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          business elite canada
        
        
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          FEBRUARY 2014
        
        
          “I think we are entering into a
        
        
          new era and the best people
        
        
          are looking for more than just
        
        
          a paycheck… they want what
        
        
          they do to matter and to be a
        
        
          real part of the process.”
        
        
          The vision for PK Sound was
        
        
          partly inspired by another lo-
        
        
          cal Calgary company, employ-
        
        
          ing Jeremy early in his career,
        
        
          Spartan Controls. The com-
        
        
          pany distinguishes itself from
        
        
          the rest of the crop through
        
        
          its decision to make all par-
        
        
          ticipants -- —from the senior
        
        
          executives all the way through
        
        
          to the part-time employees --
        
        
          - as an owner in the company.
        
        
          By 2009, Bridge and his team
        
        
          made the decision to go full
        
        
          steam ahead and leave their
        
        
          professional careers in a mul-
        
        
          titude of industries and nur-
        
        
          tured PK Sound as a full-time
        
        
          venture. “Needless to say in
        
        
          5 years we have increased
        
        
          revenue by 500%, expanded
        
        
          to the United States, have 41
        
        
          staff and contractors and are
        
        
          working with the National Re-
        
        
          search Council on a very excit-
        
        
          ing R&D project. We feel like
        
        
          we are just getting warmed
        
        
          up.”
        
        
          The first of PK Sound’s two
        
        
          main divisions is production
        
        
          services, which is providing