Contact: Rod Jerred Phone: 905-845-3824 (ext. 5559) Fax: 905-337-5567 e-mail: rjerred@haltonsearch.com \Vl-:i JN K SI >.\Y. Nf JV K M H K R K). BUSINESS vision. If you want to be successful, you need to look into the future," said Reimer, who attributes his personal success to his ability to be able to recognize what the business world will want five years into the future. But. he admitted frankly, the formula is far from foolproof. "If you think you know what the future will be, and you're wrong, you'll go bank rupt," Reimer told the students. He also noted that successful business people watch their contracts closely to avoid expensive mistakes, and offer value in their services. "If you want to be successful today, you have to be a little bit better than your com petition," he said. The program is the brainchild of Tom Dykes, an instructional assistant with the Halton District School Board. "I thought it would be a neat idea to have these students sit in a boardroom envi ronment with someone who started 55 years ago. quite literally in the trenches, who has now become a prominent local businessman." said Dykes. From the classroom to the boardroom Young entrepreneurs receive lesson in success By Kim Am ott S PEC IAL TO T H E BEAVER The boardroom table was ready. Agendas-were laid out, name plates careful ly placed and water glasses at hand. Into the dignified hush of the room, lined with wooden chairs and photos of vis iting dignitaries, arrived the guests in their suits and heels. They took their seats, and the meeting began. But the recent meeting in the boardroom of the Reimer office tower wasn't one of high-priced executives discussing a corpo rate merger, but of Grade 12 business stu dents learning about the business world. Five students from Oakville's T. A. Blakelock High School and five from Burlington's Notre Dame High School met with well-known Halton developer and businessman Rudy Reimer. The meeting offi cially kicked off a program known as Entrepreneurial Encounters, which | aims to link success ful local business people with high school students inter ested in pursuing business careers. Eric Murray Reimer offered of T A Blakelock students tips for busi ness success, as well as describing to them the hard work he put into building Reimer Construction into the successful company it is today. He told students of the importance of truly understanding both your costs and your markets before launching into a busi ness endeavour. He also emphasized the importance of Peter C. McCusker · Oakville Beaver Businessm an R udolf Reim er chats with Entrepreneurial Encounters students in his boardroom. TeraGo offers businesses broadband alternative By Kim Am ott SPEC IAL TO T H E BEAVER T hink globally, Act locally HSBC Securities (Canada) Inc. welcom es veteran investor and financial advisor Graham Ross to its new Oakville office. W ith 18 years experience as a global bond trader and high-value client advisor, Graham Ross utilizes HSBC's global resources to o ffe r you: Capital Protection - Using lo w risk investment solutions. HSBC Research - M ultiple resources, independent thinking HSBC's Core Business - Opening w o rld markets to you HSBC Securities is a full-service investment firm th at offers w ealth m anagem ent solutions to investors seeking personalized expert advice,and access to local and global investm ent opportunities. ^ G r a h a m R o ss, M B A else should anything need to be done," e x p l a i n e d Oakville businesses now have a new option to consider when searching out broadband Internet access and data commu nications services. TeraGo Networks, a Canadian fixed wireless broadband company, has estab lished a network of infrastructure to allow it to offer services in the town. "One of the reasons we've chosen Oakville is because it's a very prosperous commercial centre," explains Bryan Boyd, president and CEO of TeraGo Networks. The company, which began offering commercial broadband service in 2000, offers telecommunications services, but owns and manages its own network. Because of that, Boyd says his company can offer businesses a reliable, secure alter native to the services offered by the phone company and cable companies. Aimed at medium-sized businesses, the TeraGo system includes support and servic ing tailored to individual customers, added Boyd. The company, which currently operates in 15 cities across four Canadian provinces, has invested tens of millions of dollars in infrastructure across the country. "We're don't have to rely on someone Boyd, noting that many telecom m uni cations compa nies sell servic es, but rely on the phone com pany's infra structure. The compa Bryan Boyd ny launched its Oakville service at the end of September, developing a virtual private network (VPN) between AMEC Americas local offices and a remote site in northern Ontario operated by De Beers Canada. "We simply couldn't get the high-speed connection that we required with AMEC's Oakville offices with anyone else," said Oleg Khaev, senior network administrator of De Beers Canada. "As one of our largest suppliers, with whom we were working on a significant joint mining project in north ern Ontario, a high-speed, secure connec tion with AMEC was mandatory." TeraGo, a privately-owned Canadian company, plans to expand its services to Quebec next year. 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