Dispatch

Dispatch: A summary of recent business appointments and announcements, plus upcoming events for the week ahead

APPOINTED Chiyemenma Chichi Kejeh, senior business development consultant, Fanshawe College.

APPOINTED Brandon Vecchiola, business development manager, CMHA Thames Valley Addiction & Mental Health Services (effective January 2024).

MERGED Covenant Construction and McKaskell Haindl Design Build, to operate as Covenant Construction at 20 Towerline Place.

ANNOUNCED By Rebel Remedy, 242 Dundas Street, closure of its café and take-out business (effective December 23, 2023) and transition to kombucha brewery.

NAMED Michael Schmalz, as TechAlliance of Southwestern Ontario’s inaugural Limitless 2024 Visionary Award recipient.

LAUNCHED Communications firm Euny Bespoke Media.

AWARDED With 2023 Black Excellence Awards, presented by the W.E.A.N. (Where We Are Now) Community Centre: Leroy Hibbert (Lifetime Achievement Award); Broderick Nevison (Black Male Entrepreneurship Award); Marque Smith (2SLGBTQIA Black Entrepreneurship Award); Rosemary Williams (Black Female Entrepreneurship Award); Pastor Errol Lottery (Humanitarian Award); Manifest SkinCare (Certificate of Recognition for Black Children in Business); and Adelae Jewellery (Certificate of Recognition for Black Youth in Business).

RECEIVED By the London Health Sciences Centre, $7.55 million in funding from Genome Canada Genomic Applications Partnership Program in support of its an EpiSign technology, an artificial intelligence driven diagnosing tool for rare genetic diseases.

There are no business events scheduled for the week of December 18 to 24, 2023.