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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 Vice President operating in the Software space. If you think a Vice President 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.
Angela Lau
Senior Vice President of Finance & Corporate Secretary of Maxar Technologies
Angela Lau was appointed Senior Vice President, Finance and Corporate Secretary of MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA) in July 2016. She is based at our office in Vancouver, British Columbia. Ms. Lau also served in various leadership positions in the taxation and treasury functions of MDA. Previous to joining MDA in September 2006, Ms. Lau worked for many years as an income tax advisor at KPMG and was the head of taxation at a Canadian biotechnology company. Ms. Lau also served on the Industry Tax Committee of the Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada. Ms. Lau earned a Bachelor of Commerce degree (with honors) from the University of British Columbia and is a member of the Chartered Professional Accountants of British Columbia.
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About Maxar Technologies: Maxar Technologies provides integrated space infrastructure and Earth intelligence.
Peter Drummond
Vice President of Sales of Beanworks
Vice President of Sales at Beanworks.
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About Beanworks: Beanworks is an accounts payable automation solution that helps companies eliminate paperwork and reduce invoice processing costs.
Samuel Cochrane
Chief Financial Officer, Senior Vice President of Avigilon Corporation
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About Avigilon Corporation, Sierra Wireless: Avigilon Corporation is a motorola solutions company provides trusted security solutions to the global market.
Ryan Wilk
Vice President of Customer Success of NuData Security a Mastercard company
Ryan is the Vice President of Customer Success at NuData Security where he is responsible for ensuring the success of every NuData customer during the lifetime of the partnership. In his previous role, Ryan was the Manager, Trust and Safety at StubHub, an ebay company. Prior to joining StubHub, Ryan spent 8 years with Universal Parks & Resorts where he established and implemented the eCommerce Loss Prevention teams at both Universal Orlando Resort and Universal Studios Hollywood.
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About NuData Security a Mastercard company: NuData Security positively verifies users online through real-time passive biometrics and behavioral analytics.
Ron T. Begg
Vice President of Strategy & Performance of StarDyne Technologies-GEMS
Ron Begg has a full appreciation for the challenges in bringing technology to the public sector from his background as both a vendor and management consultant. Ron joined StarDyne in 2006 and had been working with local governments since 1987 in operations for a municipal systems vendor. Since 1989, he has been a consultant, working with clients to identify, source and implement technology solutions. Ron has also worked with private sector firms to plan and organize their products and approach for the public sector. Ron is a Certified Management Consultant and a Professional Engineer and holds a Bachelors degree in Engineering from the University of Saskatchewan and an MBA from the Ivey School of Business.
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About StarDyne Technologies-GEMS: StarDyne Technologies-GEMS provides industry software solutions with advanced integrations.
Donna E. Kirisits
Vice President of Human Resources of StarDyne Technologies-GEMS
Donna Kirisits joined StarDyne in 2006. Donna brings strategic vision to all areas of human resources and internal consulting services including recruitment, employee training and development, succession planning, leadership development, change management, and salary and benefits administration. Prior to StarDyne, Donna was with CCL Custom Manufacturing, Division of CCL Industries for 20 years, serving as Director of Human Resources. Donna holds a Bachelor of Education degree and graduated with High Honours from Sheridan College. Ms. Kirisits also holds her Teacher Training Diploma and her Certified Human Resources Professional designation at a federal level.
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About StarDyne Technologies-GEMS: StarDyne Technologies-GEMS provides industry software solutions with advanced integrations.
William R.M Spittle
Vice President of Corporate Development of StarDyne Technologies-GEMS
Bill Spittle joined StarDyne in 2009, initially focusing on special projects in two of StarDyne’s operations. In 2011, Bill focused exclusively on the management of StarDyne’s Corporate Development initiatives, specifically mergers and acquisitions. Bill has a broad senior management background in government and education software and services, manufacturing and banking that includes hands-on experience in the effective integration of acquired businesses. Bill was the Chief Operating Officer of RFind Systems in 2008 and prior to that held positions at Bridges Transitions and Xap Corporation from 2000 to 2008, including VP Technology, VP Product Development, VP Corporate Integration and VP Business Development. Bill received a Joint Bachelor of Business Administration (Honours) degree from Simon Fraser University and an MBA from the Ivey Business School at Western University.
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About StarDyne Technologies-GEMS: StarDyne Technologies-GEMS provides industry software solutions with advanced integrations.
Dave Levine
Senior Vice President of Corum Group
Dave joined Corum in 2015 and has a diverse background in technology and life sciences. As an executive and entrepreneur, Dave has been operating and investing in companies sitting at the convergence of commerce and eCommerce as well as innovative life science businesses for over 25 years. Recently, Dave was CEO North America for Gaxsys, an eCommerce and logistics company that is a leader in last mile logistics and fulfillment for eCommerce marketplaces. Dave has been on both sides of the mergers and acquisitions table, having sold a life science technology company, facilitated sell side and buy side technology transactions and has also scaled multiple technology companies globally in the eCommerce, life sciences and innovation intelligence markets. Dave sits on boards of numerous public and private companies, including one that recently filed for an IPO.
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About Corum Group: Corum Group Ltd. is the global leader in merger and acquisition services, specializing in serving software and information technology firms.
Richard Sirola
Executive Vice President of OxCEPT
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About OxCEPT: OxCEPT is an Oxford University spin-out company which has developed the ‘World’s Most Secure’ way to transmit data.
Dean Prelazzi
Vice President, Head of Business Development & Marketing of Fujitsu
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About Fujitsu: Fujitsu is a information & communications technology equipment and services firm providing IT & IT infrastructure and other services.
Sherborne Pao
Executive Vice President, Global People & Culture & Operations of Appnovation
Sherborne Pao is the Executive Vice President, Global People & Culture and Operations 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.
Denise Beaudoin
Senior Vice President, Accounting of DSG Global
Denise is a Chartered Professional Accountant. She has a Bachelor’s Degree in General Studies with a minor in Accounting, and additional management, supervisory and communication training.
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About DSG Global: DSG Global Inc. is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) company that is dominating the IT industry and the new Internet of Things (IoT).
Peter Koning
Vice President of Sales and Business Development of Simularity
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About Canada Leads, Entra Marketing, Simularity, Typo Assassin: Simularity provides AI-driven geospatial intelligence
Michal Peliwo
Vice President of Business Solutions of ZE PowerGroup
As VP of the Business Solutions team at ZE, Michal spearheads ZEMA implementations. Michal brings many years of software development and client management experience to the company. He also provides a unique understanding of the industry’s market solution requirements. Michal’s capabilities are matched only by the intensity of his desire to exceed client expectations.
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About ZE PowerGroup: ZE PowerGroup is an experienced software development and strategic consulting firm.
John Almond
Co-Founder & Vice President of Warranty Life
Communications and business experience – I have been involved in using technology for business communications for over 30 years. Began programming A/V presentations using first PC’s in school; joined first computer graphics design company in Canada after University; founded Alpha Visuals Inc. a computer graphic design company in Toronto 1985; was purchased by Genigraphics Corporation (division of GE) in 1987; Executive Producer, Genigraphics Corporation (Toronto – New York); Partner Vision Presentations Inc. – 1990 (Vancouver); founded Emerge Online one of Vancouver’s first web design firms in 1995; Principal, Ionysys Technology Corporation & President, New Media Consulting – 1999; Radiant Communications 2000; Graphically Speaking 2006. Specialties Internet Strategy; Usability testing; Information architecture; Ecommerce planning; Website development; Search engine optimization; Online marketing; Web analytics
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About Graphically Speaking, Warranty Life: Providing Usage-Based Mobile Device Insurance
Ian Treleaven
Vice President, Software of Bravatek
Ian has over 20 years of professional software development experience creating Enterprise-class software for some of the world’s largest companies, including Microsoft, Crystal Decisions, Business Objects and SAP. Most recently a Senior Product Owner in SAP’s Business Intelligence Portfolio, Ian was responsible for product performance and reliability (P&R), driving P&R improvements with multi-release strategies, sizing for traditional and SAP HANA-based BI solutions as well as developing product deployment methodologies scalable to SAP’s largest customer (e.g.: 250,000 users). Previously to that role, Ian was a Senior Software Developer for the Business Intelligence product suite at the company. Before its acquisition by Business Objects, and consequently SAP, Ian held similar roles at Crystal Decisions and Seagate Software. There he was responsible for the design, development, then the delivery of the company’s enterprise-class software, such as Crystal Reports. His earlier career includes various software development positions, most notably Engineer and Technical Lead at Microsoft. There Ian was focused on email server software development and was part of the team leading to the development of Microsoft Exchange.
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About Absolute Software, Bravatek: Bravatek Solutions, Inc. is a high technology security solutions portfolio provider.
Bruce Reese
Vice President of Finance of Apteryx Imaging
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About Apteryx Imaging: Apteryx Imaging develops tissue fluorescence visualization technologies.
Chris Torrens
Vice President of Engineering of Rx Networks
A BCIT Data Communications graduate, Chris brings 18 years software design experience in high availability, real-time wireless mobile systems, including mapping and GPS solutions. He was a Senior Software Engineer at Mobile Data Solutions, Inc (MDSI) and Itron Inc.
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About Rx Networks: Rx Networks offers location-based assisted GPS technologies and services.
Shawn Griffin
Vice President, Product of CommandWear
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About CommandWear: A wearable tech software platform for the global public safety & security market.
Sean Higgins
Executive Vice President of CityView
As the Executive Vice President, Sean is accountable to CityView meeting its goals of delivering a superior customer experience, while ensuring growth, sustainability and ongoing profitability of the business. Together with the leadership team, Sean’s focus is on delivering exceptional business solutions to our customer base as well as expanding market share. Sean has been with CityView since 2004, serving many roles including Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Regional Sales Director, and also leading several customer implementations in the role of Business Analyst. Sean has 15 years of experience in technology sales and a Master of Science in Agriculture (CUM LAUDE) from the University of Natal, South Africa.
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About CityView: CityView is a developer of local government business process automation software.
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