job, but I was here
to change an industry – to
be progressive in my think-
ing and to be a leader in the industry. That was a huge
‘Wow!’ factor for me in my career.”
Joel Anderson –
Village on the Isle – CEO
“I think that would be the time I decided to join my father
(who started the business).
That changed everything for
me because after that I be-
gan doing something that I
really like to do. It’s been ex-
citing. Sometimes it’s been
difficult, but for the most
part, it’s been very reward-
ing.”
Fernando Quijano –
CIB Corp. – President
“I was the seventh of eight
children. And by the time
my parents got to me, they
didn’t have any ambition for
me at all. So, they kind of
gave me freedom to dream
and follow my own path. And
