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NextCon16 - hosted the RuleBreaker awards last week at the Talking Stick Resort in Scottsdale Arizona USA, which brought over 2,500 attendees to hear heavy weight speakers such as Apple’s co-founder Steve Wozniak, former Apple chief evangelist Guy Kawasaki along with Google's chief evangelist Gopi Kallayil for this amazing three day event.

Nigel Bennett - Founder of Aqua-Guard accepted the Rule Breaker Award for best established business on behalf of his company, he commented:

"I am honored to accept this award on behalf of Aqua-Guard Spill Response tonight. I would like to thank all the dedicated staff at Aqua-Guard back in Vancouver and our support network around the world for for making a difference,  creating innovation and leadership in our field along with creating a platform for social change.

Aqua-Guard was chosen from over 2,000 companies around the U.S. and Canada for this meaningful award, which means we have created something with purpose. Aqua-Guard continually leads the path to new innovation for the protection of our world's oceans and our greatest resource - water.

A big thank you to all the other game changing companies both nominated and awarded Rule Breaker Awards tonight."

Rieva Lesonsky, CEO of GrowBiz Media and a co-host of the RuleBreaker Awards said:

Every day entrepreneurs are starting and scaling their businesses by doing it their way—and we are proud to honor them."

Co-host Mike Michalowicz, author of Surge and profit first said:

“As we enter our 3rd year of the RuleBreaker awards, I am impressed more than ever by the continuous innovation of entrepreneurs. You would think that all the great ideas in the world would be exhausted, but it is quite the opposite. This year is perhaps the most innovative entrepreneurs to date!”

Winners were selected by a panel of judges including:

• Ken Yancey, CEO of SCORE
• Yaniv Masjedi, CMO, Nextiva
• Anita Campbell, founder, CEO and Publisher of Small Business Trends and BizSugar
• Brian Scudmore, founder of 1-800-GOT-JUNK?
• Shama Kabani, CEO of Marketing Zen Group
• JJ Ramberg, co-founder of Goodsearch.com and host of MSNBC’s Your Business

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About Aqua-Guard

Aqua-Guard provides a range of state-of-the-the-art oil spill response solutions including the URO Skimmer System and the RBS TRITON™ range of oil skimmers—all built on Aqua-Guard’s patented RBS TRITON™ technology to deliver some of the highest efficiency and recovery rates in the industry.