Board of Directors & Advisors

Steve Farlow

Director

Steve Farlow
Executive Director
Schlegel Centre for Entrepreneurship

Steve Farlow is the founding Executive Director of The Schlegel Centre for Entrepreneurship that operates within The School of Business and Economics at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo Ontario.

He brings his own entrepreneurial background to support student's education in entrepreneurship including an incubation process that launches new student businesses. Steve is an entrepreneur who owned and operated a successful business called Superior Safety that he sold in mid 2002 prior to joining Laurier. Superior distributed and serviced occupational health, safety and environmental products from locations across Canada. He has an MBA from the University of Western Ontario.

Supporting men and women who have the drive to own, operate and build businesses is Steve's passion. In Waterloo he is on the board of Communitech Technology Association, Capacity Waterloo Region and Lutherwood, a vibrant social change organization. In his spare time he is an active angel investor in early stage companies.


The Canadian Youth Business Foundation (CYBF) is the ‘go to’ place for youth entrepreneurship. As a national charity, we are dedicated to growing our nation’s economy one young entrepreneur at a time. We look at character not collateral, when providing youth, age 18-34, with pre-launch coaching, business resources, start-up financing and mentoring, to help them launch and sustain a successful entrepreneurial business.

Driving Canada's Business Success By Helping Youth Help Themselves