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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 Enterprise 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.
Stewart Butterfield
Co-Founder and CEO of Slack
Stewart Butterfield serves as the CEO and Co-Founder at Slack Technologies, Inc. Stewart Butterfield serves as the President of LudiCorp Research and Development Ltd. Stewart Butterfield directed the 11-member design group (creative/visual/UI, production & QA) at Communicate.com, where he acted as design lead or managed teams on millions of dollars worth of projects for companies like HSBC and Sears Travel. He co-founded Flickr at Yahoo! Inc. Stewart Butterfield has served in the W3C’s XForms working group and has been active in many other professional organizations. He has also a long consulting interaction design career, most recently with Telus, the CBC and The Economist. Stewart Butterfield founded the 5K competition, a lo-fi, high-profile design award, which has been featured everywhere from Playboy to Le Monde to USA Today. He serves as a Member of Advisory Board at Wantoo Networks Incorporated. Stewart Butterfield is a frequent speaker on design and technology topics at professional and academic events across Europe and North America. He was recently named to the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences and is a nominating judge in the Webby Awards (for Best Practice). In 2001, he was nominated for a Chrysler Design Award. In 2006, Time magazine’s put him on their list of the 100 most influential people in the world. Stewart Butterfield received a BA (Hons. with Distinction) in philosophy from the University of Victoria, and an MPhil in philosophy from Cambridge University, graduating with a First.
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About Slack: Slack is an enterprise software platform that allows teams and businesses of all sizes to communicate effectively.
Sean Hinton
Founder, CEO of SkyHive
As an experienced global business leader with an MBA from Queen’s University, Sean possesses substantial expertise in skills development and is considered a thought leader on the Future of Work. With the mission of combating poverty and unemployment through the use of exponential technology, Sean strives to set a positive example for other entrepreneurs that a successful business can be built in a way that truly helps people.
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About SkyHive: SkyHive is an artificial intelligence technology that drives rapid reskilling of workforces and communities across the world.
Greg Malpass
Chief Executive Officer of Traction on Demand
Greg founded Traction on Demand, a Burnaby-based cloud technology consultancy and software development firm, in 2006. His original intention was to serve a small number of clients by helping them unite their sales and marketing teams; however, Traction has since grown into a nationally-recognized brand with offices and 250+ employees across North America. It is now ranked as one of the continent’s fastest growing technology companies. Greg’s commitment to workplace culture and community has landed Traction on Demand on Canada’s Top 10 Best Places to Work list for the past three years. Additionally, Traction is a current finalist for Deloitte’s Best Managed Companies in Canada. Individually, Greg has been recognized for both his unconventional leadership style and expertise in cloud computing and data. In 2013, Business in Vancouver named him one of the Top Forty Under 40, awarding him once again with CEO of the Year in 2016.
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About Traction on Demand: Traction on Demand is North America’s largest dedicated Salesforce consulting firm delivering cross-platform solutions and SaaS products.
Laurie Schultz
Founder, President & Chief Executive Officer of ACL Services
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About ACL Services, Allocadia, Boast.AI, The Greater Vancouver Board of Trade, UserZoom: ACL Services is an enterprise governance software powered by data automation for audit, compliance, and risk management.
Kristine Steuart
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Allocadia
As CEO and Co-Founder, Kristine Steuart leads the Allocadia team in realizing their vision of a world where marketers make every dollar count. To rally behind their mission, Kristine is focused on building a world-class team and a culture of radical transformation + we’re in it together. Kristine Steuart and her twin sister Katherine Berry co-founded Allocadia in 2010 after experiencing first-hand the difficulty in gaining insights into marketing investments and measuring marketing performance. Kristine has led Allocadia from a bootstrapped start up with a handful of customers to a global organization with hundreds of enterprise customers worldwide who manage billions of dollars in marketing spend in Allocadia, $30m in venture funding, and partnerships with marketing cloud leaders like Oracle, IBM and Marketo. With a radically better way to plan, budget and optimize their marketing investments, Allocadia’s enterprise software is helping propel marketers on a journey they have embarked upon: leading in their companies by driving real business impact. Kristine is a speaker at local and global events, and writes a CMO Leading in Change blog series. Kristine was named among the Top Forty Under 40 by Business in Vancouver, the Top 10 Women in Tech to Watch in 2015 by inc. magazine, and one of BC’s top 35 most influential women in business. Allocadia has also received recognition as one of the Top 100 Tech Companies in BC and was awarded the 2015 Gartner Cool Vendor for CRM Marketing Applications.
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About Allocadia, BC Tech Association: Allocadia empowers marketers to run marketing more effectively by providing them with greater control over their marketing investments.
Kevin Collins
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Bit Stew Systems
Kevin has more than 20 years’ experience in architecting and designing world-class technology solutions, both as an entrepreneur and as a corporate executive. Kevin has extensive domain knowledge in the utility sector having assisted BC Hydro in all aspects of its smart grid program from concept through operations. Before founding Bit Stew, Kevin worked for Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers, Navio Systems, a Silicon Valley technology company, and Motorola. As CEO Kevin established the vision and direction for Bit Stew, leads the evolution of the Grid Director platform and acts as chief customer advocate.
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About Bit Stew Systems, Charli AI: Bit Stew Systems is the creator of the platform for Software Defined Operations for the Industrial Internet.
Mik Kersten
CEO of Tasktop
Dr. Mik Kersten is a thought leader on task-focused productivity and leads the Eclipse Mylyn open source project. As a research scientist at Xerox PARC, Mik implemented the first aspect-oriented programming tool support. He then invented the task-focused interface and created Mylyn as part of his PhD at the University of British Columbia. Mik is a popular speaker at software conferences and was voted a JavaOne Rock Star speaker in 2008 and 2009. Mik has also been recognized as one of the top ten IBM developerWorks Java technology writers of the decade. As a prominent member of the Eclipse community, Mik has served as a member of the Eclipse board and Architecture Council. He enjoys building tools that offload our brains and make it easier to get creative work done.
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About Tasktop: Tasktop offers a software platform that allows companies to better manage the process of building their software.
Charles Lavigne
Co-founder, CEO of LlamaZOO Interactive
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About LlamaZOO Interactive: LlamaZOO is changing the way the world sees data by helping enterprises analyze and visualize big data in its real-world context.
Almaz Nanjappa
Chief Executive Officer of Momentus Software Inc.
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About Momentus Software Inc.: Momentus is a technology and product design agency.
Lawrence Wong
CEO of WoodPro Software
Since 1989, I have been the CEO and chief technology architect of WoodPro Software Inc. I obtained my Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from National Taiwan Normal University in Taipei, Taiwan. My passion with numbers and technology is reflected in the career path I have chosen. Having been in the computing and accounting industry for over 25 years, my team and I have been privileged to bring the latest state-of-the art technologies to help many businesses in the lumber and building materials community. As the chief technology architect, I collaborate with our clients, as well as, our development team to define and implement critical new product development processes, with the objective of more efficient product delivery. Thus, I am proud that WoodPro was the first to offer integrated business management software that combines stable and flexible Microsoft Visual Basic, secure MS SQL Server technology, and powerful C# .Net Framework to the lumber products community. I am dedicated, not only in providing the latest technology, but also in delivering superior customer ownership experience, low cost development, responsive customer service, and flexible Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software.
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About WoodPro Software: WoodPro Software Inc. specializes in the development and design of integrated financial and operational management software.
Lawrence Wong
CEO of WoodPro Software
Since 1989, I have been the CEO and chief technology architect of WoodPro Software Inc. I obtained my Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from National Taiwan Normal University in Taipei, Taiwan. My passion with numbers and technology is reflected in the career path I have chosen. Having been in the computing and accounting industry for over 25 years, my team and I have been privileged to bring the latest state-of-the art technologies to help many businesses in the lumber and building materials community. As the chief technology architect, I collaborate with our clients, as well as, our development team to define and implement critical new product development processes, with the objective of more efficient product delivery. Thus, I am proud that WoodPro was the first to offer integrated business management software that combines stable and flexible Microsoft Visual Basic, secure MS SQL Server technology, and powerful C# .Net Framework to the lumber products community. I am dedicated, not only in providing the latest technology, but also in delivering superior customer ownership experience, low cost development, responsive customer service, and flexible Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software.
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About WoodPro Software: WoodPro Software Inc. specializes in the development and design of integrated financial and operational management software.
Ash Esmaeili
Co-founder & CEO of Aimsio
Afshin is a passionate computer scientist and researcher with focus on innovation where science and technology meet. He has years of experience in implementing heuristic optimizations and highly interactive multi-agent systems. As a Principal Researcher at the University of Calgary, he lead a team of developers in creating state of art visualizations. As an entrepreneur he was involved in development of a recommendation system for a small startup company where he pursued lean startup concepts. In 2013, Afshin co-founded InVistaWare.
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About Aimsio: Aimsio improves managerial, operational, and financial processes by strengthening communications between the office and the job site.
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
Geoff Mair
CEO of SensorUp
Geoff Mair is a technology and product leader who has driven strategy and innovation initiatives in both startups and large companies. Prior to joining Vanedge Capital as a Principalon the investment team, Geoff was the founder and CTO behind Partnerpedia which was sold to BMC Software in 2013. Geoff has been recognized numerous times for his work in the industry including being selected for Business in Vancouver’s 40 Under 40 Awards and receiving UC Magazine’s Product of the Year award in 2011. Geoff holds a Masters Degree in Journalism from Northwestern University and a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from the University of British Columbia.
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About Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), SensorUp: GeoAI and IoT Platform for Connected Workers
David Smith
Co-Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer of Teradici
http://www.teradici.com/management-team
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About Teradici: Teradici PCoIP technology drives all the components you need to run a remote desktop infrastructure, whether on premise or in the cloud.
David MacLaren
Founder & CEO of MediaValet
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About MediaValet: MediaValet stands at the forefront of the enterprise, cloud-based, digital asset management industry.
Graham Sibley
CEO of Collabware
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About Collabware: Collabware simplifies information compliance with intelligent archiving, discovery, and records management solutions.
Michael Argast
Co-Founder and CEO of Kobalt
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About Kobalt: Kobalt provides cyber security programs-as-a-service to small and mid sized technology companies.
Nolan Tait
Co-Founder & CEO of Internuncio Technologies Inc.
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About Internuncio Technologies Inc.: A Crowdsourcing Control Center, Built for Developers
Tagg Jefferson
Founder & CEO of GridCure
Tagg Jefferson is Founder of GridCure, bringing Big Data to utilities around the world.
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About GridCure: GridCure brings the concepts and practices of big data to the electrical power utility space.
James Pinto
CEO of SwiftLaunch
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About SwiftLaunch: The Ultimate Platform for Killer Technology Roll-outs and Astonishing Customer Success.
Niall Conway
CEO / Lead UX Consultant of GOCITY Mobile Inc.
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About GOCITY Mobile Inc.: GOCITY.io is a digital strategy agency specializing in customer centric product design.
Tom Rossiter
CEO, President, Director of RESAAS
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About RESAAS: The World’s Largest Real Estate Technology Platform
Kehar Gill
CEO of yWorld
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About yWorld: yWorld is an online platform that allows its users to chat and have HD video conferences while collaborating on documents.
Kehar Gill
CEO of yWorld
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About yWorld: yWorld is an online platform that allows its users to chat and have HD video conferences while collaborating on documents.
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