Management of Technology MBA grads from Saltworks profiled in new book “The New Entrepreneurs: Building a Sustainable Economy for the Future”

SFU Business alumni from the school’s Management of Technology MBA program have been profiled extensively in an upcoming book by business author and venture capitalist Andrew Heintzman, “The New Entrepreneurs: Building a Green Economy for the Future.”

The subject of the profile, Saltworks Technologies, is a Canadian cleantech company focused on providing sustainable cost effective solutions for desalination and brine treatment. According to Heintzman, “this little company tucked away in the docklands of Vancouver may just have a viable answer to the world’s water woes. For many parts of the world where fresh water is scarce, desalination is viewed as an essential solution to shortages in clean drinking water.”

Heintzman noted that Saltworks’ founders Ben Sparrow and Joshua Zoshi met at Simon Fraser University’s Faculty of Business Administration — in part to hone business skills to launch this type of venture. An excerpt of the book containing the profile was published recently in the Globe and Mail’s Report on Business.

In The New Entrepreneurs, Heintzman introduces readers to a burgeoning class of entrepreneurs who are at the forefront of the green-tech economy. From forestry to water to agriculture and oil, Heintzman maps out the leading enterprises that are developing cutting-edge, high-profit, clean-tech products and systems for export to a vast and rapidly expanding global market.