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This list showcases the top Alberta based CEO’ operating in the Fitness 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.
David Hardy
CEO of Orangetheory Fitness
David Hardy is a Partner at Orangetheory Fitness involved in strategic planning and product development. He is also the President of Franvest Capital Partners, a private investment firm that owns and operates companies with a focus on fitness and healthy living.Current businesses include Orangetheory Fitness, World Health Edmonton, and Fresh Fit Foods. David is actively involved in the fitness industry, having participated in industry roundtables, trade associations, and public speaking. He has led a number of initiatives for the fitness industry, including music licensing and consumer fitness tax credits. David has served on a number of private and not-for-profit boards, including the Fitness Industry Council of Canada (President), the Alberta Economic Development Authority, the Association for Corporate Growth (Past President, Edmonton) and the International Health, Racket and Sports Club Association (IHRSA).
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About Franvest Capital Partners, Orangetheory Fitness: Orangetheory is a science-based group personal training workout broken into intervals of cardiovascular and strength training.
Ryan Todd
CEO and co-founder of Headversity
Ryan Todd is the CEO and founder of headversity.
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About Headversity: Headversity is a workplace mental health and resilience platform helping workers through mental health issues.
Mackenzie Loree
Chief Executive Officer & Director of Camarico Group
Mackenzie Loree has over 15 years experience in the energy industry, both in the private and public markets. Through his career Mackenzie Loree has developed various energy related patents and has been involved in the start up of various oil and gas service entities, exploration companies, real estate holding companies and an investment firm. Most notably, Mackenzie Loree’s development of Loree Holdings Ltd which is a diversified holding company with interests in public ventures, E&P investments, patents, service entities, professional services and real estate holdings.
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About Camarico Group: Camarico Group is a private equity fund management company in Canada.
Aaron Davidson
CEO & Founder of cronometer.com
Aaron is a life-long entrepreneur having done startups in biotech, poker, video games, customer messaging, and lately, Cronometer. Aaron has an MSc. in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Alberta and has been writing software since the 8th grade when he started writing shareware and freeware games for Mac OS System 7.
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About cronometer.com, H.I.G. BioHealth Partners: Bootstrapped Startup for Detailed Personal Nutrition & Fitness Tracking
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.
Jo-Anne Reynolds
CEO & Co-Founder of SpikeBee
CEO & Co-Founder at SpikeBee.
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About SpikeBee: Marketplace to Search & Book Camps, Classes & Activities.
Tim Gourlay
Founder & CEO of Fitset
Tim Gourlay is the founder and CEO of Fitset.
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About Fitset: Fitset is a custom pass for people to discover, book, and sweat in studios and facilities across the City.
Mike MacDonald
Co-Founder & CEO of MyStrengthBook
Mike has a long list of accomplishments as a powerlifter. Competing at an elite level for over 10 years, and earning several medals at the World Championships. Outside of powerlifting, Mike is a designated Chartered Accountant with many years of experience performing financial analysis for large public corporations. Mike now brings his expertise with data analysis to the realm of sport performance.
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About MyStrengthBook: MyStrengthBook is a platform for athletes & coaches to build workouts, plan training programs, & analyze training metrics.
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