PAUL POLAKCo-founder and CEO of Windhorse International

Paul Polak Born in the Czech Republic and raised in Canada. After learning that he could make money by

picking strawberries. It sparked his entrepreneurial spirit.

Along with Morley Leatherdale and Ed Cummins, They started a strawberry farm.

Paul Polak’s Job After earning his M.D. degree in psychiatry, Polak

worked as an intern at Montreal General Hospital. He practiced psychiatry for 23 years in Colorado.

To better understand the environments influencing his patients, he visited their homes and workplaces.

Paul Polak’s Ventures

Co-founder and CEO of Windhorse International, a for-profit social venture to benefit the 2.6 billion customers who live on less than $2 a day.

Founder of D-Rev, a non-profit organisation develop products and ideas that will benefit the 90% of the people on earth who are poor.

Also best known for his work with Colorado-based International Development Enterprises (IDE), a non-profit organisation he founded in 1981.

Paul Polak’s VenturesWindhorse International sells affordable safe

drinking water to rural Indians. D-Rev designs and delivers market-driven

products to improve the health and incomes of people living on less than $4 per day.

IDE has ended poverty for 19 million of the world’s poorest people by making affordable irrigation technology available to farmers and opening private sector access to markets for their crops.

Infomation taken from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Polak http://www.google.com.sg

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