Making the Grade - Rick Endrulat Honoured by Wilfrid Laurier as Top MBA Alumni
Canada's Technology Triangle, Waterloo, Ontario – December 2, 2008 – Rick Endrulat, President and Chief Operating Officer of Virtual Causeway, has received the award for Outstanding Innovation from the Wilfrid Laurier School of Business and Economics. With over 2,000 Laurier MBA graduates around the globe, these awards recognize the individuals who have shown exceptional growth in both their corporate and extracurricular activities.
As Ginny Dybenko, Dean of Business and Economics at Wilfrid Laurier, explains, "Laurier alumni are an elite group of individuals who are known throughout the country and internationally for their high standard of academic excellence and leadership. We are very proud of our nominees and winners, and we look forward to celebrating their successes in the future."
"I am truly humbled to be held in the same high esteem as the other nominees and their many achievements," says Rick Endrulat. "Being recognized by the Wilfrid Laurier School of Business and Economics is high praise indeed. I benefited greatly from my time at WLU and value their program immensely. In fact, at Virtual Causeway, I continually seek co-op students and MBA grads from Laurier, as I know they've received an education that few other universities can offer."
Since graduating from the Laurier MBA Program in 2001, Rick has been responsible for helping Virtual Causeway emerge as one of the country's hottest growth companies and leading outsource providers of integrated sales and marketing services. He also works closely with Wilfrid Laurier University's Schlegel Center for Entrepreneurship as a mentor, helping young business leaders and coaching them in their development.
"Rick is a real leader and his enthusiasm for his business is infectious," notes Steve Farlow, Executive Director, Schlegel Centre for Entrepreneurship School of Business & Economics Wilfrid Laurier University. "What I admire about him is that he shares his knowledge and experience in such a positive way with the next generation of leaders in our entrepreneurship programs."
About Virtual Causeway (www.v-causeway.com)
As a leading outsource provider of integrated sales and marketing services, Virtual Causeway helps companies that want to increase revenue while maximizing their return on investment (ROI). With offices in Waterloo, Ontario, and Boston, Massachusetts, Virtual Causeway specializes in tactical lead generation, marketing and market research programs that generate a near-term ROI for clients. The company's customers and corporate partners not only include industry leaders, but also some of the most innovative multinational technology corporations in the United States and Canada.
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Heather Klochnyk
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