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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 Alberta based CEO’ operating in the Apps 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.
Derek De Leon
Founder and CEO of Well Massage
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About Well Massage: Well Massage is an on-demand massage company and app, dedicated to bringing the healing power of massage to clients’ homes.
Ismail Attitalla
CEO & Founder of Stashii
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About Stashii: Stashii is a peer-to-peer storage and parking marketplace that connects people who have space, with people who need space.
Debra Ross-Chmelyk
President and CEO of Oro Services
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About Oro Services: Oro Services improves the way people use remittance to support families while working abroad.
Gregg Oldring
CEO of Zept
Gregg Oldring is a web entrepreneur. Gregg Oldring is in the midst of a new startup, Inkdit. Inkdit a web app that applies the social networking model to signing, sharing and storing contracts. This is be Gregg’s third web app, catapulting off of the success of previous endeavours GSNet (founded 1995, sold in 1998 to trader.com) and Mailout (founded 2001).
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About Zept: Zept is a grade matching service for international students and universities.
Kathryn Fraser
CEO of Great Big Solutions
Kathryn works on the sales, marketing, product development, and customer service of all products and services offered by Great Big Solutions. She is dedicated to ensuring the employees and clients of our company have the best experience and service possible.
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About Great Big Solutions: Great Big Solutions offers a Comptracker, which keeps track of students on Co-ops and practicums securely and digitally.
Sahr Saffa
CEO of Cappsule
Sahr Saffa is the founder, chief experience officer, and chairperson of the Canadian-based arts, music, and innovation festival C-Tribe. In 2017 after a failed attempt at raising money for his software startup in New York, Sahr returned to Canada with the mission of growing the innovation ecosystem. The event has grown from a 150 person local festival to become one of Alberta’s leading innovation festivals. Outside of C-Tribe, Sahr is also a member of the Global Shapers Edmonton hub initiated by the World Economic Forum, and the CXO for a software startup he created called Cappsule.
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About C-Tribe, Cappsule: A marketplace for seekers and sharers of local experiences
Ash Nabavi
CEO of First Available
CEO at First Available
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About First Available, First Available: Book any appointment, wherever you are! Whenever you want!
Jonathan Neufeld
CEO of tecTerra
Jonathan is CEO of TECTERRA, an organization which supports start-ups and small companies to develop and commercialize innovative geospatial technology faster.
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About tecTerra: tecTerra support technologies developed for integrated resource management and other geospatial applications.
Arthur Hawke
CEO of LocalFusion
Tall, skinny, chain smoking con man wanted in Panama and the Philippines. Always pulls the online magazine license gag and has ripped people off many times. Claims to be a Vietnam Vet, always getting shot at and kidnapped and so on. In many ways a likeable rogue but basicaly little more than a criminal, preying on decent people. If this Arthur Hawke is not the same guy (looks identical), I will retract this but the Arthur Youngblood Hawke I know is all of the above and worse. And you are not forgotten, either.
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About LocalFusion: The world’s largest iPhone and Android App Developer for Small Business
Arthur Hawke
CEO of LocalFusion
Tall, skinny, chain smoking con man wanted in Panama and the Philippines. Always pulls the online magazine license gag and has ripped people off many times. Claims to be a Vietnam Vet, always getting shot at and kidnapped and so on. In many ways a likeable rogue but basicaly little more than a criminal, preying on decent people. If this Arthur Hawke is not the same guy (looks identical), I will retract this but the Arthur Youngblood Hawke I know is all of the above and worse. And you are not forgotten, either.
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About LocalFusion: The world’s largest iPhone and Android App Developer for Small Business
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