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 CRM 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.
Simeon Garratt
Founder, CEO of Spark CRM
Founder at Spark CRM
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About Spark CRM: Spark is simplifying new home sales with smarter software.
Greg Malpass
Chief Executive Officer of Traction on Demand
Greg founded Traction on Demand, a Burnaby-based cloud technology consultancy and software development firm, in 2006. His original intention was to serve a small number of clients by helping them unite their sales and marketing teams; however, Traction has since grown into a nationally-recognized brand with offices and 250+ employees across North America. It is now ranked as one of the continent’s fastest growing technology companies. Greg’s commitment to workplace culture and community has landed Traction on Demand on Canada’s Top 10 Best Places to Work list for the past three years. Additionally, Traction is a current finalist for Deloitte’s Best Managed Companies in Canada. Individually, Greg has been recognized for both his unconventional leadership style and expertise in cloud computing and data. In 2013, Business in Vancouver named him one of the Top Forty Under 40, awarding him once again with CEO of the Year in 2016.
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About Traction on Demand: Traction on Demand is North America’s largest dedicated Salesforce consulting firm delivering cross-platform solutions and SaaS products.
Jesse Chen
CEO CoPilot AI
Jesse is an ex-EA entrepreneur and the co-founder, CEO of CoPIlot AI. Jesse was involved in shipping 12 titles during his time at EA on the core FIFA team. Jesse has over 20 years of experience in the software industry and led the development and growth of CoPilot’s AI.
CoPilot AI is a SaaS company based in Vancouver, Canada in the AI Sales Enablement space. The company uses AI and dynamic video technology to help sales teams automatically target qualified prospects on social media, initiate one-to-one conversations, and surface timely sales opportunities without requiring any content marketing, spam emails, or advertising. The company’s vision and mission is to humanize the way businesses connect with their targeted audience at scale. Customers have connected with over 3.3M prospects in 2022 through CoPilot AI. With an AI engine trained on 8M conversation threads doubling every 8 months, CoPilot AI is becoming the leading sales, marketing and recruitment prospect platform.
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About CoPilot AI, WealthBar: CoPilot AI is a SaaS company that uses A.I. and rich social data to connect businesses with customers in a whole new way.
Murray Goldberg
Founder and CEO of Marine Learning Systems
Murray Goldberg began his eLearning career as a tenured faculty member conducting research on the effectiveness of web-based learning in the department of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia. In 1997, Murray took a leave from UBC to become the president and founder of WebCT, a company that grew to 350 employees providing the world’s leading learning management system (LMS) serving 14 million students in 80 countries at 4,000 universities and colleges. WebCT sold to rival company Blackboard in 2006 for $200M US. Since that time, Murray has remained involved in eLearning and social-academic initiatives as company founder, consultant, advisor and board member. Most recently, while acting as an eLearning consultant with British Columbia Ferry Services Inc, Murray developed a learning management system specifically suited to maritime and other industrial training contexts. As a result of the success of this new LMS, Murray has created a new company, Marine Learning Systems, to make this LMS available to the maritime industry and other industrial training contexts. Although the company is still early in its development, it counts among its customers some of the largest and best known names in the maritime industry. Murray has served as a consultant, advisor, board member and board chairman for numerous technology and education companies. In addition to other board memberships, Murray currently serves on the board of trustees of Harvey Mud College – ranked No. 2 among US undergraduate engineering programs by U.S. News & World Report. Murray also recently served on the “Sunnylands Math Strategy Group” – a Gates, Hewlett, Hemsley and Annenberg-funded think-tank to improve US K-12 mathematics performance. A widely recognized thought leader in the field of online teaching and learning, Goldberg has given over 250 keynote and invited lectures, and is an expert resource for business, education and technology organizations and education media. Goldberg has won numerous prizes including the prestigious UBC Killam University Teaching Prize during his first year as a UBC faculty member. Goldberg was honored at the 2000 National IWAY Awards in Canada as one of five extraordinary Canadians for his outstanding contributions to information technology and was also named as he recipient of the New Media Hyperion award for the application of new media in the field of information technology. In 2004, Goldberg was granted an Honorary Doctorate of Technology from the Southern Cross University in Australia for his pioneering work in advancing educational technologies globally. Also in 2004, Goldberg was the winner of the national Manning Awards foundation EnCana Principal Award, $100,000 prize honoring the country’s most outstanding innovator. Most recently, Goldberg was named as one of the top 15 Canadians in digital media by Backbone Magazine.
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About Marine Learning Systems: Marine Learning is a rapidly growing eLearning software & services provider that caters to the unique needs of the maritime industry.
Nejeed Kassam
Founder and CEO of Keela
Nejeed Kassam is Founder & CEO at Keela.co
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About Believe Vancouver, C100, Fundraising KIT, Keela: Raise more money. Do more good.
Juan Orrego
Co-Founder and CEO of Cuboh
Juan Orrego is the cofFounder and CEO of Cuboh.
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About Cuboh: Cuboh is a developer of an application intended to automate online food orders for restaurants.
Derek Major
Founder, CEO, Board Member of Eligeo CRM
Derek founded Eligeo CRM in 2008 and has since moved into a consulting and business development role for the company. Derek has enjoyed a 14+ year career in the CRM space and is actively involved in learning new technologies as they relate to CRM. When Derek isn’t delivering CRM solutions he can be found cheering on the Vancouver Canucks, and spending time with his partner and their dog Kits.
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About Eligeo CRM: Eligeo CRM is a business software consulting firm specializing in customer relationship management software.
Dave Clements
CEO of Lasso
From the early 80’s, Dave’s work passion has been technology. Since the mid 90’s, it’s been all about leveraging software and the Internet to help frontline marketing, sales, and service teams achieve better results. Dave has great admiration for homebuilders, and is proud to serve each of our clients who have put their faith in us to deploy Lasso CRM on 1,000’s of projects and communities worldwide. Building long-term relationships with our clients and alliance partners, and having the opportunity to lead the team at Lasso has been the most fun and enjoyable endeavor of his career.
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About Lasso: Lasso has been on the cutting edge of CRM technology for new home marketing and sales.
Jake Terepocki
Chief Executive Officer of PureVoltage Enterprises
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About Douglife Marketing, Minecraftserver.net, PureVoltage Enterprises: PureVoltage Enterprises specializes in enterprise class Colocation, VPS & Dedicated Server Hosting
Robert Atwood
President & CEO of Hummingbird Drones
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About Hummingbird Drones: Hummingbird Drones is a remote imaging, sensing and software development company.
Michael Whitehead
CEO of 1CRM Corp.
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About 1CRM Corp.: 1CRM strives to equip business owners with the tools they need to manage their customer relationships and business from anywhere at anytime.
Ryan Smith
Founder & CEO of FTSY
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About FTSY: FTSY (‘footsy’) is an A.I. platform that matches people to consumer goods where fit and comfort matter.
Morgan Carey
CEO of Real Estate Webmasters Inc
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About Real Estate Webmasters Inc: World’s Largest Custom Web Development & Marketing Company For Real Estate
Morgan Carey
CEO of Real Estate Webmasters Inc
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About Real Estate Webmasters Inc: World’s Largest Custom Web Development & Marketing Company For Real Estate
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