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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 Service Industry 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.
Jesse Galvon
Co-Founder, President & CEO of G-Tech Apparel
Jesse Galvon is a Co-Founder & COO at Galvani.
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About G-Tech Apparel: G-Tech Apparel develops a range of apparel that enables athletes to stay warm in colder climates.
Johnny Forzani
Co-Founder & CEO of G-Tech Apparel
Johnny Forzani is a Co-Founder & CEO at Galvani.
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About G-Tech Apparel: G-Tech Apparel develops a range of apparel that enables athletes to stay warm in colder climates.
Derek De Leon
Founder and CEO of Well Massage
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About Well Massage: Well Massage is an on-demand massage company and app, dedicated to bringing the healing power of massage to clients’ homes.
Gregg Oldring
CEO of Zept
Gregg Oldring is a web entrepreneur. Gregg Oldring is in the midst of a new startup, Inkdit. Inkdit a web app that applies the social networking model to signing, sharing and storing contracts. This is be Gregg’s third web app, catapulting off of the success of previous endeavours GSNet (founded 1995, sold in 1998 to trader.com) and Mailout (founded 2001).
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About Zept: Zept is a grade matching service for international students and universities.
Andrew Robert C. Pernal
President & Chief Executive Officer of Strad Energy Services
Andy holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) degree from the University of Manitoba and is a Chartered Professional Accountant with over 20 years of senior financial experience in private and public companies. He started with Strad in 2006 as the Chief Financial Officer until the spring of 2009 when he was promoted to the position of President of Strad Energy Services and became a member of the Strad board. In June 2012, while President, Andy also moved into the role of Chief Executive Officer. Prior to joining Strad, Andy held senior financial positions for 12 years in the cable television, telecommunications, and television broadcasting industries, including: CFO at Craig Media in Calgary; Vice-President, Finance of MTS Communications in Winnipeg; and CFO of Moffat Communications in Winnipeg. Prior to his experience in the industry, Andy spent 9 years in public accounting primarily with Deloitte & Touche in Winnipeg.
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About Strad Energy Services: Strad Energy Services is a provider of energy services and solutions.
Jonathan Neufeld
CEO of tecTerra
Jonathan is CEO of TECTERRA, an organization which supports start-ups and small companies to develop and commercialize innovative geospatial technology faster.
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About tecTerra: tecTerra support technologies developed for integrated resource management and other geospatial applications.
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