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 Computer 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.
Sean Campbell
President and Chief Executive Officer of Stage Completions
Mr. Campbell is the President, Chief Executive Officer and Director of Stage Completions Inc. With more than 15 years of experience in the oil and gas industry, Mr. Campbell is driving the company forward to be the leading innovator in single-point entry fracturing technology. Mr. Campbell is an expert in the engineering and design of completion tools, including downhole liner packer systems used in essentially all horizontal well multi-stage fracturing completions. Mr. Campbell has previously served as VP and Founder of Suretech Completions Ltd., a subsidiary of a major international oil and gas service company. Prior to that, he was President and founder of Suretech Tool Services Inc., a private company specializing in innovative and leading edge downhole tool design.
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About Stage Completions: Stage Completions Inc. designs, develops, and manufactures fracturing systems for oil and gas industries.
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.
Tarrnie Williams
CEO of Blueprint Reality
Tarrnie is an experienced leader who has dedicated his career to building products on the leading edge of interactive technology. He has lead development on almost every platform launch, new device, and business model, and has helped build and operate multiple successful studios and teams. Tarrnie has always held a deep interest in VR, and is enormously excited to again be pushing the boundaries of human experience with Blueprint Reality.
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About Blueprint Reality, KIDOZ Inc.: Virtual Reality company situated in the heart of Vancouver’s gaming scene.
Javad Sadeghi
CEO and Co-founder of Physio4D
Javad Sadeghi, a PhD graduate in the area of Computer Graphics and a Post Doctoral Researcher in the area of Information Visualization both from the University of Calgary, leads the business and product development of Physio4D. He has been a co-founder of two start-ups in Iran and Canada with over 5 years of executive experience. The first company that he co-founded is now a major provider of web portals for online businesses in Iran. His second start-up provides a mobile technology for extracting upper-body measurements of the consumers from their photographs for suggesting the best retail fit. Javad has half a dozen papers distributed in distinguished publishers such as Elsevier.
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About Physio4D: Physio4D is a vision-based physical therapy startup that provides a vision-based upfront assessment tool.
Hongwen Zhang
Co-Founder, CEO & CTO of Wedge Networks Inc.
Zhang is a co-founder of Wedge Networks. As Chief Technical Officer, he is instrumental in developing Wedge’s high performance security platform. Zhang holds a Ph.D in Computer Science from the University of Calgary; an M.Sc in Computer Engineering from the Institute of Computer Technology of Chinese Academy of Sciences, and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Fudan University. With more than two decades of high-tech leadership experience, Zhang is a co-inventor and holder of several patents in the area of computing and networking. Prior to establishing Wedge Networks, he was a co-founder of the 24C Group Inc., which pioneered the first digital receipts infrastructure for secure electronic commerce. Zhang was previously principal of Servidium Inc., now ThoughtWorks Canada Inc., a global leader in agile development methodology. A speaker and writer on subjects of cloud, networking, and IT security issues and trends, Zhang chairs the Security Working Group and is a member of the board of directors of Open Cloud Connect, a global cloud computing consortium of leading network service providers and technology vendors.
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About Wedge Networks Inc., Wedge Networks Inc.: Wedge Networks is a cyber security software vendor specializing in Real-time Threat Prevention.
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