11 New Brunswickers Are Finalists for Startup Canada Awards
The Province of New Brunswick and the university that bears its name will be well represented in the finals of the 2017 Startup Canada Awards Thursday night.
Startup Canada, which promotes entrepreneurship across the country, will hand out its national awards Oct. 19 at a gala event in Ottawa. Some 17 Atlantic Canadian individuals and organizations – 11 of them from New Brunswick – are national finalists, including the winners of the regional awards in Fredericton last month.
One striking feature of the shortlist is that three of the four finalists for the Newcomer Entrepreneur Award are from Atlantic Canada – a region that has until recently struggled to attract immigrants. They are The Hadhad Family, founders of Peace by Chocolate of Antigonish, N.S.; Asif Hasan, CEO of SimpTek Technologies of Fredericton; and Michael Shin, owner of GenInk Printer Cartridges of Fredericton.
Hasan is one of many finalists associated with University of New Brunswick. Hasan and Jordan Kennie of Stash Energy, another finalist, founded their companies while studying at the university. And the finalists include Dean of Computer Science Ali Ghorbani and Dhirendra Shukla, the Chair of the UNB Technology, Management and Entrepreneurship program.
One New Brunswick company, Remsoft of Fredericton, is nominated in two categories.
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