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Rotman School MBA Graduate Named to Top 40 Under 40 List and Professor Honoured with Distinguished Service Award.

Toronto, Feb. 27, 2019A graduate of the MBA program at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management was named to Business in Vancouver’s Top 40 Under 40 list and a professor of strategic management has received the Public Utility Research Center Distinguished Service Award.

Poonam Jassi, MBA’11, was honoured by Business in Vancouver during the 2018 awards gala held on January 24. Winners of the annual Top 40 Under 40 awards are under 40 years of age and have demonstrated excellence in business, judgment, leadership and community contribution. Jassi is currently vice-president of operations, Western Canada, at FunctionAbility Rehabilitation Services. Previously she was the youngest provincial leader at CBI Health Group, and led the company’s growth in British Columbia over the past three years. As senior director of operations, she oversaw 1,000 staff in the field who provided a variety of community health-care services. In addition to her MBA, Jassi holds a Bachelor of Science in molecular biology and biochemistry from Simon Fraser University. She is completing a PhD in business administration at IE University.

Prof. Joshua Gans received the PURC Distinguished Service Award last week from The Public Utility Research Center at the University of Florida. The Centre is an internationally recognized academic center dedicated to research and to providing training in utility regulation and strategy, as well as the development of leadership in infrastructure policy. Each year, PURC honors an individual who has contributed to the understanding of regulatory economics and finance. The award recognizes the cumulative impact of an individual's research and policy analyses on both the academic community and regulatory policymakers.

Joshua Gans is a professor of strategic management and holder of the Jeffrey S. Skoll Chair of Technical Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Rotman School (with a cross appointment in the Department of Economics). Since 2013, he has also been Area Coordinator of Strategic Management. He is also Chief Economist of the Rotman School’s Creative Destruction Lab. He holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University and an honors degree in economics from the University of Queensland. His research is primarily focused on understanding the economic drivers of innovation and scientific progress, and has core interests in digital strategy and antitrust policy. His most recent book, coauthored with Rotman Professors Ajay Agrawal and Avi Goldfarb, is Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence (HBR Press).

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