Meet Mandy Rennehan. Atlantic Canada's 2019 CEO of the Year
Let’s start with Five Moments from the extraordinary, label-defying life and times of Mandy Rennehan. She, of course, is the entrepreneur-founder and CEO of Freshco, the Nova Scotia-conceived, privately-owned retail maintenance, projects and reconstruction company she grew from literally nothing but the sweat on her back and the passion in her heart to a $50–100-million-a-year business from sea to shining Canadian sea, and which she is now in the process of expanding internationally down to the southernmost end of the east coast of the United States. As if that’s not enough, Mandy—known as “Bear” to her friends and the “Blue-Collar CEO” (trademarked) to her fans—is also an uncensored, in-demand public speaker who celebrates and promotes the role of skilled trades in the economy while “redefining the collar blue” (also trademarked)...
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On the job with Robert Fitzsimmons of the Campobello whale rescue team
“WELL, MAC AND JOE STARTED THIS BACK IN 2002. I was kind of watching it, what was going on there. One day they went out and disentangled a whale, and I was with my granddaughter, she was just small. She said to me, ‘Grampie, how come you don’t do that?’ And I didn’t have an answer for her,” says Robert Fitzsimmons, a 67-year-old former fisherman. “So I said maybe I best go talk with Mac. So that’s what I did, and that is how I got involved.”...
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