Gary Whitehill is the founder of Entrepreneur Week, The Relentless Foundation and Whitehill International, each of which reflect his entrepreneurial drive and relentless energy. This is his journey.

In the fifth grade, Gary already had a big goal – he wanted to attend college. In his world, football was how you got to college and getting educated was how you created a better future for yourself. But his dream had one major obstacle – his parents could not afford to buy him football cleats. Gary realized if you really, really want something, you would have to tap into the drive within yourself.

Determined to succeed, Gary made his own candy, added his mark-up and sold it at school. That is how, at the age of twelve, he began his quest as a driven and relentless entrepreneur. Just as he’d predicted, candy got him cleats, football got him to college, and a hard-earned education took Gary into the world of business.

But the most important life lesson he learned was simply this: discovering how to channel his unstoppable drive and passion into opportunities that allowed him to achieve anything he wanted.

Today, Gary’s energy is devoted to helping entrepreneurs prove to themselves and to the world that they can achieve anything they want. He believes stopping at nothing to achieve everything is a mindset very few in this world share. Those who do are the movement makers of the world. In his unstoppable way, Gary makes it all happen by:

• Building powerful networks of passionate people
• Creating platforms that accelerate learning and growth
• Bringing people, ideas and opportunities together in an exponential way

As an example, The Relentless Foundation is a non-profit initiative built to catapult entrepreneurship as a driving force in transforming education and economies locally, regionally, nationally and internationally.

In 2009, The Relentless Foundation inspired the creation of Entrepreneur Week, an unprecedented gathering of entrepreneurs, from innovation-minded start-ups to multi-million dollar revenue generators who are given the chance to learn, connect and leverage opportunities to drive economic change. The Entrepreneur Week movement continues to grow, with events planned in four continents and around the world in 2012.

With the belief that children should have the ability to create the world they want, Gary is determined to empower those who are driven to achieve by providing the tools they need such as entrepreneurship to learn, grow and express themselves. He supports people and companies invested in driving social and economic change.

Continually inspiring those with a relentless spirit, Gary will stop at nothing to help others achieve anything they want.