League football team. After one year with the organization it was sold to Horn Chen and Firestone returned to real estate development. In 2004, Firestone founded Exploriem.org, a registered Canadian Not-For-Profit Professional Entrepreneurs and Intrapreneurs Organization. He is the executive director of the organization which helps entrepreneurs and start-ups get a foothold in the local business community through business model competitions, funding, mentoring, and providing free office space. Exploriem is also partnered with OCRI (Ottawa Centre for Research and Innovation), Algonquin College, Lead to Win and others within the Ottawa business community. Firestone was an entrepreneur-in-residence at the Telfer School of Management at the University of Ottawa and is a commercial real estate agent. As well he has written the Entrepreneurs Handbook which is a guide to help entrepreneurs get started using the bootstrap method and starting with a good business model. Awards 2012 - Ottawa Sports Hall of Fame See also Ottawa Rough Riders Exploriem Ottawa Senators Cyril Leeder Randy Sexton References External links https://web.archive.org/web/20100620190453/http://ocri.ca/exploriem/ http://www.telfer.uottawa.ca/en https://web.archive.org/web/20120312131544/http://www.eqjournal.org/Launch-of-the-Ottawa-Business-News-15-april-1986.pdf 1951 births Living people Businesspeople from Ottawa National Hockey League executives National Hockey League owners Ottawa Rough Riders owners Ottawa Senators executives Canadian football people from Ottawa Ice hockey people from Ottawa