ogy the Toronto Police Service is testing in
a pilot program launched this May.
Hoang has a good understanding of what
might successfully work in the security
field because he had 15 years of experi-
ence in the industry before he started his
own company. He worked as a security
guard at Intelligarde International, Ensign
Security, Emerald International, LK Protec-
tion, The Guvernment Nightclub, Club Rio,
and Avalon Nightclub.
While working for other security compa-
nies, Hoang fostered his entrepreneur-
ial spirit and felt he had ideas that would
be advantageous to the industry. “I was
a security guard working for a medium-
sized company and I just did not like the
way they were running the business so I
thought to myself, if these guys can open
(a company) up, I can open up one too,” he
said.
CHALLENGING ROAD TO
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Making the transition to business owner
was challenging, Hoang said, because at
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