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Ariel Gough

Co-founder, Bailly

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Ariel Gough is a Halifax entrepreneur from Upper Hammonds Plains, Nova Scotia, who co-founded Bailly with Edwina Govindsamy in 2018. The company made vegan, alcohol-free perfume oils and gave 15% of sales to a girls' education project in Uganda. Gough has also worked in the offices of a federal minister and a Nova Scotia minister.

Ariel hasn’t spoken on a TechTO, TechVancouver or TechWaterloo stage. This profile is here because Ariel co-founded Bailly, which appears in 1 talk in the archive.

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What did Ariel Gough co-found?

Bailly (Bailly Cosmetics Inc.), a Halifax fragrance company. Startup Canada's THRIVE podcast page, published 2020-10-01, introduces her as Co-Founder of Bailly Cosmetics, and CBC News reported on 2021-02-17 that Gough and Edwina Govindsamy started Bailly Fragrance in 2018.

How did Bailly start?

Huddle reported on 2018-07-16 that Govindsamy's mother introduced the two about three years earlier and that the pair were launching Bailly with 15 per cent of each sale going to the Just Like My Child Foundation's Girl Power project in Uganda. ByBlacks reported on 2018-10-22 that the business was registered that spring and launched over the summer.

What else has Ariel Gough worked on?

Startup Canada's podcast page, published 2020-10-01, says she was a policy and regional advisor to the federal minister of Families, Children and Social Development, and that she was then executive assistant to Nova Scotia's minister of the Public Service Commission and African Nova Scotian Affairs. Her current role is not established.

Where is Ariel Gough from?

Upper Hammonds Plains, Nova Scotia. Huddle reported on 2018-07-16 that she comes from a long line of African-Canadians who settled in the community in the 1800s.

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