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 Consulting 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.
Brett Grehan
Senior Partner of McKinsey & Company
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About McKinsey & Company, McKinsey & Company: McKinsey & Company is a global management consulting firm and trusted advisor by businesses, governments, and institutions.
Susan Martyn
Partner, Canadian Immigration Law of PwC
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About PwC: PricewaterhouseCoopers is an accounting firm that provides tax, HR, transactions, performance improvement, and crisis management services.
Kendra Garagan
Founder & Partner of Moken
While accelerating growth in new markets, Kendra creates groundbreaking opportunities through strategically designed processes and management styles. From defining a company’s strategic plan to optimizing a revenue funnel for growth, she works diligently to coordinate and execute on any level. Providing solutions you can rely on, because life is full of surprises, Kendra knows what building success is about and has the experience of creating success within rapidly changing environments to prove it. Kendra bets on curiosity as a culture and believes it all starts with listening.
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About Moken, MokenLabs: A global hub for startups & founders, guiding through the journey of building a successful venture from ideation to scale.
Mohamed Ibshara
Founder & Partner of Moken
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About Binary Vision Studios, Kenergy Ventures, Moken, Moken Agency, MokenLabs, MokenLabs: A global hub for startups & founders, guiding through the journey of building a successful venture from ideation to scale.
Brenda Irwin
Managing Partner & Co-Founder of Relentless Pursuit Partners
Brenda Irwin joined the Providence Health Care Board in 2012. Brenda is the founder of Angel Links Capital, managing investments for private investors across a range of sectors, including health and wellness. Previously, she was a venture capitalist for 13 years as a member of BDC Venture Capital’s life sciences team. Before entering the world of finance, Brenda enjoyed a career as a middle school science teacher. Her other non-profit experience includes tenure as vice-president for the Take A Hike, Youth At Risk Foundation while it went through a decade of program growth and community expansion. She is dedicated to mentorship and finds time to explore British Columbia’s beauty when training for triathlons. Brenda has a BSc from the University of Guelph and an MBA from the University of British Columbia.
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About Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), Relentless Pursuit Partners: Relentless Pursuit Partners is an early stage fund dedicated to investing in preventative and proactive technology solutions.
Simon Whitfield
Co-Founder, Partner of Relentless Pursuit Partners
Simon St. Quentin Whitfield (born 16 May 1975 in Kingston, Ontario) is a retired Olympic triathlon champion from Canada.
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About Relentless Pursuit Partners: Relentless Pursuit Partners is an early stage fund dedicated to investing in preventative and proactive technology solutions.
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 Cahén
Managing Partner of Silver Tenet Partners
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About Apartmint, Silver Tenet Partners: Dynamic Business Development & Capital
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
Linda Bustos
Co-founder & Managing Partner of Edgacent
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About Edgacent: Edgacent is a digital marketing and ecommerce advisory firm.
Ted Sum
Partner of Smart & Biggar-Fetherstonhaugh
Ted Sum is a partner at the law firm Smart & Biggar. His practice covers all aspects of intellectual property, with particular emphasis on licensing, commercialization, patent and trademark prosecution, IP due diligence, ecommerce, and counselling clients on IP strategy. Ted works with clients across a wide range of industries, including clients involved in high tech, software and IT, robotics, AI and machine learning, telecommunications, aerospace, defence, energy, clean tech, life science, chemicals, transportation, mining, and forestry. He has extensive experience advising on a broad range of IP matters involving the research, development, acquisition, clearance, commercialization, and exploitation of products, technology, and related IP assets. Ted has been recognized as among the world’s leading patent and technology licensing lawyers in Intellectual Asset Management’s international surveys from 2010 to 2017. He is also recognized in The Best Lawyers in Canada under IP Law (since 2011), IT Law (since 2013), and Technology Law (since 2014), and in The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory (since 2013).
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About Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), Smart & Biggar-Fetherstonhaugh: Smart & Biggar-Fetherstonhaugh is the largest and highest-ranked firm practising exclusively in intellectual property and technology law.
Wesley Mussio
Managing Partner of Mussio Goodman
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About Mussio Goodman: Mussio Goodman is a leading Personal Injury Law Firm in Vancouver B.C.
Wesley Mussio
Managing Partner of Mussio Goodman
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About Mussio Goodman: Mussio Goodman is a leading Personal Injury Law Firm in Vancouver B.C.
Shaun Brown
Partner of nNovation
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About nNovation: nNovation is a Canada-based legal firm that offers its users with business law solutions, counsel services, and merger reviews.
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