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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 Internet 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.
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.
Shawn Nutley
Founder & CEO of Shawn Nutley Consulting
Shawn Nutley of Kelowna, Canada, is a passionate entrepreneur with 30 years of experience under his belt with expertise in finance and sales. He first got his start in the sales sector, but swiftly discovered the common path of climbing the corporate ladder was not for him. Instead, he had an unshakeable urge to forge his own path and create a name for himself. Upon leaving the traditional workforce, Shawn found himself thriving in an entrepreneurial state. He loved overcoming challenges, solving problems, and building his business from the ground-up. Now, those same feelings of excitement and accomplishment are just as strong. Seeing as his myriad of businesses are self-sufficient, Shawn Nutley thoroughly enjoys spearheading various business projects and ventures, co-founding companies, and mentoring colleagues, friends, and family members who also wish to enter the realm of entrepreneurship. Shawn’s interest in the field of finance has developed over his career. His first-hand experience with technology’s growth and integration into the global market has allowed him to produce a remarkable and impressive position for himself. The technologies that he has been most focused on include artificial intelligence, blockchain, internet of things, and the general decentralization of technological infrastructure. These continue to develop in unique and unpredictable ways, but Shawn understands that following each one will prove to have benefits far beyond sticking to traditional techniques and thoughts. Shawn’s skills include communications, leadership, sales, entrepreneurship, pitching, fundraising, and more. He takes great pride in his work to help raise up the next generation of entrepreneurs. To learn more about Shawn Nutley, be sure to visit his website.
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About Shawn Nutley Consulting: Company founded by Shawn Nutley.
Ryan Peterson
CEO and Co-Founder of Finger Food Studios
Ryan Peterson is the CEO and Co-Founder of Finger Food Advanced Technology Group. He sets the course for the organization with his extraordinary vision, strategic planning, and unshakeable passion. Under Ryan’s leadership as CEO, Finger Food has seen tremendous growth, transforming from a small basement startup to a multi-million dollar company with 180+ employees. Finger Food builds custom technology solutions to solve some of the most complex and challenging problems faced by businesses today in industries including games, retail, oil & gas, education, healthcare, mining and more. The company creates a competitive advantage for its clients by helping them own their technology stack, rather than simply deploying on the same technology platforms as their competitors. In-house expertise in AI, AR/VR, Blockchain, Robotics, and IoT, enables Finger Food to create impactful and elegant cloud, web, mobile, machine and advanced-interface solutions built on top of emerging technologies. Finger Food sees an unprecedented market opportunity. Within 3 years, the cumulative R&D spend of the Global 1,000 will reach USD 1T. A conservative estimate would put the innovation spend of each of these companies at around USD 100MM annually.
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About Finger Food Studios: Finger Food delivers technology-driven business solutions that enable companies to move and innovate faster.
Michael Cole
Co-Founder and CEO of Picniic
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About Agents Only, Picniic: Picniic is every family’s personal assistant, keeping households organized, productive, and connected.
David Marshall Feller
Founder & CEO of Mogo
David Feller founded Mogo in 2003 and currently serves as the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and as a member of our Board of Directors. Mr. Feller is a pioneer in online lending and a passionate advocate of helping all consumers improve their financial health regardless of their financial position.Mr. Feller is a former member of the Young Entrepreneurs Organization (YEO) of Canada and is a graduate of the University of Western Ontario with a Bachelor of Arts degree. Mr. Feller’s experience leading the business over the past 12 years, along with his responsibilities for the strategic direction, product innovation and management of Mogo’s day-to-day operations, bring broad industry and specific institutional knowledge and experience to the Board of Directors.
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About Mogo: Mogo is a consumer finance company that helps in managing and controlling finances.
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.
Randy Wu
CEO and Co-Founder of Fantuan
Randy Wu is the Co-Founder and CEO of Fantuan.
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About Fantuan: Fantuan provides food and grocery delivery, reviews, e-commerce and other life services for local communities in north America.
Greg Smith
Co-founder, CEO & Instructor of Thinkific
Greg is passionate about education. His past experiences as a securities lawyer and teacher fuelled his desire to use technology to improve the learning and teaching experience. Greg has taught thousands of students online and in person. His latest addictions are learning new kiteboarding tricks and playing euro boardgames.
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About Thinkific: Thinkific is a software platform that enables entrepreneurs to create, market, sell, and deliver their own online courses.
Bryan Statham
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of LifeBooster
Bryan is the original founder and the CEO of LifeBooster Inc. He provides strategic consulting, including business plan, and sales and marketing strategy development, as well as the scientific insight and vision into the LifeBooster system. With a background in biomedical sciences and sales and marketing, Bryan’s ability to drive the business development of our innovative health and safety solution has been a natural process. He is an outstanding problem solver and natural team leader with the proven ability to deliver quickly in complex environments. By identifying and building high-quality client relationships with Fortune 100 companies, actively sourcing strategic partnerships throughout diverse industries, and conducting high-level market analysis, Bryan’s vision drives LifeBooster to be a leader in wearable technology for the future of occupational health and safety.
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About LifeBooster: Leading connected worker and risk analytics platform for industrial health and safety – ensuring every worker gets home safe every day.
Johann Starke
President & CEO of FCV Interactive
John Starke is the President & CEO of FCV, a full-service digital advertising agency with offices in Toronto and Vancouver. Before FCV, John was Director of Business Development at Expedia. Prior to Expedia, he worked with several organizations and was a consultant with Accenture. In addition to his role at FCV, John serves as a director at BC Assessment, an independent, provincial Crown corporation, and is an MBA mentor at the University of British Columbia. John holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance and Computer Information Systems from the University of Colorado and is a member of the Entrepreneurs’ Organization. In 2010,he was recognized in Vancouver’s Top 40 Under Forty, and his leadership and philanthropic endeavours earned FCV a 2010 Community Leadership Award from the British Columbia Technology Industry Association.
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About FCV Interactive, FCV Interactive: User-focused transformation agency
Chris Jensen
Co-Founder & CEO of Left™
Chris began his career in the UK working for multi-nationals and banks and continued on in the banking and brokerage industry upon moving to Canada. He has a strong understanding of the finance markets and has lived the pain of raising capital for early stage companies during the beginning stages of growth, from 25 to 80+ employees. He has founded several start-up companies in his career, two of which have now won BCTIA Tech Impact Awards. In his role as CEO for Left, Chris thrives on understanding the big picture and on moving the levers that drive the company forward. This includes financing, strategic partnerships, and corporate development. Chris holds a BSc (Honours) in Economics and History from Queen Mary University of London.
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About Left™, RightMesh: Left is a multinational media and technology company with holdings in a diversified portfolio of mobile and Internet-based businesses.
Louis-Victor Jadavji
Co-founder & CEO of Taloflow
Entrepreneur who focuses on health, 3D printing, cloud infrastructure and AI.
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About Taloflow, Turnyp: Find the best cloud and dev tools for your use case
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.
James DeGreef
Founder & CEO of ChatterBlock
Founder and CEO of www.ChatterBlock.com Consummate business and technology entrepreneur with the ability to assimilate market knowledge rapidly and accurately, and attract the resources and team to execute on pinpoint opportunities with disruptive technical solutions and go-to-market strategies.
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About ChatterBlock, GenoLogics, Good News Ventures, Good News Ventures: ChatterBlock is a social networking and content website that targets the requirements of families and their supporting communities.
Willson Cross
Co-Founder (Prev. CEO) of GoFetch Technologies
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About FuturePet, GoFetch Technologies: Founded in May of 2015, GoFetch is a mobile, on demand, marketplace that connects dog owners with dog walkers in their city.
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.
Karl Holmqvist
Chief Executive Officer of Lastwall Networks, Inc.
Karl is a serial entrepreneur with a keen interest in telco infrastructure and internet security systems. Prior to founding Lastwall, Karl built a telecommunications carrier up in Canada and worked in Dubai as an investor with AGT. Karl also enjoys surfing.
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About Lastwall Networks, Inc.: Lastwall is building new internet security systems, broadly based on new ways of authenticating users and strongly enforcing identity.
Ilya Brotzky
Founder & CEO of VanHack
Ilya Brotzky is the Founder & CEO at VanHack
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About Brazil Career Blueprint, VanHack: VanHack is simply the fastest way for companies to hire tech talent. Over 100,000 verified developers from 100+ countries
Campbell Macdonald
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of PROXXI
Campbell is an entrepreneur and the CEO Proxxi, a smart sensor that senses and interprets electricity with software. Their first product, Proxxi Band, is targeted at electrical workers. It notifies the user by vibration when they get too close to an electric current. Currently, there are no connected, always-on devices to detect electricity for the 20 million US workers covered by an electrical safety plan Before Proxxi, Campbell co-founded Pathful , an artificial intelligence solution for enterprise marketing. After going through Techstars and raising VC from Foundry Group & Angel List, Pathful was acquired by Mobify in 2015. Previously he co-founded Parking Mobility in 2009, an early mobile-first, social enterprise targeted at disability community. Before setting out his own, he held senior management roles at BuildDirect, Home Depot and Canadian Pacific Railway. Campbell has an MA from Queen’s in game theory and economics.
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About Pathful, PROXXI: PROXXI is a company which manufactures wearable, electrical safety device for industrial workers.
Serge Salager
CEO of Visualping
Serge began his career in marketing at Procter & Gamble in Europe, He then joined Nestle’s $1.5 billion corporate VC firm after completing his MBA at Harvard Business School. He moved to Vancouver in 2012 to become the CEO of a small TSX listed tech company. In 2013, Serge took this company private and, after its sale in 2015, he founded two tech start-ups in Vancouver: Retarget Links and Visualping.
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About Visualping: Automated website change alerts for consumers and enterprise with more than 1.5 million personal and business users in all verticals.
Courtney Rye
Founder and CEO of ElectricBikeReview.com
Born in Colorado, attended school at CU Boulder, Cleantech Institute in San Jose, and continuing studies at Stanford University. Worked at Hewlett Packard, Accenture, Google, RetailMeNot, eHealthInsurance.com. Sold CarStations.com and Cleantech Authority.com Currently resides in Vancouver, Canada.
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About ElectricBikeReview.com: Exploring the world of ebikes. We create videos, pictures, and run a forum that educates, connects, and inspires!
Clayton Brown
CEO and Founder of Keycafe
Clayton’s inspiration for Keycafe came when he had key exchange struggles as an Airbnb host. He observed a simple solution while living in a European walkup for several years – residents dropped their key with the downstairs cafe to get them to friends and family. Clayton is responsible for Keycafe’s vision, strategy and growth. Prior to Keycafe, Clayton worked as a principal at a family office in Vancouver and as a consultant at McKinsey & Company. He has over $2 billion in private equity and new venture transaction experience. During his university training, Clayton studied Symbolic Systems and won awards for software and algorithm design. He earned his MBA, BS, and BA from Stanford University.
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About Keycafe: Keycafe provides global consumer and enterprise SaaS software and IoT key exchange systems for intelligent property access management.
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.
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.
Steven Forth
Co-Founder & CEO of Ibbaka
Steven Forth serves as the Chief Executive Officer at Nugg Solutions Corp. Steven Forth served as the Chief Executive Officer at LeveragePoint Innovations, Inc. Steven Forth is an expert in human & organizational performance, learning and knowledge management, he is responsible for its strategic direction, finances and key relationships. He served as the Vice President of Online Action Solutions at Monitor Group since March 2007. Prior to joining Monitor Group, he founded and served as the Chief Executive Officer of Recombo Inc., a content integration middleware company that focused on the learning and performance management industries, and DNA Media Group, an interactive media production and publishing company. His deep understanding of technology trends and their impact on organizations was help strengthen eMonitor’s ability to leverage clients’ inherent knowledge and integrate it with Monitor’s leading-edge methodologies to support rapid growth. He also leads Web Services in Learning (WSIL), a group that is leading the introduction of Web services to the learning industry. He served as Vice President of Online Action Solutions at Monitor Deloitte. He served as the Vice President of Online Solutions at the eMonitor. He has extensive experience with technology startups. He co-founded the identify and social media company CrowdTrust. He serves as a Director at Nugg Solutions Corp. He served as a Director at LeveragePoint Innovations, Inc.
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About Ibbaka, Nugg Solutions, TeamFit: Ibbaka provides strategic pricing advisory services.
Joseph Nakhla
Founder & CEO of bazinga! Technologies
Joseph is the Founder and CEO of Gateway Property Management.
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About bazinga! Technologies, Gateway Property Management: Bazinga offers a range of software and services that focus on community management and communications.
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
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.
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
Michael Pangia
President & CEO of Aviat Networks
Michael Pangia is the President and Chief Operating Officer at Westmount Park Investments and an Associate of Creative Destruction Lab.
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About Aviat Networks, Creative Destruction Lab (CDL): Aviat Networks formerly Harris Stratex Networks, Inc., incorporated in 2006, is a supplier of wireless transmission
Jad Jebara
President & CEO of Hyperview
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About Hyperview: SaaS for IT infrastructure management
Mark Proudfoot
Co-Founder and CEO of JustGreet
Mark Proudfoot is co-founder at Course Studio.
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About Course Studio, JustGreet: The cutest greeting card service on the internet.
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.
Chris Milton
CEO of 323 Media Group Inc.
Growth driven founder who scales projects through sales, marketing and systems.
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About 323 Media Group Inc.: Building brands for the future.
Valerie Song
Co-Founder & CEO of AVA Technologies
Valerie Song is the CEO & Co-Founder at AVA Technologies.
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About AVA Technologies: Automatically grow year-round herbs, tomatoes, and more
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
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.
Jason Morehouse
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Checkfront
With over a decade of professional IT experience behind him, Jason has been immersed in e-commerce since its conception. He is a self described Technical Architect and Linux evangelist. Prior to founding Checkfront Inc, he played a key role in building several successful e-commerce companies, including Netconcepts, Vendorama, and Revenuewire. He has lived and worked in Toronto Canada, Auckland New Zealand, and now calls Victoria, BC home.
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About Checkfront: Checkfront offers online booking services for tours and activities, rentals, and accommodations.
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.
Chris Stephens
Founder & CEO of Twirling Umbrellas Ltd.
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About Twirling Umbrellas Ltd.: Twirling Umbrellas is a web design and digital marketing agency in British Columbia.
Paul Gill
CEO of Lomiko Metals and Technologies
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About Lomiko Metals and Technologies, Lomiko Metals and Technologies: Lomiko Metals focuses on the exploration and development of minerals for the new green economy such a lithium and graphite.
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.
Eric Boland
CEO of W-World Media
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About W-World Media: News, Media Production, Social Network
Angela Hamilton
Co-founder, CEO of Quupe Technologies
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About Quupe Technologies: Quupe is a fully insured community rental platform from Vancouver, Canada.
Mark Fromson
Co-Founder and CEO of LocalSolo Freelance
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About LocalSolo Freelance: Find the Top Freelancers in Your City
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.
Phillip Djwa
President and CEO of Agentic Communications Inc
Phillip Djwa has been working for more than 25 years in the high-technology industry. During this time, Phillip has worked on a wide range of technology and digital media projects in senior positions from Fortune 500 (AT&T), high-tech start-ups (Adcritic), to not-for-profit organizations (First Nations Education). He is an accomplished presenter and knowledgeable speaker on information and communications technology (ICT), especially as it applies in First Nations in BC. He has worked extensively with Aboriginal organizations on technology, including capacity building, connectivity to remote and rural communities, and elearning. He has sat on national Assembly of First Nations committees as well as the First Nations Technology Council, whom he continues to advise, as well as the Information Technology Council in Ottawa. Since 2000, Phillip has led strategy, and completed innovative web projects, as part of his company Agentic Communications Inc. Phillip’s credentials as a creative technologist offer a unique blend of technologist, creative lead and social scientist. His clients include Yale University, Global Zero, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Industry Canada, the Province of BC, Canadian Tourism Commission, Aboriginal Peoples Television Network, Canada Mortgage and Housing (Granville Island) and many other organizations. Lastly, as a career-long social entrepreneur, Phillip has volunteered for many worthwhile community initiatives, including Openmedia, the Western Front, the Vancouver Crisis Centre, the BC Community Connectivity Cooperative, the First People’s Heritage Council, and the Friends of Chamber Music.
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About Agentic Communications Inc: Agentic is a web development agency that provides core website design, strategy, and transformational digital media solutions.
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.
Aida Viejo
Founder and CEO of Uxline
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About Uxline: Uxline offers remote user testing services and expert usability studies to help clients improve their website experiences.
David Sussman
CEO of Plasmatic Technologies Inc.
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About Plasmatic Technologies Inc.: Empowering service providers and their customers to benefit from the Connected Home through whole-home insights and mobile experiences.
Sean Sibbet
CEO of Reality Controls Inc.
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About Reality Controls Inc.: Contract developer of custom software applications for health and security, on IoT, mixed/virtual reality and cloud data platforms.
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.
Ben Kerr
CEO & Senior Water Scientist of Foundry Spatial
Ben is the CEO and Senior Water Scientist at Foundry Spatial. He leads the team of scientists and developers creating next generation decision support tools. Drawing on a diverse background in multiple resource industries, he uses his expertise in hydrology and data science to connect billions of pieces of data with intuitive and flexible interfaces that let people quickly and easily make sustainable decisions.
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About Foundry Spatial: Water focused environmental analytics
Mohammad Jazayeri
CEO of EventYab Cloud Services Inc.
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About : EventYab is a startup focusing on geofiltering of events and event promotion and online sales.
Mohammad Jazayeri
CEO of EventYab Cloud Services Inc.
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About : EventYab is a startup focusing on geofiltering of events and event promotion and online sales.
Tony Wei
Founder and CEO of PhotoShare
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About PhotoShare: An online photographer community for sharing, critiquing, and improving your photography skills
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