Frank Koller is a Canadian journalist. He has worked for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation since 1982 and is based in Ottawa. He was a foreign correspondent for CBC Radio News in Washington from 1998 to 2005. He has reported widely from across Canada, the USA, East and Southeast Asia and Latin America. Koller was based in Jakarta, Indonesia from 1985 to 1988. He is a member of the Canadian Association of Journalists.
Personal life
Koller holds a master's degree in engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from Carleton University in Ottawa.
Koller lives with his wife in Ottawa. Prior to his work with CBC, Koller spent 10 years as a professional jazz musician and recording artist.
Career
From 1988 to 1998, he was foreign editor and documentary producer for CBC Radio's Sunday Morning and its successor, This Morning.
In 1990, Koller was a recipient of a media fellowship from the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada; he spent three months conducting research in Vietnam. In an article on Singapore for Inroads Magazine, Koller interviewed former Prime Minister Lee Kwan Yew.
In 1996, Koller was awarded the Media Award from the Canadian Association for Community Living. In 1997, he was the winner of the Canadian Nurses Association Media Award for Excellence for his documentary "Death of the Worker's Friend" for Sunday Morning.
From 1996 through 1999, Koller was a board member of the Canadian Committee to Protect Journalists (now called Canadian Journalists for Free Expression). From 1998 through 2001, Koller was a member of the board of the now-disbanded Canadian Consortium on Asia Pacific Security Studies (CANCAPS).
In 2003, Koller was part of a CBC Radio team which produced Water for Profit, a special series on the privatization of water, produced in collaboration with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, which is a project of the Washington-based Center for Public Integrity.
In 2007, Koller was recognized by the Canadian Nurses Association and Canadian Medical Association for his work as part of a CBC investigative unit including David McKie, Susanne Reber, Phil Harbord, Bob Murphy, Karina Roman, Tyana Grundig and Rachel Gaulin. The group was awarded the Media Awards for excellence in Health Reporting (Excellence in Radio - In-depth) for their series "Dying for a Job".
In a series of investigative reports for CBC News in 2007 and 2008, Koller and several CBC colleagues examined Canada’s continuing production of asbestos and its export to developing countries around the world, despite widespread condemnation from international health experts of the risks of cancer to those exposed to the chemical.
In 2009, Koller was presented the Canadian Association of Journalists award for faith and spirituality along with fellow CBC journalists including Curt Petrovich and Vik Adhopia for their work on CBC Radio's "Where is God Today?".
Personal life
Koller holds a master's degree in engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from Carleton University in Ottawa.
Koller lives with his wife in Ottawa. Prior to his work with CBC, Koller spent 10 years as a professional jazz musician and recording artist.
Career
From 1988 to 1998, he was foreign editor and documentary producer for CBC Radio's Sunday Morning and its successor, This Morning.
In 1990, Koller was a recipient of a media fellowship from the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada; he spent three months conducting research in Vietnam. In an article on Singapore for Inroads Magazine, Koller interviewed former Prime Minister Lee Kwan Yew.
In 1996, Koller was awarded the Media Award from the Canadian Association for Community Living. In 1997, he was the winner of the Canadian Nurses Association Media Award for Excellence for his documentary "Death of the Worker's Friend" for Sunday Morning.
From 1996 through 1999, Koller was a board member of the Canadian Committee to Protect Journalists (now called Canadian Journalists for Free Expression). From 1998 through 2001, Koller was a member of the board of the now-disbanded Canadian Consortium on Asia Pacific Security Studies (CANCAPS).
In 2003, Koller was part of a CBC Radio team which produced Water for Profit, a special series on the privatization of water, produced in collaboration with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, which is a project of the Washington-based Center for Public Integrity.
In 2007, Koller was recognized by the Canadian Nurses Association and Canadian Medical Association for his work as part of a CBC investigative unit including David McKie, Susanne Reber, Phil Harbord, Bob Murphy, Karina Roman, Tyana Grundig and Rachel Gaulin. The group was awarded the Media Awards for excellence in Health Reporting (Excellence in Radio - In-depth) for their series "Dying for a Job".
In a series of investigative reports for CBC News in 2007 and 2008, Koller and several CBC colleagues examined Canada’s continuing production of asbestos and its export to developing countries around the world, despite widespread condemnation from international health experts of the risks of cancer to those exposed to the chemical.
In 2009, Koller was presented the Canadian Association of Journalists award for faith and spirituality along with fellow CBC journalists including Curt Petrovich and Vik Adhopia for their work on CBC Radio's "Where is God Today?".
Desmond Chen is a Vancouver born and raised Canadian entrepreneur.
Career
Desmond's experience in the food and beverage industry started when he began working in his father’s restaurant, the first Thai House on Robson Street, at the age of 13 in 1986. From working in the kitchen to the dining room and overseeing several restaurants in his early 20s, he opened his first restaurant, Urban Thai Bistro, in Yaletown in 2000 at the age of 27. In 2010, Chen opened Pink Elephant Thai on Alberni Street and in 2018, opened a second Pink Elephant Thai location at Marine Gateway.
In 2013, he was named one of Vancity Buzz's "Men of Vancouver" and is a co-executive producer for the viral reality web series, HBICtv: Ultra Rich Asian Girls. Season 4 is currently under discussions with talks to co-produce in the US and distribute in Asia. The show is produced under Veyron Media Inc.
He was a judge at the Miss World Canada in 2013, hosted the contestants at Pink Elephant on Alberni Street; he was also on the panel for the 2018 Golden Owl Awards.
Desmond is also a co-producer for the upcoming film, Woodland.
In 2018, Desmond has been working on Unbanned: The Legend of AJ1 as a Co Executive Producer.
Career
Desmond's experience in the food and beverage industry started when he began working in his father’s restaurant, the first Thai House on Robson Street, at the age of 13 in 1986. From working in the kitchen to the dining room and overseeing several restaurants in his early 20s, he opened his first restaurant, Urban Thai Bistro, in Yaletown in 2000 at the age of 27. In 2010, Chen opened Pink Elephant Thai on Alberni Street and in 2018, opened a second Pink Elephant Thai location at Marine Gateway.
In 2013, he was named one of Vancity Buzz's "Men of Vancouver" and is a co-executive producer for the viral reality web series, HBICtv: Ultra Rich Asian Girls. Season 4 is currently under discussions with talks to co-produce in the US and distribute in Asia. The show is produced under Veyron Media Inc.
He was a judge at the Miss World Canada in 2013, hosted the contestants at Pink Elephant on Alberni Street; he was also on the panel for the 2018 Golden Owl Awards.
Desmond is also a co-producer for the upcoming film, Woodland.
In 2018, Desmond has been working on Unbanned: The Legend of AJ1 as a Co Executive Producer.
Hamid Reza Namazi is a doctor, researcher of philosophy and ethics and assistant professor of Ethics at the Faculty of Theology at the University of Tehran. He teaches, publishes essays and lectures at conferences on philosophy, ethics and Western philosophy.
Career
He is a member of the Technical Committee of Palliative Medicine, Ministry of health, treatment and medical education of Iran, a member of the writers council for the textbook of cancer at the Ministry of Health and a representative of domestic specialty scientific association at the Academy of Persian Language and Literature. Namazi also cooperated with the school magazine. He is the first graduate of philosophy of religion field at the University of Tehran. He wrote articles on medical ethics for Health Weekly. He had the following additional responsibilities:
* Leading meetings of the Rumi association
*Editor of a scientific specialized journal of Iranian Association of Gastroenterology
*Cooperation with group of professional ethicists at University of Tehran
*Professor of industrial management organization
*Professor of group of professional ethics at Tehran University of Medical Sciences
Attack
After departing the university in August 2006, three unidentified assailants attacked him. Riding on motorbikes, they chased Namazi and damaged his head, face, and left eye were badly damaged. His left cornea was badly scratched and doctors replaced it with an artificial cornea. “The attackers were young people aged 15-19 who had no fault. My complaint is aimed at a culture that dares for eye tearing and punching,” Namazi said about the accident.
Bibliography
*Tweet the Doors of Paradise, the interpretation of “Nei Nameh” of Rumi
*The Philosophy of Living, Research Institute of culture and thought
*The Psychology of Art and the Evolution of Brain (under print)
*Talking book: lessons from philosophy of Existentialism, 2006
*Harrison's internal medicine, (translation of Amir Hossein Sajjadieh, Soheila Rouhani and Hamid Reza Namazi)
Career
He is a member of the Technical Committee of Palliative Medicine, Ministry of health, treatment and medical education of Iran, a member of the writers council for the textbook of cancer at the Ministry of Health and a representative of domestic specialty scientific association at the Academy of Persian Language and Literature. Namazi also cooperated with the school magazine. He is the first graduate of philosophy of religion field at the University of Tehran. He wrote articles on medical ethics for Health Weekly. He had the following additional responsibilities:
* Leading meetings of the Rumi association
*Editor of a scientific specialized journal of Iranian Association of Gastroenterology
*Cooperation with group of professional ethicists at University of Tehran
*Professor of industrial management organization
*Professor of group of professional ethics at Tehran University of Medical Sciences
Attack
After departing the university in August 2006, three unidentified assailants attacked him. Riding on motorbikes, they chased Namazi and damaged his head, face, and left eye were badly damaged. His left cornea was badly scratched and doctors replaced it with an artificial cornea. “The attackers were young people aged 15-19 who had no fault. My complaint is aimed at a culture that dares for eye tearing and punching,” Namazi said about the accident.
Bibliography
*Tweet the Doors of Paradise, the interpretation of “Nei Nameh” of Rumi
*The Philosophy of Living, Research Institute of culture and thought
*The Psychology of Art and the Evolution of Brain (under print)
*Talking book: lessons from philosophy of Existentialism, 2006
*Harrison's internal medicine, (translation of Amir Hossein Sajjadieh, Soheila Rouhani and Hamid Reza Namazi)
OrderStack is a commission-free online food ordering platform for restaurants. It is powered by TNGONE, Inc. and was previously known as Skipthecommission (founded in 2018).
Overview
OrderStack has its headquarters at Binghamton, New York. It currently serves restaurants in Canada and United States.
OrderStack was founded in 2018 as a solution to the problems restaurants face out of high commissions charged by the online food ordering platforms.
OrderStack enables independent restaurants to receive orders through their website using custom software.
Unlike other ordering platforms, OrderStack is a retail software that is individually customized for each restaurant to fit their brand. The restaurant reaches customers online and receives orders without any third-party involvement.
Operations
OrderStack operates on Software as a service (SaaS) model where the restaurants subscribe on a month-to-month basis.
As the restaurant receives orders on its website, OrderStack processes it and communicates it back to the restaurant for pickup, delivery, or schedule dine-in.
The order details get stored in the for the restaurant's use and to see who the repeated customers are. The dashboard saves transaction details to help restaurants look back at the sales and see how good their Return of investment is.
Locations
# TNGONE Inc. 120 Hawley St, Binghamton, New York,United States
# TNGONE, Inc. Suite 2201, 250 Yonge Street, Toronto, Canada
# TNGONE Software Labs Pvt Ltd, B-Hub, Mar Ivanios Vidya Nagar, Trivandrum
Overview
OrderStack has its headquarters at Binghamton, New York. It currently serves restaurants in Canada and United States.
OrderStack was founded in 2018 as a solution to the problems restaurants face out of high commissions charged by the online food ordering platforms.
OrderStack enables independent restaurants to receive orders through their website using custom software.
Unlike other ordering platforms, OrderStack is a retail software that is individually customized for each restaurant to fit their brand. The restaurant reaches customers online and receives orders without any third-party involvement.
Operations
OrderStack operates on Software as a service (SaaS) model where the restaurants subscribe on a month-to-month basis.
As the restaurant receives orders on its website, OrderStack processes it and communicates it back to the restaurant for pickup, delivery, or schedule dine-in.
The order details get stored in the for the restaurant's use and to see who the repeated customers are. The dashboard saves transaction details to help restaurants look back at the sales and see how good their Return of investment is.
Locations
# TNGONE Inc. 120 Hawley St, Binghamton, New York,United States
# TNGONE, Inc. Suite 2201, 250 Yonge Street, Toronto, Canada
# TNGONE Software Labs Pvt Ltd, B-Hub, Mar Ivanios Vidya Nagar, Trivandrum