Vanessa Hughes

Soon after graduating from the Business – Human Resources program, Vanessa Hughes gained employment with Ontario Hydro followed by its successor company, Ontario Power Generation (OPG), where she worked in the human resources (HR) department. During her now 25-year career with OPG, she was a Power Within Award winner, has worked at the Pickering, Ont., and Darlington, Ont., nuclear stations and has navigated her way through the company’s Corporate Relations and Communications department. She is now senior manager, Corporate Relations and Communications, at Pickering Nuclear.