Profile of Elizabeth Howell

Biography

Elizabeth Howell is a former staff reporter with Ottawa Business Journal.

All articles of Elizabeth Howell

• ASSOCIATIONS: Keeping in constant contact
  This spring’s federal budget contained welcome news for the country’s top IT industry association: millions of dollars to support paid interns ...
• FASTEST GROWING COMPANIES #5: Cache Consulting...
  The IT consulting firm has 60 contractors with whom it works regularly. The typical contractor has about a decade of experience, providing deep ...
• FASTEST GROWING COMPANIES #4: Stoneshare changes...
  In 2010, the IT professional services company had just 18 people on board. Today, the head count has more than doubled to 45; of that number, ...
• Solar changes leave local providers in the dark
  While the review of solar pricing itself was long expected, what is said to have forced companies out of business was the province’s last-minute ...
• Sidense growing, but hampered by unfilled positions
  The memory chip maker’s revenues grew by nearly 30 per cent as the company achieved several milestones, such as signing its 100th customer and ...
• Haywood moves to AECL
  The former chief talent strategist with Human Resources Blueprint Ltd. said she took on the new position so she could see her suggested ...
• Feds to change purchasing engine
  PS Online, which some say is difficult for users, will be replaced with a new system called ProServices. The changes affects contracts valued at ...
• Saunders Farm expansion targets weddings, corporate...
  The 100-acre complex near Munster, which is best known for its Hallowe’en activities, plans to add a 2,000-square-foot commercial kitchen in ...
• Learning to love failure
  Organizers will hold the conference Nov. 17 at the National Arts Centre, with the main entrepreneurship panel addressing business failures.“It’s ...
• Telfer’s Forum founder passes the torch
  Peter Cleveland is leaving his position as executive-in-residence at the University of Ottawa business school to focus on his own business ...
• New IT security conference showcasing offensive,...
  As local consultants in the IT security industry, Mike Sues and Karim Nathoo say other conferences in the industry were specific to the ...
• Glebe BIA battling increase in graffiti
  The association has so far spent about $20,000 this year cleaning up graffiti in the area, said executive director Christine Leadman. Typically, ...
• Non-linear creations builds Brazilian presence
  The company built on the expertise of long-standing contractors in the South American country to target its “fervoured” economy, said president ...
• Relax export controls, Ottawa space firms tell feds
  Easing export controls, and giving priority to Canadian projects with export potential, will put space companies here in a better position ...
• Maplesoft pulls plans for New York expansion
  The decision came after the firm determined it would be “more economical” to form connections with Manhattan-area businesses from a distance, ...
• Data density
  Several of the country’s major telecom companies – as well as several independent firms – are constructing new data centres or have significant ...
• UN official to call on Ottawa companies to beef up...
  The former executive director of the United Nations Office for Partnerships, perhaps best known for acting as chief liaison for Ted Turner’s $1 ...
• Targeting tour groups
  The goal was to put the name of the restaurant in the bus driver’s head, says Mr. Priftakis, an OBJ/Ottawa Chamber of Commerce Forty Under 40 ...
• New PSP CEO committed to 'rightsizing' business
  It’s stability that investors might be looking for at this point. The company has seen a raft of executive changes in recent months, including ...
• Orleans chamber showcases east end businesses with expo
  Held at the Shenkman Arts Centre on Oct. 20, the showcase will include booths from businesses in the area advertising their products and ...
• OneChip founder wins immigrant entrepreneur award
  Mr. Tolstikhin received his award in the category of fast-growth enterprises. Originally from Russia, Mr. Tolstikhin spent time working in ...
• ‘Victory is complete’ for Sidense
  California-based Kilopass’ patent infringement claims against Sidense were overturned in August. T
• Tindr alight from Maplesoft spark
  Hired as a senior engineer at Maplesoft in 2008, Mr. Kelland was promoted and promoted again. He became vice-president of corporate architecture ...
• $1M Ottawa TV series enters second season
  “Every walk of life you can imagine involves math. So it’s fun to show kids how math is in all of those things,” says Hoda Elatawi, senior ...
• The cultural capital: What’s on tap
  But when the National Gallery of Canada opened an exhibition this summer centred around the Dutch artist, officials at culinary arts school Le ...
• Website design measured ‘on a scale of frustration...
  Mr. Spool, a Massachusetts-based software developer by trade, founded User Interface Engineering in 1988 and will be the keynote speaker at a ...
• Algonquin to offer co-ops to all students: college...
  Kent MacDonald says co-ops can range from formal credit opportunities to working with businesses under Algonquin’s applied research program, ...
• Telfer terminates leadership program
  Telfer, which is based at the University of Ottawa, announced the program’s conclusion in an e-mail to supporters on Sept. 10. “Due to major ...
• Telesat co-owner seeks IPO
  The request from the Public Sector Pension Investment Board, one of Canada’s largest asset managers, is now sitting in the hands of co-owner ...
• OC Transpo refreshes advertising to include digital,...
  The aim is to generate more money for the city’s transit service, although where the extra funds would go has not been earmarked yet, says David ...