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Susan Jarema: B.Comm, MBA

I live, breath and dream about creative ways to affordably market ethical products and services. I’ve been in marketing, sales, entrepreneurship and project management for nearly 20 years - gosh I hope that does not give away my age! I love helping my clients to grow their business and to save money. Over the years, I have become disappointed with the marketing and advertising industry’s approach to persuading consumption. I now want to use my skills to help promote products, services and issues that will help create a better world.

Susan brings to New Earth Marketing a wealth of knowledge in the toy, book, giftware, media, publishing, fundraising and educational industries. Her diverse experience in direct sales, b2b campaigns, promotions, digital products and online marketing, along with her creativity are a great asset for helping clients achieve their goals.

Early on in her career, she worked in the print and radio advertising industry. In 1991, Susan co-founded As You Like International Shopping Service Ltd., one of the first “Fair Trade” organizations to help village cooperatives in developing countries market and sell their sustainable crafts in North America.

Susan completed a marketing degree at the University of Manitoba and her Master’s in Business Administration at Simon Fraser University. She spent several years teaching business classes at Simon Fraser University and Douglas College and held various marketing and advisory positions for the Douglas College Self-Employment Program.

After having children, Susan founded Googol Learning. In this capacity, she produced the award-winning Googol Power Math Series and built several high traffic websites to promote family learning and media awareness.

Her goal now is to help other entrepreneurs succeed with their dreams and to promote socially responsible business practices.

Read more about Susan on her Biography page.
 

Imran Khan: B Eng (Information Technology)

Being creative was always an important part of my life. I now find myself fortunate to being doing what I have always wanted to do - managing creative IT projects. I am excited to be a part of New Earth Marketing. I enjoy meeting new people and taking on the challenge of keeping up with new technologies to help our clients reach their online goals.

New Earth Marketing is proud to have the expertise of Imran as part of our team. Imran’s organization skills and commitment to customer service and detail assures that all projects are completed successfully. Imran graduated from his Bachelor of Engineering in Information Technology with distinction. His diverse skill set includes PHP, HTML, XHTML, CSS, Drupal, Zen Cart, Phplist, MySQL, PHP, Dreamweaver, and Photoshop and very strong proponent of Open Source and Web 2.0 standards. He is proficient in the windows and Linux operating systems. In addition to site maintenance, programming and managing online projects, Imran keeps everything running smoothly with a continuous smile.

Maureen Pilgrim: CHRP

It is fun to work with my good friend Susan and her team helping businesses achieve their goals. Susan and I both have gone through the challenge of returning to the workforce after raising young children. I am excited to be training and helping other mothers find a balanced solution to work and family.

Maureen is a Human Resources generalist with 15 years of experience working with private, public and not-for-profit organizations. Her competencies include recruitment and selection, performance management, employee relations, organization and job design, policy development, and compensation and benefits administration.

Maureen graduated from Simon Fraser University with a B.B.A. and completed a Certificate in Human Resource Management at the University of Manitoba. She is a Certified Human Resource Professional (CHRP).

Ehsan Quddusi: (BIT, MCA, DIM, HND)

I have been working with Susan and Imran since the start of New Earth Marketing. It is inspiring to be part of the team that cares so much about its customers and the planet. I also find it exciting to work with clients all over the world. We look forward to helping our clients move forward and increase profitability through the use of open source software and innovative applications.

Ehsan Quddusi is an accomplished web developer with a flare for design. He excels in team collaboration and creative brainstorming. Ehsan is skilled in managing and bringing to fruition any sized project from development through to final testing and completion. His education is extensive with a Bachelors Degree in Information Technology, Masters in Computer Applications, Diploma in Multimedia and Higher National Diploma in Computing & Multimedia (London). Ehsan brings with him vast experience in print, electronic media and web development. He has been developing high profile interactive web applications. He is proficient in working with Dreamweaver, Frontpage & Komodo IDE; highly skilled with Photoshop, Illustrator and CorelDraw; proficient with MVC Architecture & Database patterns like Active Record & ORM; experienced in CMSs including Drupal, Joomla & Wordpress. He has the ability to handle highly AJAXed Web 2.0 Apps using open source jQuery, a Javascript library. Ehsan is also sound at software engineering processes including software versioning using SVN, issue tracking using Flyspray & project management using Projectpier. Recently he has developed an interest in OpenSocial & Facebook Applications. New Earth Marketing is excited now to be able to offer these customized applications for our clients.

Asad Naeem: (BCS Hons; Masters in Multimedia Arts)

Working with New Earth Marketing clients is always a pleasure and provides me with many unique opportunities to creatively design in different styles for a wide array of projects. I enjoy working with the New Earth Marketing team and together converting the conceptualizations into reality.

New Earth Marketing is proud to have Asad Naeem in our team. Asad brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to the NEM team with over 7 years experience in the interactive and web industry. He has designed web interfaces, 2d and 3d animations and flash action scripting. At NEM he continues to work on leading-edge multimedia including website and Flash design for a wide range of user experiences. Asad is proficient in 3D modeling and animations and has great experience with a wide variety of graphic design softwares. In the last several years he expanded his design skills and broadened his understanding of animations and web building.

Advisory Committee

Special thanks goes to our advisory committee who provide our team with guidance, support and ideas & resources that we share with our clients.

Heather Worosz: BA, MBA, MSLS

It is great to be teamed up with Sue again since we co-founded a fair trade business together in our early 20's. Wow, time sure flies! In many ways, we are returning to our roots of working to promote fair and ethical business practices that help to create meaningful employment and at the same time support the development and realization of social entrepreneurs' goals and dreams. Since these early days, Sue and I have both gained some wisdom and experience along the way and we look forward to sharing what we have learned to help grow your new ventures in a fun and sustainable way!
Heather’s core work focuses on creating dialogue and learning processes and programs to further progress towards sustainability. Heather’s competencies also include strategic planning and analysis. In this capacity she works with partners to integrate sustainability into their core vision, goals and strategies.

In the past few years, Heather has led the development of Masters level courses for sustainability and is responsible for leading the design and rollout of the Natural Step’s learning programs for its international associates. She has also volunteered in the West Bank facilitating dialogue between Palestinians, Israelis and Internationals to promote peace and understanding at the grass-roots level.

Heather’s personal interest and passion in this field is in understanding how to create the context for individual and collective leadership to emerge that will engender systems level changes towards sustainability.

Heather holds a Masters in Business Administration (Canada), a Masters in Strategic Leadership Towards Sustainability (Sweden) and a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations (Canada). She has lived and worked in Canada, Hungary, Japan, Israel, Sweden, the United Kingdom and in the USA. She is excited to be back in British Columbia once again.

Gerry Mallett

Gerry has 45 years experience in telecommunications, having worked with Telus, EXPO 86, Consultec Canada, Canada's first major telcom consultancy, and Peer 1 Network, an emerging giant in high performance internet bandwidth and hacker prevention tools.

Gerry's extensive business experience and positive outlook provides endless creative ideas and motivation for our clients and our team.

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