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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 Director operating in the Marketing space. If you think a Director 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.
Eira Thomas
Director of Suncor Energy
Eira Thomas is a respected Canadian geologist who’s career in the Canadian diamond business spans more than 25 years. She spent fourteen years with Aber Resources (Now Dominion Diamond Corporation), serving as a geologist between 1992-1996, Vice-President Exploration between 1997-1999 and as a Director of the Board from 1998-2006. In 2001, Ms. Thomas co-founded Stornoway Ventures Ltd. (now Stornoway Diamond Corporation) and served as CEO of Stornoway until 2008 and Executive Chairman between 2008-2011. Ms. Thomas is currently a director of a number of other public companies and organizations, including Suncor Energy Inc., Lucara Diamond Corp., the Yukon Mineral Advisory Board, the University of Toronto (U of T) Alumni Association, and she is a member of the U of T President’s Internal Advisory Council. Awards/Recognition: 2004: honoured as one of “Canada’s Top 40 under 40” by the Caldwell Partners and the Report on Business Magazine. 2007: awarded The William Harvey Gross Award, bestowed annually by the Mineral Deposits Division of the Geological Association of Canada, to a geoscientist less than 40 years of age who has made a significant contribution to the field of economic geology in a Canadian context 2007: selected as one of “Top 100 Canada’s Most Powerful Women”. 2008: one of only four Canadians that year to be named to the “Young Global Leaders”, by the World Economic Forum. 2009: a recipient of the CIM’s (Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy) Past Presidents’ Memorial Medal, awarded to a member under 45 who, by his/her accomplishments, has set an outstanding example to young members of the Institute and to young men/women contemplating a career in the minerals industry. 2010: Ms. Thomas received the Minerva for BC Women Natural Resources Award. Ms. Thomas graduated from the University of Toronto with a Bachelor of Science in Geology in 1990.
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About Lucara Diamond Corp, Lucara Diamond Corp, Suncor Energy: Suncor Energy is an integrated energy company specializes in production of synthetic crude from oil sands.
Ryan Campbell
Director of Technology of Speed Shift Media
With over 10 years of development experience, Ryan oversees the development of all Speed Shift Media’s products and platforms. In his role as Director of Product Development, Ryan maintains an unwavering focus on developing innovative and sophisticated digital advertising solutions that maximize value for Speed Shift Media’s clients.
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About Speed Shift Media: Speed Shift Media provides automotive dealer groups and publishers with sophisticated online display ads.
Derek Sather
Managing Director – Pacific Northwest of Winning by Design
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About Winning by Design: Winning by Design is the premier Software as a Service (SaaS) sales strategy consulting and coaching firm.
Justin Veenema
Creative Director of Loop Digital Marketing
Justin is a marketer and community builder with 6+ years of industry experience. His specialty lies in creating highly engaging content via writing, photography, web design and video that is designed to convert.
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About Loop Digital Marketing: Expertly managed Facebook ads to scale your eCommerce store.
Peter Oates
Director of Media Relations of Native Ads Inc.
Peter is assisting publishers with content marketing and amplification, while assisting advertisers with the creation of promoted content for their native marketing campaigns. Native Ads, Inc. is a content discovery and in-stream native advertising platform that facilitates the native ad buying and selling process for publishers and advertisers at scale across websites, mobile web and apps. The company has developed a scalable, easy to use, self-serve system for publishers and advertisers with a simple user interface. Within minutes, campaigns and widgets are generated to start spending or earning. The recommendation engine analyzes visitor behavior, page content and thousands of data points building up millions of in-depth user profiles. By using the power of big data, these profiles are used to recommend internal or promoted content based on relevance, yield and popularity. Native Ads, Content Worth Viewing.
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About Native Ads Inc.: Native Ads is a content discovery and in-stream native advertising platform for publishers and advertisers
Steve Yanor
Managing Director of Sky Alphabet Social Media
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About Sky Alphabet Social Media: Vancouver Social Media Agency with deep capital markets experience. Twitter specialists. Marketing Excellence Award Winner Feb 2019.
Mihail Victor Tataru
Founder & Managing Director of Senior Interactive
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About Senior Interactive: Senior Interactive is a true Creative Technology company.
Anish Kumar
Director of Technology of STAT Search Analytics
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About STAT Search Analytics: Since 2009, we’ve been providing fresh, unlimited, location-based search data for some of the world’s largest and nimblest online brands
Mo Dhaliwal
Director of Strategy of Skyrocket
Mo Dhaliwal is Director of Strategy at Skyrocket.
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About Skyrocket: Skyrocket is a digital marketing company that helps entrepreneurs focus on communicating their mission statements.
Denise Sabet
Managing Director, North America of Labbrand
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About Labbrand: Labbrand is a brand consultancy company, working collaboratively with consumers & corporations to build and strengthen brands.
Ashlie Winson-Jones
Director of Accounts of Social Nature
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About Social Nature: Social Nature is a social product sampling community that helps people #trynatural.
Bosky Mukherjee
Director of Product of Function Point
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About Function Point: Function Point alleviates the chaotic nature of operating creative agencies, internal marketing teams and professional service firms.
Ian Walker
Director of Marketing of Function Point
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About Function Point: Function Point alleviates the chaotic nature of operating creative agencies, internal marketing teams and professional service firms.
Jack Su
Director of Software Development of Function Point
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About Function Point: Function Point alleviates the chaotic nature of operating creative agencies, internal marketing teams and professional service firms.
Noah Warder
Director of Operations of Dyspatch
Noah Warder is the Head of People at Guusto.
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About Dyspatch, Guusto: Dyspatch is an email production platform that helps Enterprise organizations create & change transactional and triggered emails faster.
Chris Lefebvre
Director Business Development of Tap for Tap
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About Tap for Tap: Tap for Tap is a cross-promotion mobile app exchange and monetization network for iOS and Android app developers.
Nadia Gillies
Managing Director & Head of Lifestyle PR of Brix Media Co.
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About Brix Media Co.: Brix Media Co. is North America’s leading PR & Influencer Marketing Agency focused on social innovation.
Caroline Carter
Director of Technology PR of Brix Media Co.
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About Brix Media Co.: Brix Media Co. is North America’s leading PR & Influencer Marketing Agency focused on social innovation.
Michael Brown
CEO, President & Director of Adacado
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About Adacado: Adacado is the leading cloud based, data-driven platform for delivering personalized digital advertising and marketing solutions at scale.
Jordan Brill
Founder + Creative Director of bBold Creative Group
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About bBold Creative Group, CheckinSave: bBold provides state of the art web design and internet marketing services.
Melanie Peake
Director of Online Sales / Media Buyer of Bravenet Media
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About Bravenet Media: Bravenet Media is a growing community of online publishers and advertisers.
Melanie Peake
Director of Online Sales / Media Buyer of Bravenet Media
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About Bravenet Media: Bravenet Media is a growing community of online publishers and advertisers.
Michael King
Managing Director of Known Digital
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About Known Digital: We’re a specialist digital marketing agency. Our goal, is a massive, positive, measurable, impact for our clients.
Michael King
Managing Director of Known Digital
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About Known Digital: We’re a specialist digital marketing agency. Our goal, is a massive, positive, measurable, impact for our clients.
Scott Bauer
Marketing Director of Navigator Multimedia Inc
Marketing Director at navigator.ca
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About Navigator Multimedia Inc: Navigator Multimedia Inc is a full-service digital agency for web development, digital marketing, and hosting.
Scott Bauer
Marketing Director of Navigator Multimedia Inc
Marketing Director at navigator.ca
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About Navigator Multimedia Inc: Navigator Multimedia Inc is a full-service digital agency for web development, digital marketing, and hosting.
Allen Jurisic
Director of Search & Analytics of Prestige Marketing
As our Director of Search & Analytics, Allen Jurisic has over 11 years of experience with Search Engine Marketing (SEO & PPC), and over 7 years of experience with using Web Analytics to improve a Business’ Bottom Line. He has consulted, educated, and approached each day of business as an opportunity for growth while guiding Business Owners, C-level Executives, Marketing Teams, and IT Departments on best practices for Strategies, Intelligent Reporting, and Implementation. He has a proven track record of success in increasing Search Engine Traffic, PPC campaigns conversion rates and optimizing websites to become an asset. Allen considers himself a “Digital Bridge Builder”; taking an Existing Business’ Processes and moving them to where they want to be through Research and Analysis. In his spare time, Allen enjoys playing ice hockey, his guitar, writing music, and spending time with his family & friends.
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About Prestige Marketing: Prestige Marketing provides marketing solutions and campaign management for companies targeting local or international customers.
William Walczak
Director of Hiilite
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About Hiilite: Hiilite is a web design, SEO & marketing agency.
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