Faculty of Business Administration - University of New Brunswick

Faculty of Business Administration alumnus Adrienne O’Pray, the current Senior Vice-President, Operations with Atlantic Lottery Corporation, has been named one of Canada’s Top 40 Under 40 by Caldwell Partners and announced in the Globe and Mail on May 6.

The award is intended to honor Canadians who have already reached a significant level of success before reaching the age of 40. The program was created to promote mentorship and professional development by introducing these people to the business community so they can serve as role models to young Canadians.

O’Pray graduated from UNB with an MBA degree in 1992 and was awarded the Faculty of Business Administration’s highest honour, the Certificate of Achievement at this past year’s Business Awards Dinner.

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A team of four students from the Faculty of Business Administration’s Student Investment Fund (SIF) won the North American championship at the second annual Global Investment Research Challenge on April 30th in New York City. The University of Houston placed second, while the University of Pittsburgh placed third.

In the competition, students from universities around the world presented and defended their stock recommendations and were judged on their performance by industry experts. Dustin Besaw, Jason Misener, Jack Ma and Brian Bagnell of Fredericton competed on the team, while Nathan Ough and Ian McAvity of Saint John were observers.

During the competition, the student teams were given 10 minutes to pitch their stock recommendations to panel members from companies such as UBS, Neuberger Berman, Strategas Research partners and the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Institute.

In the Global championship on May 1 the SIF team placed second overall behind The University of Hong Kong. Over 80 countries were represented in the competition.

After placing first in the North American round of the Global Research Challenge in New York City, Student Investment Team members visit the Merrill Lynch trading floor. L-R: Glenn Cleland (Director, Centre for Financial Studies and SIF Instructor), Brian Bagnell, Dustin Besaw, Guofeng (Jack) Ma, and Jason Misener.

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Three Faculty of Business Administration students, Edgar Gallibois, Justin Murray and Matthew Corey, won the Enterprise 2008 Business Plan Competition run by the Business Development Bank of Canada. The competition is the largest business plan competition in Canada, and this is the second consecutive year that winners of the regional qualifying competition, Enterprise Atlantic, have claimed top spot in the nation.

Gallibois, Murray, and Corey represented UNB as VerifyRX and defeated 11 other teams en route to capturing the top spot in the competition. Originally 90 schools attempted to qualify for the national competition in Vancouver.

For their victories in the regional and national competitions the team received $23,000 in prize money.

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