Welcome to Marie Sargent

We welcome Marie to our Cambridge office.

Marie was born and raised in Brockville, Ontario, the youngest of 3.

She graduated from the Business and Commerce Course at the Local High school, Brockville Collegiate Institute. Further education was obtained from St. Lawrence College in Brockville where she received her Data Processing Degree and Computer Science Degree, with further studies in Business Management taken at Queens University, Kingston, Ontario and the American Management Association, Toronto, Ontario. In 2005 she completed her Small Business Management Program at Conestoga College, Kitchener, Ontario; and last year she became Cambridge Towel's ISO 9001:2000 QMS Lead Auditor obtaining certification of Individual Quality Management Systems Internal Auditors by RABQSA.

Marie and her husband Robert were high school sweethearts, having celebrated our 35th wedding anniversary last April. They have 2 adorable children; their youngest is Sheba, a 130+ pound, 8 year old Great Pyrenees canine and Sam, our 10 year old feline.

Marie started her 35+ years career in Information Technology teaching computer courses at St. Lawrence College in Brockville, moving into the Manufacturing sector in the late seventies, working for Black & Decker Canada for 15+ years, and finally relocating to Cambridge in 1995 to work for The Cambridge Towel Corporation.

Throughout her career in information technology she has been very active in the 'industry user groups' being an Active Board Member and co-founder of "COiN - Central Ontario I-series Networking User Group"; being Vice-President, Board of Directors, for 3 years and President, Board of Directors, for 3 years, she recently retired from the COiN board. Meanwhile, she was also President of the Eastern Canada User Group (ECRUG), a 2,000+ membership for PeopleSoft and J. D. Edwards software users. During her tenure as President of these 2 industry groups she Received an award of distinction at the Quest Global conference, for her contribution to J.D.Edward's user groups, and was inducted into the IBM Canada Hall of Fame upon receiving an award in recognition of my demonstrated dedication and enthusiasm for the IBM iSeries user industry groups.

She has many interests, but in particular, she is an Avid gardener who loves golfing, walking, swimming and reading.

Reflecting back at her past performance as an Information Technology professional she has experienced a fabulous career, having met and worked with many wonderful people. She looks forward to the years ahead as she has decided that today's Real Estate Professional and Marie have the same qualities in common: self-disciplined, organized, intelligent, knowledge of business and the real estate world from many perspectives, and a good negotiator. Marie accomplishes what she starts out to do with a very pleasant, positive outlook and
a 'can do' attitude.