Canadian Security announces Top 10 Under 40 recipients for 2024

Canadian Security is pleased to announce the recipients of the sixth annual Top 10 Under 40.

We offer our congratulations to all the winners and our thanks to the nominators who took the time to submit entries on behalf of their co-workers and colleagues. The number and quality of nominations was very high this year, making it a difficult task to select only 10 winners.

Winner profiles will appear in the Spring issue of Canadian Security which will be available in March. They are (in no particular order):

• Mathew Zielinski, VP operations, Paladin Security, 39
• Hadis Karimipour, Canada research chair and associate professor, University of Calgary, 38
• Paul Nicholson, director of security, Baycrest, 34
• Tanisha Singh, manager, cyber security awareness and training, Loblaw Companies Ltd., 27
• Laura Percy, senior forensic investigator, Canadian Tire, 29
• Aaron Ramhit, manager, risk prevention & physical security, Scotiabank, 27
• Mariam Chakvetadze, crime prevention manager, Rogers Communications, 31
• Melissa Plourde, security services manager, Red Deer Polytechnic, 38
• Katarzyna Szumacher, operations manager, ASP, 39
• Derek Burns, regional director, GardaWorld, 30