Ken Franczek was born in Toronto, Ontario in July of 1966 and was raised in a middle

class neighborhood in Stony Creek Ontario. At sixteen, due to family issues, Ken found

himself homeless in Toronto where he spent the next three years until the age of

nineteen. During that time, he utilized a number of different support services and was

able to progress past the subculture of the streets and with significant help from these

same support groups was able find his first meaningful employment with a company

called Ginger’s Bathrooms in Toronto Ontario. In his twenties, Ken took on a number of

labour related jobs while at the same time earning his Secondary School Graduation

Diploma through correspondence.

In 1994, Ken made the move to move Western Canada for a new start and new

opportunities. Once arriving in Alberta, Ken had found himself still only able to secure a

number of unskilled labour and junior sales type positions. In 1997 Ken began his

employment with Crystal Glass Canada Ltd as a Customer Service Representative. Ken

progressed rapidly thru a number of promotions and increasing levels of management

within the Crystal Glass organization. Ken’s current position is the General Manager of

the entire Crystal Glass Canada Ltd. group of companies.

Over the past 10 years, Ken has managed to leverage his success within the Crystal

Glass organization into a number of addition business opportunities and partnerships.

Ken’s list of addition business interests include; Owner/Partner of Around the Clock

Advertising; a successful digital billboard advertising company located in Edmonton

Alberta, Owner/Partner of The Firm Sports Management; an international sports

management company representing professional athletes from across Canada and the

United States as well as Excel Business Coaching and Mentoring, a professional

business coaching organization. Which focuses on One-on-One personal and business

development to young entrepreneurs.

Ken attributes his recent successes to “life lessons” and “street smarts” along with

“good old fashioned hard work”.