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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 CEO’ operating in the Analytics 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.
Damir Hot
CEO & Founder of Canalyst
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About Canalyst: Canalyst is the leading destination for public company data and analysis.
Mark Cunningham
Founder & CEO of Stytch
Mark Cunningham is Founder and CEO of Stytch, a data analytics company based in Vancouver, BC. Mark is a thought leader and entrepreneur with more than 25 years’ experience in the business intelligence (BI) industry. He has built five successful start-ups, four focused in pure business intelligence/analytics, which include Indicee and Crystal decisions. As well, one start-up in sports marketing where he applied data and analytics. Today’s elite athletes pump out a lot of data by way of heart rate, power meters and other key performance indicators which help optimize athletic performance. Mark was also the founder of Symmetrics Pro Cycling which was Canada’s largest pro cycling team project and the #1 road cycling team in North America. Mark’s passion for solving data problems with technology began in 1991, when his family business began building the world’s first Windows-based reporting tool, Crystal Reports. Crystal grew to employ over 2,000 employees and was eventually acquired by Business Objects for $820M. Mark later founded cloud BI company Indicee, which was acquired by Dun & Bradstreet in 2014 to form the Dun & Bradstreet Cloud Innovation Center. Mark launched Stytch in 2016 as the only analytics platform on the market that connects to the world’s largest commercial database from Dun & Bradstreet. Stytch provides business teams with everything they need to get more insights, faster—from data preparation to dashboards.
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About Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), Stytch: Stytch is a data analytics platform that provides business teams with everything they need to get more insights, faster.
Sean Hinton
Founder, CEO of SkyHive
As an experienced global business leader with an MBA from Queen’s University, Sean possesses substantial expertise in skills development and is considered a thought leader on the Future of Work. With the mission of combating poverty and unemployment through the use of exponential technology, Sean strives to set a positive example for other entrepreneurs that a successful business can be built in a way that truly helps people.
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About SkyHive: SkyHive is an artificial intelligence technology that drives rapid reskilling of workforces and communities across the world.
Bryan Statham
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of LifeBooster
Bryan is the original founder and the CEO of LifeBooster Inc. He provides strategic consulting, including business plan, and sales and marketing strategy development, as well as the scientific insight and vision into the LifeBooster system. With a background in biomedical sciences and sales and marketing, Bryan’s ability to drive the business development of our innovative health and safety solution has been a natural process. He is an outstanding problem solver and natural team leader with the proven ability to deliver quickly in complex environments. By identifying and building high-quality client relationships with Fortune 100 companies, actively sourcing strategic partnerships throughout diverse industries, and conducting high-level market analysis, Bryan’s vision drives LifeBooster to be a leader in wearable technology for the future of occupational health and safety.
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About LifeBooster: Leading connected worker and risk analytics platform for industrial health and safety – ensuring every worker gets home safe every day.
Kevin Collins
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Bit Stew Systems
Kevin has more than 20 years’ experience in architecting and designing world-class technology solutions, both as an entrepreneur and as a corporate executive. Kevin has extensive domain knowledge in the utility sector having assisted BC Hydro in all aspects of its smart grid program from concept through operations. Before founding Bit Stew, Kevin worked for Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers, Navio Systems, a Silicon Valley technology company, and Motorola. As CEO Kevin established the vision and direction for Bit Stew, leads the evolution of the Grid Director platform and acts as chief customer advocate.
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About Bit Stew Systems, Charli AI: Bit Stew Systems is the creator of the platform for Software Defined Operations for the Industrial Internet.
Nick Chandi
Co-founder and CEO of ForwardAI
Nick Chandi is the CEO and co-founder of ForwardAI, and a serial entrepreneur. Before co-founding ForwardAI, Nick co-founded SlickPie, which provided online accounting software for over 40,000 small businesses worldwide. In 2019, Nick had a successful exit from co-founded firm Welcome Networks, which provides IT solutions for accounting firms across North America.
Nick has a Master of Business Administration degree and a Bachelor in Engineering. He has spent over two decades working in the accounting tech industry and touches on this experience at fintech and CPA events, speaking about technology, small business, and cybersecurity practices. Nick is a BC Tech C-Council Member and regularly contributes to the Forbes Finance Council.
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About ForwardAI: ForwardAI is improving access to aggregated accounting, financial, and business data for banks, lenders, and fintechs.
Charles Lavigne
Co-founder, CEO of LlamaZOO Interactive
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About LlamaZOO Interactive: LlamaZOO is changing the way the world sees data by helping enterprises analyze and visualize big data in its real-world context.
Mark Masongsong
CEO & Co-Founder of UrbanLogiq
Mark Masongsong was a political and government staffer for over a decade, including as an advisor to two Ministers of Health in British Columbia. He bring detailed experience in understanding the priorities of government and working with government planners. He earned his pilot’s license at the age of 17, and has served as a director to international development and environmental charities, and was awarded a Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal in 2003. BA, Simon Fraser University
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About UrbanLogiq: UrbanLogiq provides a data analytics platform that makes city planning faster, cheaper, and more accurate.
Mischa Steiner-Jovic
CEO of Awesense
Mischa’s product development and management experience in the embedded electronics, wireless, and software industries was honed at organizations such as ECO Fuel Systems, Newpoint Thermal and the Okanagan Research & Innovation Centre. Mischa is a frequent speaker and panelist at industry conferences, university programs and government events on the smart grid and the innovation potential of technology to transform business and society. He represented Awesense as a voting and participating member during the inception of the Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (SGIP) led by National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). He is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and an active volunteer at Science World to encourage school children to pursue careers in math, science, and engineering. Mischa holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Victoria and Wireless, Electronics, Engineering Technology from the British Columbia Institute of Technology after leaving a Ph.D path at Simon Fraser University in Mathematics.
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About Awesense: Awesense drives the decentralized and decarbonized future of energy with their Digital Energy Platform and Open Energy Data Model.
Bijan Sanii
President & CEO of INETCO Systems Limited
Bijan Sanii has more than 20 years history as a technology industry executive. Before joining INETCO, Bijan was Executive Chair at UB Video, which developed one of the key enabling technologies for video over IP. He provided leadership and guidance that culminated in the acquisition of the company by Scientific-Atlanta (now a Cisco company). Prior to UB Video, Bijan joined Infowave Software in 1997. As General Manager of the Imaging Division, he successfully led a restructuring of the business and generated a record operating profit in 1998. He was later appointed Infowave’s Chief Operating Officer and CEO, driving Infowave’s IPO and strategic partnership agreements with Intel Corp, Compaq Computer Corporation, and other technology industry leaders. Bijan was born in London, U.K. and graduated with honors from the Polytechnic of Central London (now University of Westminster) with a B.A. in Economics. He currently sits on the board of Disternet, a digital media entertainment company based in Richmond, British Columbia. Bijan is also a charter member of the TiE Indus Entrepreneurs, and an active partner within BC Social Venture Partners.
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About INETCO Systems Limited: INETCO provides payment fraud detection, transaction monitoring and channel analytics solutions for banking and payments environments.
Anton Solonnikov
Founder and CEO of VitaminLab
Anton Solonnikov is the Founder and CEO at VitaminLab.
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About VitaminLab: VitaminLab creates an all-in one personalized supplement from your health data: health history, blood testing or health apps.
Tom Raycove
Founder CEO of Disrupted Logic
Founder at Disrupted Logic
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About Disrupted Logic: Big Data and Artificial Intelligence for Interactive Media Experiences
Rob Bucci
CEO & Founder of STAT Search Analytics
Rob is the founder and CEO of STAT Search Analytics. He’s been a developer and entrepreneur in the SEO space since 2005, and he especially loves tackling big-data challenges in data mining and analytics. When he isn’t doing that, you can usually find him falling down a ski hill, splashing in the ocean, or taking cookies out of the oven.
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About STAT Search Analytics: Since 2009, we’ve been providing fresh, unlimited, location-based search data for some of the world’s largest and nimblest online brands
Tony Bevilacqua
Chief Executive Officer of Cognitive3D
Tony is the Founder and CEO of Cognitive3D, which is an analytics platform that gathers data from virtual and augmented reality experiences in new ways, and turns them into actionable insights. Prior to founding Cognitive3D, Tony co-founded and exited another startup that focused on revenue optimization and data analytics for enterprise customers.
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About Cognitive3D: Cognitive3D classifies and surfaces actionable spatial intelligence from human interactions within immersive experiences and applications.
Judi Hess
CEO of Copperleaf Technologies
Judi is the CEO of Copperleaf, a decision analytics software company based in Vancouver B.C. In 2016, Copperleaf was named the 17th Fastest-Growing Software Company in Canada and the Emerging Company of the Year in BC. She began her career as a software developer at aerospace and defense company MDA and spent 14 years there before joining Creo Inc. in 1995. She rose to become president in 2002, a position she held until Creo was acquired by Eastman Kodak for just under $1 Billion USD in 2005. During her 4 year tenure at Kodak, Judi was a vice president within the graphic communications group, a corporate officer and vice president of Eastman Kodak, and head of Kodak Canada. Judi is currently a member of the Premier’s Technology Council of British Columbia, and a member of the board of directors of Pason Systems Inc. In 2017, Judi was recognized as an Influential Women in Business by BIV, an award recognizing B.C.’s most outstanding business women. Originally from Toronto, Judi and her family live in Vancouver. She holds an Honours Bachelor of Mathematics Degree With Distinction – Dean’s Honours List from the University of Waterloo, was a René Descartes Scholar, and is an avid downhill skier.
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About Copperleaf Technologies: Copperleaf provides decision analytics to companies managing critical infrastructure.
Aaron Nielsen
Co-founder & CEO of ThinkCX
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About ThinkCX: Social Intelligence for Call Centers
Tagg Jefferson
Founder & CEO of GridCure
Tagg Jefferson is Founder of GridCure, bringing Big Data to utilities around the world.
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About GridCure: GridCure brings the concepts and practices of big data to the electrical power utility space.
Greg Ford
CEO & Co-Founder of TalentClick
I have co-founded three companies and invested in a small handful. My expertise and interests are in psychology, media, and learning, which can lend itself to human resource related applications, eLearning for the workplace, corporate storytelling, or digital media.
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About TalentClick: Predictive analytic assessments measuring risk-based personality traits to hire and train better employees.
Matt Lister
CEO & Co-Founder of CloudAdvisors
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About CloudAdvisors: CloudAdvisors is one of the top InsurTech solutions in North America, powering the next-generation of Employee Benefit Advisors.
Jeff More
President & CEO of MineSense Technologies
As President and Chief Executive Officer, Jeff is responsible for the strategic and overall leadership of MineSense. His primary mandate is to bring to market the company’s disruptive, value creating technology. In 2016, this included a successful fund raise and the company’s first commercial contract. Jeff is a seasoned CEO with a particular focus on intensive growth mandates. His experience spans a diverse set of industries, including environmental services, electronics recycling, telecommunications, robotics and engineered materials. A company builder with a proven track record in both large companies and entrepreneurial environments, he brings broad functional expertise in business development, marketing strategy, operational efficiency and M&A to Minesense, This is coupled with extensive expertise in global markets, including China, India, Japan, South America and Africa. He is a demonstrated team builder and values-driven leader. Jeff holds a B.Eng in Chemical Engineering & Management and an MBA, both from McMaster University.
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About MineSense Technologies: MineSense Technologies is a developer of a data analytics platform intended to monitor and improve the productivity and recovery of mines.
Ben Kerr
CEO & Senior Water Scientist of Foundry Spatial
Ben is the CEO and Senior Water Scientist at Foundry Spatial. He leads the team of scientists and developers creating next generation decision support tools. Drawing on a diverse background in multiple resource industries, he uses his expertise in hydrology and data science to connect billions of pieces of data with intuitive and flexible interfaces that let people quickly and easily make sustainable decisions.
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About Foundry Spatial: Water focused environmental analytics
Strac Ivanov
President & CEO of Vicinity Jobs Inc
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About Vicinity Jobs Inc: Big data analytics technology company specializing in real-time tracking of regional labour market trends
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