2012 Executive Committee

Meet the 2012 Execs!

Ava Yazdani

Hometown: Tehran, Iran

Studies: Major in International Business, Minors in Finance & International Development Studies

What is your biggest fear?
Those blasted pigeons that plague Montreal, and revolving doors.

What makes McGill special for you?
Serving as an international hub, McGill is an intricate tapestry attracting people from all walks of life with unique stories to tell. It’s a humbling experience where everyone learns from one another’s life experiences. McGillians are also outrageously beautiful; this campus never delivers an eye sore.

What do you have to accomplish to consider yourself successful?
A work-life-love balance. If I can have ample time with my family and have a job that I find intrinsically valuable that has social impact, that would be the essence of happiness and my ultimate success in life.

Kristine Pinedo

Hometown: San Francisco, California

Studies: Major in International Management, Minors in Political Science & French Language

What is your biggest fear?
Spiders

What makes McGill special for you?
The people. I have made amazing friends from all over the world at McGill, and I am always so impressed by how talented and caring people are.

What do you have to accomplish to consider yourself successful?
I want to have a job that I am passionate about with the ability to travel and see my good friends.

	Sarah Chow Hometown: Toronto, Ontario Studies: Marketing, Finance, International Business What is your biggest fear? Feet. They’re like midget fingers What makes McGill special for you? The amazing opportunities available What do you have to accomplish to consider yourself successful? As long as I’m happy, I consider myself successful ☺
	Annika Lewis Hometown: Vancouver, BC Studies: Major in Finance, Minor in Math What is your biggest fear? Gingers What makes McGill special for you? The vast array of intramural sports! What do you have to accomplish to consider yourself successful? Have a palace made of ginger bread and have it filled with cherry gumdrops

	Sarah Monaghan Hometown: Larchmont, New York Studies: Major in Marketing, Concentration in International Business What is your biggest fear? The ocean What makes McGill special for you? The Bronfman community What do you have to accomplish to consider yourself successful? I have to be doing something that I care about
	Carrie Cheung Hometown: Hong Kong Studies: Majors in Accounting and Psychology What is your biggest fear? Being chased by a flock of bees What makes McGill special for you? It's the people and my MMICC family What do you have to accomplish to consider yourself successful? Change someone’s life for the better

David Irwin

Hometown: Mississauga, Ontario

Studies: Majors in International Management and Finance

What is your biggest fear?
A world without bacon

What makes McGill special for you?
The ability to take courses like Chinese Action Film (I wasn’t able to, it was full by the time I tried to register)

What do you have to accomplish to consider yourself successful?
I wanna be the very best, Like no one ever was. To catch them is my real test, To train them is my cause. Every challenge along the way, With courage I will face. I will battle every day, To claim my rightful place.

Fathima Mullick

Hometown: Kuwait

Studies: Major in Finance, Concentration in International Business

What is your biggest fear?
Losing a loved one

What makes McGill special for you?
MMICC <3, and the quality of education

What do you have to accomplish to consider yourself successful?
Build a school or orphanage in India with the money I have earned.

Shonezi Noor

Hometown: India and Dubai.

Studies: Major in Marketing, Concentration in Finance

What is your biggest fear?
Spiders

What makes McGill special for you?
The one bench on lower campus where I love to sit and ponder life.

What do you have to accomplish to consider yourself successful?
I will be successful if I can sleep every night knowing I never did anything unethical for a quick buck.

Jack Ni

Hometown: Beijing and Vancouver

Studies: Majors in Finance and Economics

What is your biggest fear?
Probably has to be sharks.

What makes McGill special for you?
The opportunity to meet great people who you’ll forever be friends with.

What do you have to accomplish to consider yourself successful?
When I look outside my balcony and I see bright lights, yellow taxis, and the Empire State.

Ben Pidduck

Hometown: Toronto, Chicago, and Zürich

Studies:Major in Marketing

What is your biggest fear?
Snakes. There are literally no redeeming qualities about them. But more seriously, my deepest fear is waking up one day and having had my whole life past me by in a flash.

What makes McGill special for you?
The opportunity to be challenged by smart and driven students and to have the chance to live in the diverse and exciting city that is Montreal. And because people here are so good looking.

What do you have to accomplish to consider yourself successful?
I wake up smiling

Katan Patel

Hometown: Montreal, Quebec

Studies: Major in Finance, Concentration in Organizational Behaviour

What is your biggest fear?
Failure

What makes McGill special for you?
The people. When I first came to McGill I didn’t know anyone. But the thing that really hit me was that people here are friendly, open and most of all fun.

What do you have to accomplish to consider yourself successful?
I think success is a progressive thing. You set goals for yourself and when you accomplish them you start all over again, establish different goals and go about trying to accomplish those. Success is a continuous and never ending process. The fleetingness of success is what makes those moments so special. So for me to feel successful, I would have to experience as many of those moments as possible.

Majd Steitieh

Hometown: Toronto, Syria, Tunisia, Qatar

Studies: Major in Finance, Concentration in Accounting

What is your biggest fear?
Anything that’s creepy and crawls- not just babies, bugs count too

What makes McGill special for you?
All my classes are in a building 2 minutes away from my apartment

What do you have to accomplish to consider yourself successful?
Knowing that I helped people in need and put a smile on their face

Thomas Kelly

Hometown: New Brunswick, Canada

Studies: Major in Civil Engineering

What is your biggest fear?
The day that Matt Stone and Trey Parker quit producing South Park to start an electronic doom folk band

What makes McGill special for you?
The special chemical in the water that makes everyone beautiful

What do you have to accomplish to consider yourself successful?
Be the best at what I do, and love the adventure on the way