{"id":109345,"date":"2026-04-28T11:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T15:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=109345"},"modified":"2026-04-28T11:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T15:52:10","slug":"brock-grads-staff-honoured-for-local-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2026\/04\/brock-grads-staff-honoured-for-local-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock grads, staff honoured for local leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Badgers are making an impact as local business and community leaders, with Brock alumni and employees bringing home almost half of this year\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesslinkmedia.com\/niagara-40-under-forty-awards\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">40 Under Forty Business Achievement Awards<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Presented by Business Link Media Group, the annual awards honour 40 individuals under the age of 40 who have made significant contributions to Niagara\u2019s growth and prosperity.<\/p>\n<p>Among the 18 Brock graduates recognized were two University employees: Executive Director, Professional and Continuing Studies Nathan Chenney (BA \u201914, BEd \u201914) and Community Relations Advisor Rob Fucile (BA \u201921).<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s winners will celebrated at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesslinkmedia.com\/event-details-registration\/23rd-niagara-40u40-business-achievement-awards-gala\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">23rd Business Achievement Awards Gala<\/a>\u00a0on Thursday, May 28 in St. Catharines.<\/p>\n<p>Brock University alumni recipients of the 2026 40 Under Forty Business Achievement Awards include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nathan Cheney (BA \u201914; BEd \u201914)<\/li>\n<li>Janine Costello (BA \u201911, BA \u201921)<\/li>\n<li>David D\u2019Angelo (BA \u201912)<\/li>\n<li>Robert Fucile (BA \u201921)<\/li>\n<li>Chris Giles (BA \u201911)<\/li>\n<li>Scott Golem (MSc \u201913)<\/li>\n<li>Emma Gunn (BSM \u201919)<\/li>\n<li>Jason Lennard (BBA \u201912, MEd \u201920)<\/li>\n<li>Dan Lonergan (BSc \u201913, BEd \u201913, MBA \u201918)<\/li>\n<li>Amanda Norrad (BRLS \u201910)<\/li>\n<li>Marina Radovanovic (BA \u201918)<\/li>\n<li>Ashley Sinclair (BA \u201912, MA \u201915)<\/li>\n<li>Dean Spironello (BA \u201912)<\/li>\n<li>Alyssa Stuppiello (BAcc \u201912)<\/li>\n<li>Katrina Stuppiello-Streiss (BAcc \u201910)<\/li>\n<li>Craig Swanson (BA \u201916)<\/li>\n<li>John Turner (BA \u201919)<\/li>\n<li>Cody Weber (BBA \u201918)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Badgers are making an impact as local business and community leaders, with Brock alumni and employees bringing home almost half of this year\u2019s 40 Under Forty Business Achievement Awards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":109348,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54,9794,7,1],"tags":[982,4783,283,10401,5216,5215],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109345"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109345"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109350,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109345\/revisions\/109350"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}