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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 E-Commerce 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.
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Alex Alexandrov
Chairman & CEO of CoinPayments
Alex Alexandrov is extremely well-versed in financial markets, and a pioneer in crypto-currency. Mr. Alexandrov was a technical Forex and Options trader and EA developer for MT4 platform. He then chose to venture into direct sales before branching out on his own to successfully develop and manage coincable.com, an online bitcoin mining hardware supply store that was based out of Vancouver. Alex brings over 15 years of combined experience in IT and business management to his latest venture as the owner and CEO of Coinpayments.net, a premium Bitcoin, Litecoin, Etherium and other alternative crypto-currency payment processor. Coinpayments’ services are trusted by over 600,000 vendors across 182 countries.
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About CoinPayments: CoinPayments is a cloud wallet solution and a payment gateway for merchants that integrates a checkout system for numerous cryptocurrencies.
Ryan Spong
Co-Founder & CEO of Food.ee
Founder of Food.ee.
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About Food.ee: Food.ee is a fun and simple service which delivers meals, snacks, cakes and alcohol to your office.
Dan Park
CEO & Chairman of the Board of BuildDirect
Dan Park was appointed Chief Executive Officer. Dan brings nearly three decades of experience building and leading world-class teams at top-tier multi-billion dollar retail and technology companies. At BuildDirect, Dan sits on the executive leadership team and is responsible for all commercial aspects of the BuildDirect business including Marketplace strategies, P&L management, and end-to-end solutions across Buyer and Seller functions. Dan’s career has spanned various sectors and executive management roles including McKinsey and Company, Target, and Payless Shoesource, and as a Captain in the U.S. Army. Most recently, Dan was General Manager and Commercial Vertical Leader of Amazon Business, a channel he built from scratch to several billions of dollars and one of their fastest growing businesses. Prior to that role, he led the global product management team for Amazon Business and held GM roles in the Amazon Consumer Electronics category. Dan earned a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from West Point United States Military Academy and a Master’s of Business Administration from Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration In his spare time, Dan enjoys spending time with his family (wife, 2 year old son, and 2 rescue dogs) and friends, biking, exercising, volunteering, and exploring his new home – Vancouver.
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About BuildDirect, Imperfect Foods: BuildDirect is an innovative platform for purchasing and selling quality home improvement materials online
Robert Kirstiuk
Co-Founder and CEO of Freshline
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About Freshline: Freshline is an eCommerce & fulfillment SaaS software made for perishable food. We work with food suppliers and enable them to sell online.
Kory Zelickson
Co-Founder, CEO of Vejii Holdings
With over 15 years of experience in innovation and online marketing, Kory Zelickson has developed multiple e-commerce and technology startup companies from the ground up. An engineer by trade, Kory is focused on developing retail distribution within the plant-based and sustainable product categories. Through his passion for the environment, in 2020 he founded and became CEO of Vejii, the world’s largest marketplace for plant-based and sustainable living products. With more consumers turning to e-commerce and looking to incorporate healthier, more sustainable practices into their lifestyle, Vejii’s unique platform offers high-growth opportunities given the market trends. Vejii’s mission is to make plant-based products more accessible to everyone, from consumers who want more selection compared to their local grocery store to flexitarians or conscious consumers who are looking to shop more sustainably. By simplifying the shopping experience and helping plant-based and sustainable-living brands reach wider audiences through its marketplace model, Vejii aims to become an industry consolidator in the sustainability field. Vejii is also committed to building a strong foundation of diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace in order to improve organizational culture and to positively advance its mission forward. Additionally, Kory’s past experience includes co-founding Namaste Technologies in 2014, where he also served as COO and VP of Business Development and Investor Relations. Namaste Technologies eventually became a publicly-traded company, and in 2018 the company reached a market valuation of +$1 billion, realizing over 20x returns for its initial series of investors.
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About Karma Extracts, Namaste Technologies, Vejii Holdings: Vejii Holdings owns and operates ShopVejii.com, a digital marketplace for plant-based and sustainable living products and brands.
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.
Randy Wu
CEO and Co-Founder of Fantuan
Randy Wu is the Co-Founder and CEO of Fantuan.
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About Fantuan: Fantuan provides food and grocery delivery, reviews, e-commerce and other life services for local communities in north America.
Aneil Manhas
Founder & CEO of Bruush
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About Bruush: Keep your teeth healthy and white with Brüush – a premium electric toothbrush subscription with a luxury look and feel
Greg Smith
Co-founder, CEO & Instructor of Thinkific
Greg is passionate about education. His past experiences as a securities lawyer and teacher fuelled his desire to use technology to improve the learning and teaching experience. Greg has taught thousands of students online and in person. His latest addictions are learning new kiteboarding tricks and playing euro boardgames.
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About Thinkific: Thinkific is a software platform that enables entrepreneurs to create, market, sell, and deliver their own online courses.
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.
Marcello Leone
CEO & President of RYU Apparel
Marcello Leone is highly regarded as a visionary in the fashion industry. Recognized as one of North America’s leading retailers operating one of the Canada’s largest and most successful independent specialty stores for over 16 years, Mr. Leone’s entrepreneurial achievements are a result of his strong leadership, strategic vision and ability to raise capital. In 2012 he founded Naturo Group Investments Inc., which owns Trace Blackwater, a rapidly growing private beverage company with distribution in over 2,000 locations. Mr. Leone has been an RYU investor since 2011.
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About BevCanna Enterprises, RYU Apparel: RYU Apparel specializes in developing men’s and women’s performance apparel for the athletic minded consumer.
Drew Green
Chief Executive Officer of INDOCHINO
Drew is founder and director of SHOP.CA. Having spent his entire career connecting online audiences with retailers through digital media, marketing solutions, mobile marketing and marketplace platforms in the United States. Prior to founding SHOP.CA, Drew served as Senior Vice President of Sales & Marketing for Vibes Media. In this role, Drew was responsible for defining, implementing and leading the execution of Vibes’ Sales, Business Development and Marketing strategy. With over 14 years of online marketing, eCommerce and sales leadership experience, Drew has a proven track record of results based management and high growth strategy development and execution. Prior to joining Vibes in 2009, Drew was a member of SHOP.COM’s executive team since 2005, where he led the sales, merchant operations and business development departments during his tenure, and was responsible for ramping product supply from under 1 million products to over 25 million unique product SKUs from thousands of leading retailers and manufacturers in the US. SHOP.COM’S Marketplace platforms provided demand generation and branding for thousands of retailers and product brands in both the US and the UK. Prior to SHOP.COM, Drew held sales and sales leadership roles with Flonetwork, (acquired by DoubleClick) and DoubleClick (acquired by Google).
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About EMERGE Commerce, INDOCHINO, INDOCHINO, Liquuid: Indochino is a global leader in made to measure apparel, offering custom suits, shirts, chinos and outerwear online and in showrooms.
James Riley
CEO of Lightspark
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About Lightspark: Lightspark is software company that provides SaaS based engagement, e-commerce and rebate management tools to make energy efficiency easier.
Troy Spracklin
Founder & CEO of Pixsel
Troy has been a leader of transformational design for over 20 years in the technology, automotive, aerospace, sub-sea and medical sectors. His body of work includes founding Edge Health Solutions where he developed the first CCHIT Certified Electronic Health Record for Mac and designed EdgeDMS, the first touch based charting solution for iPad. His work in mobile applications and e-commerce platforms as well as launching AIR, the world’s first social media keyboard for iPhone, solidly places him into a position to lead the new era of mobile design and integration. Troy is the Creator and Founder of eBrake.
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About Bubbl Technology Inc., eBrake Technologies Inc., Pixsel, Seven On Two Design: Pixsel is an online community that connects businesses with local buyers.
Raj Gulia
Co-founder & CEO of PocketPills
Raj Gulia is a Co-Founder at PocketPills.
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About PocketPills: Pocketpills is Canada’s leading online pharmacy, delivers medication by the dose, straight to customer’s door.
Matias Marquez
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Buyatab Online
Matias Marquez has received many awards for his entrepreneurial success, including SFU’s 2011 Entrepreneur of the year. Matias Marquez founded Buyatab in 2008 and has helped to grow Buyatab into a global leader in digital gift giving. He holds a Bachelors of Business Administration degree from Simon Fraser University and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.
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About Buyatab Online: Buyatab Online is an innovative provider of egift cards solutions for retail, restuarants, hotels and luxury brands.
Saba Mohebpour
Founder and CEO of Spocket
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About Spocket: Dropshipping marketplace serving 40,000 merchants
Robb Niemann
Founder and CEO of Rutherford Audio
Robb, a business man in Vancouver and a lifelong audiophile saw the opportunity to devlop a channel of products at a higher level than was being offered and has been growing Rutherford Audio year after year, since 2009.
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About Rutherford Audio: Rutherford Audio is North America’s premier distribution channel for a select few of Europe’s finest Hi-Fi audio brands.
Cody Green
Founder & Co-CEO of Canada Drives
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About Canada Drives, USA Drives: Canada Drives has been transforming car shopping in Canada since 2010, with the mission to be the easiest place to buy and sell your car.
Michael Galpin
Co-CEO of Canada Drives
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About Canada Drives: Canada Drives has been transforming car shopping in Canada since 2010, with the mission to be the easiest place to buy and sell your car.
Dr. Mike (Mihai) Ivanof
CEO & Founder of GlobalBox.world
Dr. Mike Ivanof is a Global citizen with a career that spans more than a dozen countries on four continents. His career combines substantive industry experience in finance and business development, and over a decade in academia. His academic research interests revolve mainly around Corporate Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility. He is a published author; Associate Professor, School of Business, UFV; CEO and founder of GlobalBox.world
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About GlobalBox.world: GlobalBox.world has been designed and developed to become a viable and feasible alternative to the large established e-commerce incumbents.
Devan Koshal
Founder, CEO, & Head of Product of Commerce.js
Born in New Zealand, Grew up in England, based out of Vancouver/SF. Founder, CEO, & Head of Product @ Commerce.js (Chec)
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About Commerce.js, Swipe: Commerce.js is a developer of a modular eCommerce platform for developers and designers.
Peter van Stolk
CEO of Sustainable Produce Urban Delivery
Peter van Stolk is the CEO at FoodX Technologies and Spud.com.
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About Food-X Technologies, Sustainable Produce Urban Delivery: Sustainable Produce Urban Delivery is an internet grocer of organic and natural foods.
Ian Sharpe
CEO of Promethean TV
Ian Sharpe was born in London, UK, and now lives in British Columbia, Canada. Having worked for the BBC, IMG, Atari and Electronic Arts, he now helms Promethean TV. Given his background in content production and business development, is uniquely positioned to understand the convergence of sports, technology, and entertainment around streaming video.
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About Promethean TV: Promethean.tv provides solutions to maximize revenue on video content.
Drew Gamble
CEO & Co-Founder of Fetch Auto
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About Fetch Auto: Fetch Auto is a platform where Canadians can buy, sell and finance private sale vehicles.
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
Juan Orrego
Co-Founder and CEO of Cuboh
Juan Orrego is the cofFounder and CEO of Cuboh.
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About Cuboh: Cuboh is a developer of an application intended to automate online food orders for restaurants.
Dan Zollmann
Co-Founder & CEO of Qase
Dan founded and for 16 years ran a 30+ FTE technology consulting firm. He either led or played key roles in delivering 193 projects valued at over $5B for 100+ organizations across North America and Australia. Clients included Cornell, World Vision, and Canada Health Infoway. Dan closed down the firm to both co-found and invest in Qase.
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About Qase: Qase is an online legal marketplace.
Jordan DePass
Co-Founder and CEO of STUNN Collective
A former professional engineer and project manager, Jordan has always had a passion for innovation, health and wellness. Jordan founded STUNN Collective with his wife, Ash, after years of combatting burn out as he balanced founding previous startups with his corporate job. He realized his true passion lied in his 10+ years of experience using high quality nutrition, mindfulness, and daily routines to perform his best.
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About STUNN Collective: Bringing ‘mindcare’ to skincare through nutritional supplements.
Mark Proudfoot
Co-Founder and CEO of JustGreet
Mark Proudfoot is co-founder at Course Studio.
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About Course Studio, JustGreet: The cutest greeting card service on the internet.
Pauline Moller
CEO & President of Caravan Digital Studios
Senior executive in the digital media & interactive entertainment industry
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About Caravan Digital Studios: Makers of bespoke consumer brands and companies, backed by data & co-founded with people of influence. In partnership with CAA.
Kamyar Asadibeky
CEO, President & Founder of Machool Technologies Ltd.
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About Machool Technologies Ltd.: Machool Technologies was started to create a global online marketplace for services.
Suzanne Siemens
Co-Founder & CEO of Aisle
Passionate about business and leadership, Suzanne is a CPA-turned-entrepreneur dedicated to promoting social change through business. With over 30 years of financial and executive management experience, Suzanne leads Aisle, an award-winning impact venture recognized for its social and environmental leadership. Suzanne leverages her financial expertise and creative business acumen to successfully manufacture a world-class collection of sustainable menstrual products to consumers who care about their health and the planet.
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About Aisle: Aisle is a groundbreaking sustainable menstrual health brand and globally respected leader in innovative menstrual care.
Craig Arnatt
CEO / Partner of InsureCert
Craig Arnatt is CEO and founder of InsureCert, the marquee shopping cart & policy issuance system of the insurance industry. As a programmer, Craig has worked on the core team developing the API framework for InsureCert’s blockchain enabled policy underwriting engine.
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About InsureCert: Super easy cloud-based sales software that brings true customer convenience, ease of use, converting more sales and driving online growth.
Daniel Ling
Founder/CEO of antsquare
Founder, CEO of antsquare.
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About antsquare: Antsquare builds the next generation of online retail marketplace, anywhere and everywhere with mobile
Ann-Marie Fleming
CEO of Dog Quality Enterprises, Inc.
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About Dog Quality Enterprises, Inc.: Dog Quality is a global e-commerce company focused on specialized products that improve the quality of life for senior dogs.
Ryan Smith
Founder & CEO of FTSY
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About FTSY: FTSY (‘footsy’) is an A.I. platform that matches people to consumer goods where fit and comfort matter.
Olivia Canlas
Co-Founder & CEO of meowbox
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About meowbox: Meowbox is a monthly subscription box that consists of toys and food for cats.
Michael Yagudaev
CEO & Founder of nano3labs
Michael is a fearless tech craftsman, he prides himself on picking up new technologies quickly and always being on the cutting edge. When not coding he spends his time chasing powdery snowboard adventures and rock climbing.
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About nano3labs: nano3labs Creating amazing e-commerce experiences for creative businesses.
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.
Mohammad Jazayeri
CEO of EventYab Cloud Services Inc.
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About : EventYab is a startup focusing on geofiltering of events and event promotion and online sales.
Mohammad Jazayeri
CEO of EventYab Cloud Services Inc.
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About : EventYab is a startup focusing on geofiltering of events and event promotion and online sales.
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