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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 President operating in the Software space. If you think a 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.
Rita Bereski
Vice President, Digital Transformation Services of AppDirect
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About AppDirect, Wmode: AppDirect provides an end-to-end cloud commerce platform for both monetizing and managing digital customer relationships.
Ryan Johnson
President & CEO of Whipcord
Ryan Johnson is a President and CEO at Whipcord. He received a Bachelor’s degree and a Master’s degree in geography from the University of Lethbridge. In 2000 he started a small geomatics company in Lethbridge that, through his leadership, grew to the third largest imaging company in the world – BlackBridge Geomatics. Ryan’s commitment to Lethbridge has continued through his ownership of Whipcord, founded in 2009. He was the founding president of the U of L Graduate Students’ Association and in 2005 was inducted into the U of L “Alumni Honour Society.” In 2005 Ryan was recognized by Alberta Venture Magazine as one of 13 leaders of the next generation and again in 2012 as one of Alberta’s 50 Most Influential people.
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About Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), Inpivota, Verge Ag, Whipcord: Whipcord is a high performance IT services company that specializes in colocation, cloud and disaster recovery.
David Nedohin
Founder & President of ScopeAR
David Nedohin, president of Scope AR, brings more than 20 years of experience in business development to drive the company’s vision to revolutionize the world of industrial training, maintenance and field support. In this role, David works with some of the world’s leading global companies including Boeing, Toyota, Lockheed Martin, Cenovus, and CNAQ, among others. After receiving a Civil Engineering degree from University of Manitoba, David moved into entrepreneurship starting a number of successful companies ranging from engineering consulting, to construction, and technology. David helped create the first industry-first AR tools for video collaboration, procedural documentation and step-by-step instruction for enterprises. He also helped develop an AR video-calling platform and ‘smart’ content creation platform that are already in use by the likes of Boeing, Toyota, Lockheed Martin and others. David is a Canadian, currently living in Edmonton, Alberta. He is also a 3x world curling champion and national team member for 10 years in waterskiing. Additionally, David serves as the Vice-Chair at Inner City Agency Foundation (ICAF), a joint initiative that combines the efforts of seven inner city agencies to fundraise for and provide a network of services to alleviate poverty-related problems such as housing, addiction, healthcare, nutrition and education in Edmonton.
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About ScopeAR, ScopeAR: Scope AR develops augmented reality solutions and products for industrial clients focused around field maintenance.
Ha Nguyen
Vice President of McRock Capital
Ha Nguyen has been serving as a Vice President at McRock Capital since September 2018.
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About McRock Capital: McRock Capital specializes in growth capital and later stage investing in intelligent infrastructure companies.
Georgia Nelson
President & CEO of PTI Resources
Georgia Nelson joined Ball Corporation’s board of directors in July of 2006. She is president and CEO of PTI Resources, LLC, an energy and environmental consulting firm. Georgia also provides executive coaching services to senior executives. She is the former founding president of Midwest Generation EME, LLC, an Edison International company headquartered in Chicago. Midwest Generation is a large independent power generation company. In her 35 years at Edison International, Nelson served as general manager of Edison Mission Energy – Americas, was senior vice president of worldwide operations for Edison Mission Energy and held executive responsibilities for Edison Mission Marketing and Trading, Inc., a Boston-based energy marketing and trading subsidiary. She also was a senior executive with Southern California Edison, a large U.S. electric utility. In addition to her directorship with Ball Corporation, Nelson serves as a director of Cummins Inc., TransAlta Corporation and Sims Metal Management Ltd. She was formerly a director of Nicor Inc., Tower Automotive and CalMat Corporation. Georgia also serves as a director of CH2MHill, a privately held company. She is a former trustee of the Manufacturers Alliance. She serves on the advisory committee of the Center for Executive Women at Northwestern University and formerly served on the Women’s Advisory Board of the JFK School of Government at Harvard University. She is a member of numerous organizations including The Commercial Club of Chicago, The Economic Club of Chicago and The Chicago Network. Georgia holds an MBA from the University of Southern California and a bachelor’s degree from Pepperdine University, Malibu, Calif.
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About PTI Resources: PTI has consistently delivered results to clients since 1997 by staying ahead of the technology curve, maintaining strong relationship.
Dustin Wilkes
President of Parkland Pipeline
Dustin Wilkes is the president at both United Pacific Projects and Parkland Pipeline (sold for $100M). He also manages early-stage/technology investments for family funds. He is a graduate of the University of Calgary and University of Alberta.
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About Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), Parkland Pipeline: Oil & Gas Service Company
Jim Colvin
CEO & President of Serious Labs
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About Serious Labs: Serious Labs combines instructional design, game mechanics, virtual reality and simulation technologies.
Ken MacLean
President of Serious Labs
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About Serious Labs, WestBlock: Serious Labs combines instructional design, game mechanics, virtual reality and simulation technologies.
Trent Oster
President & Founder of Beamdog
Trent Oster is a video game Director become Entrepreneur.
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About Beamdog: Beamdog is a digital distribution service for PC video games. The Beamdog platform is built around the concept of improving the PC App
Darold H. Parken
President & Chief Executive Officer of DeepMarkit Corp.
Darold is the CEO and a director of DeepMarkit. He practiced corporate securities law for over 20 years and has extensive experience in creating, funding and managing public companies. He is the founder and was CEO of Chartwell Technology Inc. from its inception in 1998 to its sale to Amaya Gaming Group in 2011. Chartwell developed an industry-leading online gaming software system which continues to power some of the largest gaming companies in the world.
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About DeepMarkit Corp.: DeepMarkit produces multi-platform HTML games and gaming solutions that drive audience engagement for brands and incentivize customers.
Brad Malcolm
President of Athentech Imaging
Brad began his life in the business world early. At age 19, while attending university, Brad started a business that had annual revenue of over $100,000 in its second year. After obtaining a Bachelor of Commerce degree, Brad went on to complete his Chartered Accountant designation and spent several years in the corporate tax planning department of a major international Chartered Accounting firm. After this, Brad left to help manage various private and public Canadian and International companies, which brought him to his current position with Athentech in 2001.
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About Athentech Imaging: Perfectly Clear is a multi-patented technology which instantly optimizes the lighting for each pixel while maintaining true color and zero
Bryan McIver
President & CEO of Fresnel Software
Prior to his tenure as SVP, Construction Services at AFL, where he oversaw one of the world’s largest FTTx deployment projects for Telus, Mr. McIver and his teams project managed and provided the detailed engineering, design, permitting, construction, test and turn up on numerous FTTx Projects including: • Telus FTTP Deployment, Western Canada, 300K+ premises passed (2013-2016) • Municipal FTTP Network, O-Net, AB, Canada (2014) • Reedsport FTTP Network, Comspan, OR, USA (2008) • Myrtle Point FTTP Network, Comspan, OR, USA (2007) • Coquille FTTP Network, Comspan, OR, USA (2006)
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About Fresnel Software, Vitruvi: Fresnel Software is an enterprise SaaS company that provides integration to solve challenges associated with telecom construction.
David Goulet
Vice President of Sales and Marketing of WoodPro Software
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About WoodPro Software: WoodPro Software Inc. specializes in the development and design of integrated financial and operational management software.
Bertrand Groulx
President of Verdazo Analytics
Bertrand is the President of Verdazo Analytics (formerly Visage Information Solutions). Over a 25-year career, Bertrand has worked in over 11 countries developing software solutions to help companies make smarter, faster decisions through visual data analytics. He enjoys developing partnerships with companies and individuals that share that passion. When he isn’t working you’ll find Bertrand serenading his wife and daughters on guitar or in his woodworking shop. Get Bertrand’s thoughts on data analysis on the Verdazo Blog.
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About Verdazo Analytics: Verdazo Analytics is a software company that offers discovery analytics.
Tate Hackert
Founder & President of ZayZoon
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About ZayZoon: ZayZoon gives employees access to their paycheck at any point in the pay cycle.
Debra Milimaka Miles
Vice-President, People Services of SMART Technologies
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About SMART Technologies: SMART Technologies develops interactive whiteboards and group collaboration tools for classrooms and meeting rooms.
Debra Milimaka Miles
Vice-President, People Services of SMART Technologies
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About SMART Technologies: SMART Technologies develops interactive whiteboards and group collaboration tools for classrooms and meeting rooms.
Remi Schmaltz
CEO, President, and Co-Founder of Decisive Farming
Remi Schmaltz is the CEO, president, and co-founder of Decisive Farming. He previously served as an advisory board member at Rocky Mountain Ventures. Prior to that, Remi served as a manager of corporate development at DynAgra Corp.
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About Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), Decisive Farming: Decisive Farming provides information technology solutions for farming industry in Western Canada.
Nelson Vigneault
President/Founder of CleanPix
Nelson Vigneault is the Co-Founder and Director of CleanPix.
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About CleanPix: CleanPix is a provider of digital asset management accessible directly from the cloud and digital brand asset management.
Deborah Wilson
Senior Vice President of TrustBIX
Deborah is Senior Vice President for BIXSco Inc., the Beef InfoXchange System (BIXS), a value-added traceability system, and sits on the Canadian Roundtable for Sustainable Beef National Council.
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About TrustBIX: TrustBIX provides livestock traceability and chain of custody solutions.
Heather Pauls
President & Co-Founder of SpikeFli
Heather Pauls is the CEO & Co-Founder at SpikeFli Analytics.
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About SpikeFli: SpikeFli is a SaaS platform that supports enterprise and government in managing and reducing costs on telecom & IT.
Tom Groenland
President & CEO, Founder & Director of mcThings
Tom started and operated a successful electronics manufacturing business serving companies in the medical, consumer, energy and communications sectors. He has extensive experience in advanced manufacturing processes and low-power hardware design.
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About mcThings: mcThings is a measurement and control platform for the Internet of Things.
Brad Scott
Co-Founder/President of Au-Zone Technologies
Brad is president and co-founder of Au-Zone Technologies. He brings over 26 years of engineering design experience, product strategy, development and go-to-market experience to Au-Zone. In this role he has positioned the company as a leading provider of development tools, engineering design services, and enabling IP used for the design of intelligent embedded vision products and solutions. Prior to forming Au-Zone, Brad had engineering design roles with NovAtel, Newnes Machine, Nortel, and Audesi where he was Director of Engineering when it was acquired by Windriver Systems. Brad received a B.Sc. of EE from the University of Alberta
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About Au-Zone Technologies: Au-Zone Technologies is a leading provider of development tools, engineering design services.
Anjani Kumar
Vice President, Engineering Solutions & Marketing of Computer Modelling Group
Mr. Kumar is a professional engineer with a strong background in reservoir engineering and simulation supplemented by extensive industry experience. He has an excellent track record in project management and providing technical leadership to multidisciplinary teams. Mr. Kumar joined CMG in 2005 as a reservoir simulation engineer and was subsequently appointed as manager of consulting, support and training in 2009. He holds a Master of Science from the University of Calgary and a Bachelor of Technology from the Indian School of Mines.
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About Computer Modelling Group: Computer Modelling Group, a computer software technology company, develops and licenses reservoir simulation software in Canada.
Rob Eastick
Vice President, CoFlow of Computer Modelling Group
Is a Professional Engineer with more than 20 years of experience in the software industry, who has focused on user experience. He joined CMG in 2007 as the Manager, Visualization and Deployment. Mr. Eastick holds Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Chemical Engineering and a Master of Business Administration degree, all from the University of Calgary.
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About Computer Modelling Group: Computer Modelling Group, a computer software technology company, develops and licenses reservoir simulation software in Canada.
Jeff Bonnell
Vice President, Marketing & Product Strategy of NRX Global
Jeff Bonnell is the VP of Industry Solutions at Coresystems. Jeff has played a key role optimizing service and asset performance, safety, and compliance for manufacturing (including many FDA validated pharma and medical technology companies), energy, telecommunication and utility companies in more than 20 countries. In addition to holding leadership roles in product and solution management, service delivery, marketing and strategy with technology and service providers, Jeff has extensive experience as an engineer, manager, consultant, project manager, and solution architect in industry. Jeff has developed and teaches an Asset Knowledge Management course that is offered as part of an Asset Management Certification program for Plant Engineering and Maintenance Association of Canada (PEMAC) in 2016. Jeff held volunteer positions with PEMAC and the School for Social Entrepreneurship, where he acted as a mentor for new entrepreneurs developing social enterprises. Jeff holds degrees in Industrial Engineering and Business and an MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario.
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About NRX Global: Maintenance Master Data Management
Matthew Birch
President of GC Lifeline
Matthew Birch is currently the Controller and Director of Warehouse Operations for Overhead Door Company of Edmonton. During his two years as a member of the senior management team Matthew has implemented several significant procedural improvements that have contributed to an average annual revenue growth of 22% and average annual operating profit growth of 30%. Prior to working for Overhead Door Matthew worked six years for Wesgroup Equipment, one of Canada’s largest Bobcat Dealerships (including 10 separate locations throughout BC). During that time Matthew was involved in two significant acquisitions, playing a large role in both the implementation of new software systems, consolidating of accounting and administrative functions, and development & deployment of new operational and financial reporting structure. As GC Lifeline is currently in the start-up phase Matthew continues to hold his role with Overhead Door while attending to his responsibilities as President of GC Lifeline.
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About GC Lifeline: GC Lifeline is an internet based software company designed to help home owners become more organized, and to help businesses.
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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