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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 Farming 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.
Ellisha Bourne
CEO of Gru Organics
Ellisha Bourne is an entrepreneur with a background in business and engineering at the UofC in Calgary, Alberta. She is a highly driven individual who is enthusiastic about changing the energy sector and agricultural space, making the world a better place.
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About Gru Organics: Gru Organics provides a food-growing platform that grows fruits and vegetables using a containerized indoor farming system.
Glen Metzler
CEO & Founder of API Labs
Chief Executive Officer, director, founder and key developer of the vision for API Labs. As a career, Mr. Metzler has been involved in research and market development across numerous industries in Canada and internationally: including over 20 years of experience developing and launching new products.
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About API Labs: API Labs is a company looking to create a vertically integrated poppy industry .
Charles Holmes
President, CEO & Founder of Hempco
Charles grew up in a hard working, blue-collar family in Winnipeg MB, where he was an honour student, president of his class and an accomplished athlete. Working alongside his father, Charles discovered his love for entrepreneurship. Together they developed property, construction contracting and ran hydroponic greenhouse operations on Vancouver Island. Motivated by failing health and the desire to regain it, Charles became involved in formulating and marketing health products and set out to discover the ultimate vegan protein source for humans – and he found it in the mighty hemp seed. 15 years pioneering the now burgeoning hemp seed food industry finally resulted in vertically integrated Hempco and several innovative processing and product firsts such as: hemp protein powder, hemp protein concentrate and hempmilk. Charles continues to serve as the company visionary with the intent to help Hempco lead the world in hemp functional and nutraceutical foods.
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About Hempco: Hempco is provider of premier hemp seed foods.
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.
Tanner Stewart
Director & CEO of Nutraponics Canada
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About Nutraponics Canada: NutraPonics is a privately held agriculture technology company based in Alberta.
Robert Saik
CEO of AGvisorPRO
Robert Saik is Chief Executive Officer of AGvisorPRO and Saik Management Group Inc. Former Chief Executive Officer of DOT Farm Solutions Inc.
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About AGvisorPRO: Mobile Platform, 2-sided marketplace, SaaS
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