Parker: Government search agency Pekarsky & Co. celebrates small enterprise of the 12 months award

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Many firms are justifiably pleased with profitable an award; there are numerous handed out all through a 12 months. However Adam Pekarsky is very proud for Pekarsky & Co. to be awarded the excellence of the ConnectFirst Credit score Union Small Enterprise of the 12 months.

His firm is really a small enterprise, with a workers of 10, however the Calgary Chamber of Commerce acknowledged it as having “demonstrated important enterprise achievement, sustained progress and the potential to turn into a real pillar of our metropolis; a pacesetter in Calgary’s enterprise neighborhood.”

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Pekarsky says, “Profitable the award is a superb public recognition of one thing my crew and our purchasers have identified for practically 15 years; that we do issues in another way round right here, that we’re not afraid to be completely genuine and community-minded, at occasions a bit irreverent, even cheeky, and that it’s doable to take your work significantly with out taking your self too significantly.”

A local of Edmonton, Pekarsky says his entrepreneurship got here naturally from his grandfather, Henry Singer, who launched his first menswear retailer in 1938. Haberdashery was not Pekarsky’s curiosity, and he turned a lawyer earlier than relocating to Calgary in 1998 to the authorized agency of Milner Fennerty.

He co-founded his government search agency in 2009 and commenced “punching above his weight” in a enterprise that has no diploma to show how to achieve success in it. But, he has been capable of compete towards the worldwide search corporations as a boutique providing, steadily build up relationships which have lasted.

Good communication and having a major presence and involvement within the Calgary neighborhood have been foremost within the firm’s achievements.

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Companions Ranju Shergill and Cameron McDonald are each good examples of people that work laborious however are prepared to be concerned in methods to assist this metropolis be a greater place to reside.

Shergill is a former board chair of the Calgary Immigrant Ladies’s Affiliation and presently serves on the board of the Calgary Telus Conference Centre.

McDonald serves on the manager committee and chaired the nominating committee of the Prime 7 over 70 Awards, and led the cost within the agency’s assist of the current Calgary Nationwide Financial institution Challenger tennis match.

For 15 of its years in enterprise, Pekarsky has printed The Ampersand, his E-newsletter exploring problems with the day that have an effect on our neighborhood, which now boasts greater than 170 publications. He’s additionally a sessional teacher on the College of Calgary on profession administration and relationship constructing, primarily with second and third-year legislation college students. His board memberships embody YMCA Calgary and Calgary Municipal Land Corp.

The corporate has loved understanding of character house above the previous Alberta Lodge constructing on the nook of Stephen Avenue and 1st Road S.W. for the previous 15 years. Now it’s time for a change, and Pekarsky & Co. is shifting subsequent month. The workers are trying ahead to understanding of a extra collaborative house solely a block away within the workplace tower adjoining to the Le Germain Lodge on the nook of Centre Road and ninth Avenue S.W. Purposefully, there are not any customer chairs in places of work however a number of hangout areas to “look one another within the eye” — and one other attraction have to be the great viewing home windows trying down onto the Stampede parade.

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Though Pekarsky says he’s proud of the dimensions of his firm, the additional 1,300 sq. ft will likely be lots ought to a sensible younger individual need to hitch him.

Notes:

BioAro, a Calgary-based biotechnology firm, is on a mission to facilitate entry to microbiome testing and providers for people worldwide, making certain they obtain tailor-made remedy for Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS). Co-founded by registered dietitian Raman Kapoor and Dr. Anmol Kapoor, the corporate has opened its first digital and in-person BioGut clinic downtown in Calgary Place 1 on fifth Avenue S.W. The clinic has been meticulously structured to supply a three-month transformative journey particularly to deal with the complexities of IBS. BioAro has strategic plans to determine extra amenities in Europe, the United Arab Emirates and United States.

David Parker seems usually within the Herald. Learn his columns on-line at calgaryherald.com/enterprise. He will be reached at 403-830-4622 or by e mail at [email protected]

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