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 Electronics 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.
Dan Eisenhardt
Founder & CEO of FORM
Dan Eisenhardt is the Founder & CEO of FORM.
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About Fatigue Science, FORM, Rhino Ventures (Formerly Vancouver Founder Fund): FORM is a sports technology company provides swim goggles with a smart display.
Keir Reynolds
CEO of MEZZI
Keir has more than a decade of experience in venture capital and business building. His passion is assembling teams of high performing people to help grow brands and businesses. He’s the visionary behind both MEZZI Smart Luxury and Nearable Technology.
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About Brain Rack Industries Inc., MEZZI, Mobio Technologies, Nearable Technology Corp., SayType: The intersection between high fashion and smart technology
Jonathan Webster
President and CEO of EnvAerospace
Jonathan Webster is President and CEO of EnvAerospace, Inc., an innovative leader and ecosolutions provider offering award winning ‘EcoBlade’ technology and specialized nanocoating solutions engineered to improve material wear, compressor and fuel efficiency in the gas path of aero and aeroderivative gas turbine engines. The firm became an official supplier to GE Aviation and GE Energy in 2013 and is ISO and AS9100 certified. Jonathan Webster is an experienced international airline pilot with over 16,000 hours of flying experience type-rated on Airbus and Boeing wide-body aircraft including the A330, A340 and B-777. Formerly the vice-president of LPS AVIA, an airport planning and management consulting firm, he worked as an aviation consultant. A Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society (FRAeS), Jonathan Webster holds an MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business at Western University as well as a combined MSc. in Global Finance from NYU Stern and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). Jonathan Webster also holds certificates from Columbia University in Carbon Finance Strategy and The Ben Graham Centre for Value Investing also from the Richard Ivey School.
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About EnvAerospace: EnvAerospace™ is an aerospace technology company that develops, manufactures, and markets Advanced PVD Technology Systems
Rob Bakshi
President & CEO of Apivio
Technology luminary Mr. Bakshi is a seasoned entrepreneur with a proven track record for successfully developing market success. As the co-founder Silent Witness Enterprises, a technology company that was listed on the TSX and NASDAQ, he lead the company’s growth strategy until it was acquired by Honeywell for approximately $90 million in 2003. Since then, he has been involved with industrial land development, including building a Convention Centre in Calgary and other strategic investments. In 2009, Mr. Bakshi began working with a South Korean company to establish Apivio Systems Inc. He led the transformation of the business into a Canadian technology company, putting together an independent board of directors, financing, and corporate governance in his capacity of Executive Chairman. In 2013, he was appointed CEO to execute the global business strategy and was responsible for taking the company public. Mr. Bakshi has a Bachelor’s degree from Simon Fraser University with a major in Business and minor in Computer Science.
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About Active Witness, Apivio: Apivio Systems Inc.(“Apivio” or the “Company”) (TSX VENTURE:APV) is a Canadian technology company.
Trent Punnett
Co-CEO and Executive Vice President. Head of Sales, Product Management, Marketing, Corp. Dev. of Delta-Q Technologies
Prior to joining Delta-Q, Trent served as VP of Marketing at Teradici Corp., a pioneering company in the virtual desktop space, where he was responsible for product management, marketing, and systems engineering. Trent has held a variety of roles including Senior VP of Marketing and Corporate Development of Sierra Wireless Inc. and senior positions in marketing, product management, business development, and sales at Motorola over a 14 year period. Trent’s experience also extends to management consulting and commercial banking industries. Trent holds a Master of Science, Business Administration and a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of British Columbia and is a Fellow of the Institute of Canadian Bankers.
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About Delta-Q Technologies: Delta-Q Technologies manufacturers industrial battery chargers for lead acid and lithium-ion batteries.
Ken Fielding
Co-Founder, President & Chief Executive Officer of Delta-Q Technologies
Ken has over 22 years of experience in the power electronics industry, having worked on the development and launch of several innovative power conversion product platforms. Prior to co-founding Delta-Q in 1999, Ken oversaw and co-led the development of high-efficiency, true sine wave DC-AC and bi-directional inverter/charger product lines for Statpower (now a subsidiary of Schneider Electric). Ken holds a Bachelor degree in marketing and finance from Simon Fraser University.
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About Delta-Q Technologies: Delta-Q Technologies manufacturers industrial battery chargers for lead acid and lithium-ion batteries.
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.
Todd McCann
CEO & Co-Founder of CamDo Solutions Inc.
Founder of CamDo Solutions Inc.
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About CamDo Solutions Inc.: The Cam-Do Waterproof Enclosures are designed for outdoor use in demanding environments.
Bill Haberlin
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Ionomr
Bill is Ionomr’s CEO, having joined to take Ionomr’s world-class technology into volume production, assist in customer base transition from successful evaluation to volume production, and raise financing to achieve company objectives. He processes a deep understanding of B2B global sales and organization, strategies to break into established supply chains with innovative new components, business to business contract negotiation, and experience with business culture in Asia, Europe and North America. His internal management expertise includes a proven ability to grow and maintain high-performance teams and dealing with the issues with scaling production to high volume while maintaining quality and minimizing cost. Previously, COO & VP of Sales at SiGe Semiconductor for over a decade, he was a key player in the growth of the company from a research spinout of Canada’s National Research Council to a successful growth company which exited for $280M just prior to IPO. Bill help lead investment activities at both SiGe and NGD to raise more than $140M USD with VC’s located in US, Canada, China, Korea, Japan and the UK. He has over 25 years of industry experience and has built a good appreciation for all aspects of corporate matters required at Ionomr with previous employment at NGD Systems, Phenix Consulting, SiGe Semiconductor, Zarlink and Plessey Semiconductor. He has lived and worked in globally during his career including 15 years in Asia and possess extensive experience working with OEM customers and manufacturing partners in Asia, North and Europe.
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About Ionomr: Ionomr makes Aemion™ & Pemion™, next-gen ion-exchange materials for breakthrough clean technology applications involving electrochemistry.
Michael Pangia
President & CEO of Aviat Networks
Michael Pangia is the President and Chief Operating Officer at Westmount Park Investments and an Associate of Creative Destruction Lab.
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About Aviat Networks, Creative Destruction Lab (CDL): Aviat Networks formerly Harris Stratex Networks, Inc., incorporated in 2006, is a supplier of wireless transmission
Sami Asikainen
CEO and Co-founder of Carbon Trainer
Sami Asikainen is the CEO and Co-Founder of Carbon Trainer.
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About Carbon Trainer: fitness, hardware, consumer, saas, ai
Valerie Song
Co-Founder & CEO of AVA Technologies
Valerie Song is the CEO & Co-Founder at AVA Technologies.
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About AVA Technologies: Automatically grow year-round herbs, tomatoes, and more
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.
Mladen Jovicic
CEO & Co-founder of SproutBox Design Ltd
Mladen Jovicic is CEO and co-founder at SproutBox Design.
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About SproutBox Design Ltd: SproutBox Design is a tech company that focuses on developing innovative technology devices.
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