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This year, Okanagan Edge and the Kelowna Chamber of Commerce have partnered to showcase some of the Okanagan’s most exciting entrepreneurs, through the Top 40 Under 40 program.
Sponsored by BDO, the Top 40 Under 40 recognizes innovative young professionals in our community, and showcases their accomplishments.
Okanagan Edge will feature a new honouree each week, so check back often.
This week we recognize serial entrepreneur William Walczak, who currently works as the CEO and director of Hiilite, among many other things.
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William Walczak has been an entrepreneur since he was a teenager 19, and can already claim several successful businesses.
He cut his teeth at the University of British Columbia, where he graduated with an MBA. He also has an engineering degree from Simon Fraser University, and a series of IT certifications and diploma.
Since moving to Kelowna in 2009 he has worked with or supported several organizations, but he currently runs a 20-person team at Hiilite Web + Marketing, as the company’s director and CEO.
He also acts as CEO and director at RepairExpress and Fix My Touch, where he oversees another 12-person team.
Walczak has sat as a board member for Opera Kelowna, an organization he is also proud to have supported financially for the past three years.
He’s also supported other community organizations like United Way, Kelowna Arts Council, Food Bank, and others. ‘
Walczak has mentored, and continues to support, several young and aspiring entrepreneurs, and teaches a digital marketing course at Community Futures, a venue he says he will use to “help guide the next generation of entrepreneurs.”
Walczak says he is “proud to be part of the Kelowna business community,” and hopes to continue to help the city become the “creative and cultural destination of Canada.”
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