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Marketing project lead:
Keeping the creative team kind of sane by assessing, consulting, clarifying and processing marketing briefs and scheduling the work

Located in: Nepean, Ottawa
Famous person I met: Magic Johnson
First job: School supervisor
Looking forward to: travelling again
Useless talent: I can spin a pillow or book or many other random objects on my finger
What we do matters: Make a positive impact in this crazy world we live in

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Amber Schonhaar (note the new last name - back to  my maiden name!)

Writer, Digital Marketing - content creation + collaboration

Located in: the 'burbs (Kanata ON)

Famous person I met:  Def Leppard (the whole band)

First job: Rock picker

Looking forward to: summer hiking and weekend getaways

Secret or useless talent:  Insects fascinate me and I wanted to be an entomologist

What we do matters: Like so many others, the mandate of CBS attracted me to the position and I'm so proud to be part of the team!

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Manager of National Partnerships
Working with National companies and organizations for recruitment
Ottawa
Chandler Bing ;)
Santa's elf at the Mall
going to ADRP to present in May on the Champion portal
useless talent....obsessed with my cricut cutter - thanks Steve!!
My sister needed blood after my niece was born and my father needed it during cancer treatment

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Product Marketing Manager, Plasma Operations. Responsible for donor recruitment, retention, national campaigns, media planning.

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Located in: Nepean, Ottawa
Famous person I met: Deepika Padukone
First job: Undergrad Teaching Assistant
Looking forward to: Travelling across Europe
Secret or useless talent: I love serial killer shows/ movies and I can tell who the killer is beforehand :p
What we do matters: Covid changed my perspective and I wanted to work for a company that does impactful work.

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Marketing Manager- Blood- Working on the Blood portfolio

Located in: Winnipeg Manitoba
Famous Person I met: Jeff Daniels
First Job: McDonalds
Looking forward to: Being in the same room as the team
Secret or Useless Talent: Retired Improv team member
What we do matters: My son wouldn't be here without blood donors

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Holly Anderson

Marketing Manager - whole blood

Aurora

Camp counsellor

Arms and legs bend the wrong way.

I came here to make a difference. My mom passed away from Alzheimers - and I didn't want to sell cheese, candy or binders again.

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Sr Manager Integrated Strategy & Planning - currently helping to lead the blood portfolio and longer term multi-product strategy development.

Located in -  Almonte (just outside of Ottawa)

Famous person I met - Sharon Osbourne

First job -  was at our local arena canteen

Looking forward to - summer with vacation with my kids and the end of covid!

Secret talent - I can play the guitar!

What we do matters -  I have had family members need critical and lifesaving blood transfusions.  I also lost my bother quite young, and we were able to donate his organs and even his eyes to 6 different recipients.

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Graphic Designer: specializes in illustration, animation and digital advertising
Located in: Vanier, ON
First job: Delivering the paper, dog walking, babysitting, snow shovelling, leaf raking...first REAL job was working with my mom at a hair salon
Looking forward to: Lockdown restrictions ending so I can travel! Anywhere/everywhere.
What we do matters: Everyday I see the impact of what our team helps to achieve, it's a talented and amazing group to be a part of!

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Manager Marketing Planning and Operations: Help with process, planning, and whatever.
Located:  Otttawa
Famous persons: Ben Wicks, Cory Hart, Huey Lewis, The Nylons, Neal Adams, A&W guy, Tom Cavanaugh, Michelle Wright, and many others that escape me.
Useless talent:  Trivial info for every topic.
First job: Gas jockey
What we do matters: Took this job because the work seemed interesting. Kept this job because I'm so proud to be part of vitally important work with incredibly wonderful people. Best team ever!

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Location - Greely
Working with CBS for many years. Passion for collections and solving complicated collections issues
Famous person i met - Wayne Gretzky
First job - Baseball player
Useless talent: card tricks - woodworking - golf-lol
Passion - coaching my daughters sports teams

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Advertising and Digital Innovation:
I work with an amazing, collaborative and creative team to dream big, innovate and inspire new and prospect donors every day.

Located in: Greely (Near Kevin's house and close to Foodland), Ontario
Famous person I met: Oprah
First job: Graphic Designer at TELUS
Looking forward to: travelling and reading
Useless talent: Super Nerd - love getting to know everything I can about technology and lately obsessed with the Metaverse, crypto currency especially understanding NFTs
What we do matters: I love that I can save lives even though I have a fear of blood (but I am getting over that - 10 times donor by EOM!!!

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Digital Design Specialist:
I help strive forward our digital innovations ❤️
Location: Gatineau, QC
Famous person I met: The Jonas Brothers (does a wave through the limousine window after their concert count?)
First job: Graphic designer at the Senate of Canada!
Looking forward to: Traveling and finally going on my honeymoon one day! #covidweddingproblems
Useless talent: I like to freak my family out by cracking (usually) uncrackable bones
What we do matters: I first joined CBS because my mom needed blood transfusions at my birth. It's a story that resonated with me all my life ❤️

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Role - Marketing Manager - Fresh blood
Located in - Ottawa (south end - the RISO)
Famous Person I met - Steven Gerrard
First Job - cleaning for my mom
Looking forward to - kids growing up
Secret or useless talent - getting older
What we do matters - family and friends impacted by health challenges; wanted to make an impact

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Marketing Coordinator
Located in Toronto
Famous Person I met: Raven Symone
First Job: Waitress
Looking forward to: Traveling
Useless Talent: Makes a great cup of coffee

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Digital Marketing Lead
Still trying to figure things out. Working closely with Brenda, Sara, Daniel & Nathaly to change the world.

Located: Calgary, AB

Famous persons I met:

William Shatner

Comic book artist Micheal Turner (My idol who has passed of cancer)

First job: Dishwasher for the Calgary Stampede Grandstand Restaurant

Looking forward to: Going to see my parents this summer

Useless talent: I can pick up accents reasonably quickly, often after watching a movie. But can't do accents on demand.

What we do matters: I really feel CBS fulfills a very important mission and I want to be part of that.

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Lead, Strategy, Planning and Integration: Depends on the day or the hour.
Located in: Ottawa
Famous people I've met: Arcade Fire
First job: Lifeguard / swim instructor
Looking forward to: Seeing my colleagues in person again
What we do matters: Trying to use my skills for good not evil...

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Role: Marketing coordinator working on the stem cell, cord blood and OTDT portfolios.
Located in: Toronto
Famous person I met: Sidney Crosby (kind of)
First job: Sales associate at a clothing store
Looking forward to: Summer :)
Secret or useless talent:

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Director, Philanthropy and Interim Dir, national partnerships
-inspire folks to give in ways that are meaningful to them
Located in: Ottawa
Famous person(s): a few recent NHL'ers
First job: analytical chemist in nuclear industry
Looking forward to: rest...rest...and possibly sleep
Useless talent: rocking babies to sleep
What we do matters: yes, it does!

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Director, corporate brand and social responsibility, Interim director, marketing

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Located in: Ottawa
Famous person I met: Kurt Browning (following my first, and last, overnighter in a mall parking lot to be first in line...)
First job: Ultramar gas attendant
Looking forward to: Travelling, summer and my kids not constantly having to ask me "Are you on a call?!"
Secret talent: Yet to lose a game of Cookie Face
What we do matters: My father is a blood recipient (saved his life), best friend's son is a plasma recipient, and my cousins have just joined our stem cell registry in support of a patient campaign for a relative. I am a registered organ donor and financial donor.

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Located in: Nepean, Ottawa
Famous person I met:
First job: Babysitter > grocery store cashier (if babysitting doesn't count)
Looking forward to: My wedding!
Secret or useless talent: giving podcast recommendations

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Role: Email & Web developer
Location: Carp,
Ottawa-First Job: Statician
Looking forward to: Holidays
I wanted to be a kindergarden teacher

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Content Writer - Plasma. Writing content for marketing materials related to plasma donor centres and promoting plasma donation.

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Located in: Chatham, ON
Famous person I met: No one, but I once met a guy who looked like Steven Spielberg and I told him that. And his young son said "yeah yeah we know!"
First job: Tour guide at a cave in the Ottawa Valley
Looking forward to: adopting our new puppy this weekend
Useless talent: knowing way too much about random celebrities
What we do matters: Every day I feel like what I'm doing makes a difference and contributes to CBS's goals and my job makes me happy too!

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Digital Analytics Specialist
Located: Brampton, ON
Famous person I met: Not sure if they're famous, but I met Walter/Wayne Gretzky and also Jonathan Bernier, probably someone else I can't remember.
First Job: I worked at Nestle, in their Ice Cream warehouse in high school, it was minus 30-40 and i had to wear a full body suit.
Looking Forward to: Travelling again, going to BC to visit my grandma this summer as well.
Secret or Useless Talent: Not sure if this is useless but I build my own PC's for gaming and have a weird habit of getting into the rabbit hole of random things, I love learning and reading about new, interesting things related to history, nature, politics etc.
What we do matters: My cousin has had multiple surgeries for a heart condition she has had since birth, without the work at CBS she wouldn't be as healthy as she is today.

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Marketing Specialist: Working on adding diversity to our donor base
Located in: Toronto
First Job: Volunteer for a youth organization
Looking forward to: Meeting all of you in person
Secret or useless talent: High tolerance for spicy food
What we do matters: It aligns with my personal values