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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 British Columbia based CEO’ operating in the Digital Marketing 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.
Trent Kitsch
Co-Founder, CEO of Stately
Trent Kitsch is the Co-Founder and CEO at Stately Capital Corporation and the Co-Founder of Kitsch Wines. He was the SAXX Underwear’s Founder before that.
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About Kitsch, Kitsch Wines, Stately: Stately offers cannabis branding services to identify emerging cannabis brands.
Bernadette Butler
CEO & Founder of Storytap
CEO and chief storyteller, Bernadette is a 20 year veteran in marketing and advertising, and one of the creators of StoryTap.
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About Storytap: StoryTap is humanizing the online shopping experience with customer video reviews.
Austin Walper
CEO & Co-Founder of PLAYR.gg
Entrepreneur, CEO, Strategist, Content Creator
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About PLAYR.gg, The Human Startup: PLAYR.gg was a technology platform that enables enterprise brands to generate, segment, and activate first-party customer data.
Ryley Best
Co-Founder & CEO of Zolo Realty
Ryley Best is the CEO and co-founder at Zolo Realty.
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About Zolo Realty: Canada’s Largest Digital Real Estate Brokerage
Rob Bucci
CEO & Founder of STAT Search Analytics
Rob is the founder and CEO of STAT Search Analytics. He’s been a developer and entrepreneur in the SEO space since 2005, and he especially loves tackling big-data challenges in data mining and analytics. When he isn’t doing that, you can usually find him falling down a ski hill, splashing in the ocean, or taking cookies out of the oven.
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About STAT Search Analytics: Since 2009, we’ve been providing fresh, unlimited, location-based search data for some of the world’s largest and nimblest online brands
Will Fraser
Founder and CEO of SaaSquatch
Will Fraser is CEO and co-founder of SaaSquatch. At SaaSquatch he works with some of the world’s largest companies to build digital growth channels that touch millions of people around the globe.
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About SaaSquatch: SaaSquatch is a provider of referral and loyalty platform to businesses with thousands to millions of customers.
Dogu Taskiran
CEO of Stambol
CEO at Stambol. CTO at Orderinbox. Polymath. Building the #Metaverse, one major piece of technology at a time. Previously of Microsoft, Ubisoft and Electronic Arts. Studied at Bilkent University and Middle East Technical University.
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About Orderinbox, Stambol: Immersive Experiences for different verticals through Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality
Ross Dunn
CEO/Founder of StepForth Web Marketing
Ross is the CEO of StepForth Web Marketing and co-owner of First Dentist. He has been helping businesses around the world successfully market their websites since 1997.
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About StepForth Web Marketing: StepForth is to help our clients maximize the enormous marketing potential of the Internet to fulfill their short term and long-term dreams.
Mike Agerbo
CEO of Blink
As one of Canada’s most well-known technology figures, Mike is an award-winning television producer and veteran TV personality. You can watch him weekly on his GetConnectedTV show on The Business News Network, AMI, CityTV and CHECKTV across the country. His weekly appearances as GlobalBC’s tech expert, reach hundreds of thousands of British Columbians. He can also be heard every Saturday on CKNW AM 980 radio show and the Corus Radio Network throughout Canada. Mike is a successful tech entrepreneur, having founded three successful tech and media companies over the past 20 years, including Chalk Media (sold to Blackberry in 2006) and currently Blink Media, a leading Canadian digital creative agency.
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About Blink: Blink is a creative agency providing social campaigns and digital content.
Paul Stephenson
Founder & CEO of 47 Insights
Founder & CEO of 47 Insights. Advising software and publishing subscription businesses on marketing and growth strategies since 1995. Creator and host of SaaS Marketing Insights podcast.
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About 47 Insights: Marketing consultancy specializing in helping SaaS and subscription businesses to grow
Paul Stephenson
Founder & CEO of 47 Insights
Founder & CEO of 47 Insights. Advising software and publishing subscription businesses on marketing and growth strategies since 1995. Creator and host of SaaS Marketing Insights podcast.
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About 47 Insights: Marketing consultancy specializing in helping SaaS and subscription businesses to grow
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