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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 British Columbia based CEO’ operating in the Security 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.
Jake King
Co-founder &CEO of Cmd
Securing Linux things in the cloud. Co-founder & CEO Cmd. Advisor to Eco. Bug bounty aficionado. SecOps Hootsuite in a previous life.
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About Cmd: Cmd allows organizations to intuitively monitor and control user interaction within their Linux environment.
Doug Blakeway
Ex CEO and Chairman of Nanotech Security
Mr. Blakeway is the company’s President and Chief Executive Officer. He has over 40 years of experience in executive management in technology business development. He founded Nanotech Security Corp., a publicly traded international wireless RFID enterprise, in 1985. He is also a director of IDME Technologies Corp. and IDIT Technologies Corp., which licensed the nano-technology developed at Simon Fraser University to the Company. From September 2006 until June 2012 he was a consultant providing product manufacturing management services to G4S Justice Services (Canada) Inc. as the Managing Director. He is a member of Simon Fraser University Surrey – Business Advisory Council and Entrepreneur in Residence SFU Venture Connection, Canadian Listed Company Association, Wireless Industry Partnership Connector Inc., TEC (The Executive Committee), an international organization for CEOs and CMC Microsystems Inc. Since 1982, he has been a director of a number of public companies on the TSXV. Mr. Blakeway serves on the audit and corporate governance committees of several companies, and with his knowledge of the policies and procedures for listing capital pool companies (“CPCs”) on the TSXV, has facilitated the successful qualification of several CPCs as Tier 1 or Tier 2 Issuers
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About Nanotech Security: Nanotech Security is a public company that designs and commercializes advanced security products and devices.
Karl Holmqvist
Chief Executive Officer of Lastwall Networks, Inc.
Karl is a serial entrepreneur with a keen interest in telco infrastructure and internet security systems. Prior to founding Lastwall, Karl built a telecommunications carrier up in Canada and worked in Dubai as an investor with AGT. Karl also enjoys surfing.
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About Lastwall Networks, Inc.: Lastwall is building new internet security systems, broadly based on new ways of authenticating users and strongly enforcing identity.
Mark Teolis
CEO of DOSarrest
Prior to founding DOSarrest in October 2007, Mark was a co-founder of Peer1 Hosting and held a number of positions within Peer1until late 2007 including CTO and VP of co-location and network. While at Peer1 Mark created and lead the company’s strategic technical plan that made it the 4th fastest growing public company in Canada in 2005. Peer1 was later sold to Cogeco Cable in 2012 for 525 million USD. Prior to Peer1 Mark was an Internet specialist with AT&T Canada. Mark holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Concordia University in Montreal.
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About DOSarrest: DOSarrest specializes in stopping DoS and DDoS attacks of all varieties.
Gary Agnew
CEO and Cofounder of Ideon Technologies
Gary Agnew is CEO and Co-founder of Vancouver, BC-based cosmic-ray muon tomography pioneer Ideon Technologies. Since joining Ideon in March 2020, he has positioned the company on a growth trajectory and secured $1.3M in seed funding. Gary is a global executive, with 25+ years in industrial B2B markets, developing and commercializing innovative new products and solutions while building teams that deliver extraordinary results. Prior to joining Ideon, Gary founded the strategy and global digital division at Finning International Inc., scaling revenue to $500M in 3 years, delivering profitability in less than 24 months.
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About Ideon Technologies: Ideon Technologies is a world pioneer in the application of cosmic-ray muon tomography.
Andy Ibbetson
CEO of Agility Technologies Corporation
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About Agility Technologies Corporation: A Communication Technologies Company
Andy Ibbetson
CEO of Agility Technologies Corporation
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About Agility Technologies Corporation: A Communication Technologies Company
Ian Paterson
CEO of Plurilock
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About Plurilock: Plurilock provides invisible MFA & continuous authentication using state-of-the-art behavioral-biometric & machine learning technology.
Michael Argast
Co-Founder and CEO of Kobalt
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About Kobalt: Kobalt provides cyber security programs-as-a-service to small and mid sized technology companies.
Mirek Pijanowski
Co-founder and CEO of StandardFusion
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About StandardFusion: A cloud-based GRC SaaS platform for information security teams at small, medium, or enterprise organizations.
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