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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 Information Technology 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.
Damir Hot
CEO & Founder of Canalyst
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About Canalyst: Canalyst is the leading destination for public company data and analysis.
Mark Cunningham
Founder & CEO of Stytch
Mark Cunningham is Founder and CEO of Stytch, a data analytics company based in Vancouver, BC. Mark is a thought leader and entrepreneur with more than 25 years’ experience in the business intelligence (BI) industry. He has built five successful start-ups, four focused in pure business intelligence/analytics, which include Indicee and Crystal decisions. As well, one start-up in sports marketing where he applied data and analytics. Today’s elite athletes pump out a lot of data by way of heart rate, power meters and other key performance indicators which help optimize athletic performance. Mark was also the founder of Symmetrics Pro Cycling which was Canada’s largest pro cycling team project and the #1 road cycling team in North America. Mark’s passion for solving data problems with technology began in 1991, when his family business began building the world’s first Windows-based reporting tool, Crystal Reports. Crystal grew to employ over 2,000 employees and was eventually acquired by Business Objects for $820M. Mark later founded cloud BI company Indicee, which was acquired by Dun & Bradstreet in 2014 to form the Dun & Bradstreet Cloud Innovation Center. Mark launched Stytch in 2016 as the only analytics platform on the market that connects to the world’s largest commercial database from Dun & Bradstreet. Stytch provides business teams with everything they need to get more insights, faster—from data preparation to dashboards.
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About Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), Stytch: Stytch is a data analytics platform that provides business teams with everything they need to get more insights, faster.
Rakesh Soni
Co-founder, CEO, & Board Member of LoginRadius
Rakesh is a startup enthusiast, a tech entrepreneur, and an engineer. He is currently working as the Co-founder and CEO of LoginRadius, a SaaS company securing over one billion digital identities worldwide.
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About LoginRadius: LoginRadius is a SaaS based CIAM platform offering Customer Registration Services, Profile Data Storage, SSO, and more.
Keir Reynolds
CEO of MEZZI
Keir has more than a decade of experience in venture capital and business building. His passion is assembling teams of high performing people to help grow brands and businesses. He’s the visionary behind both MEZZI Smart Luxury and Nearable Technology.
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About Brain Rack Industries Inc., MEZZI, Mobio Technologies, Nearable Technology Corp., SayType: The intersection between high fashion and smart technology
Devesh Bharadwaj
CEO and Founder of Pani Energy
Devesh Bharadwaj is the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Pani Energy.
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About Pani Energy: Pani Energy is a water treatment optimization technology company located in Victoria.
Cameron Wallin
CEO of AppBridge
Cameron Wallin is founder and CEO at AppBridge.
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About AppBridge: AppBridge is a application developer and facilitating the transformation of work.
Michael Fergusson
Founder & CEO of Ayogo Health
Michael has raced giraffes, terraformed a planet, and hunted vampires, and that was just this morning! He learned to touch type by hunting sharks, and has travelled the entire Oregon Trail without getting scurvy. He also believes that playing is one of the most meaningful and productive things we can do. Michael is the CEO and Founder of Ayogo, a company that has won many awards for their use of game psychology and social networks to help patients take control of their treatments. For this work, Michael was Ernst & Young’s Social Entrepreneur of the Year, and was recently named to the PharmaVOICE 100, a peer-nominated list of the 100 most inspiring people in Life Sciences. Michael has been a multi-gold medalist and grand champion at the Western Canadian Martial Arts Championships and lives in Vancouver with his family.
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About Ayogo Health, Viospatia: Ayogo is a Vancouver-based digital health company .
Andrew McLeod
CEO & Co-Founder of Certn
Andrew McLeod is a 2x Forbes 30 Under 30 Nominee and the C3O at Certn. Published as somebody to watch in business, Andrew is an investor and advisor to some of North America’s most innovative companies and has many successful ventures to his name. Recognized as an innovator, entrepreneur, and business strategist, he holds a BBA from Acadia University and a Masters of International Business and Law from the University of Sydney, Australia. Along with his education and start-up experience, Andrew has worked with marketing and communications agencies representing Canada’s largest financial institutions. He has developed investor proposals and business plans for some of Canada’s most innovative companies and has consulted on over a dozen business triage and international expansion projects.
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About Certn: Certn is a simple, comprehensive solution for applicant screening backed by great customer service.
Nathan Gilliland
Chief Executive Officer of Bellwether Coffee
Nathan is a veteran entrepreneur in renewable energy. Nathan is currently Chief Executive Officer of General Fusion, a worldwide leader in developing fusion energy. General Fusion is backed by venture capital firms and family offices and is based in Vancouver, Canada, and has raised over $100 million in pursuit of its breakthrough energy goals.Nathan is a frequent speaker on energy policy and recently testified at the U.S. Congress on energy innovation. From 2008 until 2012, Nathan was President and co-founder of Harvest Power, a leading renewable energy company that creates electricity and soil products from organic waste materials. He was also an Entrepreneur-in-Residence with VC firm Kleiner Perkins. Prior to Harvest, Nathan was an Executive Vice President at Bain Capital, a consultant at Bain and Company, and graduated from the University of California-Berkeley with highest honors.
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About Bellwether Coffee: Bellwether Coffee develops hardware and software platform to transform the coffee industry.
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.
Jonathan Webster
President and CEO of EnvAerospace
Jonathan Webster is President and CEO of EnvAerospace, Inc., an innovative leader and ecosolutions provider offering award winning ‘EcoBlade’ technology and specialized nanocoating solutions engineered to improve material wear, compressor and fuel efficiency in the gas path of aero and aeroderivative gas turbine engines. The firm became an official supplier to GE Aviation and GE Energy in 2013 and is ISO and AS9100 certified. Jonathan Webster is an experienced international airline pilot with over 16,000 hours of flying experience type-rated on Airbus and Boeing wide-body aircraft including the A330, A340 and B-777. Formerly the vice-president of LPS AVIA, an airport planning and management consulting firm, he worked as an aviation consultant. A Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society (FRAeS), Jonathan Webster holds an MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business at Western University as well as a combined MSc. in Global Finance from NYU Stern and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). Jonathan Webster also holds certificates from Columbia University in Carbon Finance Strategy and The Ben Graham Centre for Value Investing also from the Richard Ivey School.
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About EnvAerospace: EnvAerospace™ is an aerospace technology company that develops, manufactures, and markets Advanced PVD Technology Systems
Ian Klassen
Chief Executive Officer of eXeBlock Technology Corp.
Klassen has 25 years of experience in public company management, public relations, government affairs and entrepreneurialism. He is the President of a North American mineral exploration company and sits on the Board of Directors of several private and public companies.
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About eXeBlock Technology Corp.: eXeBlock Technology Corp. is a developer, blockchain decentralized applications (DApps).
Ivan Levchenko
CEO of iGMS
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About iGMS: iGMS is an all-in-one vacation rental management software for Airbnb/Booking.com/VRBO/HA management companies and property managers
Allen C Eaves
President and CEO of STEMCELL Technologies
Dr. Allen C. Eaves, M.D, Ph.D. serves as the Chief Executive Officer and President of STEMCELL Technologies Canada Inc. Dr. Eaves serves as the Head of Hematology of Vancouver General Hospital. He serves as a Director of Terry Fox Laboratory of British Columbia Cancer Agency. He served as a Member of Scientific Advisory Board of Sophiris Bio Inc. (formerly known as Protox Therapeutics Inc.). Dr. Eaves has published over 100 articles in numerous peer-reviewed journals on the treatment of cancer.
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About STEMCELL Technologies: Tools to Isolate, Culture and Assay Cells
Geoff Beattie
CEO of Generation Capital
Geoff is Chairman of Relay Ventures, an early stage venture fund exclusively focused on mobile computing. He received a law degree from the University of Western Ontario and served as a partner in the Toronto law firm Torys LLP before joining The Woodbridge Company Limited, where he served as president from 1998 through December 2012. The Woodbridge Company Limited is a privately held investment holding company for the Thomson family of Canada and the majority shareholder of Thomson Reuters, where Mr. Beattie served as deputy chairman from 2000 through May 2013 and director from 1998 through May 2013. He also serves as a member of the board of directors of General Electric Company, Royal Bank of Canada (where he serves as the chairman of the Risk Committee) and Maple Leaf Foods Inc. In addition to his public company board memberships, Mr. Beattie is a trustee of the University Health Network in Toronto.
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About Generation Capital: Generation Capital Management, we believe in the value of a partnership where our interests are aligned with those of our clients.
Henry Universes
CEO of qT-group
15+ years of success in management, data analytics, and investment. Highly skilled at making innovative products live and grow: manage R&D teams and work with investors/partners. Being (certified) member of several famous global professional communities: CFA, CAIA, PRMIA, GARP, SOA, and CAS. Being a well-known scholar-researcher on wide range research areas: mathematics, computer science, finance, risk management, insurance, and economics. Having broad relations with data science researchers and analysts. Postdoctoral researcher at Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology on Machine Learning, PhD in Mathematics, MS in Computer Science, MA in Analysis, BA in Mathematics & Computer Science. CAIA, CFA, PRM and ERP certification. Senior analyst in quantitative and computational finance. Senior software design and developer (especially on parallel computing). Well-published researcher in the fields of control optimization, statistical machine learning, financial engineering.
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About qT-group: QT-Group, #1 Financial Capital Services. Let’s join for infinite & luxury profit
Dan Zitting
Managing Director & CEO of Diligent
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About Diligent: Diligent is the largest GRC SaaS provider, with 1M users, across 23,000 organizations, valued at $7B+ and $500 million+ in revenue.
Jake King
Co-founder &CEO of Cmd
Securing Linux things in the cloud. Co-founder & CEO Cmd. Advisor to Eco. Bug bounty aficionado. SecOps Hootsuite in a previous life.
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About Cmd: Cmd allows organizations to intuitively monitor and control user interaction within their Linux environment.
Curtis Grad
Founding Partner, President & CEO of Modalis Infrastructure Partners
Curtis Grad is chief executive and founding partner of Modalis Infrastructure Partners Inc., a strategic investment and professional advisory services company specializing in international transport infrastructure privatization, investment, development and operations. During his 25+ year career in the transport infrastructure sector, he has lead extensive change management and redevelopment programs for various international airport and port facilities worldwide, spanning Canada, Jamaica, Cyprus and Jordan.
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About Modalis Infrastructure Partners: Modalis is a strategic investment and professional services company specializing in international transport infrastructure.
Alexandra Greenhill
Founder, CEO and CMO of Careteam Technologies
Alexandra is a physician leader turned tech entrepreneur, with a 15+ years track of record massive $100m+ healthcare innovations. Cofounded award-winning tech companies, is an EIR and a TedX speaker, Top 40 under 40, Most Influential Woman in STEM, WXN Most Powerful Woman and received the Queen Elizabeth II Medal of Service.
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About Careteam Technologies, myBestHelper, The Greenhill Group: Careteam Technologies develops a virtual care collaboration and communication platform.
Chris Day
CEO of IT Glue
Chris is a recognized technology leader, strategist and investor. He has been actively involved in the MSP industry since 2002 having led, acquired and exited multiple businesses. Through his investment firm, Chris has created and invested in several high-growth software and services companies. As chairman of the board, Chris oversees the long-term strategy and execution at ScalePad.
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About IT Glue, ScalePad: Best practices-driven IT documentation platform packed with features designed to help you maximize the efficienc.
Barry Allen
Founder,CEO & President of Calgary Scientific
CEO of PureWeb Inc. (Formerly Calgary Scientific Inc.), Co-Founder and Chairman of Zolo. Prior to founding Zolo, Barry was active in the VC and Start-up community as Entrepreneur In Residence for Ventures West, Creative Destruction Labs Vancouver and Calgary, Founder of BC Excels Program and Accredited Lead Mentor for BC Innovation Council. The majority of his career was spent building high tech public companies including building VSM MedTech from 2 employees to 200 and $360mm market cap on the TSX.
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About Calgary Scientific, Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), Zolo Realty: Calgary Scientific develops web and mobile diagnostic medical imaging solutions and collaboration enablement technologies.
Arnold Leung
CEO and founder of Appnovation
Arnold Leung is the Founder at Appnovation.
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About Appnovation: Appnovation is a global Digital Solutions and Managed Services provider, delivering strategy, app development and enterprise integrations.
Ron deBruyne
Founder & CEO of Helm Operations
As the founder of Helm (formerly Edoc), Ron has seen the company grow from a one person, one customer operation to one of the leading software suppliers to the international tug and barge industry in the world. In his role as CEO, Ron continues to manage Helm’s strategy and growth.
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About Helm Operations: Helm develops software for the commercial maritime industry.
Karn Manhas
Founder, CEO of Terramera
Founder & CEO of Terramera, Karn is an entrepreneur with over 15 years of experience in leadership roles in government, project management, community and business development. Karn is responsible for the vision and strategic direction of Terramera, and raised over $30M to build, scale and execute on that plan. He is a frequent speaker on issues of sustainability, making clean food affordable, feeding the world and building innovative organizations, including at TEDx and Singularity University in Vancouver. Karn has lead several companies and has a diverse set of experiences including being elected the youngest Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) in the Province of British Columbia. He is a member of YPO, and in 2012 was named one of Business in Vancouver’s top Forty Under 40 businesspeople. Karn holds a Juris Doctor in Law from the University of British Columbia and a B.Sc. in Biology (Genetics) and Biotechnology from McGill University.
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About Terramera: Terramera provides intelligence developing safer, more effective plant-based replacements to synthetic chemical pesticides and fertilizers.
Kent Bergstrom
CEO & Founder of Sitedocs
Since 2012 we’ve been working with companies to remove the headache of paperwork and to help them achieve workplace safety goals. We are passionate about equipping companies of all sizes and in all industries with the tools they need to successfully maintain, manage, and build their workplace safety program. Development of the SiteDocs Safety Management Program is continuously informed by our in-house safety expertise team as well as through extensive customer collaboration. We are confident that SiteDocs will play a key role in helping companies improve safety and reduce injuries on site for many years to come, making safety compliance not only more achievable, but significantly more enjoyable.
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About Sitedocs: The SiteDocs iPad Application is a completely new way for construction firms to manage job site safety.
Harsh Mehta
Founder & CEO of Synctag
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About Synctag: Synctag is a unique aggregator that brings your email, social, media, content networks and provides AI analytics for such networks
Joanne Freeze
Co-Founder, CEO, Director & Chair of Candente Copper
Joanne (Joey) C. Freeze is CEO and co-founder of Candente Copper Corp. Since entering the mineral exploration business in 1979, Ms. Freeze has managed exploration programs and evaluated projects for both junior and major international mining companies such as Queenstake Resources Ltd., Arequipa Resources Ltd., Mountain Province Mining Inc., Placer Dome Inc., Dia Met Minerals Corp., Hughes/ Lang Group and Utah Mines Ltd. (BHP). Ms. Freeze lived and worked in Peru from 1994 to 1997 where she carried out both project generation work and property evaluations for Canadian and Peruvian companies. As a result of her experience in Peru, a partnership was formed with Peruvian geologist Ing. Fredy Huanqui (co-discoverer of the Pierina gold mine) and a new mineral exploration company was born. Candente Resource Corp. was established in 1997, which operated privately until going public on May 15, 2000. Since then Candente Resource Corp. has spun-out various assets to form two other companies, Candente Gold Corp. and Cobriza Metals Inc.. All three companies are listed on the TSX and the Candente companies are co-listed on the Lima stock exchange. Ms. Freeze is CEO of all three companies and President of Candente Gold Corp. Ms. Freeze obtained a B.A. in Geography from the University of Western Ontario in 1978 and a B.Sc. in Geology from the University of British Columbia in 1981. She is a Fellow Member of the Geological Association of Canada and is registered with the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of British Columbia, Canada.
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About Candente Copper, Candente Gold, Xali Gold: Candente Copper is a Canadian mining company specializing in metals such as gold, silver, copper, and zinc.
Kevin Bottomley
President & CEO of King’s Bay
Kevin has spent the last 15 years in public markets focusing on company creation and capital raising. In that time Kevin has been a part of the successful completion of over 75 Million dollars in funding through networks in North America, Europe and Asia. Kevin’s drive and discipline have allowed him to successfully navigate challenging business settings and scenarios in the resource and special situations sectors.
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About King’s Bay: King’s Bay is a Vancouver based company focused on the exploration of cobalt, and other high-tech metals in North America.
Mike Ferguson
President and CEO of Gensource Potash
Mike is a professional engineer with over 25 years experience in potash and uranium mining projects in Saskatchewan. Mike graduated from the University of Saskatchewan with a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering. Following a few years spent with the Canadian Military, Mike settled back in Saskatoon and has spent his entire mining career in Saskatchewan participating in projects in potash, uranium, gold and base metals. His experience ranges from working at the mining face behind a Marietta Miner in a potash operations, to in-plant engineering (both surface plant and underground), engineering management, project management through to general management of engineering and EPCM companies. Most recently, Mike successfully led the Potash One project team responsible for the development of the Legacy Project in Southern Saskatchewan from initial exploration through scoping-, pre-feasibility- and feasibility studies and an approved EIS, to the point where it was acquired by the international potash producer K+S Group of Germany. Mike brings to Gensource not only his experience in the potash industry but also the unique experience of leading the development of a greenfield potash property in Saskatchewan – the first such project to be developed in over 40 years.
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About Gensource Potash: Gensource Potash Corporation is tapping into one of the world’s hottest commodities — potash. Invest today, and get in at ground level.
Murray Goldberg
Founder and CEO of Marine Learning Systems
Murray Goldberg began his eLearning career as a tenured faculty member conducting research on the effectiveness of web-based learning in the department of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia. In 1997, Murray took a leave from UBC to become the president and founder of WebCT, a company that grew to 350 employees providing the world’s leading learning management system (LMS) serving 14 million students in 80 countries at 4,000 universities and colleges. WebCT sold to rival company Blackboard in 2006 for $200M US. Since that time, Murray has remained involved in eLearning and social-academic initiatives as company founder, consultant, advisor and board member. Most recently, while acting as an eLearning consultant with British Columbia Ferry Services Inc, Murray developed a learning management system specifically suited to maritime and other industrial training contexts. As a result of the success of this new LMS, Murray has created a new company, Marine Learning Systems, to make this LMS available to the maritime industry and other industrial training contexts. Although the company is still early in its development, it counts among its customers some of the largest and best known names in the maritime industry. Murray has served as a consultant, advisor, board member and board chairman for numerous technology and education companies. In addition to other board memberships, Murray currently serves on the board of trustees of Harvey Mud College – ranked No. 2 among US undergraduate engineering programs by U.S. News & World Report. Murray also recently served on the “Sunnylands Math Strategy Group” – a Gates, Hewlett, Hemsley and Annenberg-funded think-tank to improve US K-12 mathematics performance. A widely recognized thought leader in the field of online teaching and learning, Goldberg has given over 250 keynote and invited lectures, and is an expert resource for business, education and technology organizations and education media. Goldberg has won numerous prizes including the prestigious UBC Killam University Teaching Prize during his first year as a UBC faculty member. Goldberg was honored at the 2000 National IWAY Awards in Canada as one of five extraordinary Canadians for his outstanding contributions to information technology and was also named as he recipient of the New Media Hyperion award for the application of new media in the field of information technology. In 2004, Goldberg was granted an Honorary Doctorate of Technology from the Southern Cross University in Australia for his pioneering work in advancing educational technologies globally. Also in 2004, Goldberg was the winner of the national Manning Awards foundation EnCana Principal Award, $100,000 prize honoring the country’s most outstanding innovator. Most recently, Goldberg was named as one of the top 15 Canadians in digital media by Backbone Magazine.
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About Marine Learning Systems: Marine Learning is a rapidly growing eLearning software & services provider that caters to the unique needs of the maritime industry.
Mark Teolis
CEO of DOSarrest
Prior to founding DOSarrest in October 2007, Mark was a co-founder of Peer1 Hosting and held a number of positions within Peer1until late 2007 including CTO and VP of co-location and network. While at Peer1 Mark created and lead the company’s strategic technical plan that made it the 4th fastest growing public company in Canada in 2005. Peer1 was later sold to Cogeco Cable in 2012 for 525 million USD. Prior to Peer1 Mark was an Internet specialist with AT&T Canada. Mark holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Concordia University in Montreal.
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About DOSarrest: DOSarrest specializes in stopping DoS and DDoS attacks of all varieties.
Ali Basij
CEO & Founder of instaHop
Ali is a serial technical entrepreneur with 20+ years of experience in various tech/product development teams including large companies (Amazon, Zenoti, and autoTrader), as well as two innovative tech startups.
He is also an alumni of multiple top startup incubators and accelerators (500-Startup in Silicon Valley , Blueprint in Hong Kong, sFoundation in San Francisco)
He earned his Master of Software Systems in 2010 from UBC, Vancouver, Canada.
instaHop is his second tech startup after EquitySim where he raised $3M from 2 VC’s and angel investors in Silicon Valley, New York, Canada, and Hong Kong.
At EquitySim, he built and led a team of 18 exceptional talents to create the best financial markets simulation powered by AI and Machine Learning.
At instaHop, he gathered a technology-driven team to invent a new way for travelers to enjoy the best matching experiences conveniently. The team includes local people who love to meet and help visitors anytime and anywhere.
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About instaHop: instaHop is the most Reliable and Convenient Platform to help Travelers GET to the Right Experience under 30 minutes!
Michael Stephenson
Founder, CEO & Chief Happiness Officer of PayrollHero
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About addy invest, OutsourcingThingsDone.com, PayrollHero: PayrollHero is a startup aimed at streamlining payroll and time and attendance tracking for iOS devices.
Stewart Irvine
Founder & CEO of Next Technology Developments
Develop, Build and Monetize Technology | Stewart Irvine, innovative and agile thinker at the forefront of digital, smart and automated technologies with decades of experience in startups, monetizing technology, integration and execution. A pioneer in developing technology platforms, digital media and marketing. Results driven, focused and fearless. Stewart Irvine, #stewartirvine , techtalk983 , #techtalk983
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About DharmaPond, KrowdX Inc., Next Technology Developments: We mobilize ideas and concepts. We have the knowledge and technical expertise to solve complex challenges, enhance or engineer a solution
Nejeed Kassam
Founder and CEO of Keela
Nejeed Kassam is Founder & CEO at Keela.co
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About Believe Vancouver, C100, Fundraising KIT, Keela: Raise more money. Do more good.
Mark Bruk
CEO and Founder of Evove
Mark Bruk is CEO and founder of EVOVE. He has more than 25 years of entrepreneurial experience in the tech industry and has previously worked with several successful technology startups on executive positions. Mark is focused on designing new-generation software technologies with an aim of providing solutions for people’s everyday lives. With EVOVE, he tries to make the difference in the education sector with a cutting-edge self-study solution.
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About Evove: Creates next-generation software solutions for multiple platforms.
Marcus Charalambous
Chief Executive Officer of Expression
Marcus is the founder & CEO of Backbone, one of Canada’s leading web development companies, and EXPRESSION, an innovative cloud-based web development platform that empowers coders and creators to deliver amazing digital experiences. He believes the power to utilize and communicate through the web should be accessible to everyone and that each digital experience should build strong relationships. He can often be found discussing his experiences in web dev and building cloud-ready infrastructure.
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About Expression: XPR is developer platform that lets you build anything online and works as your digital OS to connect the digital world for your customers
Zak El-Ramly
President & CEO of ZE PowerGroup
Zak El-Ramly, a renowned industry expert and successful executive with over 40 years of experience, is the founder of the ZE family of companies with offices globally that provide software development, consulting services, and engineering design. Dr. Zak El-Ramly formed ZE in 1995 in response to progressive changes towards competition in electric power. This new Zak’s venture supported his continued involvement in market transformation and building tools to facilitate competitive market operation. ZE was initially formed to transfer competitive market principals and implement trade and risk policies and operations; the company soon transitioned to developing software products required to meet the growing needs of participants in energy and commodities markets. Dr. El-Ramly leads a diverse group of more than 250 professionals in his quest to continue delivering innovation and value to an impressive list of multinational clients. His vision and ambition drive the success the ZE family of companies enjoys today.
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About ZE PowerGroup: ZE PowerGroup is an experienced software development and strategic consulting firm.
Bill Haberlin
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Ionomr
Bill is Ionomr’s CEO, having joined to take Ionomr’s world-class technology into volume production, assist in customer base transition from successful evaluation to volume production, and raise financing to achieve company objectives. He processes a deep understanding of B2B global sales and organization, strategies to break into established supply chains with innovative new components, business to business contract negotiation, and experience with business culture in Asia, Europe and North America. His internal management expertise includes a proven ability to grow and maintain high-performance teams and dealing with the issues with scaling production to high volume while maintaining quality and minimizing cost. Previously, COO & VP of Sales at SiGe Semiconductor for over a decade, he was a key player in the growth of the company from a research spinout of Canada’s National Research Council to a successful growth company which exited for $280M just prior to IPO. Bill help lead investment activities at both SiGe and NGD to raise more than $140M USD with VC’s located in US, Canada, China, Korea, Japan and the UK. He has over 25 years of industry experience and has built a good appreciation for all aspects of corporate matters required at Ionomr with previous employment at NGD Systems, Phenix Consulting, SiGe Semiconductor, Zarlink and Plessey Semiconductor. He has lived and worked in globally during his career including 15 years in Asia and possess extensive experience working with OEM customers and manufacturing partners in Asia, North and Europe.
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About Ionomr: Ionomr makes Aemion™ & Pemion™, next-gen ion-exchange materials for breakthrough clean technology applications involving electrochemistry.
Gonzalo Tudela
CEO of Vandrico
Gonzalo is CEO and co-founder of Vandrico Solutions, an enterprise wearables software company based in Vancouver. With a background in finance and mining operations, Gonzalo is an early champion of the positive impact wearable technology will have on large commercial operations. His insights have been featured in publications such as The Globe and Mail, Entrepreneur Magazine and TechCrunch. He is a TEDx speaker who regularly presents to business leaders across the world. Gonzalo’s expertise has been televised internationally to millions of viewers on the Globo TV network and CBC. Gonzalo currently leads Vandrico in helping large global organizations use wearable technology as a way to overcome safety and operational challenges.
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About Vandrico: VANDRICO TURNS YOUR DATA INTO SAFE PRODUCTIVITY
Juan Orrego
Co-Founder and CEO of Cuboh
Juan Orrego is the cofFounder and CEO of Cuboh.
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About Cuboh: Cuboh is a developer of an application intended to automate online food orders for restaurants.
Derek Major
Founder, CEO, Board Member of Eligeo CRM
Derek founded Eligeo CRM in 2008 and has since moved into a consulting and business development role for the company. Derek has enjoyed a 14+ year career in the CRM space and is actively involved in learning new technologies as they relate to CRM. When Derek isn’t delivering CRM solutions he can be found cheering on the Vancouver Canucks, and spending time with his partner and their dog Kits.
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About Eligeo CRM: Eligeo CRM is a business software consulting firm specializing in customer relationship management software.
Matthew Quetton
Founder & CEO of Momentum Venture Partners
Venture Development Advisor and Contract CFO. I work with a portfolio of startups in British Columbia to drive at the intersection of leadership, strategy, capital, finance and governance to support exceptional founders to clear bottlenecks for growth and build high value ventures. Founded and exited multiple companies Worked with over 20 startup founders Raised over $25M in capital Driven over $100M in total revenue Founded venture residency program in Vancouver
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About Audette, FTSY, Momentum Venture Partners: Venture Development Firm
Mark Starkey
Managing Partner, Chief Executive Officer of Victory
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About Victory: Victory Creative Group, Inc. is a digital services and experience design agency.
Colleen Hardwick
CEO of PlaceSpeak
Colleen is the CEO of PlaceSpeak, an award-winning location-based citizen engagement platform that authenticates participants’ digital identity to their physical address. With academic roots in urban geography, Colleen possesses a strong historical perspective on civic development. Her passion for solving complex public policy problems and addressing a growing sense of civic disenfranchisement inspired her to found PlaceSpeak. Colleen is an active member in the IAP2 and the NCDD. She is also engaged with the Digital Identity Authentication Council of Canada (DIACC) and Open Data BC. Colleen is a frequent writer and speaker on the subject of advancing digital democratic best practices. She has given two TEDx talks, notably at TEDxBelfast at the Titanic building in Northern Ireland. In 2015, she was featured in Conversations that Matter. She was recently featured in NYU GovLab’s Demos for Democracy. Colleen is currently working on her PhD in Applied Innovation at UBC ISGP.
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About PlaceSpeak: Location-based smart city citizen engagement
Gordon Klok
Co-Founder and CEO of Pax Automa
Gordon Klok is co-founder and CEO at PaxAutoma. Formerly team lead of the Ops Automation and efficiency team at Demonware, kernel hacker at OpenBSD, high performance computing consultant and software developer. He specializes in the managing development of software for distributed computing systems.
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About Pax Automa: Pax Automa is founded by hackers, engineers and scientists with deep expertise and passion for building distributed computing systems.
DH Kim
CEO of Finhaven
DH leverages his extensive experience in finance to disrupt the capital markets with blockchain technology. Finhaven Technology is leading the industry with the development of a blockchain-powered securities issuance platform and exchange
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About Finhaven: Finhaven is building an investment banking platform supporting the issuance, investment, and trading of digital securities.
Luiz Persechini
Co-Founder and CEO of Sherwa Online Services
Luiz Persechini is the founder and CEO of Sherwa Online Services.
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About Sherwa Online Services: Sherwa is a platform that connects players into a friendly community where you can get help at your games and find new friends to play with
Pauline Moller
CEO & President of Caravan Digital Studios
Senior executive in the digital media & interactive entertainment industry
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About Caravan Digital Studios: Makers of bespoke consumer brands and companies, backed by data & co-founded with people of influence. In partnership with CAA.
Kamyar Asadibeky
CEO, President & Founder of Machool Technologies Ltd.
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About Machool Technologies Ltd.: Machool Technologies was started to create a global online marketplace for services.
Ron Iacobelli
President and CEO of Spur Innovations Corp.
President and CEO, Spur Innovations Corp.
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About Spur Innovations Corp.: Automated Vehicle Controls for fleets – Reduce Accidents, Save Fuel, Reduce Infractions
Jake Terepocki
Chief Executive Officer of PureVoltage Enterprises
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About Douglife Marketing, Minecraftserver.net, PureVoltage Enterprises: PureVoltage Enterprises specializes in enterprise class Colocation, VPS & Dedicated Server Hosting
Slawek Smulewicz
CEO & Director of MicroCoal
Mr. Smulewicz has been the acting CEO of MicroCoal® Technologies Inc.. since June 2011. He operated as Vice President of Carbon Friendly Solutions Inc. from 2008 until his appointment as CEO; he is also a director of the Company since 2008. Mr. Smulewicz has served on the Board of several European private companies in consulting, IT and construction industries; especially during the start-up phase or restructuring processes. From 2006 until 2009, he led a successful remedial process, completing the financing of over 50 million PLN for a European private company. In 2001, he founded BDSG Grupa Finansowa Sp. z o. o., where he acted as CEO and Director until 2008. In 1998, he co-founded Internetowy Instytut Infomacji 3i Sp. z o. o. where he acted as CEO and Director until 2001. Mr. Smulewicz was an advisor to Vice Marshal of Presidium of The Sejm of The Republic of Poland (Polish Parliament) in 1998 and received his license as a broker of Warsaw Exchange (WGT S.A.), Poland in 1995. He has a M.Sc. in Agriculture & Business Administration from the Warsaw University of Life Science (SGGW) in Warsaw, Poland.
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About G2 Technologies Corp., MicroCoal: MicroCoal focuses on providing clean-coal upgrading technology that reduces contaminants in coal resulting in upgraded energy content.
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
Craig Arnatt
CEO / Partner of InsureCert
Craig Arnatt is CEO and founder of InsureCert, the marquee shopping cart & policy issuance system of the insurance industry. As a programmer, Craig has worked on the core team developing the API framework for InsureCert’s blockchain enabled policy underwriting engine.
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About InsureCert: Super easy cloud-based sales software that brings true customer convenience, ease of use, converting more sales and driving online growth.
Geof Auchinleck
Co-Founder and CEO of Claris Healthcare
Geof Auchinleck has more than 35 years of experience in the medical device field. He was part of the Vancouver-based team that built and tested the world’s first robot specifically designed to assist in surgery, then went on to develop a number of other surgical technologies, including surgical tools for laparoscopic surgery, surgical limb positioning, blood sample handling equipment, apparatus for total knee arthroplasty, and surgical drapes. In 1997, Geof cofounded Neoteric Technology Ltd. Neoteric developed and commercialized technologies for ensuring the correct storage, tracking, handling and administration of blood for transfusion in hospitals. This technology, BloodTrack®, is now in daily use in hospitals all over the world. In 2009, Neoteric Technology Ltd. was acquired by Haemonetics Corporation of Braintree, Massachusetts (NYSE:HAE). Geof left Haemonetics in 2011.
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About Claris Healthcare, Creative Destruction Lab (CDL): Claris Healthcare is medical technology company that provides SaaS Remote Patient Monitoring and Rehabilitation.
Luis Giraldo
Founder and CEO of Ook Enterprises Ltd.
Founder and CEO of Monkey Box, and CEO at Ook Enteprises Ltd.
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About Ook Enterprises Ltd.: Ook Enterprises Ltd. is a provider IT managed services, consulting, and projects to organizations.
Dave Parsell
Co-Founder & CEO of Localintel
Dave has 15 years experience working in senior consulting and local government roles where he specialized in economic development and strategic planning. He holds a Masters of Public Administration, Masters of Environmental Planning and Bachelor of Commerce.
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About Localintel: Localintel provides location advantages marketing software for economic developers.
Robert Safrata
CEO of Changequity
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About Changequity: Changequity is focused on transforming high-carbon companies into restorative, market-leading green businesses.
Ian Paterson
CEO of Plurilock
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About Plurilock: Plurilock provides invisible MFA & continuous authentication using state-of-the-art behavioral-biometric & machine learning technology.
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.
John Bromley
Founder & CEO of Charitable Impact
I facilitate benevolence. I provide strategic advice about financing and organizational structure to local, national and international charities, foundations, non-profits, private and public companies. I also develop web-based, software platforms that encourage mass awareness of and participation in the benevolent sector, namely Chimp and Peer Giving.
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About Charitable Impact: Chimp is a rapidly growing technology company in Vancouver. We are passionate about empowering people to act on the human spirit of charity.
Robert Atwood
President & CEO of Hummingbird Drones
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About Hummingbird Drones: Hummingbird Drones is a remote imaging, sensing and software development company.
Wyle Baoween
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of HRx Technology
As CEO and Co-founder of HRx Technology, Wyle is focused on disrupting traditional hiring practices. In 2016, Wyle launched HRx, a recruitment technology company that addresses inefficiency and bias in hiring. Prior to HRx, Wyle worked for over 10 years in consulting and project management, primarily focused in the areas of process improvement, technology and strategies for change management. He worked in the marine, transportation and construction industries with local and international clients. Wyle holds a Bachelor of Science in Engineering, a Masters of Business Administration and is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP). Wyle speaks regularly on the issues of entrepreneurship, recruitment and ‘blind hiring’.
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About HRx Technology: HRx is a Vancouver based firm that provides training, consulting and technology solutions to advance diversity and inclusion
Daniel Japiassu
CEO of YDreams Global
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About YDreams Global: YDreams Global is a reference in innovative projects and products that combine technology, design and content.
Vincent Yang
Founder and CEO of H+ Technology
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About H+ Technology: H+ Technology is a digital display solutions company that develops customizable, gesture-based systems, and 3D projection displays.
Ajay Hans
Founder & CEO of Mobetize
Ajay Hans is the Founder and CEO at Mobetize.
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About Mobetize: Mobetize is collaborating and empowering leading financial institutions and telecom companies to revolutionize how financial services.
Lubos Hrasko
CEO of ListingsPlus
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About ListingsPlus: ListingsPlus strives to create a world where real estate agents and their clients live in perfect harmony.
Mirek Pijanowski
Co-founder and CEO of StandardFusion
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About StandardFusion: A cloud-based GRC SaaS platform for information security teams at small, medium, or enterprise organizations.
Kathryn Hayashi
CEO of TRIUMF Innovations
Prior to TRIUMF Innovations, Ms. Hayashi was the Founding Chief Financial Officer of The Centre for Drug Research and Development (CDRD) and CDRD Ventures Inc, Canada’s national drug development and commercialization engine. As part of the founding team that started CDRD in 2007, she worked to develop a new partnership based model for translating and commercializing Canadian innovation and secure public and private sector funding totaling more than $230M. At CDRD she worked with a strong business-focused team to complete multiple transactions including the creation of 6 spin out companies (including a significant M&A exit) to establish CDRD as a leader in pre-clinical translational research and commercialization. Ms. Hayashi also presides as a Director and Audit Committee Chair of the Center for Commercialization and Cancer Immunotherapy at the Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont and has served on the boards of several CDRD spinoff companies.Ms. Hayashi has over 25 years of industry experience in all areas of operational and strategic planning, finance, and governance, and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of British Columbia.
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About TRIUMF Innovations: TRIUMF Innovations
Sean Herman
CEO of Kinzoo
Founder of Kinzoo, a video-sharing app where children can connect and parents can be sure they’re safe. Kids use Kinzoo to access the best of what technology has to offer — empowering creativity, connecting with friends and family, and learning about the things they love — within closed, managed communities. Entrepreneur, CFA Charterholder, and business leader with extensive experience ranging from founder and CEO to project manager and corporate finance analyst.
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About Kinzoo: Kinzoo is a new private messenger that turns screen time into family time.
Jessica Yang
Co-founder & CEO of Tochtech
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About Tochtech: Tochtech is a healthcare technology on a mission to apply innovations for Seniors daily living.
Mark Rabin
CEO co-founder of Zolair Energy
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About Zolair Energy: Zolair is a micro-electric utility providing clean, affordable energy solutions for the developing world.
Shaun Connor
CEO of Citismart Solutions
Shaun Connor is responsible for the vision and building CITISMART Solutions Corp into a leading technology integrator with a focus on energy savings and reducing green house gases. Shaun’s experience has also enabled him to identify and integrate the next wave of disruptive change in PoE Led lighting and controls. Shaun’s 20+ years of experience in networking and software is also key to developing key partners in the fields of energy, IoT, and Smart City applications.
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About Citismart Solutions: Citismart Solutions is focused on integrating the latest technologies.
Jon Thorpe
Founder / CEO of Flowmail
Founder & CEO @Flowmail, CEO Booth (Canada’s leading photo booth company), Past at Beer.com / D3. Lifelong adventurer and entrepreneur. Living the dream in Vancouver BC.
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About Flowmail: Flowmail is a simple, intuitive email marketing service.
Yury Buryanau
Founder & CEO of Frandom
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About Frandom: Two people in the same room blindfolded
Ryley MacKenzie
CEO of Anera
Ryley has had an extensive and global collection of experiences ranging from both start-up organizations to multinational corporations. At each engagement, Ryley has brought an engaging leadership style and a passion for strategic management execution. Ryley is also an experienced entrepreneur having helped create numerous companies in the IP telephony space – one of which was acquired by Oracle. Ryley holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Hons) from the University of Manitoba, an MBA from the University of Adelaide, and is currently completing a Doctorate of Business Administration from the University of Liverpool.
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About Anera: Working exclusively in the Software Defined Networking space.
Slava Kurilyak
Founder and CEO of Produvia
Slava Kurilyak is the Founder and CEO of Produvia. Prior to that, Slava served as the CTO of Fitplan Technologies Inc.
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About Produvia: Produvia offers an on-demand platform for hiring artificial intelligence (AI) developers.
Sean Languedoc
CEO of Code in Canada
Sean is the CEO or, as he prefers to say, Lead Promoter for Code in Canada. Code in Canada is opportunistically levering the disruptive changes to immigration laws in the US. As the US borders get thicker, Canada is opening its doors to technology companies and making it easier to hire the best international talent. Code in Canada helps companies get set up quickly so they can build their business in North America. Sean is a proven company-builder who has founded and led a number of successful B2B technology companies in media, clean tech and industrial verticals with enterprise and mobile applications.
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About Code in Canada: Code In Canada a small web development boutique Which operates from Toronto, It Works with clients both local & remote.
Peter Armstrong
CEO and Co-Founder of Ruboss Technology Corporation
Peter has been developing rich client applications for over 7 years. He has worked with Flex full-time since July 2004, including being a key part of the team that won the 2006 Adobe MAX Award for RIA/Web Development. Before becoming a Flex developer, Peter was a Java Swing developer for a Silicon Valley BPM startup. Peter is the author of the Manning book Flexible Rails and is the organizer of The Vancouver Ruby/Rails Meetup group. Peter is also a frequent speaker on using Flex and Rails together, including presentations at The Vancouver Flash/Flex Meetup, a standing-room-only RailsConf 2007 BOF, The Vancouver RIA Developer Camp and Rails to Italy in Pisa.
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About Ruboss Technology Corporation: Ruboss technology corporation is a business consulting service company located in vancouver.
Peter Armstrong
CEO and Co-Founder of Ruboss Technology Corporation
Peter has been developing rich client applications for over 7 years. He has worked with Flex full-time since July 2004, including being a key part of the team that won the 2006 Adobe MAX Award for RIA/Web Development. Before becoming a Flex developer, Peter was a Java Swing developer for a Silicon Valley BPM startup. Peter is the author of the Manning book Flexible Rails and is the organizer of The Vancouver Ruby/Rails Meetup group. Peter is also a frequent speaker on using Flex and Rails together, including presentations at The Vancouver Flash/Flex Meetup, a standing-room-only RailsConf 2007 BOF, The Vancouver RIA Developer Camp and Rails to Italy in Pisa.
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About Ruboss Technology Corporation: Ruboss technology corporation is a business consulting service company located in vancouver.
Prem Gill
CEO of Creative BC
Prem is Chief Executive Officer of Creative BC. The agency is designated by the Province of British Columbia to focus on uniting, sustaining and growing British Columbia’s dynamic and diverse creative sector including motion picture, music and sound recording, interactive and digital media, and magazine and book publishing. She brings more than 20 years of experience from the digital media and entertainment industries to her current role as CEO, where she is responsible for delivering a wide range of programs and services that will expand BC’s creative economy to reach its economic and creative potential both at home and globally. Before Creative BC, Prem spent eight years with TELUS, most recently in the role of Director of Production & Original Programming. Her commitment to the advancement of BC’s creative economy can be seen through her achievements there, including the successful development and launch of the StoryHive program and TELUS’s Optic TV community channel. For many years, Prem has championed Canadian creativity as a representative and spokesperson to media, industry and government at all levels. Previous roles and responsibilities have included government and regulatory affairs, independent media consultation, cross-platform marketing, communications, research, public affairs and multicultural programming.
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About Creative BC: Creative BC brings a strategic and integrated approach to the growth and development of the province’s creative industries.
Ryan Stratton
Founder & CEO of Craftt
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About Craftt: Craftt is a modern business management system designed specifically for breweries.
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