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Reid Campbell, 2007 Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) graduateReid Campbell graduated from UOIT with a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) degree in 2007 and is currently runningVMG Cinematic, an online marketing firm specializing in video production and social media optimization. The companyhas been responsible for the creation of web video productions and digital signage content for clients including Harley-Davidson, Motorola, Intel, Hewlett Packard and Research in Motion. The company currently has six full-time employees,two part-time employees and more than 10 contract positions. Originally, VMG started out as a basement operation inOakville, Ontario but quickly outgrew its office. Fast-forward two years later and the company is now in its second officelocated in the west end of Toronto in the hip and creative area known as Liberty Village. VMG’s neighbours include YTVand Nelvana Studios.Ryan Bishop, 2008 Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) graduateWhile completing the final semester of his Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) degree in e-commerce,Ryan Bishop joined Toronto-based consulting and services company, Hlnext, as a part-time businessanalyst in January 2008. In just three short months, he quickly learned the business and became a keycontributor to the realization of several large electronic health-care projects. After graduating in April2008, Bishop joined the Hlnext team on a full-time basis, extending his job role to business and ITanalysis. Since this time, he has led and supported several leading edge health-care initiatives andprojects – seeing them through to completion. Some of his key accomplishments include being theproject lead of a successful large-scale web server and database migration from IBM data centres toPEER 1 Networks for millions of electronic health records. In addition, he has co-led multiple development projects tocreate new electronic assessment tools to improve patient care, both in Canada and the United States.Included in his achievements, Bishop successfully established a UOIT internship opportunity through ACCELERATEOntario, UOIT and Hlnext for two student researchers from UOIT to work in a co-op program at Hlnext.William Balfour, 2010 Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) - Marketing, graduateWilliam Balfour began his career as a marketing intern with Global Spectrum FacilityManagement at the General Motors Centre in Oshawa during the beginning of his third year atUOIT. He successfully managed the demands of school, his internship position and two part-timejobs for the duration of his third year.William interned at the 2009 Event and Arena Marketing Conference in Colorado Springs,Colorado. He built a strong community of networks and had demonstrated an impressive workethic. It was due to this that he was recommended to apply for the Ontario Global Edge programin the summer of 2009. William was accepted into this program and was sent to Hong Kong for