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Preface
I first heard of Infusion Development at the National Business and Technology Conference held in Toronto, early this year. The CEO of the company, Greg Brill, was a guest speaker there. His candid speech on entrepreneurship and its struggles was the first time that I ever thought of using my engineering degree beyond a desk job at a reputable company.
The speech was what partly compelled me to take the Entrepreneurship and Small Business course this semester. Thus, when the entrepreneur's biography assignment came, I decided Greg would be the man to call. Due to difficulties in setting up an interview with Greg as he lived in New York, I got the opportunity of interviewing his partner and founder of Infusion Canada, Alim Somani. Alim; a man possessing the "entrepreneurial" spirit, the drive and the persistence to make a difference, is the President of Infusion Development.
He found time in his busy schedule and kindly accepted the interview. We arranged to meet at his office in downtown, Toronto.
Background
Alim Somani was born in Fredericton and raised in Calgary, Vancouver and Washington, DC. He attended Georgetown Day High School in Washington before being accepted to the University of Waterloo's Electrical Engineering program in 1996. He successfully completed his degree in 2001, but not before winning both the Ontario and Canadian Engineering Competitions (OEC and CEC) in his final year at University.
He had always been inclined towards entrepreneurial activities, seen from the fact that he won 1st place in the corporate and technical design in the OEC and the CEC, He would always come up with different business ideas and mull over their pros and cons with his Econo ...