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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 CTO’ operating in the Security space. If you think a CTO’ 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.
Francois Lascelles
Field CTO of Ping Identity
Francois is a member of the Ping Identity Office of the CTO. He provides product and strategic direction to customers and partners with a focus on API infrastructures security and API cybersecurity. Prior to joining Ping, Francois was the first developer and Chief Architect at start-up Layer 7 Technologies until its acquisition by CA Technologies. Francois was part of a team that developed a best of breed security gateway technology which disrupted a category. Francois helped define the application of emerging security patterns such as OAuth in the context of API Management and led a field practice of Architects helping customer with their digital modernization projects.
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About Ping Identity: Ping Identity provides cloud-based identity management software for companies and government organizations.
Francois Lascelles
Field CTO of Ping Identity
Francois is a member of the Ping Identity Office of the CTO. He provides product and strategic direction to customers and partners with a focus on API infrastructures security and API cybersecurity. Prior to joining Ping, Francois was the first developer and Chief Architect at start-up Layer 7 Technologies until its acquisition by CA Technologies. Francois was part of a team that developed a best of breed security gateway technology which disrupted a category. Francois helped define the application of emerging security patterns such as OAuth in the context of API Management and led a field practice of Architects helping customer with their digital modernization projects.
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About Ping Identity: Ping Identity provides cloud-based identity management software for companies and government organizations.
Sid Misra
CTO of BluePhish
Sid Misra is the chief technology officer of Bluephish.
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About BluePhish: BluePhish demystifies and trains workforce in Cyber Security Awareness through online micro-modules to help reduce cyber risk.
Sid Misra
CTO of BluePhish
Sid Misra is the chief technology officer of Bluephish.
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About BluePhish: BluePhish demystifies and trains workforce in Cyber Security Awareness through online micro-modules to help reduce cyber risk.
Christopher Bailey
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of NuData Security a Mastercard company
Christopher is a NuData Security co-founder and is responsible for the strategic vision and direction of technology solutions. At the age of 19 he founded H2O, a developer of video game products for top tier publishers such as THQ, Nintendo, and Sony. He was a founder of Secure Networks, a web security company acquired by Network Associates. He was also an investor and early participant in Security Focus which was acquired by Symantec Corp in 2002. Prior to co-founding NuData Security, Christopher was involved in several other software ventures in consulting, contract programmer, and management roles.
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About Mastercard, NuData Security a Mastercard company: NuData Security positively verifies users online through real-time passive biometrics and behavioral analytics.
Jag Bains
Chief Technology Officer of DOSarrest
A 17 year veteran in the internet service provider arena, Jag Bains has extensive network design experience as well as implementing a number of security platforms. In his previous position as the Director of Network Engineering and Operations for PEER1 Hosting Jag was able to observe a large number of DDoS attacks against their customer base, and came to appreciate the singular focus needed to combat the evolving nature of these attacks. Jag holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Information Science from the University of Victoria, in British Columbia.
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About DOSarrest: DOSarrest specializes in stopping DoS and DDoS attacks of all varieties.
Douglas Schouten
CTO & Co-founder of Ideon Technologies
Doug is the chief technology officer at Ideon Technologies, which has developed a new way of imaging underground resources and other geological formations using cosmic radiation. Before this venture, he spent a few years as a post-doc in the ATLAS group at TRIUMF, chasing down the Higgs boson with the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. Doug’s formal education is in subatomic physics, and he has years of experience in physics, geophysics, data and statistical analysis, machine learning, and numerical modelling. He is also Adjunct Professor of Physics at Simon Fraser University.
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About Ideon Technologies: Ideon Technologies is a world pioneer in the application of cosmic-ray muon tomography.
Christopher Davis
Founder of HYAS
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About HYAS: HYAS is a world-leading authority on cyber adversary infrastructure and communication to that infrastructure. THey provide various SaaS solutions that form the “last line of defense” and offer true business resiliency against all threats, internal and external, zero-day and other, not just across both corporate and production environments but with the ability to dive as deep into the data as required so businesses have the confidence to drive full forward.
Paul Guenette
Co-founder and CTO of StandardFusion
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About StandardFusion: A cloud-based GRC SaaS platform for information security teams at small, medium, or enterprise organizations.
Christian Carrillo
President and Chief Technology Officer of Tenebril
Christian Carrillo founded Tenebril, Inc., in 1998 and serves as its President and Chief Technology Officer. Prior to Tenebril, Christian Carrillo worked at Scripps Research and Digital Equipment Corporation, applying machine learning approaches to protein folding and compiler optimization. Christian Carrillo devoted his efforts to building the Tenebril product line around security and performance themes. His work in machine learning serves as the basis for Tenebril Inc.’s patented spyware profiling technology. He serves as a Director of Tenebril, Inc. He graduated from magna cum laude in Computer Science and studied at Harvard University.
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About Tenebril: Tenebril is a security and privacy technology company offering solutions for home and enterprise customers.
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