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 CTO’ operating in the Information Technology space. If you think a CTO’ 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.
Luke Evans
CTO of Stytch
For over 20 years, Luke has been one of the leading architects in the business intelligence industry. Luke provides technical leadership at Stytch, heading up Engineering, QA and Operations. He remains hands-on with architecture and project planning and even writes code on occasion! Luke began his career at UK-based Holistic Systems, pioneering multidimensional modelling and reporting. Following the company’s acquisition by Seagate Software, Luke relocated to Vancouver and continued to lead the technology roadmap as the company became Crystal Decisions, then Business Objects and eventually SAP/Business Objects. When not leading his team of developers, Luke can be found reading about the latest scientific discoveries, skiing, hiking, or debating current affairs over a pint.
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About Stytch: Stytch is a data analytics platform that provides business teams with everything they need to get more insights, faster.
Valery Novikov
Co-founder & CTO of FISPAN
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About FISPAN: Fintech Service Management for Financial Institutions
Jay Addison
CTO 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
Jay Addison
CTO 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
Igor Kostin
CTO of iGMS
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About iGMS: iGMS is an all-in-one vacation rental management software for Airbnb/Booking.com/VRBO/HA management companies and property managers
Sid Misra
CTO of BluePhish
Sid Misra is the chief technology officer of Bluephish.
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About BluePhish: BluePhish demystifies and trains workforce in Cyber Security Awareness through online micro-modules to help reduce cyber risk.
Sid Misra
CTO of BluePhish
Sid Misra is the chief technology officer of Bluephish.
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About BluePhish: BluePhish demystifies and trains workforce in Cyber Security Awareness through online micro-modules to help reduce cyber risk.
Mike Lerner
CTO & Cofounder of Greenspace
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About Greenspace: Greenspace holds data security and privacy in the highest regard.
Graham McCarthy
Co-Founder & CTO of SoapBox
Graham McCarthy is a Co-Founder & CTO at Hypercontext.
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About Hypercontext, SoapBox: SoapBox provides software solutions.
Toufic Boubez
CTO and Chief Product Officer of MacroHealth
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About MacroHealth: MacroHealth is a health informaton technology company that provides healthcare network optimization and claims settlement services.
Jag Bains
Chief Technology Officer of DOSarrest
A 17 year veteran in the internet service provider arena, Jag Bains has extensive network design experience as well as implementing a number of security platforms. In his previous position as the Director of Network Engineering and Operations for PEER1 Hosting Jag was able to observe a large number of DDoS attacks against their customer base, and came to appreciate the singular focus needed to combat the evolving nature of these attacks. Jag holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Information Science from the University of Victoria, in British Columbia.
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About DOSarrest: DOSarrest specializes in stopping DoS and DDoS attacks of all varieties.
Erik Tillberg
Chief Technology Officer of iMerciv
Erik was previously a software developer at Thicket Labs and co-founder of KAE Guys. Erik joined iMerciv on a part-time basis to develop MapinHood (www.mapinhood.com) and is now working full-time as CTO heading up the technical team who are building out the product/platform.
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About iMerciv, The Happenin Company: iMerciv leverages crowd sourcing and AI to empower pedestrians with personalized navigation and actionable data in real time.
Craig Ford
Chief Technology Officer of Expression
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About Expression: XPR is developer platform that lets you build anything online and works as your digital OS to connect the digital world for your customers
Craig Ford
Chief Technology Officer of Expression
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About Expression: XPR is developer platform that lets you build anything online and works as your digital OS to connect the digital world for your customers
Jason Madar
CTO of Vandrico
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About Vandrico: VANDRICO TURNS YOUR DATA INTO SAFE PRODUCTIVITY
Jason Pila
CTO of PlaceSpeak
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About PlaceSpeak: Location-based smart city citizen engagement
Lee Iverson
CTO of TeamFit
Lee builds intelligence into our systems. He has a Ph.D. in artificial intelligence from McGill University and worked at SRI International in Palo Alto from 1993 to 2001. For the past decade, he has focussed on collaborative work, privacy and security. Lee makes sure that our systems get smarter as people use them. Belbin Roles: Resource Investigator, Plant, Completer Finisher
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About Nugg Solutions, TeamFit: TeamFit is a team building platform, recording project experience, validating skills, and collecting expertise profiles.
Greg Bell
CTO of Medeo
Greg Bell is the Chief Technology Officer of Medeo, a Vancouver based Tele-health company. He is a passionate technologist with over a decade of experience bringing innovative enterprise software products to market for the healthcare, pharmaceutical and financial industries. For the past 3 years he has concentrated on building teams and software that deliver innovation to the healthcare and pharmaceutical sectors. Previous to joining Medeo, Greg was the founder and CEO of Reverb Software, a successful software consulting company that built custom web-based enterprise software for the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries. He led the organization’s software development process in planning, designing and building custom software that enabled companies to become more productive and profitable. Three notable projects during this time were: a multi-tenant clinical trial management and randomization application for some of the world’s top pharmaceutical companies, a distributed temperature monitoring system for hospitals, clinics, and pharmacies, and an enterprise dashboard and data warehousing solution for international shipping organizations. Before starting Reverb, Greg was a senior software engineer leading the development efforts at VersaPay – a disruptive real-time bill presentment and payment platform in Canada. Throughout Greg’s career he has had the pleasure of working with many small startups as well as some of the biggest brands in the world including Novartis, AT&T, Blackberry, Samsung and Jenny Craig. As a contributor to open source software, Greg founded two well-recognized Ruby projects that have been downloaded over a million times. Greg has also served as the Director of Operations for TEDxVancouver helping grow the event from 400 to 2200 attendees over the course of 2 years. Greg is the graduate of Capilano University’s school of Interactive Design as well as the Emily Carr University of Art + Design.
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About Medeo, Orange Peel Media, Reverb Software, ScrnShots, TEDxVancouver: Secure medical video conferencing
Michael Coughlin
Founder & CTO of SilkStart
Michael Coughlin is a Founder & CTO at SilkStart.
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About SilkStart: SilkStart offers associations with a software platform that assists them to manage and run their organization.
Alec Brunelle
CTO of BizXPro Inc.
Alec Brunelle is the CTO at BizXPro Inc..
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About BizXPro Inc.: Automated procurement tool helps SMBs choose from top-rated IT & development firms, at no cost, while offering qualified leadgen
Dhruv Adhia
Co-Founder and CTO of H+ Technology
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About H+ Technology: H+ Technology is a digital display solutions company that develops customizable, gesture-based systems, and 3D projection displays.
Guillermo Schwartz
CTO and co-founder of Clear Image AI
Guillermo Schwartz is the CTO and co-founder at Clear Image AI.
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About Clear Image AI: Clear Image AI was born on the belief that the technological frontier is at the computing edge.
Paul Guenette
Co-founder and CTO of StandardFusion
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About StandardFusion: A cloud-based GRC SaaS platform for information security teams at small, medium, or enterprise organizations.
Christian Carrillo
President and Chief Technology Officer of Tenebril
Christian Carrillo founded Tenebril, Inc., in 1998 and serves as its President and Chief Technology Officer. Prior to Tenebril, Christian Carrillo worked at Scripps Research and Digital Equipment Corporation, applying machine learning approaches to protein folding and compiler optimization. Christian Carrillo devoted his efforts to building the Tenebril product line around security and performance themes. His work in machine learning serves as the basis for Tenebril Inc.’s patented spyware profiling technology. He serves as a Director of Tenebril, Inc. He graduated from magna cum laude in Computer Science and studied at Harvard University.
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About Tenebril: Tenebril is a security and privacy technology company offering solutions for home and enterprise customers.
Wei Fang
Co-founder & CTO of Tochtech
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About Tochtech: Tochtech is a healthcare technology on a mission to apply innovations for Seniors daily living.
Wei Fang
Co-founder & CTO of Tochtech
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About Tochtech: Tochtech is a healthcare technology on a mission to apply innovations for Seniors daily living.
Rolf Papsdorf
CTO co-founder / inventor of Zolair Energy
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About Zolair Energy: Zolair is a micro-electric utility providing clean, affordable energy solutions for the developing world.
Rohit Boolchandani
CTO & Founder of AirSenze
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About AirSenze: Technology startup working on iBeacon technology.
Dave Hawkins
President and Chief Technology Officer of Viewpoint AI
Dave Hawkins is the President and Chief Technology Officer of Viewpoint.AI.
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About Viewpoint AI: Viewpoint is an AI powered decision software company that combines the best of human and machine intelligence amplifying human skill levels.
Sasa Bogdanovic
Co-founder, CTO and Data Scientist of Ruby Industries
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About Ruby Industries: Ruby Industries creates data products that help iGaming operators.
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