Kevin Tawil

Thank you, Will.

I'm excited to be here.

So I grew up in Prince Edward Island, Canada, small province on the East Coast, maybe 120,000 people.

And I grew up working in my dad's grocery store.

We had maybe the predominant grocery store where everybody in the community came and shopped every week and I'd be packing bags and filling shelves.

And that was probably where I first got to understand this idea of entrepreneurship, of working for oneself.

Not that I saw it in a great light, because I saw my father coming home from work at five o'clock, tired.

He'd have dinner with us and go back to work till 10 o'clock at night, and we'd work six days a week.

So it was sort of all I knew.

I knew other friends had jobs working in the government or different businesses, and they didn't necessarily appeal to me anymore, or certainly not more than what my dad did at the time.

Athletics was a big part of my life.

Of course, hockey, I'm Canadian.

It's in the blood, it's in the water.

I also played soccer competitively.

What position in hockey?

I was a defenseman.

All five foot eight of me.

I was not a large defenseman, but it was the Bobby Orr era.

It was.

It'd be fast, good vision.