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 President operating in the Artificial Intelligence space. If you think a President 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.
Shahram Tafazoli
Founder, President & CEO of Motion Metrics
Shahram Tafazoli is the Founding CEO of Motion Metrics Int’l, a private Canadian corporation dedicated to improving safety and efficiency of terrestrial mining using AI, rugged embedded vision, and cloud computing. Motion Metrics has deployed its innovative solutions in more than 60 large mining operations around the globe, digging copper, iron, gold, diamond, coal, and nickel. Shahram holds bachelor and master’s degrees from Sharif University of Technology in Iran and a PhD from the University of British Columbia (UBC), all in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) with a focus on robotics and machine vision. He is an Adjunct Professor at the University of British Columbia’s ECE department and has offered various graduate-level courses. He has a passion for technology and has invested in a number of technology startups, including several ventures from Creative Destruction Lab. He is co-inventor of international patents with other engineers from Motion Metrics and recently received the UBC Applied Science Dean’s Medal of Distinction. Shahram has a passion for space technologies and is keen on applying them to terrestrial applications.
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About Motion Metrics: Motion Metrics is a Canadian mining technology company that uses artificial intelligence to improve mine safety and energy efficiency.
Peter Koning
Vice President of Sales and Business Development of Simularity
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About Canada Leads, Entra Marketing, Simularity, Typo Assassin: Simularity provides AI-driven geospatial intelligence
John Almond
Co-Founder & Vice President of Warranty Life
Communications and business experience – I have been involved in using technology for business communications for over 30 years. Began programming A/V presentations using first PC’s in school; joined first computer graphics design company in Canada after University; founded Alpha Visuals Inc. a computer graphic design company in Toronto 1985; was purchased by Genigraphics Corporation (division of GE) in 1987; Executive Producer, Genigraphics Corporation (Toronto – New York); Partner Vision Presentations Inc. – 1990 (Vancouver); founded Emerge Online one of Vancouver’s first web design firms in 1995; Principal, Ionysys Technology Corporation & President, New Media Consulting – 1999; Radiant Communications 2000; Graphically Speaking 2006. Specialties Internet Strategy; Usability testing; Information architecture; Ecommerce planning; Website development; Search engine optimization; Online marketing; Web analytics
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About Graphically Speaking, Warranty Life: Providing Usage-Based Mobile Device Insurance
Yanqing Wang
President and Founder of ScopeMedia
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About ScopeMedia: ScopeMedia built an advanced video and image recognition artificial intelligence platform for image data visualization and applications
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.
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