Co-owner, vice president and event coordinator – VIP Concierge & Errand Service – www.vipedmonton.net When Sarah Conant is at a wedding, she carries a kit filled with everything from Band Aids to smelling salts, a habit from her college days studying technical theatre production. She uses a similar kit now in her job as an event planner for VIP Event [...]

Fundraising consultant – Ketchum Canada Inc. – www.kciphilanthropy.com “Fundraising truly is a rollercoaster and you just need to enjoy the ride,” says Karen Dackiw, a professional fundraising consultant with Ketchum Canada Inc. KCI sends her to different organizations to help with their campaigns. Currently, as the campaign director for the RCMP Heritage Centre in Regina, she is responsible for raising [...]

Accounting technician – Veres Picton & Company – www.verespicton.com “My dad and I joke all the time that we’re playing Monopoly, only with our lives,” says Kent Greaves. He grew up in Stony Plain, and has already owned two businesses—a slate installation business and an accounting business. Like any Monopoly player knows, you win some… you lose some. And this [...]

Deli manager – Italian Centre Shop – www.ItalianCentre.ca If you become a regular customer at the deli counter at the Italian Centre Shop, Gino Marghella will soon know your name. His personality trait brings in business, and customers wait to be served by Marghella. “I like it when I have 50 [customers] and I can make everyone happy,” says Marghella. [...]

Owner and director of Melanie Nakatsui Salon & Spa Owner of Melanie Nakatsui Management Corporation Publisher of Philippine Asian Chronicle At 27 years old, Melanie Nakatsui runs three businesses, is actively involved in her community, and has a young family. Nakatsui was an entrepreneur at a young age. At 22, she created the Melanie Nakatsui Management Corporation, a one-woman operation [...]

Owners – Cinnamon Baby Boutique – www.cinnamonbabyboutique.com At Cinnamon Baby Boutique, you can buy couture for children. Owners Amanda Olivari and Laura Radbourne even sell the shirt that Brad and Angelina’s baby, Shiloh, is wearing in her alleged $4 million debut picture. The boutique looks like an upper class child’s bedroom, painted with bright colours, filled with large white cabinets, [...]