Dispatch

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

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ANNOUNCED By Fanshawe College, $20-million investment from the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) to develop the WSIB Centre of Excellence in Immersive Technologies Simulation for Workplace Safety.

OPENED Mana Pinball, 1742 Hyde Park Rd. Unit 3.

APPOINTED Melissa Derbyshire, director, national grants & foundations, Make-A-Wish Canada.

OPENED Honey Cake Pastry Shop, 381 Talbot Street (St Thomas).

APPOINTED Shaun Boe, dean, Faculty of Health Sciences, Western University (commencing April 1, 2025).

OPENED Aura Cocktail Nightclub, 545 Richmond Street.

RESIGNED Kevin Chan, vice-president of medicine, research and academics, London Health Sciences Centre.

NAMED Eric Janssen (Ivey Business School entrepreneurship lecturer and executive director Ivey New Venture Project), as a Top 50 Undergraduate Business Professor by Poets&Quants.

APPOINTED Ken DeVries, human resources generalist, A&L Canada Laboratories Inc.

APPOINTED Lindsay Goodyear, vice president, Hale.

NAMED Ivey Business School dean Julian Birkinshaw, 2025 AOM International Management Division Hyundai Motor Eminent Scholar.

APPOINTED Ryan Parkington, director of financial planning and reporting, Lerners LLP.