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At Best Startup Canada we track over 100,000 Canadian startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top Alberta based CEO’ operating in the Artificial Intelligence space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.ca.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Jason Smith
Co-Founder and CEO of Klue
Sales and marketing centric business guy. Co-founder, investor and/or early employee of four start-ups (two successes, one still grinding, one non-starter). Advisor and consultant to early stage companies. Stint as a VP at Electronic Arts. Has led product development teams, services teams, sales teams and marketing teams ranging in size from a few rockstars to hundreds of employees. Success in attracting/picking/growing talent. Track record of shaping rough ideas/initiatives into successful ventures. Key roles include President, Vision Critical, a global market research software leader, and co-founder of Columbus Group, a digital agency pioneer acquired by TELUS (NYSE: TU). In 2011, at 40, my wife and I hit the reset button, bought 4 round-the-world plane tickets and travelled the world for a year with our kids. Check out the YT video @ youtube.com/onemoresmith. Now incubating two start-ups and and advising early stage companies like Strutta and Mobify.
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About Klue: Klue is an AI competitive intelligence platform that enables competitor research and delivery of sales battle cards to B2B Sales teams.
Nicole Janssen
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of AltaML
Nicole Janssen is the Co-Founder & Co-CEO at AltaML.
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About AltaML: AltaML provides technical and strategic expertise to build transformative applications using applied AI and ML.
Kelly Cherniwchan
CEO & Founder of Chata
Kelly Cherniwchan is Founder & CEO of chata.ai. He was also a Co-Founder & COO at Circle Cardiovascular Imaging.
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About Chata: Chata’s easy-to-use analytics allows businesses to make in-the-moment and short-term decisions based on data, not intuition.
Cam Linke
CEO of Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute
Cam is a software entrepreneur and product manager. The past few years he’s worked helping to grow Edmonton’s emerging creative and tech economy by connecting entrepreneurs, investors, developers and creative minds through Startup Edmonton. In 2008, Cam formed DemoCamp Edmonton as a forum to bring the Edmonton tech community together, and has continued that with his work at Startup Edmonton and Flightpath. In the past he was the Product Manager at Nexopia.com and currently runs Touch Metric, makers of in-person survey software. He was named one of Avenue Magazine’s 2011 Top 40 Under 40 in recognition of his work in Edmonton’s tech and startup community.
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About Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute: Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute is a research lab at the University of Alberta.
Javad Sadeghi
CEO and Co-founder of Physio4D
Javad Sadeghi, a PhD graduate in the area of Computer Graphics and a Post Doctoral Researcher in the area of Information Visualization both from the University of Calgary, leads the business and product development of Physio4D. He has been a co-founder of two start-ups in Iran and Canada with over 5 years of executive experience. The first company that he co-founded is now a major provider of web portals for online businesses in Iran. His second start-up provides a mobile technology for extracting upper-body measurements of the consumers from their photographs for suggesting the best retail fit. Javad has half a dozen papers distributed in distinguished publishers such as Elsevier.
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About Physio4D: Physio4D is a vision-based physical therapy startup that provides a vision-based upfront assessment tool.
Stephen Wensley
CEO & Founder of Acuspire
Stephen has over 10 years of experience in building software to streamline business processes. He has delivered more than 125 projects and led his team to a first place win at the Calgary Region Hackathon in 2017. He successfully raised investment to launch Acuspire, a tech startup with a mission of “A Future Without Job Search”, which reached placement as a Top 20 Startup for Calgary in 2017 and placement as a Top 20 Startup at Startup Grind Global Conference 2018. He takes pride in delivering cost-effective technology solutions to increase efficiency for customers and make the world a better place.
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About Acuspire: Acuspire is an AI-powered job search and recruiting platform that connects employers with qualified jobseekers within seconds.
Hongwen Zhang
Co-Founder, CEO & CTO of Wedge Networks Inc.
Zhang is a co-founder of Wedge Networks. As Chief Technical Officer, he is instrumental in developing Wedge’s high performance security platform. Zhang holds a Ph.D in Computer Science from the University of Calgary; an M.Sc in Computer Engineering from the Institute of Computer Technology of Chinese Academy of Sciences, and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Fudan University. With more than two decades of high-tech leadership experience, Zhang is a co-inventor and holder of several patents in the area of computing and networking. Prior to establishing Wedge Networks, he was a co-founder of the 24C Group Inc., which pioneered the first digital receipts infrastructure for secure electronic commerce. Zhang was previously principal of Servidium Inc., now ThoughtWorks Canada Inc., a global leader in agile development methodology. A speaker and writer on subjects of cloud, networking, and IT security issues and trends, Zhang chairs the Security Working Group and is a member of the board of directors of Open Cloud Connect, a global cloud computing consortium of leading network service providers and technology vendors.
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About Wedge Networks Inc., Wedge Networks Inc.: Wedge Networks is a cyber security software vendor specializing in Real-time Threat Prevention.
Doug MacKay
Founder / CEO of Sidekick.co
Doug MacKay has created Sidekick.co which is poised to change the way people find cloud solutions, engage with relevant service providers and – ultimately – make purchasing decisions. With a history of innovating across entertainment and marketing industries, Doug is considered a strategic thinker with depth in both creative and technology. Doug’s history includes award winning computer animation, world class digital marketing as well as local innovation consulting, which all led to the next phase of his life: Sidekick. Doug is a strategic thinker and creative technologist who understands the challenges businesses face. Doug is also active in his community having coached children’s soccer and supports various local organizations.
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About Sidekick.co: Sidekick.co is the best way to discover, research and source software solutions and services around the world.
Rod Schatz
CEO / Co-founder of SafeContact
Rod Schatz is the CEO and co-founder of SafeContact Solutions Inc.
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About SafeContact: SafeContact is solving the Hospital Acquired Infection (HAI) epidemic plaguing its global healthcare facilities.
Benjamin Kemp
Chief Executive Officer of Ambyint
Benjamin Kemp is the Chief Executive Officer at Ambyint.
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About Ambyint: Ambyint provides artificial intelligence-based technologies that automates the process of companies in oil and gas industry.
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