UPEI student named 2010 Student Entrepreneur Prince Edward Island Champion

I have included a copy of the Advancing Canadian Entrepreneurship media release below.  For more information please visit their website at www.acecanada.ca.

UPEI student named 2010 Student Entrepreneur Prince Edward Island Champion

Charlottetown, PE (Wednesday, February 10, 2010) – Nicholas MacLeod, owner of Future Web Design and full time student at UPEI, has been named the 2010 Student Entrepreneur Prince Edward Island Champion by national charitable organization, Advancing Canadian Entrepreneurship (ACE) and proud program supporter, CIBC.

Since 2003, Nicholas has owned and operated Future Web Design, providing full service information technology services with a strong emphasis on customer service.  Future Web Design provides clients with web development, hosting, domain registration, graphic design, photography and IT Technical Support.  The company focuses mainly on small business by offering web development and IT services that are of high quality and add value to the company.

Nicholas’s largest business accomplishments to date include being fully supported financially by the business, having a client base across the US and Canada including British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario and all Atlantic Provinces as well as having an average of 60% growth in revenue over the past three years.
“For me personally the award provides additional inspiration. It has taken an incredible investment of time and personal sacrifice to bring my business to this point”, explains Future Web Design owner Nicholas MacLeod. “Being recognized brings incentive for me to continue to work hard, set and strive for larger goals.”

As a provincial champion, Nicholas will now move on to represent Prince Edward Island in the regional round of competition taking place at the 2010 ACE Regional Exposition in Halifax on February 26, 2010. Provincial Champions will each present their business to a panel of entrepreneurs and industry professionals who will determine two Regional Champions, who will each receive a $1,000 cash prize and move on to the final round of competition at the 2010 ACE National Exposition in Calgary on May 12th, 2010. The National Champion will receive a $10,000 cash prize and represent Canada at the international level of competition, the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards.

“With today’s ever changing economic situation, ACE is proud to continue its work developing leaders, creating connections and impacting communities, explains President of ACE, Amy Harder. Our 2010 Student Entrepreneur Provincial Champions will no doubt contribute meaningfully to the Canadian economy for years to come.”
About ACE
Founded in the mid-1980s, ACE is a national, charitable organization that is teaching and igniting young Canadians to create brighter futures for themselves and their communities. Through a collaborative partnership between higher education and industry, ACE delivers programming that provides university and college students access to real world experience that compliments in-class studies. By creating and delivering business ventures and outreach projects, students make a meaningful contribution to their communities today, while also discovering their potential to achieve an even greater impact as the leaders of tomorrow.
CIBC became a founding corporate sponsor of ACE in 1995 and has sponsored the Student Entrepreneur Competition since its inception in 1997.

Contact:
Jaime Szegvary
Communications Consultant, ACE
416.619.8994
jaime@acecanada.ca
www.acecanada.ca
www.aceexpos.ca

Nicholas MacLeod
Owner, Future Web Design
902.626.5828
sales@futurewebdesign.net
www.futurewebdesign.net