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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 FinTech 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.
Hanif Joshaghani
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Symend
Hanif is a serial entrepreneur who has raised $150M USD across the 4 companies he has founded and invested in over a dozen startups.
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About Aimsio, Symend: Symend’s digital engagement platform uses behavioral science and data-driven insights to empower customers to resolve past due bills.
Lisa Shields
Founder and CEO of FISPAN
Lisa Shields is FI.SPAN’s founder and CEO. FI.SPAN is Lisa’s second financial technology startup – she also founded and led Hyperwallet Systems Inc for 15 years; today it is recognized as a leading global payments processor for business to consumer mass payouts. She is a member of the Canadian FinPay Committee, was named the EY Regional Entrepreneur Of The Year in 2015 and received a Women in Payments Innovation Award in 2016. A firm believer in inclusive commerce, Lisa is always looking for new ways to unite ecosystem participants for the benefit of end users. She also has a personal interest in the underbanked and speaks frequently and passionately on the importance of low-cost, compliant payments.
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About FISPAN: Fintech Service Management for Financial Institutions
Shone Anstey
CEO of LQwD FinTech
Shone brings over 20 years of experience building complex technologies and software within the I.T industry. This includes data center deployments, large scale web-ops development, and industrial Bitcoin mines. Shone was a co-founder of a scalable web crawler and search engine and is a Certified Bitcoin Professional. Formerly, Shone acted as Director of Technology for a distributed Bitcoin mining pool.
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About Blockchain Intelligence Group, LQwD FinTech: LQwD FinTech is a decentralized finance and fintech company.
Sandi Gilbert
Founder & CEO of DealPoint Capital
Sandi is a strategic, visionary entrepreneur focused on developing and deploying technology solutions for the private capital markets. She is the Founder & CEO of SeedUps Canada, a FinTech company that enables collaboration between innovative companies and the private investing community of angels, early stage venture funds and engaged investors. SeedUps technologies provide virtual environments where companies and their agents can prepare, present and execute a capital raise and the resources to manage the investors through to exit.
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About DealPoint Capital, InterGen Capital: DealPoint Capital is a private capital markets platform to digitize and automate investor on-boarding and investment execution.
J. C. Stefan Spicer
President, CEO & Director of Central Fund of Canada
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About Central Fund of Canada: Gold, Silver, Investments
Gord Breese
CEO of Katipult
Gord brings to Katipult a proven track record building value at high growth tech firms including ServiceMax, SAP, Business Objects, Apple and Oracle. He was part of the leadership team that took Pivotal Software public and played a key role in expanding Business Objects’ global footprint, prior to its acquisition by SAP.
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About Katipult: White-label software infrastructure for private placements and new investor account openings. Canada, US, Europe.
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.
Evan Chrapko
Chairman and CEO of Trust Science
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About Trust Science: Credit Bureau 2.0 ® SaaS. Customers are lenders serving consumers–lenders who demand a modern Decision System platform and alt.data.
Andrew McGuire
Co-Founder & CEO of Agility Forex
Andrew has over 25 years experience in the financial markets and held senior management positions at UBS, RBS, Deutsche Bank and Merrill Lynch. At RBS he was Co-Head of Credit Trading with Iain and responsible for a team of 11 traders. As a Portfolio Manager at UBS Andrew ran a multi-billion Euro bond fund utilizing futures, interest rate swaps, fx and default swaps.
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About Agility Forex: Agility Forex is a Vancouver-based fintech company.
Antonio A Arias
CEO and Founder of Healthy Crowdfunder
Antonio has acquired decades of diversified knowledge and experience with major corporations involved in mining, health, technology, and finance industries.As a professional manager principally in development to production stage mines, he was accountable as a board director, CFO and CAO of publicly listed companies. In building huge mines, he was instrumental to raising and managing up to $400 million and $300 million, equity and debt financing, respectively. In 1999, one of them exited by a sale to Barrick Gold, the world’s largest gold producer.As an entrepreneur and investor in health and financial technology, Antonio’s current mission is to help fix the broken health care and capital markets in collaboration with other professionals. The health and wellness sector is underdeveloped and undercapitalized while the capital markets are operating with outdated technology and regulatory systems.Antonio is a retired Certified Professional Accountant (Certified General Accountant) a former corporate finance lecturer and graduate at The British Columbia Institute of Technology. He is now focused more on the development and financing of small to medium sized enterprises.
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About Healthy Crowdfunder: Healthy Crowdfunder is an ecosystem that links businesses, investors and customers in developing and commercializing health solutions.
Tara Kelly
Founder, President & CEO of SPLICE Software
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About SPLICE Software: SPLICE Software helps businesses improve customer experience through the use of automated & two-way communications.
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