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 Advertising 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.
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.
Nicolette Leonardis
Vice President and Co-Founder of Vertical City
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About Vertical City: Vertical City is a digital ad-tech company focused on elevator advertising.
Andrew Goodman
Founder and President of Page Zero Media
Andrew Goodman, Co-Founder, Director. Andrew joined the HomeStars effort in 2007, lending marketing and strategy expertise in the early stages of the company’s product development, fundraising, and strategic mission building. As a Director of the company, he remains active in an advisory role. Andrew is Founder and President of Toronto-based Page Zero Media, a full service digital marketing agency, author of Winning Results with Google AdWords (2nd ed., McGraw-Hill, 2008), and a regular columnist for ClickZ. Andrew also helps shape content for the global SES Conference series as a member of its Advisory board, and has spoken at some 50 SES stops globally since 2002. He has used HomeStars for emergency drain repair, gentle pest removal, and more. Along with Greater Toronto Area and entire world domination, Andrew’s quiet but achievable dream for HomeStars is putting more homeowners and contractors together in markets of 50,000-200,000 people — places like Belleville, ON, St. Catharines, ON, Kelowna, BC, and Fredericton, NB.
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About Page Zero Media: A full-service digital marketing agency specializing in Google AdWords, organic search findability, and related services.
Darren Shaw
Founder & President of Whitespark
Darren Shaw founded Whitespark in 2005. The company specialized in web design and development, however, Darren’s passion and curiosity for all things local search led Whitespark to focus primarily on local SEO in 2010 with the launch of the Local Citation Finder, followed by the Local Rank Tracker. Darren is widely regarded in the local SEO community as an innovator, one whose years of experience working with massive local data sets have given him uncommon insights into the inner workings of the world of citation-building and local search marketing. Darren has been working on the web for over 17 years and loves everything about local SEO. When Darren isn’t speaking at conferences, researching the latest in local search or designing the next best local SEO tool, he is spending time with his wife and daughter.
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About Whitespark: Whitespark builds tools and provides services that help businesses and agencies with local search marketing.
Dana DiTomaso
President & Partner of Kick Point
Dana is President & Partner at Kick Point, where she applies marketing into strategies to grow clients’ businesses, in particular to ensure that digital and traditional play well together. With her deep experience in digital, Dana can separate real solutions from wastes of time (and budget). Dana was born in a steel mill but overcame these humble beginnings to move to Edmonton in 2010. In her spare time, Dana is the past-president of the Advertising Club of Edmonton and is the weekly technology columnist on CBC Edmonton AM. She also enjoys drinking fancy beer and yelling at football players.
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About Kick Point: Kick Point is a digital marketing agency located in the thriving metropolis of Edmonton, Alberta (Canada’s Manhattan!).
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