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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 Communities 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.
Zeeshan Rasool
Founder, CEO of Hangeh Labs
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About Hangeh Labs, Quupe Technologies: Transforming buildings into communities.
Karin Kirkpatrick
Chief Executive Officer of Family Services of Greater Vancouver
Assuming her role in February 2017, Karin Kirkpatrick serves as the CEO of Family Services of Greater Vancouver, a Canadian organization geared toward helping individuals of all ages achieve their highest potential. Karin Kirkpatrick has also served as an adjunct faculty member at the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia for the past 11 years, providing instruction to both undergraduate and graduate students on topics such as employee relations and organizational behavior. Prior to her current posts, Ms. Kirkpatrick was CEO of the Real Estate Foundation, a charitable group established as a result of the Real Estate Services Act. Before entering her professional career, Karin Kirkpatrick earned an MBA from Royal Roads University in Victoria, BC. From there, she went on to graduate from the School of Law at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland as a master of laws with special emphasis on international law and practice. She serves on the board of the Judicial Council of British Columbia.
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About Family Services of Greater Vancouver, UBC Sauder School of Business: Family Services of Greater Vancouver is a community-based not-for-profit organization providing crucial social services to families.
Errol Toksoz
Founder + CEO of Ambitionary
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About Ambitionary, The ToolBox App: Where people meet to collaborate
Eric Carlson
CEO of Anthem Properties Group
Eric is the founder and CEO of Anthem and CEO of Anthem United. Highly engaged in the daily operations of the company, he is responsible for the strategic direction and overall execution of all aspects of the business. Working closely with the leadership team, he provides (relentless) oversight and direction for acquisitions, design, development and finance. Showing up every day for 26 years, he is fuelled by the passion and pursuit of creating original spaces and building strong communities.
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About Anthem Properties Group: A real estate development, investment and management company.
Luquman Shaheen
President, CEO, Director of Panoro Minerals
Mr. Shaheen has an undergraduate degree in Civil Engineering and a Masters degree in Business Administration. He has over 22 years of experience in the international mining sector with over 17 years dedicated to the development of mineral projects in Peru and Latin America. Mr. Shaheen resided in Peru from 1996 until 2001, is fluent in Spanish and English, very knowledgeable of the Peruvian mining sector and the social, environmental and business issues of this important mineral producing nation.
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About Panoro Minerals: Panoro Minerals Ltd. is a Canadian mineral exploration company with a strategic focus on exploring and advancing.
Annalea Krebs
Founder & CEO of Social Nature
A social entrepreneur, Annalea is a passionate individual whose mission to bring natural products to the masses inspires those around her.
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About Social Nature: Social Nature is a social product sampling community that helps people #trynatural.
Paul Gossen
CEO and Co-founder of Velocity Learning
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About Velocity Learning: Velocity is a relentless mission to bring our core technology for fast language fluency and career success to 2.1 billion humans worldwide
Peter Payne
President & Chief Executive Officer of HTI Foundation.
Peter is President and CEO of Health Tech Innovation Foundation: Innovation Boulevard; Adjunct Professor, Beedie School of Business; and Associate Director of Coast Capital Savings’ Venture Connection. He has founded and operated over eight companies including several medical devices successfully marketed in Canada, the USA, Europe and Asia. Peter has been involved with government organizations, private and public companies, reverse take-overs, venture capital corporations and not-for-profit groups and is an active investor. He has been an invited speaker at international conferences, holds a number of patents and has received several awards for his work. He is also the past Director of Programs at the BC Technology Industry Association, and Executive-in-Residence for health technologies where he developed their Centre4Growth and HyperGrowth Accelerator programs. Peter was also a mentor in entrepreneurship programs for Genome and Life Sciences companies at UBC, and a mentor for the SFU Segal Graduate School of Business, MBA program.
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About HTI Foundation.: HTI is a non-profit foundation that provides on-site presence embedded within the clinical environment.
Jason Spencer
Co-founder and CEO of StreetAdvisor
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About StreetAdvisor: StreetAdvisor is a real estate-based online social network and neighborhood content aggregator.
Jason Spencer
Co-founder and CEO of StreetAdvisor
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About StreetAdvisor: StreetAdvisor is a real estate-based online social network and neighborhood content aggregator.
Aaron Djekic
CEO of CrowdClan
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About CrowdClan, National Crowdfunding & Fintech Association of Canada: Crowdfunding Information Resource
Aaron Djekic
CEO of CrowdClan
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About CrowdClan, National Crowdfunding & Fintech Association of Canada: Crowdfunding Information Resource
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