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 Industrial 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.
Scott Gravelle
Co-Founder, CEO & CTO of Attabotics
Scott is the co-founder, CEO & CTO of ATTAbotics, the world’s first 3D robotics supply chain system for modern commerce. He drives the company’s vision, product design and technical innovation, and has put together a team of relentlessly capable executives to move ATTAbotics forward. Over his 25-year career, Scott has been an innovator in the integration and implementation of digital manufacturing technologies, as well as a machine designer and entrepreneur.
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About Attabotics: Attabotics is a warehouse fulfillment startup that provides robotic warehousing services.
Matt Lowe
Co-founder & CEO of ZeroKey
Matt is a Canadian-born tech entrepreneur who founded ZeroKey, an IIoT hardware startup. Formerly, Matt worked as the head of IT (North American subsidiaries) of Wilo, a major manufacturing company with global revenue of over $2 billion USD. Prior to working at Wilo, Matt operated a successful consultancy focused on product development for major companies in the tech industry. Over the course of a 15+ year career in tech, Matt has contributed to several mega projects including Linux and Arduino. Linux is used by over 2 billion devices worldwide including all Android smartphones, and Arduino is the world-leading hardware prototyping platform. As the original inventor behind ZeroKey, Matt has taken a back-of-the-napkin idea and scaled a successful business around it to the current size of 30 employees. Matt’s original concept for ZeroKey’s technology has now spawned over 22 patents filed across the globe and is active use at 6 of the top 10 global automotive OEM’s.
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About ZeroKey: ZeroKey is a hardware-startup offering IIoT products based on its breakthrough hyper-accurate 3D localization technology, Smart Space.
Chris Hemstock
President & CEO of Specialized Desanders
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About Specialized Desanders: Specialized Desanders provides high pressure sand recovery services.
Mitchell Eaton
Co-Founder & CEO of Prototype Hubs
Mechanical Engineering graduate from the University of Alberta, 2014. In the past, Mitchell has worked in Oil & Gas, Mechanical Design, and Manufacturing Industries. Mitchell loves to get outdoors and wake surf, downhill mountain bike, and ride his motorcycle in his spare time!
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About Prototype Hubs: Advanced Manufacturing Platform – Connecting clients to a worldwide network of manufacturing partners with hundreds of instant prices.
John Schmeiser
CEO of Western Equipment Dealers Association
John Schmeiser serves as a CEO at Western Equipment Dealers Association.
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About Western Equipment Dealers Association: WEDA, an International trade association that represents agricultural, industrial & outdoor power equipment dealers.
Paul Buller
CEO of Buller Engineered Products
Paul Buller is the CEO of Buller Engineered Products Ltd.
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About Buller Engineered Products: Buller Engineered Products develops, tests, manufactures, sells, and distributes the patented RazerLift.
Archibald Nesbitt
President & CEO of Marksmen Energy
30+ Years of Experience Bachelor of Laws Degree – University of Western Ontario Bachelor of Commerce Degree, with Honours – Queen’s University. Member of the Law Society of Alberta since 1978. President, Chairman, CEO, COO, CFO and Director, Nesbitt Mining & Exploration Ltd. (becoming Southpoint Resources Ltd.) from 1969 to 2003 President and COO, Geomex Minerals Ltd., and Minexco Energy Inc., $300 million in E&D projects Board of Directors of Safari Club International.
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About Marksmen Energy: Marksmen is an emerging energy company with an initial focus on exploring and developing light oil assets in Ohio.
Benjamin Kemp
Chief Executive Officer of Ambyint
Benjamin Kemp is the Chief Executive Officer at Ambyint.
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About Ambyint: Ambyint provides artificial intelligence-based technologies that automates the process of companies in oil and gas industry.
Neil Camarta
President and CEO of Field Upgrading
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About Field Upgrading: Field Upgrading Limited is partnering with Ceramatec, an advanced ceramic material technology research and development company
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