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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 CTO’ operating in the Software space. If you think a CTO’ 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.
Reza Sanaie
CTO & Co-Founder of Beanworks
Reza is a skilled task juggler and enthusiastic startup techy. Involved with internet technologies since the early days, as a computer engineer, he leverages best practices to achieve customer happiness with intuitive interface design, blistering performance, and robust security, dependability and scalability. Reza is a co-founder.
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About Beanworks: Beanworks is an accounts payable automation solution that helps companies eliminate paperwork and reduce invoice processing costs.
Francois Lascelles
Field CTO of Ping Identity
Francois is a member of the Ping Identity Office of the CTO. He provides product and strategic direction to customers and partners with a focus on API infrastructures security and API cybersecurity. Prior to joining Ping, Francois was the first developer and Chief Architect at start-up Layer 7 Technologies until its acquisition by CA Technologies. Francois was part of a team that developed a best of breed security gateway technology which disrupted a category. Francois helped define the application of emerging security patterns such as OAuth in the context of API Management and led a field practice of Architects helping customer with their digital modernization projects.
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About Ping Identity: Ping Identity provides cloud-based identity management software for companies and government organizations.
Francois Lascelles
Field CTO of Ping Identity
Francois is a member of the Ping Identity Office of the CTO. He provides product and strategic direction to customers and partners with a focus on API infrastructures security and API cybersecurity. Prior to joining Ping, Francois was the first developer and Chief Architect at start-up Layer 7 Technologies until its acquisition by CA Technologies. Francois was part of a team that developed a best of breed security gateway technology which disrupted a category. Francois helped define the application of emerging security patterns such as OAuth in the context of API Management and led a field practice of Architects helping customer with their digital modernization projects.
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About Ping Identity: Ping Identity provides cloud-based identity management software for companies and government organizations.
Jay Addison
CTO of EventChain SmartTickets
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About EventChain SmartTickets: Eventchain is a Blockchain-powered ticket system that aims to solve problems of the ticketing industry
Jay Addison
CTO of EventChain SmartTickets
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About EventChain SmartTickets: Eventchain is a Blockchain-powered ticket system that aims to solve problems of the ticketing industry
Adrian Unger
CTO of Ecquire, Inc.
CTO at Ecquire, Inc.
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About Ecquire, Inc.: Ecquire is a sales productivity tool that allows its users to transfer data to their CRM.
Avetis Muradyan
Co-Founder and CTO of Morfus Mixed Reality Inc.
As CTO of MI, I am responsible for our software development and technological integration, including computer vision and machine learning algorithms. Prior to joining Mobio Interactive in 2019, I cofounded and served as CTO for two proptech startups. This experience taught me important lessons, including iterative, lean operations that employ evidence-led design. At MI, we make engineering decision based on customer data instead of design theory. I am thus also an expert in data analytics, with particular versatility in understanding patient behaviour within mobile digital medicine. I am a graduate of the University of British Columbia with degrees in both Computer Science and English Literature. My programming experience spans from VR to Web Apps to Voice Recognition to AI. In 2014, I built one of the earliest, prototypal Google VR Arcade games, which was released on the Google Play Store. I have also created custom VR experiences for over 15 major architecture and renovation projects, including multimillion-dollar projects in throughout Asia, and architected Asia’s only integrated commercial real estate leasing and asset management platform. I enjoy leading and motivated teams of developers and designers with my own passion for creating software experiences that feel like, and are as important as, any other experiences in life.
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About Mobio Interactive, Morfus Mixed Reality Inc.: VR mobile platform for architects, designers, and developers. Taking 3D models and floor-plans to output as immersive experiences on mobile.
Sarathy Naicker
Co-Founder and CTO of Klue
Sarathy “Gurusamy Sarathy” Naicker is the CTO and co-founder of Klue. Prior to that, Sarathy served as the chief technologist at Sophos.
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About Klue: Klue is an AI competitive intelligence platform that enables competitor research and delivery of sales battle cards to B2B Sales teams.
Justin Vaillancourt
CTO and Co-Founder of Dooly
Justin Vaillancourt currently works as Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder of Dooly.
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About Dooly: Dooly is a sales enablement platform that collects information and insights essential to close business sales.
Matt Masiar
CTO of iComply Investor Services Inc.
Matt is CTO at iComply Investor Services Inc.
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About iComply Investor Services Inc.: iComply Investor Services (iComply) is an award-winning software company focused on reducing regulatory friction in financial markets.
Lawrence Chee
Chief Technology Officer, VP of Engineering of LifeBooster
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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.
Joseph Tosey
CTO of Omnistream
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About Omnistream: Content Management and Web Video Chat
Igor Kostin
CTO 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
Sid Misra
CTO of BluePhish
Sid Misra is the chief technology officer of Bluephish.
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About BluePhish: BluePhish demystifies and trains workforce in Cyber Security Awareness through online micro-modules to help reduce cyber risk.
Sid Misra
CTO of BluePhish
Sid Misra is the chief technology officer of Bluephish.
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About BluePhish: BluePhish demystifies and trains workforce in Cyber Security Awareness through online micro-modules to help reduce cyber risk.
Christopher Bailey
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of NuData Security a Mastercard company
Christopher is a NuData Security co-founder and is responsible for the strategic vision and direction of technology solutions. At the age of 19 he founded H2O, a developer of video game products for top tier publishers such as THQ, Nintendo, and Sony. He was a founder of Secure Networks, a web security company acquired by Network Associates. He was also an investor and early participant in Security Focus which was acquired by Symantec Corp in 2002. Prior to co-founding NuData Security, Christopher was involved in several other software ventures in consulting, contract programmer, and management roles.
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About Mastercard, NuData Security a Mastercard company: NuData Security positively verifies users online through real-time passive biometrics and behavioral analytics.
Graham McCarthy
Co-Founder & CTO of SoapBox
Graham McCarthy is a Co-Founder & CTO at Hypercontext.
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About Hypercontext, SoapBox: SoapBox provides software solutions.
Nigel Fish
Co-Founder & CTO of Circus
Co-Founder/CTO of @CircusHR. Co-Host of @scirunner. Traveller/Runner. @BCHumanist Board Member. @nigelfish@mastodon.technology
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About Circus: Powering studios, behind the scenes.
Shawn Stapleton
Founder, Board Member & CTO of Dali Wireless
Shawn is a luminary in wireless communications. He is currently a Professor Emeritus at the School of Engineering Science at Simon Fraser University. Shawn founded PulseWave RF, TRL Microwave Technology and Seron Technologies. He has acted as an external partner for Hewlett Packard and later Agilent Technologies where he developed the majority of the ADS software design guides and the ADS Digital Predistorter Connected Solution. In addition, he delivered seminars on Digital Predistortion of Power Amplifiers around the globe. Shawn has held positions at Scientific Atlanta, GigaOptix (iTerra Communications), and Canadian Astronautics Limited. Shawn received his B.Eng, M.Eng. and Ph.D. from Carleton/Ottawa University. He has over 200 international patents, and has published approximately 200 scholarly publications in the areas of RFICs, Digital Signal Processing, Mobile Communications and Power Amplifications.
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About Dali Wireless: Dali Wireless designs and develops software configurable radio systems for broadband applications.
Shawn Stapleton
Founder, Board Member & CTO of Dali Wireless
Shawn is a luminary in wireless communications. He is currently a Professor Emeritus at the School of Engineering Science at Simon Fraser University. Shawn founded PulseWave RF, TRL Microwave Technology and Seron Technologies. He has acted as an external partner for Hewlett Packard and later Agilent Technologies where he developed the majority of the ADS software design guides and the ADS Digital Predistorter Connected Solution. In addition, he delivered seminars on Digital Predistortion of Power Amplifiers around the globe. Shawn has held positions at Scientific Atlanta, GigaOptix (iTerra Communications), and Canadian Astronautics Limited. Shawn received his B.Eng, M.Eng. and Ph.D. from Carleton/Ottawa University. He has over 200 international patents, and has published approximately 200 scholarly publications in the areas of RFICs, Digital Signal Processing, Mobile Communications and Power Amplifications.
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About Dali Wireless: Dali Wireless designs and develops software configurable radio systems for broadband applications.
Andrew Sukow
CTO, Founder of Terapeak
Mr. Sukow is the CTO, co-founder and systems architect for Terapeak.com, leveraging experience from his studies of computer science at the University of Victoria. Andrew provides leadership for the continued development of the Terapeakâ„¢ system and has demonstrated proficiency with one of the world’s largest data sets from eBay. The architecture he has developed is scalable, dynamic and extremely fast. To meet the challenge presented by the vast eBay dataset, Andrew conceived and implemented a hybrid solution of best practices for handling and processing over a billion transactions. Andrew has led his development team to create an elegant solution to provide analysis of e-commerce data with extraordinary speed and depth of research.
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About Terapeak: Terapeak provides market research solutions that enable eBay and Amazon.com sellers to create successful listings.
David Bolcsfoldi
Chief Technology Officer of Momentus Software Inc.
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About Momentus Software Inc.: Momentus is a technology and product design agency.
Narayan Sainaney
Co-founder and CTO of CodeZero Technologies Inc.
Narayan Sainaney is a technology entrepreneur and business strategist with over 21 years of expertise working on high profile products for Microsoft, Adobe and Aldus. When not working, Narayan is an avid sailor and amateur astronomer and may or may not have found lifein space.
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About CodeZero Technologies Inc.: Developer Tools for Kubernetes
Guru Atlu
CTO / Co-founder of Finn AI
Guru Atlu is a co-founder at Finn AI, currently serves the company as a CTO and a software engineer.
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About Finn AI, Finn AI: Finn AI provides AI-powered conversational banking technology for personal banking and finance.
Jag Bains
Chief Technology Officer of DOSarrest
A 17 year veteran in the internet service provider arena, Jag Bains has extensive network design experience as well as implementing a number of security platforms. In his previous position as the Director of Network Engineering and Operations for PEER1 Hosting Jag was able to observe a large number of DDoS attacks against their customer base, and came to appreciate the singular focus needed to combat the evolving nature of these attacks. Jag holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Information Science from the University of Victoria, in British Columbia.
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About DOSarrest: DOSarrest specializes in stopping DoS and DDoS attacks of all varieties.
Sanad Aridah
CTO, Co-Founder of 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.
Erik Tillberg
Chief Technology Officer of iMerciv
Erik was previously a software developer at Thicket Labs and co-founder of KAE Guys. Erik joined iMerciv on a part-time basis to develop MapinHood (www.mapinhood.com) and is now working full-time as CTO heading up the technical team who are building out the product/platform.
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About iMerciv, The Happenin Company: iMerciv leverages crowd sourcing and AI to empower pedestrians with personalized navigation and actionable data in real time.
Ramin Sahebjavaher
Founder and CTO of YodelUP (Yodel Technologies Inc.)
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About YodelUP (Yodel Technologies Inc.): Connected Hardware for Action Sports
Sean Porter
Co-Founder and CTO of Sensu
Sean Porter is the creator of Sensu, the open source monitoring tool, and the co-founder and CTO of Sensu Inc. Sean is a seasoned systems operator and software developer with nearly a decade of experience in automating infrastructure. As CTO of Sensu Inc, he oversees the development of Sensu, and works with users to better understand how Sensu can help them solve complex monitoring problems. Outside of work, he collects photography equipment, scotch whiskey, and Warhammer 40k miniatures.
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About Heavy Water Operations, Sensu: Sensu is a full-stack monitoring platform for dynamic operating environments.
Jason Madar
CTO of Vandrico
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About Vandrico: VANDRICO TURNS YOUR DATA INTO SAFE PRODUCTIVITY
Alireza Haghneghdar
CTO of FIND
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About FIND: FIND A.I. – Inventory Planning for AFA
Jason Pila
CTO of PlaceSpeak
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About PlaceSpeak: Location-based smart city citizen engagement
Tyler Eastman
CTO of Lightship Works
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About Lightship Works: Lightship is an application that connects everything on your worksite: your employee mobile devices, sensors, and safety systems.
Ben Sheftel
Chief Technology Officer of Blueprint Reality
Ben Sheftel has been creating video games from a young age, and has a rare cross-discipline blend of experience in 3D modelling, game design, and software engineering. Ben has been leading engine, code and tools development from the outset and rapid expansion of both the Mobile and VR markets. His work includes JEOPARDY!, Red Bull Air Race, Bike Unchained, Tiger Woods PGA Tour, and Iron Maiden: Legacy of the Beast, in addition to leading technology development in the User Experience and VR groups at Roadhouse. Ben’s experience with 3D art provides a robust foundation for tool and pipeline development, and his intense passion for the gaming and technology industries has him always seeking newer, more efficient approaches to game development.
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About Blueprint Reality: Virtual Reality company situated in the heart of Vancouver’s gaming scene.
Lee Iverson
CTO of TeamFit
Lee builds intelligence into our systems. He has a Ph.D. in artificial intelligence from McGill University and worked at SRI International in Palo Alto from 1993 to 2001. For the past decade, he has focussed on collaborative work, privacy and security. Lee makes sure that our systems get smarter as people use them. Belbin Roles: Resource Investigator, Plant, Completer Finisher
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About Nugg Solutions, TeamFit: TeamFit is a team building platform, recording project experience, validating skills, and collecting expertise profiles.
Dave Brennan
Co-Founder and CTO of Deposify
Dave has specialised in gaming technology for +10 years and has worked on 9 of the 10 biggest global games titles. Dave is taking gaming innovation, from security and backend to micro-financial transactions and applying these to Deposify and Fintech. With responsibility for our tech stack, Dave ensures that we work to bank level security and infrastructure when handling our users funds and data.
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About Deposify: Deposify offers pay and hold rental deposits services.
Steve DiPaola
CTO of Instigate.ai
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About Instigate.ai: Instigate.ai is an authoring and playback system for personal bots.
Christopher Li
CTO and Co-Founder of Nuport
Chris Li is the CTO and Co-Founder at Nuport.
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About Nuport: Nuport is a route optimization software that automates distribution planning workflow for manufacturers and distributors.
David Oldridge
Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Thomson Power
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About Thomson Power: Thomson Power develops and supplies sustainable energy software and power management systems.
Rami Jebara
CTO of Hyperview
Rami oversees product development at Tuangru. Previously, Rami held product management positions in the IOT space at Webtech Wireless and in security at Sophos, where he was the technical product manager for gateway security products.
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About Hyperview: SaaS for IT infrastructure management
Rami Jebara
CTO of Hyperview
Rami oversees product development at Tuangru. Previously, Rami held product management positions in the IOT space at Webtech Wireless and in security at Sophos, where he was the technical product manager for gateway security products.
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About Hyperview: SaaS for IT infrastructure management
Pete Koat
CTO of Incognito Software
Pete is responsible for defining the strategic agenda for the Incognito product line, including developing product roadmaps based on market trends, identifying functional requirements with customers, and contributing to relevant industry standards. Prior to his role at Incognito Software, Pete co-founded Libré Communications, best known for its encloudHD platform, which was designed for companies that use live video streaming to broadcast content over the Internet. After that, he served as co-founder of Skitter.TV, an end-to-end video platform for encoding, managing, streaming, and viewing converged Internet television, video on demand, as well as live broadcast and satellite TV. Pete has also held CTO roles for firms deploying IPTV solutions in emerging markets. Pete holds multiple patents related to IP video compression, delivery, and streaming.
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About Incognito Software: Provisioning and Resource Management
Ian Sim
CTO of Radical I/O Technology
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About Radical I/O Technology: Radical I/O Technology is a people-first dev lab and consultancy that excels in custom software development of digital product/services.
Ben Cole
Chief Technology Officer of MashUp Machine
Ben is an Academy Award-winning creative technologist. He was previously the North American Head of Software for MPC Film, one of the world’s largest visual effects studios. During his career, Ben has worked at the cutting edge of cinematic software development, with pioneering work across many areas of visual effects production, including multi-site digital asset management, crowd simulation and physics. His work on Kali, a tool for creating realistic cinematic destruction, helped to introduce new mathematical methods to the visual effects community and was awarded an Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Scientific Achievement Award (a “sci-tech oscar”) for “setting a new reference point for believable on-screen destruction.”
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About MashUp Machine: We’re using machine learning to teach computers animated storytelling, allowing content to adapt to the viewer.
Pouyan TaghipourBibalan
Co-founder and CTO of Event Temple
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About Event Temple: Event Temple Is The First Venue Management Software As A Platform For Hotels, Venues And Restaurants
Benj Fayle
CTO of Hubly
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About Hubly: Hubly is building technology to power the future of financial advice.
Michael Coughlin
Founder & CTO of SilkStart
Michael Coughlin is a Founder & CTO at SilkStart.
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About SilkStart: SilkStart offers associations with a software platform that assists them to manage and run their organization.
James Pond
CTO of Lumerical
Dr. James Pond is the CTO and co-founder of Lumerical Inc. and is a driving force behind the company’s core software algorithms, technology, and advanced photonic modeling capabilities. He has almost two decades of experience in optical and photonic simulation, and is the author of numerous papers, patents and conference presentations.
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About Lumerical: Lumerical is a Canadian developer of photonic simulation software enabling product designers to understand light and predict how it behaves.
Alec Brunelle
CTO of BizXPro Inc.
Alec Brunelle is the CTO at BizXPro Inc..
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About BizXPro Inc.: Automated procurement tool helps SMBs choose from top-rated IT & development firms, at no cost, while offering qualified leadgen
Thomas Zhou
CTO of VisualCV
Thomas Zhou is Founder at KarmaHire.
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About VisualCV: VisualCV reinvents resumes for networking, business development, and career progression within today’s Web 2.0 environment.
Paul Tan
CTO and Founder of ScopeMedia
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About ScopeMedia: ScopeMedia built an advanced video and image recognition artificial intelligence platform for image data visualization and applications
Guillermo Schwartz
CTO and co-founder of Clear Image AI
Guillermo Schwartz is the CTO and co-founder at Clear Image AI.
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About Clear Image AI: Clear Image AI was born on the belief that the technological frontier is at the computing edge.
Paul Guenette
Co-founder and CTO of StandardFusion
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About StandardFusion: A cloud-based GRC SaaS platform for information security teams at small, medium, or enterprise organizations.
Christian Carrillo
President and Chief Technology Officer of Tenebril
Christian Carrillo founded Tenebril, Inc., in 1998 and serves as its President and Chief Technology Officer. Prior to Tenebril, Christian Carrillo worked at Scripps Research and Digital Equipment Corporation, applying machine learning approaches to protein folding and compiler optimization. Christian Carrillo devoted his efforts to building the Tenebril product line around security and performance themes. His work in machine learning serves as the basis for Tenebril Inc.’s patented spyware profiling technology. He serves as a Director of Tenebril, Inc. He graduated from magna cum laude in Computer Science and studied at Harvard University.
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About Tenebril: Tenebril is a security and privacy technology company offering solutions for home and enterprise customers.
Aaron Jorgensen
Founder, CTO of CloudNcode
Founder, CTO of CloudNcode.
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About CloudNcode: CloudNcode offers a full suite of advanced cloud-based transcoding software solutions.
Russ Beinder
Chief Technology Officer of FileHold Systems
Russ Beinder is an entrepreneur, a seasoned business analyst, computer technologist and a certified Project Management Professional (PMP). For the last 20 years he has used computer technology to help organizations solve business problems. After graduating from University Russ joined Real Data Systems, where he took over technical problem troubleshooting, software development of custom applications and business consulting. When Real Data was acquired by Epic Data, Russ quickly moved up their management structure to become the Director of Product Development. Most recently he was a Principal Consultant of IT at SAP and lead a globally dispersed application development and architecture team to provide technology leadership. At FileHold Russ manages our customer driven product roadmap to bring best business and technology practice solutions to our customers. Russ is a graduate of Computer Science at the University of Victoria.
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About FileHold Systems: FileHold Systems is a developer of electronic document and records management software for companies, departments, and organizations.
Joerg Beekmann
CTO of Transactive Systems
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About Transactive Systems: Transactive Systems develops transaction processing software that enables single-source access to diverse payment systems.
Bruce Alderson
CTO of LemonStand
Founder at LemonStand
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About LemonStand: LemonStand eCommerce provides a flexible platform for growing eCommerce businesses.
Dave Hawkins
President and Chief Technology Officer of Viewpoint AI
Dave Hawkins is the President and Chief Technology Officer of Viewpoint.AI.
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About Viewpoint AI: Viewpoint is an AI powered decision software company that combines the best of human and machine intelligence amplifying human skill levels.
Rishi Gupta
CTO of HRG Infrastructure Monitoring Inc.
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About HRG Infrastructure Monitoring Inc.: HRG Infrastructure Monitoring Inc. links robotics and computer vision to detect and quantify damage in civil structures.
Prabh Heer
CTO of yWorld
Bachelor of Business Administration in Marketing Management from KPU, joined yWorld as Project Manager in Februrary 2014, passionate community volunteer at various events around the city.
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About yWorld: yWorld is an online platform that allows its users to chat and have HD video conferences while collaborating on documents.
Matthew Smith
CTO of Hippomap Technology
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About Hippomap Technology: Hippomap Technology is a free mobile application for railroad and subway maps worldwide with station vicinity maps.
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