Miscellaneous
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”.