Rick Endrulat
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Introduction
Rick Endrulat is the President of Virtual-Causeway, a Waterloo-based company that provides sales and marketing services to IT companies. In 2005, Virtual Causeway was chosen as one of Canada’s hottest emerging growth companies by Profit Magazine and was showcased in the sixth annual PROFIT HOT 50. The PROFIT HOT 50 is the definitive ranking of Canada’s emerging growth companies, and Virtual Causeway was ranked because of 124% revenue growth from 2002 to 2004. In 2007, Virtual Causeway was chosen as part of the Profit 100 Ranking, measuring sales growth over a 5 year period.
Today, Virtual Causeway has over 50 employees in North America with offices in Boston, MA and Waterloo, Ontario.
History
Rick completed his Master's in Business Administration from Wilfrid Laurier University, with studies focused on technology marketing, brand building, marketing strategy and competitive intelligence. Research conducted by Rick in the fields of competitive intelligence and technology marketing have been published in Retail Systems Reseller, STORES Magazine and the textbook “Controversies in Competitive Intelligence” by Craig S Fleisher and David L Blenkhorn. Rick has written business cases for the WLU School of Business and Economics and he is also part of the mentoring program at the Schlegal Centre for Entrepreneurship at WLU.
Virtual Causeway was established in March of 2001 in Waterloo, Ontario. In 2002, Virtual Causeway grew their workforce by 35% and has had continued substantial growth every year since. In 2004, Virtual Causeway more than doubled their office space to accommodate the growing workforce and also signed on as a premier Ambassador for Canada’s Technology Triangle Inc. to help develop the economic growth of the region. The Ambassador Program's goals are to work to advocate business growth in the area, increase awareness of local resources, both in Canada and internationally, and encourage local business-to-business relationship building.
Today, Virtual Causeway's customers and corporate partners include RIM, Sybase, and IDC as well as several other multinational technology corporations in North America. The company also provides services to other industries including Financial Services, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Pharmaceutical, Retail and Telecommunications.
Community Involvement
Virtual Causeway helps local charities through participation in the Corporate Challenge, sponsored by the Chambers of Commerce of Greater Kitchener Waterloo and Cambridge
Awards and accolades
- 2008 Virtual Causeway named for second consecutive year to PROFIT magazine's Profit 100 Ranking
- 2008 Rick Endrulat chosen as participant in Ivey's prestigious 'Quantum Shift' [1] Program
- 2007 Virtual Causeway named one of Canada's fastest-growing companies in PROFIT magazine's June 2007 issue
- 2006 Virtual Causeway receives Communitech's 2006 Tech Impact Award.
- 2004 Virtual Causeway chosen as one of Canada's hottest emerging growth companies by Profit Magazine's sixth annual PROFIT HOT 50
- 2004 Virtual Causeway Nominated as Small Business of the Year for 3rd Year in a Row by Waterloo Region Business Achievement Awards
External links
Virtual Causeway's website - http://www.v-causeway.com/
