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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 Big Data 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.
Sean Merat
Co-Founder and CEO of Owl.co
Sean Merat is serving as CEO at Owl since Aug 2017. He is also serving as Director of Marketing at Lavia Design since Lavia Design. Prior to this he was the co-founder and VP of Marketing for Imperus Technologies from July 2010 till May 2012.
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About Lavia, Owl.co: Owl is an insurance claims monitoring platform that detects non-eligible claims through evidence and facts with an audit trail.
Rakesh Soni
Co-founder, CEO, & Board Member of LoginRadius
Rakesh is a startup enthusiast, a tech entrepreneur, and an engineer. He is currently working as the Co-founder and CEO of LoginRadius, a SaaS company securing over one billion digital identities worldwide.
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About LoginRadius: LoginRadius is a SaaS based CIAM platform offering Customer Registration Services, Profile Data Storage, SSO, and more.
Andrew McLeod
CEO & Co-Founder of Certn
Andrew McLeod is a 2x Forbes 30 Under 30 Nominee and the C3O at Certn. Published as somebody to watch in business, Andrew is an investor and advisor to some of North America’s most innovative companies and has many successful ventures to his name. Recognized as an innovator, entrepreneur, and business strategist, he holds a BBA from Acadia University and a Masters of International Business and Law from the University of Sydney, Australia. Along with his education and start-up experience, Andrew has worked with marketing and communications agencies representing Canada’s largest financial institutions. He has developed investor proposals and business plans for some of Canada’s most innovative companies and has consulted on over a dozen business triage and international expansion projects.
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About Certn: Certn is a simple, comprehensive solution for applicant screening backed by great customer service.
Laurie Schultz
Founder, President & Chief Executive Officer of ACL Services
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About ACL Services, Allocadia, Boast.AI, The Greater Vancouver Board of Trade, UserZoom: ACL Services is an enterprise governance software powered by data automation for audit, compliance, and risk management.
Bryan Statham
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of LifeBooster
Bryan is the original founder and the CEO of LifeBooster Inc. He provides strategic consulting, including business plan, and sales and marketing strategy development, as well as the scientific insight and vision into the LifeBooster system. With a background in biomedical sciences and sales and marketing, Bryan’s ability to drive the business development of our innovative health and safety solution has been a natural process. He is an outstanding problem solver and natural team leader with the proven ability to deliver quickly in complex environments. By identifying and building high-quality client relationships with Fortune 100 companies, actively sourcing strategic partnerships throughout diverse industries, and conducting high-level market analysis, Bryan’s vision drives LifeBooster to be a leader in wearable technology for the future of occupational health and safety.
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About LifeBooster: Leading connected worker and risk analytics platform for industrial health and safety – ensuring every worker gets home safe every day.
Charles Lavigne
Co-founder, CEO of LlamaZOO Interactive
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About LlamaZOO Interactive: LlamaZOO is changing the way the world sees data by helping enterprises analyze and visualize big data in its real-world context.
Arnold Leung
CEO and founder of Appnovation
Arnold Leung is the Founder at Appnovation.
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About Appnovation: Appnovation is a global Digital Solutions and Managed Services provider, delivering strategy, app development and enterprise integrations.
Joshua Fraser
CEO of Data Nerds
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About Data Nerds, Estated: Data Nerds provides an elegant solution in the vast market of real estate & property data.
Tom Raycove
Founder CEO of Disrupted Logic
Founder at Disrupted Logic
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About Disrupted Logic: Big Data and Artificial Intelligence for Interactive Media Experiences
Tony Bevilacqua
Chief Executive Officer of Cognitive3D
Tony is the Founder and CEO of Cognitive3D, which is an analytics platform that gathers data from virtual and augmented reality experiences in new ways, and turns them into actionable insights. Prior to founding Cognitive3D, Tony co-founded and exited another startup that focused on revenue optimization and data analytics for enterprise customers.
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About Cognitive3D: Cognitive3D classifies and surfaces actionable spatial intelligence from human interactions within immersive experiences and applications.
Tagg Jefferson
Founder & CEO of GridCure
Tagg Jefferson is Founder of GridCure, bringing Big Data to utilities around the world.
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About GridCure: GridCure brings the concepts and practices of big data to the electrical power utility space.
Strac Ivanov
President & CEO of Vicinity Jobs Inc
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About Vicinity Jobs Inc: Big data analytics technology company specializing in real-time tracking of regional labour market trends
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