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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 Director operating in the Education space. If you think a Director 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.
Sarah Lubik
Director of Entrepreneurship of Simon Fraser University
Sarah is Simon Fraser University’s first Director of Entrepreneurship, promoting the power of, and need for, interdisciplinary teams and commercialization of research to solve wicked problems. She is co-champion of the Technology Entrepreneurship@SFU program, a lecturer in Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Beedie School of Business and a researcher in technology management, including incubation, university entrepreneurship, commercialization and innovation ecosystems. Sarah has been named one of Business in Vancouver’s Top 40 under 40 and an Innovation Leader by the Government of Canada. She has experience coordinating pan-European startup support programs focusing on key areas such as coaching, funding and clusters, is a certified expert business coach and is the co-founder and marketing director of a high-tech startup, Lungfish Dive Systems. Sarah holds a BBA (honours) from SFU and a masters and PhD from the University of Cambridge.
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About Canadian Intellectual Property Office, Lungfish, PowerPlay Young Entrepreneurs, Simon Fraser University, Simon Fraser University, Simon Fraser University: Simon Fraser University, commonly referred to as SFU, is a public research university in Burnaby.
Peter Zandstra
Director, Micheal Smith Laboratories of University of British Columbia
Peter Zandstra is the Founding Director of the University of British Columbia’s School of Biomedical Engineering and the Director of the Michael Smith Laboratories. Dr. Zandstra joined UBC from the University of Toronto where he was a professor and Canada Research Chair in Stem Cell Bioengineering in the Institute for Biomaterials & Biomedical Engineering. He also served as the Executive Director of Medicine by Design, the Chief Scientific Officer at the Centre for Commercialization of Regenerative Medicine (CCRM), and the Director of Research and Development at the Ontario Institute of Regenerative Medicine. Dr. Zandstra graduated with a bachelor of engineering degree from McGill University in the Department of Chemical Engineering, obtained his PhD from UBC in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, and continued his research training as a postdoctoral fellow in biological engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research in the Zandstra Laboratory focuses on the generation of functional tissue from adult and pluripotent stem cells. Dr. Zandstra and his team have pioneered the field of stem cell bioengineering, which applies engineering principles to the study of stem cell biology.
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About Centre for Commercialization of Regenerative Medicine, Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), University of British Columbia, University of British Columbia, University of Toronto: University of British Columbia is a public research university located in British Columbia, Canada.
Elizabeth Vickery
Executive Director of Government of British Columbia
Elizabeth is honoured to be the first woman to lead BC Stats in its 122-year history and proud to be part of this team that produces high quality, confidential statistical and economic data and analysis for evidence based decision making. She has 23 years of experience in both government and the privates sector and has a background in statistics, Olympics, human resources, change leadership, charity fundraising and health care advocacy. Elizabeth has a Bachelor of Science from UVIC and a number of graduate certificates including Human Resources Excellence from Harvard Business School and Social Media Leadership from UBC. She is currently pursuing an Executive Data Science certificate from Johns Hopkins University.
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About Government of British Columbia: Government of British Columbia is helping citizens access government services through the internet.
Karen Bakker
Director of Strategy of Riipen
Karen is a Professor and Canada Research Chair at ubc, a Rhodes Scholar, Top 40 Under 40, and author. A proven entrepreneur, she is also the founder of a successful online education company.
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About Prollster, Riipen, University of British Columbia: Riipen is an experiential learning platform that helps schools connect their students to industry & enables companies to pick top talent.
Dave Savory
Co-Founder & Director of Industry Partners of Riipen
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About Riipen: Riipen is an experiential learning platform that helps schools connect their students to industry & enables companies to pick top talent.
Ryan Nadel
Founder & Director of Biba Ventures
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About Biba Ventures: Biba Ventures is a Computer Games company located in Vancouver.
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