Sue Chan – “I want to help others like they have helped me.”
Sue Chan is the Vice President of Digital Delivery and Release Management at the Royal Bank of Canada. She has a Bachelors in Computer Science from The University of Waterloo, she has worked at RBC for 31 years — as an IT professional for most of that time. Why Sue...
Emad Bishara – “I like to help people, it’s a big reward to see them succeed in what they want to achieve.”
For the first time, in 2018, TRIEC is recognizing people who have mentored 20 or more recent immigrants to help them progress in their careers. Emad Bishara, a building engineer at the City of Toronto, is one of the mentors being celebrated for this outstanding...
Vimla Menezes – “I go into a partnership knowing I will be able to help my mentee.”
Vimla understands the challenges that many immigrants to Canada face because she and her family were once newcomers themselves. At the time she did not know of any mentoring programs for newcomers. But after completing her CPA, CGA Vimla came across The Mentoring...
Jennifer Veenboer – Mentoring incredibly talented and skilled newcomers is truly humbling
Jennifer Veenboer has a wealth of experience working in provincial and municipal government. Still, every time she’s mentored a skilled immigrant through The Mentoring Partnership – over 10 individuals since 2011 – she’s humbled by the education, skill and experience...
Andrew Bakos – Mentoring – A really worthy cause!
In 2012, Andrew Bakos signed up with The Mentoring Partnership to become a mentor in the engineering field. In that time, he has mentored many internationally-trained engineering professionals from diverse cultural backgrounds. Having recently completed his...
Santsingh (Sant) Marwaha – multiple-time mentor and a proud engineer
First introduced to The Mentoring Partnership and the opportunity to mentor immigrant professionals in 2005, Santsingh (Sant) Marwaha has been mentoring internationally trained engineers from all over the world looking for ways to get into their professional fields in...
Pradeep Mathur – serial mentor driven by his own immigrant experience
Pradeep Mathur migrated to Canada in 2008 from India having worked in the Middle East for many years. Despite significant international banking experience, it took him 13 months to find a job in Canada. Briefly a mentee with The Mentoring Partnership through ACCES...
Dan Mitta – Building people skills goes a long way in getting on in the world
Dan Mitta, Architect-Building Code Advisor with the Ontario Public Service, has been a mentor in The Mentoring Partnership for over seven years and has mentored more than 10 internationally trained architects in the GTA. He spoke with us about his experience as a...
Enrique Enriquez – this program was IT!
My mentees inspire me! When Enrique Enriquez arrived in Canada from the Philippines in 2003, he brought with him skills in networking, systems support, administration, and teaching. The Mentoring Partnership was yet to be launched. He struggled with and learnt the...
Amjad Rana- Mentoring Pro
"Being a mentor has taught me to be humble". When Amjad Rana first arrived in Canada 17 years ago, he trekked to a public library every day to scour suitable job postings in publications. He would then respond with hand-written resumes that were invariably six to...