Anyone in the oil exploration and extraction industry may be familiar with businessman philanthropist Roger Kazanowski. He sits as one of the Directors who acts as the Board Treasurer of Wavefront Technology Solutions, Inc. publicly listed oil and gas Extraction Company based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, with offices in Raleigh in North Carolina. The company develops markets and implements technologies in stimulating primary and secondary oil well extraction along with ecology-safe groundwater remediation. It is well known for its PowerWave technology that improves oil recovery efficiencies in client oil wells and other producers through site-specific licensing. He also sits as a Director of Triant Technologies, inc., a leading software development firm that specializes in the design and implementation of state-of-the-art fault detection solutions for the semiconductor industries. Its ModelWare RT application tracks and reports on the health of electronic semiconductor manufacturing appliances to reduce incidents of equipment failures, maintenance downtimes and processing errors.
Roger Kazanowski started out as an automotive designer for Ford Motor and then when on to focus on developing his entrepreneurial prowess starting with his own Cambridge Products which supported the product lines of Anheuser Busch, FTD Florists and Miller Brewing Company. Thereafter he established Business Television Video Systems which offered an integrated audio/video system for large restaurant chains, retailers, and corporations. Today, apart from sitting in the boards of Triant and Wavefront, he also sits on the Board of Public Broadcast Services based in Detroit, Michigan.
An astute entrepreneur and investor with over 30 years of experience in the creation and development of several companies, Roger Kazanowski is also well known as a generous man, an exponent of several advocacies who have donated significantly to various youth, arts and educational institutions, including active involvement in numerous charities. He is known to have donated $2,000 to support students of the OMNI Mission School in Ndola, Zambia, donated $1,500 to the Mosaic Youth Theater as well as to the development of inner city youths. He also made generous contribution to the Society of St. Vincent De Paul, the Capuchin Monastery supporting its soup kitchens and missions in Africa and both Central and South America.