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Aritzia appoints its first woman CEO Jennifer Wong is now the CEO of clothing chain Aritzia, having taken over executive duties from founder Brian Hill in May. Wong has been at the Vancouver-based company for 35 years; she started as a sales associate and was most recently COO. In her new role, she will lead the brand’s expansion in the U.S. U.S.-based Snowflake gets new home in Toronto Montana-based cloud-computing company Snowflake is entering Canada with a 4,645-squaremetre office in Toronto. The plan is to hire hundreds of engineers to double down on the firm’s goal of developing an app marketplace. The expansion follows Snowflake’s US$3.4-billion raise in 2020—the world’s largest IPO for a software firm to date. Canadian cancerdrug maker signs billion-dollar deal Montreal-based cancer-drug company Repare Therapeutics signed…

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Canadian Business (Digital) - 1 Issue, Summer 2022

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