Vinod Rajasekaran, BEng/05

Vinod Rajasekaran, BEng/05, founded and manages Hub Ottawa, a business incubator located on Bank Street, near Parliament Hill. The co-working space brings together start-up social entrepreneurs and offers members the use of shared resources (office tables, computers) and access to like minds (networking evenings, lectures). Members of the Hub have their portraits posted on the wall (shown at right) by way of introduction. A nearby table holds business cards of some of the operations housed there, including Awesome Ottawa and Oak Computing. The space has some tangible hallmarks of the dot-com era—wall-sized chalkboards, perpetual renovations—and one of the less tangible ones: that sense of excitement in the air.