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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 Director operating in the Internet space. If you think a Director 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.
Christene Best
Director of Sales, North America of Infobip
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About Infobip: Infobip specializes in omnichannel engagement powering a range of messaging channels, tools, and solutions for advanced customer engagement.
Antonio Kolstee
Managing Director, North America of Infobip
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About Infobip: Infobip specializes in omnichannel engagement powering a range of messaging channels, tools, and solutions for advanced customer engagement.
Richard Auchinleck
Member of the Board of Directors of TELUS
Richard Auchinleck began his service as a director of Conoco Inc. in 2001 prior to its merger with Phillips Petroleum Company in 2002. He served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Gulf Canada Resources Limited from 1998 until its acquisition by Conoco in 2001. Prior to his service as CEO, he was Chief Operating Officer of Gulf Canada from 1997 to 1998 and Chief Executive Officer for Gulf Indonesia Resources Limited from 1997 to 1998. Richard Auchinleck currently serves on the boards of Enbridge Income Fund Holdings Inc. and Telus Corporation and previously served on the board of Red Mile Entertainment Inc. from 2005 to 2008.
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About : Second largest Canadian telecommunications company. Provides wireless phone service, high speed Internet, IPTV, home phone, long distance,
Dr. Steven Funk
Chairman, Board of Directors of EventChain SmartTickets
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About EventChain SmartTickets: Eventchain is a Blockchain-powered ticket system that aims to solve problems of the ticketing industry
Shawn Kalin
Founder & Director of Development of RURALTY International
Kalin has more that 20 years experience with scaling businesses into new markets. The big move in recent years is the convergence of real estate tech and fintech. Our major play is the undervalued real estate outside of the major cities. Our brand and platform is RURALTY.com
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About ActionTax.ca, RURALTY International, Virtly, WebShowing: Real Estate Tech, PropTech, Fintech.
Emma Williams
Director of Marketing of Breathe Life
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About Breathe Life: The digital distribution platform for life insurance carriers
Olivier Amiot
IoT Solutions – Marketing and Business Development Director of Sierra Wireless
Olivier Amiot is the IoT Solutions – Marketing and Business Development Director at Sierra Wireless.
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About Sierra Wireless: Sierra Wireless provides wireless wide area modem solutions for the mobile computing, rugged mobile, and machine-to-machine markets.
Trevor Burgess
CEO, Co-Founder, Director of VoltSafe Inc.
CEO – VoltSafe Inc.
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About VoltSafe Inc.: Fearless creators, changing how people connect to electricity using magnets. Simply put, we’ve patented a better way to connect to power.
Larissa Dundon
Director of Marketing of bazinga! Technologies
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About : Bazinga offers a range of software and services that focus on community management and communications.
Vlad Lavrovsky
Director of Engineering Innovation of TZOA
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About TZOA: TZOA provides Healthy Environments as a Service
Evans Jia
Managing Director of Upmost Capital
Evans Jia is investment advisor at Upmost Capital based in Vancouver, dedicated in making angel investment in China and North America. Evans is passionate about consumer internet and mobile related ventures. With over 20+ years of experience in marketing, product and user experience design, Evans co-founded leading online real estate platform Anjuke acquired by 58.com in 2015, and online travel business Zizaike in 2011. Prior to that, He has five year marketing experience as Advertising and Marketing Research Manager with Johnson & Johnson, and led Eachnet/eBay China product/user experience team since 2000. Evans quit his undergraduate education of Industrial Electronical Automation at Shanghai University of Engineering Science in 1992. He continued professional education by acquired Chartered Certificate in Marketing in 1998, and completed Advanced Management Program in China Europe International Business School in 2006.
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About Upmost Capital: Upmost Capital is Venture investment business, focusing on early stage consumer internet and mobile market.
Janet Wood
Director of Partnerpedia
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About : Partnerpedia delivers private label marketplace and enterprise app store solutions.
Alexander Keller
Director of research of Diveling
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About : diveling offers technology that streamlines the web into a popup book of contextualized and personalized information for its users.
Mike Leger
Director of Marketing of Diveling
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About : diveling offers technology that streamlines the web into a popup book of contextualized and personalized information for its users.
Mike Leger
Director of Marketing of Diveling
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About : diveling offers technology that streamlines the web into a popup book of contextualized and personalized information for its users.
David Xing
Marketing Director of Tochtech
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About Tochtech: Tochtech is a healthcare technology on a mission to apply innovations for Seniors daily living.
Steve Anderson
Founder and Executive Director of OpenMedia.ca
Steve Anderson is the founder and Executive Director of the award winning civic engagement organization OpenMedia.ca. Steve is a digital policy analyst and open Internet advocate who often appears in national and international media to comment on telecom, surveillance, and copyright policy along with other matters related to internet governance. Steve Anderson is also considered a leader in strategies for civic engagement and crowdsourcing. His writing has appeared in numerous local and national print and online publications such as The Tyee, the Toronto Star, Ottawa Citizen, and the National Post. Steve is a contributing author of the CCPA book “The Internet Tree”.
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About OpenMedia.ca: OpenMedia engages, educates, and empowers people to safeguard the open and affordable internet through its citizen-driven campaigns.
Alexa Pitoulis
Managing Director of OpenMedia.ca
Alexa Pitoulis is the Managing Director with OpenMedia.ca. Alexa brings over 15 years experience building and leading teams and projects for government and community organizations. A self-proclaimed kale-powered supermom on two wheels, she is a creative strategist driven by her passion for building regenerative social and ecological systems. With an MBA in Sustainable Systems from Bainbridge Graduate Institute, Alexa views organizations as living systems and is excited to bring this perspective to the “how” we work at OpenMedia. Inspired by Margaret Wheatley’s wisdom that “people support what they create”, Alexa is committed to authentic engagement and collaboration.
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About OpenMedia.ca: OpenMedia engages, educates, and empowers people to safeguard the open and affordable internet through its citizen-driven campaigns.
Allen Jurisic
Director of Search & Analytics of Prestige Marketing
As our Director of Search & Analytics, Allen Jurisic has over 11 years of experience with Search Engine Marketing (SEO & PPC), and over 7 years of experience with using Web Analytics to improve a Business’ Bottom Line. He has consulted, educated, and approached each day of business as an opportunity for growth while guiding Business Owners, C-level Executives, Marketing Teams, and IT Departments on best practices for Strategies, Intelligent Reporting, and Implementation. He has a proven track record of success in increasing Search Engine Traffic, PPC campaigns conversion rates and optimizing websites to become an asset. Allen considers himself a “Digital Bridge Builder”; taking an Existing Business’ Processes and moving them to where they want to be through Research and Analysis. In his spare time, Allen enjoys playing ice hockey, his guitar, writing music, and spending time with his family & friends.
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About Prestige Marketing: Prestige Marketing provides marketing solutions and campaign management for companies targeting local or international customers.
Paul Newell
Director of Ai +strategy
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About : Bespoke Artificial Intelligence Developer, specializing in Watson
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