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Avneet Bhasin
Avneet is driven by her mission to better the lives of patients by supporting the commercialization of innovative and transformational medical therapies and tools. Leveraging her background in the sciences, she decided to pursue an MBA at just 21 years old to develop her business acumen so she could pursue a career in the pharmaceutical/biotechnology industry. Combining her scientific background with her budding marketing and strategy skills from the MBA, Avneet completed placements with Vertex Pharmaceuticals, where she supported the market access team to secure reimbursement for their cystic fibrosis medications and helped develop launch plans for hematology therapies, and Abbott Laboratories, where she supported the development of marketing materials and sales tactics for their Vascular division. Over the course of her MBA, she also served as the President of the Health Services Management Association (HSMA), an MBA Ambassador, and a DeGroote Leader, constantly seeking opportunities to positively impact her school community. She has also represented McMaster University at international case competitions such as the Kellogg Biotech and Healthcare Case Competition and the John Molson MBA International Case Competition. Avneet has completed her Masters in Business Administration and is excited to be working at Roche Diagnostics with their Core Lab team to continue innovating solutions that positively impact the Canadian healthcare landscape! |
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Marcus Marchese
Marcus Marchese is interested in the strategic management field and pursued his commerce degree with a specialization in accounting. During his time, Marcus found this passion for strategic thinking through the extra-curricular actives he pursued. Over the course of his undergrad, Marcus was the First Year Experience Coordinator as well as the first JDCC solo captain for DeGroote. Under his leadership, both teams achieved historic victories: DeGroote’s first-ever Faculty Cup and JDCC DeGroote’s unprecedented back-to-back titles of “School of the Year,” along with a record-breaking trophy count at the 2024 competition. From his efforts Marcus has been awarded several accolades such as JDCC 2024 Captain of the Year and the DCS Changemaker Scholarship Marcus completed his Honours BCom with internship degree at McMaster and will be pursuing a Master’s degree in international business at Queen’s University’s Smith School of Business.
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Claudette McGowan
Claudette McGowan began her career with Deloitte before spending two decades with BMO Financial Group where she started as a technology director and progressed to vice-presidential roles and finally chief information officer for enterprise technology employee experience. She then joined TD as global executive officer for cybersecurity before founding and serving as chief executive officer of Protexxa, a business-to-business software-as-a-service cybersecurity platform. Ms. McGowan is the co-founder of The Firehood: Women in Tech Network and the Phoenix Fire Fund, a women-focused angel investor fund. She chairs the Coalition of Innovation Leaders Against Racism (CILAR), a group of business leaders committed to fighting systemic racism within the innovation economy through initiatives including network building and executive coaching. She also founded the Black Arts & Innovation Expo (BAIE), which bridges the human and technological aspect of business and industry. She is a founding member of the Elevate Technology Festival where, in 2019, she interviewed Michelle Obama for the festival’s keynote event. A respected and busy organizational and corporate director, Ms. McGowan has held or currently holds seats on the boards of corporations like Air Canada and of institutions and not-for-profit organizations including the BlackNorth Initiative, MaRS, Sick Kids Hospital Foundation, the University of New Brunswick Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity and the U.S. Consul General of Toronto’s U.S.-Canada Innovation Council. |
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Walter Schroeder
Walter Schroeder grew up in Winnipeg and earned his Bachelor of Commerce degree at the University of Manitoba before completing his MBA at McMaster in 1969. He started his career as a research analyst with Wood Gundy before establishing the firm’s credit analysis department. In 1976, Mr. Schroeder founded Dominion Bond Rating Service (DBRS), building it into one of the world’s premier bond rating agencies and, in the process, developing a number of the quantitative criteria used in bond rating today. Mr. Schroeder sold DBRS in 2014 and the resulting company, DBRS Morningstar, is now the world’s fourth-largest credit rating agency with offices in North America and Europe. When the Schroeder family sold DBRS, they established the Walter & Maria Schroeder Foundation to support initiatives in Newfoundland & Labrador, healthcare and Reconciliation. They established, for example, the Walter & Maria Schroeder Institute for Brain Innovation and Recovery at the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute through the largest gift ever to a rehabilitation hospital in Canada. The foundation made a gift of a similar magnitude to support multiple sclerosis, urban health solutions and brain-heart care at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto. At McMaster, the foundation funded the Schroeder Allergy and Immunology Research Institute to support scientific allergy investigation, including the largest longitudinal, population-based birth cohort study in Canada. |
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