Michael Dimitriou , BA / 91

“My biggest success in business was being accepted to partnership by persuading my partners that I was ready for it, likely a few years before I really was,” says Michael Dimitriou, who earned his chartered accountant and certified financial planner designations after his Carleton degree. “It pushed me to live up to their expectations, as well as my own. It’s worked out so far.”

Named one of the Forty Under 40 by the Ottawa Business Journal in 2007, Dimitriou has a natural curiosity about people and things, and a desire to understand how they work.