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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 Hardware 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.
Kevin Chaplin
CEO of Kardium
Kevin Chaplin is the CEO at Kardium.
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About Kardium: Kardium develops medical devices for the diagnosis and treatment of atrial fibrillation.
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.
Trevor Burgess
CEO, Co-Founder, Director of VoltSafe Inc.
CEO – VoltSafe Inc.
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About VoltSafe Inc.: Fearless creators, changing how people connect to electricity using magnets. Simply put, we’ve patented a better way to connect to power.
Daryoush Sahebjavaher
Founder and CEO of YodelUP (Yodel Technologies Inc.)
Daryoush (Darius) Sahebjavaher is Founder & CEO at YodelUP.
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About YodelUP (Yodel Technologies Inc.): Connected Hardware for Action Sports
Sami Asikainen
CEO and Co-founder of Carbon Trainer
Sami Asikainen is the CEO and Co-Founder of Carbon Trainer.
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About Carbon Trainer: fitness, hardware, consumer, saas, ai
Andy Ibbetson
CEO of Agility Technologies Corporation
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About Agility Technologies Corporation: A Communication Technologies Company
Andy Ibbetson
CEO of Agility Technologies Corporation
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About Agility Technologies Corporation: A Communication Technologies Company
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.
Lawrence Buchan
Chief Executive Officer of Arbutus Medical
BC Business 30under30 winner in 2020. Masters in biomed engineering from UBC. Orthopaedic research background. Held position as Director of Operations for Arbutus Medical from 2014-2018.
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About Arbutus Medical: Simple orthopaedic power tools that save cost for hospitals.
Ron Klopfer
CEO of Etalim
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About Etalim: Distributed micro power generation for homes, automobiles and remote industial sites using thermoacoustic physics.
Ben Hwang
Co-Founder and CEO of Vamo Tech Inc.
Ben is a student entrepreneur in his final semester at SFU’s Beedie School of Business. He is the CEO and Co-Founder of Vamo Tech Inc., a sports technology company that builds smart training aids for hockey players. At SFU Beedie’s 2016 Opportunity Fest, Vamo Tech won first place in the category of Most Technologically Innovative Opportunity, where Ben also won Mr. Opportunity as the most engaging male presenter. Recently, Ben competed in the final round of the Queen’s Entrepreneurs’ Competition in Toronto and reached the final three in the Entrepreneur’s Organization (EO) Global Student Entrepreneur Awards (GSEA) Regional Competition in Vancouver. He is currently completing his BBA, with concentrations in Management Information Systems and Entrepreneurship & Innovation.
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About Vamo Tech Inc.: Technology for specialized sports training
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