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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 Director operating in the Industrial space. If you think a Director 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.
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Brad Simpson
Director of Growth of Attabotics
Brad Simpson is the Vice President of Corporate Development at ATTAbotics. He joined the company in March 2018 as Manager of Operations and has been named as Director of Growth since July 2018. Prior to ATTAbotics, he was the Director of Business Development of Werklund Capital Corporation.
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About Attabotics: Attabotics is a warehouse fulfillment startup that provides robotic warehousing services.
Darek Kominek
Marketing Director of Honeywell Process Solutions
As the Sr. Consulting Manager at Matrikon (Honeywell), Darek works with vendors and end-users alike to help unlock the business value of the data in their assets via OPC UA. Darek works frequently with the OPC Foundation to help evangelize OPC UA by presenting on it globally and publishing articles about the technology and its advantages in the IIoT/Industrie4.0/M2M worlds. For the past 15 years Darek has played various roles at Matrikon/Honeywell including sales, marketing communications, product manager, and strategic marketing. Before joining Matrikon, Darek worked as a professional software engineer with Hewlett Packard, GE, and ran his own software consulting business. Darek is a professional engineer with a B.Sc. in Computer Engineering from the University of Alberta.
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About Honeywell Process Solutions, Honeywell Process Solutions: Honeywell Process Solutions (HPS) helps industrial customers around the world operate safe, reliable, efficient, sustainable and more profit
Shiraz Shariff
Managing Director of Strategic Planning of Catch Resources
Shiraz Shariff served for four terms as member of the Alberta Legislative Assembly (MLA) from 1995 to 2008. As an MLA he served as Chair of International Governance Advisory Committee (IGO); Deputy Chair of Alberta Public Accounts; Member of the Alberta Heritage Savings Trust Fund as well as a Presiding Officer for two terms as Deputy Chair of Committees for the Legislative Assembly. In his capacity as Chair of IGO he was involved in several initiatives of capacity building including helping the Province of Mpumalanga, South Africa establish a senior mentorship exchange program to build capacity for good governance. Shiraz Shariff also led several Oil and Gas delegations to India and also signed an MOU with the Indian Institute of Public Administration to promote initiatives of good governance. Shiraz was a member of Premiers delegation to the World Petroleum Congress in South Africa. Shiraz is an alumnus of University of Calgary having graduated with his Bachelors as well as Master degree in Social Work. Prior to public service Shiraz worked with Alberta Family and Social Services as well as taught Social Work at Mount Royal College.
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About Catch Resources: Catch Resources is in the business of oil low commodity prices create the perfect acquisition scenario for catch resources.
Roger Givanetto
Director of Strategic Planning of Catch Resources
Roger Giovanetto has been President of R&H Engineering, Ltd., a metallurgical, materials and corrosion engineering services company for more than five years. Mr. Gioanetto has also been a director of Mosaic Capital Corporation, a public company listed on the Exchange, since 2012. During his career, he has developed and managed oilfield chemical operations, corrosion consulting companies and started a publicly traded junior oil and gas company in Alberta. Mr. Giovanetto has served as director on public oil and gas companies and has also been instrumental in developing business operations in Siberia, where he specialized in renovating existing oilfields, and has established several chemical manufacturing facilities in Siberia and Iran. Mr. Giovanetto holds a B.Sc. in Metallurgical Engineering from the University of Alberta and is a member of APEGGA and other professional oil and gas organizations.
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About Catch Resources: Catch Resources is in the business of oil low commodity prices create the perfect acquisition scenario for catch resources.
Tiro Clarke
Director of Strategic Planning of Catch Resources
Mr. Clarke is a graduate of the University of British Columbia, Department of Geology (1988) and is a Professional Geoscientist registered in B.C. Mr. Clarke spent three field seasons on mapping projects with the Geological Survey of Canada before entering private industry where he worked as a mineral exploration geologist for Minnova Inc. (now Inmet Mining Corporation) and Amax Gold Inc. (now Kinross Gold Corporation), as well as provided geological consulting services to several junior mineral exploration companies. Mr. Clarke has extensive experience on mineral deposits in central and south central British Columbia, Yukon Territory and in Idaho and northern Washington State, USA, with involvement in grassroots to advanced exploration programs on all major commodities and deposit types.In 1995 Mr. Clarke incorporated Cascade Metals Inc., a mineral exploration company which began with gold and silver properties in British Columbia and in Nevada, USA.
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About Catch Resources: Catch Resources is in the business of oil low commodity prices create the perfect acquisition scenario for catch resources.
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