Class Notes

Paige Mamer, who graduated from Queen’s faculty of Geological Sciences and Engineering, was recently awarded the prestigious Geoscientists Canada Fellowship for her service to the geoscience profession. Paige was nominated by the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta.

After completing his PhD (Computing) in 2021 and celebrating in person at convocation in 2022, Taylor Smith is starting in a tenure-track faculty role in the Department of Computer Science at St. Francis Xavier University, N.S., in July. He credits much of his success to his Queen’s supervisor, Kai Salomaa, “the greatest faculty member” at the university. He adds that, “I would not be where I am today without his guidance and support.” Previously, he was a limited-term faculty member at St. Francis Xavier from 2021 to 2023.

Jacques Neatby co-wrote a book with INSEAD colleague F. Godart. Leadership Team Alignment: From Conflict to Collaboration is published by Stanford University Press and will be available this summer. Jacques is a partner with MindLab, a Europe-based consultancy, which supports executive teams around the world with strategic alignment issues. He also teaches executive team best practices at business schools in North America and Europe. He lives in Montreal with his wife, Anne-Marie Migneault and daughter Gabrielle, who was born in 2005.

Meghan Sherwin was recently promoted from CMO to president at Keilhauer Ltd., a leading global contract furniture manufacturer. Keilhauer is one of Canada’s greenest employers and launched the world’s first carbon neutral office chair.