Regina Company Credits Communities of Tomorrow for Success

Sean Frisky is a busy man these days.  He has grown an innovative concept into a multi-national company, based in Regina but serving the global market. Sean is the President and CEO of Ground Effects Environmental Services, a company that designs and manufactures technology solutions to remove contaminants  from soil and groundwater sites. The company received significant assistance in the form of expertise and funding from Communities of Tomorrow.

“It allowed us to move forward with a large scale technology commercialization project,” Frisky says of the Signature grant of $250,000 his company received from Communities of Tomorrow. “By receiving the funding, it reduced the risk for all parties.”

The GEE technology uses electrodes in the soil to create an electrical field that removes salt content, eliminating the need to excavate contaminated soil. Along with their proprietary technology, they are also selling portable plants that make the technology usable virtually anywhere. Today their revenues are generated by sales across Canada and around the world, including business with companies in the United States and Australia.

“Communities of Tomorrow has been fabulous to work with,” says Frisky. “They try to make it simple, and for a small technology company that is the key.”

“Ground Effects is a great case study on how innovation leads to new commercial products, and takes them to the global market,” says Communities of Tomorrow President, John Lee. “We get excited when we can connect someone with a great infrastructure idea to financing and marketing resources.”

Sean Frisky encourages any entrepreneur with an innovative idea in the infrastructure sector, to get in touch with Communities of Tomorrow.

“Communities of Tomorrow is a very useful tool in developing and commercializing new technology,” he says. “They help from the proof stage all the way up to commercialization. There are not a lot of agencies that can help an entrepreneur through all the stages.”

Asked to sum up his company’s experience, Sean Frisky simply says: “Good job Communities of Tomorrow!”