Juliana Schmidt – Business
A member of the International Travel Trade & Tourism community for almost 20 years, Juliana has helped build brands and client relationships for companies such as Celebrity Cruises, Azamara Cruises and Crystal Cruises. She possesses expertise in high end sales and marketing, community and client engagement, and trade and media event management. as an entrepreneur, consultant, and passionate community connector, Juliana is excited to leverage a world of experience to create Tourism development through community economic and cultural empowerment.
Originally from Brazil, she has travelled the world as a crew member of premium cruise lines. Since graduating with honors with a bachelor’s degree in Tourism at PUCRS, one of the best recognized universities in Latin America Juliana has been regularly attending network and professional development events building on her extensive experience in strategic planning, resources management, relationship building and engagement, team management, entrepreneurship, budget planning and execution of PR, marketing and sales strategies globally.
Arun Masand – Business I Information Technology Communication
After traveling the globe six times over, Arun Masand sold his shares in an adventure travel company he founded in Calgary and Toronto and headed out west. His experience as an adventure and expedition leader in the tourism industry has given him a logistical savvy that helps him in the day-to-day running of any team, and as a mountain climber he appreciates any challenge. He is always looking for the latest technology that can help a team be more efficient and productive. He says he will not give up his dream of riding his motorcycle across the Sahara Desert and enjoys sharing travel stories with students, clients and friends.
Arun is an immigrant himself and moved to the west some 30 years ago and later began sharing his tourism and travel experiences with students at a tourism college in Vancouver and Surrey. During this time, Arun Masand also launched his own Business Consulting company and has been consistently helping small and big organizations with their digital development, strategic operations and profitability in a number of fields. As an inveterate believer in education and an active businessperson, he has great passion for sharing his business experience and IT abilities with students from all over the world through informative and interactive lectures and presentations.
Arun is a commerce graduate from the University of Toronto and a Certified Canadian Risk Manager from Simon Fraser University as well as a computer programmer and web developer. His marketing savvy and years of working with corporate entities and fortune 500 companies in the technology and insurance sectors have enabled him to discover the best methods and strategy for gaining the competitive advantage. Arun Masand also served the City of Vancouver as a Police Officer in a former career path and is proud to be a Notary Public in the Province of Saskatchewan and a Commissioner of Oaths in the Province of British Columbia. He is a proud Canadian and encourages any immigration to this wonderful country.
Arun is a people person and develops meaningful connections with his students at Pacific Link College, where he is a contract lecturer on Post Secondary Digital Media and Business studies, and loves sharing his interest on global economies, business and enabling a talent pool for the work force. As an educator, he motivates, and nurtures a love for learning and encourages participation in every course. Respect, honour, hard work and truth are the bywords that he lives by and he inculcates a love for knowledge and a passion for living with each one of his students. One of his favourite Latin mottos which he has carried from his high school years is “Non scholæ sed vitæ discimus” – Not for school, but for life
Iris Burog – Business I Information Technology Communication
Iris Burog finished her post diploma in Human Resource Management at College of New Caledonia. She chose this career in order to continue learning the behaviour and how to deal with different people in the environment as she takes part in honing and leading them for their future endeavours and career development.
Iris has a Bachelor of Arts Degree from De La Salle – Lipa in Computer Science. She has also acquired a Certificate of Completion in Basic HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP in AMA Computer College. She used these achievements to work in a call centre for a year, basically troubleshooting software applications and hardware failure services.
For almost 12 years, Iris was a part of a Learning Centre, a business owned by her older sister. She was a private tutor and at the same time, an online ESL teacher. Over the years of teaching, she was able to find out that not only her passion was in technological sense, but also in managing students in achieving their future goals.
With the experience Iris’ encountered, she was able to find out that what’s more important in pursuing her job was not only about the money, but how she enjoyed and loved her job, and how she can treat the people in her environment. Changing career for her was not that difficult, because she easily got along with finding her passion. This fact was also the reason why she decided to study and work in Canada, so she can have a deeper knowledge or understanding of people’s behaviour, skills, and attitudes in a diversified environment.