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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 Marketing 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.
Ruairí Doyle
CEO of PressReader
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About PressReader: PressReader offers unlimited digital access to over 7,000 newspapers and magazines from all over the world.
Trent Kitsch
Co-Founder, CEO of Stately
Trent Kitsch is the Co-Founder and CEO at Stately Capital Corporation and the Co-Founder of Kitsch Wines. He was the SAXX Underwear’s Founder before that.
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About Kitsch, Kitsch Wines, Stately: Stately offers cannabis branding services to identify emerging cannabis brands.
Simeon Garratt
Founder, CEO of Spark CRM
Founder at Spark CRM
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About Spark CRM: Spark is simplifying new home sales with smarter software.
Bernadette Butler
CEO & Founder of Storytap
CEO and chief storyteller, Bernadette is a 20 year veteran in marketing and advertising, and one of the creators of StoryTap.
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About Storytap: StoryTap is humanizing the online shopping experience with customer video reviews.
Greg Malpass
Chief Executive Officer of Traction on Demand
Greg founded Traction on Demand, a Burnaby-based cloud technology consultancy and software development firm, in 2006. His original intention was to serve a small number of clients by helping them unite their sales and marketing teams; however, Traction has since grown into a nationally-recognized brand with offices and 250+ employees across North America. It is now ranked as one of the continent’s fastest growing technology companies. Greg’s commitment to workplace culture and community has landed Traction on Demand on Canada’s Top 10 Best Places to Work list for the past three years. Additionally, Traction is a current finalist for Deloitte’s Best Managed Companies in Canada. Individually, Greg has been recognized for both his unconventional leadership style and expertise in cloud computing and data. In 2013, Business in Vancouver named him one of the Top Forty Under 40, awarding him once again with CEO of the Year in 2016.
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About Traction on Demand: Traction on Demand is North America’s largest dedicated Salesforce consulting firm delivering cross-platform solutions and SaaS products.
Austin Walper
CEO & Co-Founder of PLAYR.gg
Entrepreneur, CEO, Strategist, Content Creator
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About PLAYR.gg, The Human Startup: PLAYR.gg was a technology platform that enables enterprise brands to generate, segment, and activate first-party customer data.
Kristine Steuart
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Allocadia
As CEO and Co-Founder, Kristine Steuart leads the Allocadia team in realizing their vision of a world where marketers make every dollar count. To rally behind their mission, Kristine is focused on building a world-class team and a culture of radical transformation + we’re in it together. Kristine Steuart and her twin sister Katherine Berry co-founded Allocadia in 2010 after experiencing first-hand the difficulty in gaining insights into marketing investments and measuring marketing performance. Kristine has led Allocadia from a bootstrapped start up with a handful of customers to a global organization with hundreds of enterprise customers worldwide who manage billions of dollars in marketing spend in Allocadia, $30m in venture funding, and partnerships with marketing cloud leaders like Oracle, IBM and Marketo. With a radically better way to plan, budget and optimize their marketing investments, Allocadia’s enterprise software is helping propel marketers on a journey they have embarked upon: leading in their companies by driving real business impact. Kristine is a speaker at local and global events, and writes a CMO Leading in Change blog series. Kristine was named among the Top Forty Under 40 by Business in Vancouver, the Top 10 Women in Tech to Watch in 2015 by inc. magazine, and one of BC’s top 35 most influential women in business. Allocadia has also received recognition as one of the Top 100 Tech Companies in BC and was awarded the 2015 Gartner Cool Vendor for CRM Marketing Applications.
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About Allocadia, BC Tech Association: Allocadia empowers marketers to run marketing more effectively by providing them with greater control over their marketing investments.
Jesse Chen
CEO CoPilot AI
Jesse is an ex-EA entrepreneur and the co-founder, CEO of CoPIlot AI. Jesse was involved in shipping 12 titles during his time at EA on the core FIFA team. Jesse has over 20 years of experience in the software industry and led the development and growth of CoPilot’s AI.
CoPilot AI is a SaaS company based in Vancouver, Canada in the AI Sales Enablement space. The company uses AI and dynamic video technology to help sales teams automatically target qualified prospects on social media, initiate one-to-one conversations, and surface timely sales opportunities without requiring any content marketing, spam emails, or advertising. The company’s vision and mission is to humanize the way businesses connect with their targeted audience at scale. Customers have connected with over 3.3M prospects in 2022 through CoPilot AI. With an AI engine trained on 8M conversation threads doubling every 8 months, CoPilot AI is becoming the leading sales, marketing and recruitment prospect platform.
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About CoPilot AI, WealthBar: CoPilot AI is a SaaS company that uses A.I. and rich social data to connect businesses with customers in a whole new way.
Ryley Best
Co-Founder & CEO of Zolo Realty
Ryley Best is the CEO and co-founder at Zolo Realty.
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About Zolo Realty: Canada’s Largest Digital Real Estate Brokerage
Ali Tajsekandar
Founder & CEO of Wishpond
Ali Tajsekandar is a Founder & CEO at Wishpond.
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About Wishpond: Wishpond is an all-in-one marketing suite that enables users to generate and nurture leads.
Jon Malach
CEO of Native Ads Inc.
Currently Jon is focusing on an amazing opportunity to change the landscape of online advertising by providing leadership to NativeAds.com. Native Ads, Inc. is a content discovery and in-stream native advertising platform that facilitates the native ad buying and selling process for publishers and advertisers at scale across websites, mobile web and apps. The company has developed a scalable, easy to use, self-serve system for publishers and advertisers with a simple user interface. Within minutes, campaigns and widgets are generated to start spending or earning. The recommendation engine analyzes visitor behavior, page content and thousands of data points building up millions of in-depth user profiles. By using the power of big data, these profiles are used to recommend internal or promoted content based on relevance, yield and popularity. Jon prides himself on leading by example in sales, product & platform development, business analysis, partner relations, marketing, staff training, and public speaking. Previously Jon worked as the COO of an online advertising and media company focusing on assisting both advertisers and publishers to increase results. Models supported ranged from PPI, CPM/CPV, CPC-search, CPC-Shopping, and CPA/CPL, and throughout his tenure Jon connected over 30,000 advertisers to over 80,000 publishers.
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About Native Ads Inc.: Native Ads is a content discovery and in-stream native advertising platform for publishers and advertisers
Marcus Charalambous
Chief Executive Officer of Expression
Marcus is the founder & CEO of Backbone, one of Canada’s leading web development companies, and EXPRESSION, an innovative cloud-based web development platform that empowers coders and creators to deliver amazing digital experiences. He believes the power to utilize and communicate through the web should be accessible to everyone and that each digital experience should build strong relationships. He can often be found discussing his experiences in web dev and building cloud-ready infrastructure.
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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
Derek Major
Founder, CEO, Board Member of Eligeo CRM
Derek founded Eligeo CRM in 2008 and has since moved into a consulting and business development role for the company. Derek has enjoyed a 14+ year career in the CRM space and is actively involved in learning new technologies as they relate to CRM. When Derek isn’t delivering CRM solutions he can be found cheering on the Vancouver Canucks, and spending time with his partner and their dog Kits.
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About Eligeo CRM: Eligeo CRM is a business software consulting firm specializing in customer relationship management software.
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
Will Fraser
Founder and CEO of SaaSquatch
Will Fraser is CEO and co-founder of SaaSquatch. At SaaSquatch he works with some of the world’s largest companies to build digital growth channels that touch millions of people around the globe.
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About SaaSquatch: SaaSquatch is a provider of referral and loyalty platform to businesses with thousands to millions of customers.
Dogu Taskiran
CEO of Stambol
CEO at Stambol. CTO at Orderinbox. Polymath. Building the #Metaverse, one major piece of technology at a time. Previously of Microsoft, Ubisoft and Electronic Arts. Studied at Bilkent University and Middle East Technical University.
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About Orderinbox, Stambol: Immersive Experiences for different verticals through Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality
Dave Clements
CEO of Lasso
From the early 80’s, Dave’s work passion has been technology. Since the mid 90’s, it’s been all about leveraging software and the Internet to help frontline marketing, sales, and service teams achieve better results. Dave has great admiration for homebuilders, and is proud to serve each of our clients who have put their faith in us to deploy Lasso CRM on 1,000’s of projects and communities worldwide. Building long-term relationships with our clients and alliance partners, and having the opportunity to lead the team at Lasso has been the most fun and enjoyable endeavor of his career.
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About Lasso: Lasso has been on the cutting edge of CRM technology for new home marketing and sales.
Trent Stonehouse
Founder & CEO of Capstone Media
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About Capstone Media, Zasterr: Capstone Media is a recognized provider of strategic, quality media solutions.
David MacLaren
Founder & CEO of MediaValet
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About MediaValet: MediaValet stands at the forefront of the enterprise, cloud-based, digital asset management industry.
Annalea Krebs
Founder & CEO of Social Nature
A social entrepreneur, Annalea is a passionate individual whose mission to bring natural products to the masses inspires those around her.
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About Social Nature: Social Nature is a social product sampling community that helps people #trynatural.
Dave Davies
CEO of Beanstalk Internet Marketing, Inc.
Dave Davies is the CEO of Beanstalk Internet Marketing. Dave and his wife Mary started Beanstalk in 2004 and have grown it from a purely organic SEO firm to one offering a full range of services including SEO, SEM, social media and training and consulting. Dave is a regular author on Search Engine Land, Search Engine Journal and the Beanstalk blog. He also hosts a weekly radio show on WebmasterRadio.fm and has spoken at a number conferences over the years. With over 15 year of experience in internet marketing Dave has seen a lot of SEO strategies come and go resulting in a passion for understanding what is happening today, what’s being worked on, what patents are being granted and what does this all mean for the future. How does machine learning actaully impact search? What are the machines looking for? And of course, what do they as SEO’s need to do in this brave new world? These are the kinds of questions Dave will be answering at this years Pubcon conference.
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About Beanstalk Internet Marketing, Inc.: Established in 2004, Beanstalk is a full-service Internet Marketing firm.
Chris Stephens
Founder & CEO of Twirling Umbrellas Ltd.
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About Twirling Umbrellas Ltd.: Twirling Umbrellas is a web design and digital marketing agency in British Columbia.
Zachary Chester
Chief Executive Officer / Cofounder of ShoutExchange
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About ShoutExchange: Connecting brands with influencers on social media platforms. Influencers get free products and money to post about brands they love!
Brodie Kokoska
President, CEO of Krave Media Group
Founder and CEO of SalesBinder.com, an advanced web-based inventory management software system used in over 130 countries around the globe and managing over $50 billion worth of assets.
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About Krave Media Group: Krave Media Group is the website design and development company for small to medium sized businesses.
Jennifer Maloney Adab
Founder & CEO of Brix Media Co.
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About Brix Media Co.: Brix Media Co. is North America’s leading PR & Influencer Marketing Agency focused on social innovation.
Jon Thorpe
Founder / CEO of Flowmail
Founder & CEO @Flowmail, CEO Booth (Canada’s leading photo booth company), Past at Beer.com / D3. Lifelong adventurer and entrepreneur. Living the dream in Vancouver BC.
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About Flowmail: Flowmail is a simple, intuitive email marketing service.
Ross Dunn
CEO/Founder of StepForth Web Marketing
Ross is the CEO of StepForth Web Marketing and co-owner of First Dentist. He has been helping businesses around the world successfully market their websites since 1997.
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About StepForth Web Marketing: StepForth is to help our clients maximize the enormous marketing potential of the Internet to fulfill their short term and long-term dreams.
Mike Agerbo
CEO of Blink
As one of Canada’s most well-known technology figures, Mike is an award-winning television producer and veteran TV personality. You can watch him weekly on his GetConnectedTV show on The Business News Network, AMI, CityTV and CHECKTV across the country. His weekly appearances as GlobalBC’s tech expert, reach hundreds of thousands of British Columbians. He can also be heard every Saturday on CKNW AM 980 radio show and the Corus Radio Network throughout Canada. Mike is a successful tech entrepreneur, having founded three successful tech and media companies over the past 20 years, including Chalk Media (sold to Blackberry in 2006) and currently Blink Media, a leading Canadian digital creative agency.
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About Blink: Blink is a creative agency providing social campaigns and digital content.
Michael Brown
CEO, President & Director of Adacado
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About Adacado: Adacado is the leading cloud based, data-driven platform for delivering personalized digital advertising and marketing solutions at scale.
Brad Kynoch
Founder & CEO of Always WORTHEE
Entrepreneur, mindful productivity coach, business automation consultant, software broker, system & product architect, unconventional thinker
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About Always WORTHEE, Beautifuller: Mindful productivity for changemakers
Gary Bizzo
Chief Executive Officer of Bizzo Integrated Marketing Corporation
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About Bizzo Integrated Marketing Corporation, New York Institute of Technology: Bizzo Integrated Marketing Corporation expertise in SEO, strategic marketing plan and reputation management.
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.
Linden Schwark
Founder and CEO of Vancouver SEO Agency
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About Vancouver SEO Agency: Vancouver SEO Agency is a results orientated company that uses ethical SEO services to dominate the competiton.
Linden Schwark
Founder and CEO of Vancouver SEO Agency
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About Vancouver SEO Agency: Vancouver SEO Agency is a results orientated company that uses ethical SEO services to dominate the competiton.
Paul Stephenson
Founder & CEO of 47 Insights
Founder & CEO of 47 Insights. Advising software and publishing subscription businesses on marketing and growth strategies since 1995. Creator and host of SaaS Marketing Insights podcast.
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About 47 Insights: Marketing consultancy specializing in helping SaaS and subscription businesses to grow
Paul Stephenson
Founder & CEO of 47 Insights
Founder & CEO of 47 Insights. Advising software and publishing subscription businesses on marketing and growth strategies since 1995. Creator and host of SaaS Marketing Insights podcast.
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About 47 Insights: Marketing consultancy specializing in helping SaaS and subscription businesses to grow
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