The lemonade

Name: Gregg SaretskyLives in: CalgaryDegrees: BSc, Microbiology &Biochemistry (UBC), MBA, Finance(Sauder)For pay: President & CEO, WestjetAirlinesFor fun: Traveling the worldBiggest career risk: Taking a job thatseemed out of my ﬁeld, but thatinterested me, very early on Name: Ryan BeedieAge: 42Lives in: VancouverDegrees: BBA (SFU), MBA, Real Estate(Sauder)For pay: President, the BeedieDevelopment Group, a real estatedevelopment companyFor fun: Wine, music, fast sportsBiggest career risk: Deciding to pursuean MBA instead of proceeding toward myCA designation, which meant I joined thecompany earlier than I would have

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Call them entrepreneurs, innovators, risk-takers; call them crazy... They arethe people we all know who opened lemonade stands at an early age, and whoimagine opportunity where others don’t, and whose daring dreams help us allimagine

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stand,reinvented

Name: Chris ColdeweyAge: 34Lives in: VancouverDegrees: BSc Conservation & ResourceStudies, UC Berkeley, MBA (Sauder)For pay: Strategy Consultant at ChrisColdewey Consulting; Founder, RedRovr.comFor fun: Hiking, biking, chasing a 1 year oldaround the houseBiggest career risk: Moving to Mumbai,India without a job lined up (found great job,stayed two years)Name: Livia MahlerAge: 52Lives in: VancouverDegrees: BSc (The Hebrew University ofJerusalem), MBA (Sauder)For pay: CEO, Computational GeosciencesInc., Vancouver-based company providinggeophysical data processing services forthe mining industryFor fun: RunningBiggest career risk: Quitting my stable job at the Business Development Bankof Canada

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