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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 Manufacturing 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.
Sean Campbell
President and Chief Executive Officer of Stage Completions
Mr. Campbell is the President, Chief Executive Officer and Director of Stage Completions Inc. With more than 15 years of experience in the oil and gas industry, Mr. Campbell is driving the company forward to be the leading innovator in single-point entry fracturing technology. Mr. Campbell is an expert in the engineering and design of completion tools, including downhole liner packer systems used in essentially all horizontal well multi-stage fracturing completions. Mr. Campbell has previously served as VP and Founder of Suretech Completions Ltd., a subsidiary of a major international oil and gas service company. Prior to that, he was President and founder of Suretech Tool Services Inc., a private company specializing in innovative and leading edge downhole tool design.
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About Stage Completions: Stage Completions Inc. designs, develops, and manufactures fracturing systems for oil and gas industries.
Matt Lowe
Co-founder & CEO of ZeroKey
Matt is a Canadian-born tech entrepreneur who founded ZeroKey, an IIoT hardware startup. Formerly, Matt worked as the head of IT (North American subsidiaries) of Wilo, a major manufacturing company with global revenue of over $2 billion USD. Prior to working at Wilo, Matt operated a successful consultancy focused on product development for major companies in the tech industry. Over the course of a 15+ year career in tech, Matt has contributed to several mega projects including Linux and Arduino. Linux is used by over 2 billion devices worldwide including all Android smartphones, and Arduino is the world-leading hardware prototyping platform. As the original inventor behind ZeroKey, Matt has taken a back-of-the-napkin idea and scaled a successful business around it to the current size of 30 employees. Matt’s original concept for ZeroKey’s technology has now spawned over 22 patents filed across the globe and is active use at 6 of the top 10 global automotive OEM’s.
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About ZeroKey: ZeroKey is a hardware-startup offering IIoT products based on its breakthrough hyper-accurate 3D localization technology, Smart Space.
Iggy Domagalski
CEO of Tundra Process Solutions
Iggy has grown Tundra into a $140m innovator with a “Google” culture that has been named one of Canada’s Best Managed Companies, Canada’s 7th fastest growing company, and an Imagine Caring company. He volunteers on boards, started Tundra University, and has a bursary named after him at the UofM.
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About Tundra Process Solutions: Tundra Process Solutions provides world-class products and services for industrial and commercial process applications in Western Canada.
Mitchell Eaton
Co-Founder & CEO of Prototype Hubs
Mechanical Engineering graduate from the University of Alberta, 2014. In the past, Mitchell has worked in Oil & Gas, Mechanical Design, and Manufacturing Industries. Mitchell loves to get outdoors and wake surf, downhill mountain bike, and ride his motorcycle in his spare time!
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About Prototype Hubs: Advanced Manufacturing Platform – Connecting clients to a worldwide network of manufacturing partners with hundreds of instant prices.
Sean Krakiwsky
Founder & CEO of Nanalysis
Sean Krakiwsky is a Founder & CEO at Nanalysis.
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About Nanalysis: Nanalysis develops portable nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometers for biotech and pharmaceutical applications.
Ken Brizel
CEO of ACAMP
Ken is an advanced technology international executive, with operational experience in public and private corporations. He is a hands-on leader and mentor with extensive operational background strategy, business development, planning, team building, sales, marketing, engineering, operations and manufacturing.
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About ACAMP: ACAMP focuses on electronics hardware development comprised of embedded systems and related firmware, sensors.
John Sobota
CEO and Director of Eleven Engineering
Mr. Sobota has an Electrical Engineering degree and an MBA from the University of Alberta and is a registered Professional Engineer in the Province of Alberta. Mr. Sobota is cofounder of Eleven, has 19 years of product development experience, is a guest lecturer at the University of Alberta in product development, and has over 20 patent/design patent filings to his credit.
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About Eleven Engineering: Eleven Engineering is a market leader in modules and microprocessors designed for wireless audio.
Jefferson Gardner
CEO & Co-Founder of InBridge
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About InBridge: InBridge is an agriculture, manufacturing and clean energy.
Keith Gylander
CEO of GearBox HyperInnovation
Keith Gylander is the CEO of GearBox HyperInnovation.
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About GearBox HyperInnovation, NanoCluster Alberta: GearBox HyperInnovation is a developer of natural and biodegradable industrial absorbent mats.
Paul Buller
CEO of Buller Engineered Products
Paul Buller is the CEO of Buller Engineered Products Ltd.
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About Buller Engineered Products: Buller Engineered Products develops, tests, manufactures, sells, and distributes the patented RazerLift.
David Lloyd
CEO and Co-Founder of FREDsense
My passion is for learning, engineering, biology, and most importantly people. My technical background is in Biochemistry with a focus in Cancer Biology, and an in-formal training (>5 years) in Synthetic Biology working and managing projects as diverse as DNA assembly, bio-fuels, environmental remediation, and biosensors for toxins. I work within the innovation and education space whether it be developing science and entrepreneurial resources, DIY hacker spaces for biology, or commercializing products through startups.
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About FREDsense: FREDsense is changing the way we think about water monitoring – bringing it out of the lab and into the hands of those who need it.
Mirwais Aktary
Founder, President and CEO of Applied NanoTools
I am the Founder, President and CEO of Applied Nanotools which is an optics and sensors company employing micro and nanofabrication design concepts to develop valued-added products. We work in two strategic domains which are X-ray optics and Silicon Photonic sensors.
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About Applied NanoTools: Applied NanoTools is a company specializing in photonic sensors, fabrication, and optics.
Mike Melle
CEO of Logican Technologies
Mike Melle is the CEO and one of the founders of Logican Technologies which has its roots in LSI Logic Corporation. As CEO,Mike is the driving force to create a leading edge, cost competitive and high quality manufacturing service. He graduated from Ryerson Polytechnical Institute with a diploma in Aerospace Engineering and advanced computer science. Mike began his work in the industry with Exceltronix in 1982 and moved out west in 1988 to join LSI Logic. Mike envisions that Logican will continue to meet and exceed our customer’s expectations for quality, flexibility and cost. Mike has a personal passion for learning and growth; he wants our employees to have many opportunities for educational advancement. “Be honest and fair, while those with questionable ethics may sometimes appear to have more to boast about, it’s better to get a good nights sleep.
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About Logican Technologies: Logican is an electronic manufacturing service (ems) offering contract manufacturing (cm) across a broad base of industries.
Jaeson Cardiff
Founder and CEO of CleanO2
Jaeson is the CleanO2 project leader and hardware designer. He has 15 years of experience in the heating industry. Jaeson is responsible for the current design, ongoing refinements and pilot testing of the CARBiNX prototype units currently in operation. He also provides design, technical, market access, heating industry expertise, credibility and reputation, as well as financial expertise to the development of technology.
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About CleanO2: CleanO2 is a microscale carbon capture solution platform for the commercial heating industry.
John J. Komarnicki
Chairman, CEO and Director of Alhambra Resources
Mr. Komarnicki holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Toronto and has 37 years of experience in the resource sector. He is currently Director, Chairman and CEO of Alhambra Resources Ltd. He has been Chairman of Alhambra Resources Ltd. since 2001. Between 1999 and 2005, Mr. Komarnicki was President and CEO of Tartan Energy Inc., a Canadian based oil and gas exploration and development company focusing its activities on California, USA and Central Asia. The company was sold in 2005 to a private international energy company. From 1989 to 1998, Mr. Komarnicki was President and CEO of Hurricane Hydrocarbons Ltd., a junior Canadian oil and gas exploration, development and production company doing business in Kazakhstan. Hurricane Hydrocarbons, later called PetroKazakhstan, was successful in winning the first major state energy privatization tender in 1995. From 1973 to 1988, Mr. Komarnicki held positions of increasing responsibility in technical and management positions in the Canadian oil and gas industry. Mr. Komarnicki is a member of the Association of Petroleum Engineers, Geologists and Geophysicists of Alberta, and a past president of the Canadian Gas Processors Association. In 1998, he was recognized as the Prairie Region Entrepreneur of the Year for his achievements in developing Hurricane Hydrocarbons from a junior energy company into a significant oil producer in Kazakhstan.
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About Alhambra Resources: Alhambra Resources Ltd. is a Canadian based exploration and gold production corporation.
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