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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 Partner operating in the Information Technology space. If you think a Partner 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.
Mike Chapin
Partner & Managing Director, Development and Resource Planning of Twenty First Century Utilities
Mike Chapin is an accomplished energy executive with over 35 years of transactional experience in power markets, domestically and internationally. He was previously President of Capstone Power Development Corp. in Vancouver, B.C., and Founding Shareholder and Executive Vice President at GreenWing Energy Management Ltd. Over his career, Mike has led the development and acquisition of more than 6 gigawatts of clean energy (wind, solar, and thermal natural gas) projects in North America, including the 100MW St. Leon Wind Energy Project in Manitoba, the 99.5MW High Plains Wind Energy Project in Wyoming, and the sale of a 1,400MW portfolio of wind projects located in California, Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico and North Dakota. He began his career with electric utilities TransAlta and ATCO Power, as an engineer in the power plants. He holds a Bachelor of Applied Science Engineering Degree from the University of British Columbia.
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About Twenty First Century Utilities: Twenty First Century Utilities, LLC is working to transform regulated utilities with a twenty first century model.
Nicholas Raditsis
Co-Founder & VP Strategic Partnerships of Optimity
Founder of myHealthSphere.
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About Optimity: Optimity is a mission-driven technology company that uses evidence-based behavioural science and gamification to improve population health.
Curtis Grad
Founding Partner, President & CEO of Modalis Infrastructure Partners
Curtis Grad is chief executive and founding partner of Modalis Infrastructure Partners Inc., a strategic investment and professional advisory services company specializing in international transport infrastructure privatization, investment, development and operations. During his 25+ year career in the transport infrastructure sector, he has lead extensive change management and redevelopment programs for various international airport and port facilities worldwide, spanning Canada, Jamaica, Cyprus and Jordan.
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About Modalis Infrastructure Partners: Modalis is a strategic investment and professional services company specializing in international transport infrastructure.
James Heise
VP, Global Business Development & Strategic Partnerships of Appnovation
James Heise is the VP, Global Business Development & Strategic Partnerships at Appnovation Technologies.
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About Appnovation: Appnovation is a global Digital Solutions and Managed Services provider, delivering strategy, app development and enterprise integrations.
Michael Matrick
Managing Partner of Performance Analytics Corporation
With a career spanning 20 years in the technology area, Michael has worked for some of the largest software companies in the world in senior business developments positions. Michael also co-founded a software start-up company that was acquired by Microsoft in 2008 and he led the company through a successful acquisition process. On a personal level, Michael enjoys spending quality time with his family and friends. He is also involved in early stage technology companies, sitting on various boards and providing guidance to their executive leadership teams.
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About Performance Analytics Corporation: Performance Analytics Corporation is a technology and services company .
Mark Starkey
Managing Partner, Chief Executive Officer of Victory
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About Victory: Victory Creative Group, Inc. is a digital services and experience design agency.
Milan Veverka
Partner of Keboola
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About Keboola: Keboola is a cloud platform helping clients combine, enhance & publish crucial information for internal analytics & data products.
Otavio Ferreira
Founding Partner of Rosewood Due Diligence
Brazilian technology executive and entrepreneur, with 14 years of experience in the Internet industry, with proven track record in the startup scene. Unique professional profile that combines business development, product management, and software engineering. Worked for globally distributed enterprises, as well as exciting early-stage ventures. Experienced in markets such as e-commerce, e-tailing, flash-sales, marketplaces, classifieds, online payments, fraud control, comparison shopping, behavioural targeting, mobile, search, social networks, and user-generated content. As a business development professional, since 2007, acquired skills in technical due diligence, risk assessment, mergers and acquisitions by running several evaluations in Latin America (Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Mexico), on behalf of venture capital and private equity firms. Most remarkably, led the tech due diligence on Buscape, a deal sized at USD 300 million, in 2009. Also delivered strategic partnerships, always focused on market share and growth. As an online product management professional, clear focus on conversion rate lifts through a broad set of optimisation techniques, including A/B testing and design thinking, while promoting frictionless product backlog management and stakeholders’ alignment. As an experienced software engineering professional, large experience in object-oriented analysis and design, service-oriented architecture, design patterns and refactoring. Strong focus on quality assurance techniques, mainly continuous integration and automated testing. Built the first version of major e-commerce platforms in Brazil, all highly scalable. Agile software development evangelist and coach, since 2007, focused on Lean, Kanban, Scrum, and XP (Extreme Programming). Capable of remixing practices from different software development processes, so that any given development and product team can find its highest possible throughput, while maintaining its sustainability.
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About Rosewood Due Diligence: Rosewood Due Diligence provides technology due diligence services that offers information to evaluate the risks, costs, and opportunities.
Bill Tam
Managing Partner of ThoughtBridge
President and CEO of BC Tech, Bill has been actively involved in guiding the success of entrepreneurial companies as a founder, executive, investor, advisor and board member for the past 20 years. He first joined BC Tech as a CEO-in-Residence with the Centre4Growth program, advising over 30 companies from startups to mid-stage technology firms. Prior to BC Tech, Bill was the CEO of EQO Communications, a mobile startup that created the first mobile Skype application. Bill was also a Partner at SpringBank TechVentures, an early stage venture capital fund where he led investments in software and wireless. Early in his startup career, he was a founding executive and Chief Marketing Officer at MetroNet Communications, a next generation telecommunications startup that grew to become the largest competitive telecom company in Canada. Bill has held senior executive positions at AT&T, Rogers, Jones Cable, Infowave Software and Bell Canada. He currently lends his expertise as an industry advisor for BCNet, Simon Fraser University and UBC; and volunteers his time supporting students and aspiring entrepreneurs. Bill holds an MBA from the Ivey School of Business and a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering from McGill University.
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About ThoughtBridge: ThoughtBridge is a strategic management consultancy
Craig Arnatt
CEO / Partner of InsureCert
Craig Arnatt is CEO and founder of InsureCert, the marquee shopping cart & policy issuance system of the insurance industry. As a programmer, Craig has worked on the core team developing the API framework for InsureCert’s blockchain enabled policy underwriting engine.
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About InsureCert: Super easy cloud-based sales software that brings true customer convenience, ease of use, converting more sales and driving online growth.
Akos Zsufa
Director/Partner of ESW IT
Akos Zsufa is the Director/Partner at ESW IT and also the P-Seller (P-SSP) at Microsoft. Prior to ESW IT, He is a former President of ITnorth and Network Administrator at Duke Energy Corporation. Akos received a bachelor’s degree in Kinesiology and Exercise Science at Simon Fraser University.
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About ESW IT: ESW IT offers IT Business Advisory to help with Managed Print, Microsoft 365, IT Support, and more.
Trevor Kray
Managing Partner of Avantage
As a well known business and technology leader with 20 years of entrepreneurial and consulting experience working with large enterprises at an executive level, Trevor leads several of our key practices and oversees developments within their respective programs and solutions areas, development of the practice team and overall relationship management with key clients and business partners.
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About Avantage: Avantage Labs is a unique experience that blends your ideas with our thought leaders to create new and innovative solutions.
Jane Ferguson Wilson
Partner of Function Point
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About Function Point: Function Point alleviates the chaotic nature of operating creative agencies, internal marketing teams and professional service firms.
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