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Gordon Lownds
(born 1947/48), co-Founder of
Sleep Country Canada
and
Listen Up! Canada
, is a successful
Canadian
entrepreneur
.
Gord Lownds was born and raised in
Toronto
,
Ontario
, Canada. He earned a
Bachelor of Arts
degree in
Philosophy
from
York University
and an
MBA
from the
University of Toronto
.
In an interview with
Business Edge News Magazine
, Lownds describes his early career, "I started working at 15 as a
barker
at a
carnival
, and found out at that point that I enjoyed working. I was also a professional
rock
musician for a couple of years, playing
bass
and
guitar
. Then, I started my legitimate business career with
Consumers Distributing
in 1970 in a warehouse and worked my way up to the management team there."
He moved towards work in consulting and investment banking. He managed the strategic management practice at
DMR & Associates
. Later Lownds became a partner at
Paradigm Consulting Inc.
In 1988, he left that company to start Kenrick Capital, a boutique investment banking firm, with a few other partners. In 1994, he co-founded
Sleep Country Canada
with
Christine Magee
and
Stephen K. Gunn
. He assumed the chairman and CEO position of that company for four years and saw the chain grow from nothing to over 50 stores across Canada.
After leaving Sleep Country Canada in 1998 he spent a year traveling around
Costa Rica
and the
Cayman Islands
. In 2000, he developed and funded
Red Apple Entertainment
. In 2003, he co-founded Listen Up! Canada, a
hearing aid
retailer
. In 2013, he bought a mansion in
Hillsborough County, Florida
and subsequently produced and filmed a
reality television
show about
strippers
there.
[1]
Gordon is a member of the
University of Waterloo Stratford Campus
Advisory Board.
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