Winnipegger top student entrepreneur
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HE wasn’t even in grade school, and Winnipegger Justin Kathan was already aspiring to be an entrepreneur.
"The other day I was looking back at some drawings I made in preschool and in one of them I drew a picture of myself on an airplane selling pizza," Kathan said in an interview Wednesday. "And the caption said, ‘When I grow up, I’m going to sell pizza on an airplane.’ "
Fifteen years later, he isn’t selling pizza, but he does own two businesses — a DECO Windshield Repair franchise and KuRV Apparel, a home-based business that sells customized graduation clothing to high school students.
Kathan is also a full-time student at the University of Manitoba’s Asper School of Business and that successful juggling act is one of the reasons Advancing Canadian Entrepreneurship — a national group that offers entrepreneurial programs to post-secondary students — has named him Manitoba’s top student entrepreneur for 2010.
"He’s the only person in our competition that is running two businesses," said Jaime Szegvary, a communications consultant with ACE. "He’s really a true example of what it’s like to be a student entrepreneur."
This is the 14th year for ACE’s student entrepreneur competition, which is designed to encourage post-secondary students to become entrepreneurs or business leaders after they graduate.
Szegvary said the organization gets "hundreds" of nominations nationally each year.
Kathan will represent Manitoba in the next round of the ACE competition March 5 at the ACE Regional Exposition in Calgary. Two western regional finalists advance to the national round May 12 in Calgary.
— Murray McNeill