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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 VP’ operating in the Software space. If you think a VP’ 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.
Angela Lau
Senior Vice President of Finance & Corporate Secretary of Maxar Technologies
Angela Lau was appointed Senior Vice President, Finance and Corporate Secretary of MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA) in July 2016. She is based at our office in Vancouver, British Columbia. Ms. Lau also served in various leadership positions in the taxation and treasury functions of MDA. Previous to joining MDA in September 2006, Ms. Lau worked for many years as an income tax advisor at KPMG and was the head of taxation at a Canadian biotechnology company. Ms. Lau also served on the Industry Tax Committee of the Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada. Ms. Lau earned a Bachelor of Commerce degree (with honors) from the University of British Columbia and is a member of the Chartered Professional Accountants of British Columbia.
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About Maxar Technologies: Maxar Technologies provides integrated space infrastructure and Earth intelligence.
Peter Drummond
Vice President of Sales of Beanworks
Vice President of Sales at Beanworks.
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About Beanworks: Beanworks is an accounts payable automation solution that helps companies eliminate paperwork and reduce invoice processing costs.
Katherine Flandez
VP of Marketing of Beanworks
VP of Marketing at Beanworks.
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About Beanworks: Beanworks is an accounts payable automation solution that helps companies eliminate paperwork and reduce invoice processing costs.
Katie Wilde
VP of Engineering of Buffer
Katie is the VP of Engineering at Buffer, which is a globally distributed team with no offices. She’s co-authored “The Holloway Guide to Remote Work”, available now at Holloway.com. She’s also co-authored “97 Things Every Engineering Manager Should Know” and “Atomic Migration Strategy for Web Teams”, both with O’Reilly. Katie champions remote work and personal flourishing.
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About Ambassador Labs, Buffer: Social Media Management Software for Growing Brands
Mike Hustler
VP of Engineering of AppNeta
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About AppNeta: AppNeta operates as a SaaS-based application and network performance platform.
Adam Gravitis
VP of Engineering of Upverter
Adam graduated from Engineering Science at the University of Toronto before causing (and/or wreaking havoc at) several startups (Akatoo, Algo Anywhere, 500px, Upverter). He has enjoyed working in fields as diverse as machine learning, circuit design, and network analysis. He is presently working with a joint venture to develop cryptocurrencies for developing countries.
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About Upverter: The future of hardware design (YC W11)
Buzz Hemphill
VP Sales of Buyapowa
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About Buyapowa: Buyapowa is the global leader in referral marketing. Your customers have friends, let’s make them customers too.
Neil Parker
VP Marketing of Buyapowa
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About Buyapowa: Buyapowa is the global leader in referral marketing. Your customers have friends, let’s make them customers too.
Devin Redlich
VP Operations of Buyapowa
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About Buyapowa: Buyapowa is the global leader in referral marketing. Your customers have friends, let’s make them customers too.
Hillary Lovric
VP – Professional Services of Monexa Services Inc.
Hillary Lovric, VP of Marketing at Chargify.
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About Chargify, Monexa Services Inc.: Monexa is a cloud-based billing platform providing timely and customer-friendly billing solutions to drive growth in the enterprise.
Lawrence Chee
Chief Technology Officer, VP of Engineering of LifeBooster
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About LifeBooster: Leading connected worker and risk analytics platform for industrial health and safety – ensuring every worker gets home safe every day.
Ricardo Mello
VP of Inside Sales and Marketing of 4D
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About 4D, Wakanda: Application Development & Deployement
Samuel Cochrane
Chief Financial Officer, Senior Vice President of Avigilon Corporation
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About Avigilon Corporation, Sierra Wireless: Avigilon Corporation is a motorola solutions company provides trusted security solutions to the global market.
Ryan Wilk
Vice President of Customer Success of NuData Security a Mastercard company
Ryan is the Vice President of Customer Success at NuData Security where he is responsible for ensuring the success of every NuData customer during the lifetime of the partnership. In his previous role, Ryan was the Manager, Trust and Safety at StubHub, an ebay company. Prior to joining StubHub, Ryan spent 8 years with Universal Parks & Resorts where he established and implemented the eCommerce Loss Prevention teams at both Universal Orlando Resort and Universal Studios Hollywood.
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About NuData Security a Mastercard company: NuData Security positively verifies users online through real-time passive biometrics and behavioral analytics.
Marah Berezowsky
VP of Public Relations of Genius Ventures Inc
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About Genius Ventures Inc, Genius Ventures Inc: Augmented Reality & Immersive Technology
Ron T. Begg
Vice President of Strategy & Performance of StarDyne Technologies-GEMS
Ron Begg has a full appreciation for the challenges in bringing technology to the public sector from his background as both a vendor and management consultant. Ron joined StarDyne in 2006 and had been working with local governments since 1987 in operations for a municipal systems vendor. Since 1989, he has been a consultant, working with clients to identify, source and implement technology solutions. Ron has also worked with private sector firms to plan and organize their products and approach for the public sector. Ron is a Certified Management Consultant and a Professional Engineer and holds a Bachelors degree in Engineering from the University of Saskatchewan and an MBA from the Ivey School of Business.
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About StarDyne Technologies-GEMS: StarDyne Technologies-GEMS provides industry software solutions with advanced integrations.
Donna E. Kirisits
Vice President of Human Resources of StarDyne Technologies-GEMS
Donna Kirisits joined StarDyne in 2006. Donna brings strategic vision to all areas of human resources and internal consulting services including recruitment, employee training and development, succession planning, leadership development, change management, and salary and benefits administration. Prior to StarDyne, Donna was with CCL Custom Manufacturing, Division of CCL Industries for 20 years, serving as Director of Human Resources. Donna holds a Bachelor of Education degree and graduated with High Honours from Sheridan College. Ms. Kirisits also holds her Teacher Training Diploma and her Certified Human Resources Professional designation at a federal level.
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About StarDyne Technologies-GEMS: StarDyne Technologies-GEMS provides industry software solutions with advanced integrations.
William R.M Spittle
Vice President of Corporate Development of StarDyne Technologies-GEMS
Bill Spittle joined StarDyne in 2009, initially focusing on special projects in two of StarDyne’s operations. In 2011, Bill focused exclusively on the management of StarDyne’s Corporate Development initiatives, specifically mergers and acquisitions. Bill has a broad senior management background in government and education software and services, manufacturing and banking that includes hands-on experience in the effective integration of acquired businesses. Bill was the Chief Operating Officer of RFind Systems in 2008 and prior to that held positions at Bridges Transitions and Xap Corporation from 2000 to 2008, including VP Technology, VP Product Development, VP Corporate Integration and VP Business Development. Bill received a Joint Bachelor of Business Administration (Honours) degree from Simon Fraser University and an MBA from the Ivey Business School at Western University.
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About StarDyne Technologies-GEMS: StarDyne Technologies-GEMS provides industry software solutions with advanced integrations.
Dave Levine
Senior Vice President of Corum Group
Dave joined Corum in 2015 and has a diverse background in technology and life sciences. As an executive and entrepreneur, Dave has been operating and investing in companies sitting at the convergence of commerce and eCommerce as well as innovative life science businesses for over 25 years. Recently, Dave was CEO North America for Gaxsys, an eCommerce and logistics company that is a leader in last mile logistics and fulfillment for eCommerce marketplaces. Dave has been on both sides of the mergers and acquisitions table, having sold a life science technology company, facilitated sell side and buy side technology transactions and has also scaled multiple technology companies globally in the eCommerce, life sciences and innovation intelligence markets. Dave sits on boards of numerous public and private companies, including one that recently filed for an IPO.
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About Corum Group: Corum Group Ltd. is the global leader in merger and acquisition services, specializing in serving software and information technology firms.
Salmaan Ahmed
VP Software and Founder of Onc.AI
Salmaan Ahmed currently works as Vice President of Software and Founder at Onc.AI.
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About Onc.AI: Onc.AI is a software that specializes in clinical oncology, genomics, proteomics, and radiomics.
Holly Pateman
VP, Marketing of IT Glue
Holly Pateman is the VP of marketing at IT Glue.
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About IT Glue: Best practices-driven IT documentation platform packed with features designed to help you maximize the efficienc.
Roger Lines
VP of Product of tagga
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About Interactio, tagga: B2C marketing intelligence platform is designed to consolidate fragmented customer data residing across disparate data silos
Richard Sirola
Executive Vice President of OxCEPT
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About OxCEPT: OxCEPT is an Oxford University spin-out company which has developed the ‘World’s Most Secure’ way to transmit data.
Dean Prelazzi
Vice President, Head of Business Development & Marketing of Fujitsu
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About Fujitsu: Fujitsu is a information & communications technology equipment and services firm providing IT & IT infrastructure and other services.
David Green
VP of Architecture of Tasktop
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About Tasktop: Tasktop offers a software platform that allows companies to better manage the process of building their software.
Kevin Oke
Co-Founder, VP Sales of LlamaZOO Interactive
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About LlamaZOO Interactive: LlamaZOO is changing the way the world sees data by helping enterprises analyze and visualize big data in its real-world context.
James Heise
VP, Global Business Development & Strategic Partnerships of Appnovation
James Heise is the VP, Global Business Development & Strategic Partnerships at Appnovation Technologies.
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About Appnovation: Appnovation is a global Digital Solutions and Managed Services provider, delivering strategy, app development and enterprise integrations.
Sherborne Pao
Executive Vice President, Global People & Culture & Operations of Appnovation
Sherborne Pao is the Executive Vice President, Global People & Culture and Operations at Appnovation.
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About Appnovation: Appnovation is a global Digital Solutions and Managed Services provider, delivering strategy, app development and enterprise integrations.
Benjamin Slater
VP of Data Science of Hack Capital Ventures
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About Hack Capital Ventures: Hack Capital is a software company that helps digital companies hire, train, retain, and motivate employees.
Denise Beaudoin
Senior Vice President, Accounting of DSG Global
Denise is a Chartered Professional Accountant. She has a Bachelor’s Degree in General Studies with a minor in Accounting, and additional management, supervisory and communication training.
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About DSG Global: DSG Global Inc. is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) company that is dominating the IT industry and the new Internet of Things (IoT).
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
Kenneth Conroy
VP of Data Science of Finn AI
Kenneth Conroy is the VP of Data Science at Finn AI.
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About Finn AI: Finn AI provides AI-powered conversational banking technology for personal banking and finance.
Gordon Chan
VP, Global Sales of INETCO Systems Limited
Gordon Chan has over 25 years of experience working with banking and payment systems technology. He has been instrumental in the evolution of many areas of INETCO, including product development, support processes, and most recently, sales management and channel partner expansion. As VP of Strategic Sales, Gord drives the sales and global partner alliance strategies for all INETCO communications gateway and transaction monitoring products. He has a proven track record that includes the expansion of INETCO’s customer base to over 50 new countries, and the recent tripling of INETCO Insight year-over-year product revenues (2009-2010). Gord also manages some of the Company’s largest banking, telecommunications and payment processing customers, including Telstra, Telecom New Zealand, Jack Henry & Associates, Inc., TNSi, and First Data. Gord has a Bachelor of Applied Science (Computer Engineering) from the University of British Columbia and is a member of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of BC.
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About INETCO Systems Limited: INETCO provides payment fraud detection, transaction monitoring and channel analytics solutions for banking and payments environments.
Ryan Engley
VP, Customer Success of Unbounce
Ryan Engley joined Unbounce as SVP, Customer Success in 2020.
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About Unbounce: Unbounce is a drag-and-drop builder that allows users to create and publish customized landing pages.
Roth Niven
VP Professional Services of Clevest Solutions
Roth is an experienced technology industry leader with expertise in scaling technology companies, driving operational improvements that lead to great customer experiences, establishing and leading professional services practices, developing partnerships that support continued growth and customer success, and building high-performing teams. He combine a structured, disciplined approach, and a strong sense of ownership, with creativity, passion and energy to deliver measurable results.
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About Clevest Solutions, fathom: Clevest Solutions provides software for mobile workforce management and smart grid deployment and post-deployment operations exclusively
Michal Peliwo
Vice President of Business Solutions of ZE PowerGroup
As VP of the Business Solutions team at ZE, Michal spearheads ZEMA implementations. Michal brings many years of software development and client management experience to the company. He also provides a unique understanding of the industry’s market solution requirements. Michal’s capabilities are matched only by the intensity of his desire to exceed client expectations.
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About ZE PowerGroup: ZE PowerGroup is an experienced software development and strategic consulting firm.
Julius Farkasv
VP, Manufacturing of GPS Industries
Julius Farkasv is a VP, Manufacturing at GPS Industries.
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About GPS Industries, The Synapse: GPS Industries is developing and implementing cutting edge technology all over the globe while providing an exciting and dynamic workplace.
Jamie Lubiner
VP, Customer Solutions of Attendease
Jamie Lubiner has spent 16+ years overseeing and participating in the design and delivery of custom software for myriad Fortune 500 companies like Adobe, SXSW, NVIDIA, Apple, Intuit and PalmSource. Jamie also co-founded Attendease, which is an enterprise-grade event management, marketing and delivery platform.
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About Attendease: an event automation platform for corporate event teams built to enable a repeatable, scalable event planning and execution process.
Karen Chiang
VP Business Development of TeamFit
Karen drives the TeamFit team to ever-higher levels of execution. She brings close to 20 years of management experience in the IT sector with over 15 years in the solution consulting and enterprise B2B software. Having direct experience of the challenges people in this industry face, she is determined to help them to solve them. Belbin Roles: Monitor Evaluator, Shaper, Specialist
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About TeamFit: TeamFit is a team building platform, recording project experience, validating skills, and collecting expertise profiles.
Roman Azbel
VP Engineering & Founder of Vonigo
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About Vonigo: Vonigo provides SaaS business management software for mobile services companies.
Jon Behune
VP, Customer Success and Implementations of SaaSquatch
Jon Behune serves as VP of customer success at Referral SaaSquatch.
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About SaaSquatch: SaaSquatch is a provider of referral and loyalty platform to businesses with thousands to millions of customers.
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
Birgit Troy
VP of Finance of Incognito Software
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About Canalyst, Incognito Software: Provisioning and Resource Management
Lee Noble
VP Business Development of Lendesk
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About Lendesk: Lendesk is a loan origination platform for mortgage brokers.
Chris Chettle
EVP of Product & Manufacturing of T2 Systems
Chris Chettle joined Digital in 2004, which was acquired by T2 Systems in 2014. With more than 10 years in the parking industry, Chris Chettle brings expertise about the Digital product line as well as our entire platform. Chris Chettle leads product management and manufacturing across the T2 organization. Chris Chettle started his career in communications, first marketing digital video solutions to the cable television industry and later leading national sales for TVC Canada. Chris Chettle also held numerous positions at Digital over the years, from supporting business development activities to overseeing marketing, product management and strategic partnerships.
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About T2 Systems: T2 Systems provides parking management solutions and services for events.
Spencer Cox
VP – Engineering of SensorUp
Spencer Cox is the director of IoT solutions at SensorUp.
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About SensorUp: GeoAI and IoT Platform for Connected Workers
Ian Treleaven
Vice President, Software of Bravatek
Ian has over 20 years of professional software development experience creating Enterprise-class software for some of the world’s largest companies, including Microsoft, Crystal Decisions, Business Objects and SAP. Most recently a Senior Product Owner in SAP’s Business Intelligence Portfolio, Ian was responsible for product performance and reliability (P&R), driving P&R improvements with multi-release strategies, sizing for traditional and SAP HANA-based BI solutions as well as developing product deployment methodologies scalable to SAP’s largest customer (e.g.: 250,000 users). Previously to that role, Ian was a Senior Software Developer for the Business Intelligence product suite at the company. Before its acquisition by Business Objects, and consequently SAP, Ian held similar roles at Crystal Decisions and Seagate Software. There he was responsible for the design, development, then the delivery of the company’s enterprise-class software, such as Crystal Reports. His earlier career includes various software development positions, most notably Engineer and Technical Lead at Microsoft. There Ian was focused on email server software development and was part of the team leading to the development of Microsoft Exchange.
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About Absolute Software, Bravatek: Bravatek Solutions, Inc. is a high technology security solutions portfolio provider.
Ron Smouter
VP Sales and Marketing of ThinkCX
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About ThinkCX: Social Intelligence for Call Centers
Bruce Reese
Vice President of Finance of Apteryx Imaging
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About Apteryx Imaging: Apteryx Imaging develops tissue fluorescence visualization technologies.
Grant Jurgeneit
VP Business Development, Co-Founder of Checkfront
Founder of Checkfront.
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About Checkfront: Checkfront offers online booking services for tours and activities, rentals, and accommodations.
Elizabeth Steward
VP Marketing of Envisio Solutions Inc.
Technology marketing leader with more than 10 years of experience at SaaS startups in London, Cambridge and Vancouver. Liz has experience across the full B2B demand generation spectrum and was part of the team that took analytics startup Indicee through to acquisition by Dun & Bradstreet in 2014.
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About Envisio Solutions Inc.: Envisio helps local governments to deliver plans, align staff with strategy and manage the expectations of their council and community.
Cédric Vincent
VP of Technology of Witekio
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About Witekio: Witekio is an embedded software expert with a system level approach, engineering and integrating intelligent systems software.
Kevin Ho
Co-Founder & VP, Business Development of Internuncio Technologies Inc.
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About Internuncio Technologies Inc.: A Crowdsourcing Control Center, Built for Developers
Chris Torrens
Vice President of Engineering of Rx Networks
A BCIT Data Communications graduate, Chris brings 18 years software design experience in high availability, real-time wireless mobile systems, including mapping and GPS solutions. He was a Senior Software Engineer at Mobile Data Solutions, Inc (MDSI) and Itron Inc.
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About Rx Networks: Rx Networks offers location-based assisted GPS technologies and services.
Michael Devine
EVP, Sales & Marketing of Cumul8
Prior to joining Cumul8, Michael led the Sales and Marketing team at Squirrel Systems, a technology innovator in the global hospitality industry. Some of his previous roles include co-founder and president of a CRM software company until its eventual sale, as well as GM, Channel Sales of a large enterprise telecommunications provider.
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About Cumul8: Cumul8 is a data analytics and IoT platform that enables users to unlock the power of their data.
Leon Vanderpoel
VP-Customer Success and Strategic Initiatives of Refrek Inc
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About Refrek Inc: Refrek is a SaaS( Software as a Service) based online interviewing platform, which helps employers conduct asynchronous video interviews.
Shawn Griffin
Vice President, Product of CommandWear
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About CommandWear: A wearable tech software platform for the global public safety & security market.
Sean Higgins
Executive Vice President of CityView
As the Executive Vice President, Sean is accountable to CityView meeting its goals of delivering a superior customer experience, while ensuring growth, sustainability and ongoing profitability of the business. Together with the leadership team, Sean’s focus is on delivering exceptional business solutions to our customer base as well as expanding market share. Sean has been with CityView since 2004, serving many roles including Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Regional Sales Director, and also leading several customer implementations in the role of Business Analyst. Sean has 15 years of experience in technology sales and a Master of Science in Agriculture (CUM LAUDE) from the University of Natal, South Africa.
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About CityView: CityView is a developer of local government business process automation software.
Kurt Pichler
VP Finance and Corporate Development of Viewpoint AI
An entrepreneur at heart, accomplished fundraiser and business strategist, he has 15 years of putting deals together, creating opportunities and getting them funded. He graduated in 2001 in international trade and business with an emphasis in logistics. Since then he used his contacts in Asia to source products for other companies or for his own projects. Then he was drawn to Fort McMurray during the time of the housing boom where he put together and raised $10M for a 26 house project. Then he got more involved with financing for both private and public companies. He has been a financial consultant to Chinese companies as those companies transition towards the stock market. After China, Kurt focused more on North American emerging technologies in primarily in the medical, pharmatech, digital media and fintech areas. He is always exploring new technologies and new market opportunities as they emerge. He is currently a cofounder and VP Corporate Development for Viewpoint AI Inc., an A.I. powered decision software company that combines the best of human and machine intelligence, amplifying human skill levels.
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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.
Brad Brooks
VP, Sales & Marketing of SpeedLine Solutions
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About SpeedLine Solutions, Stytch: SpeedLine provides software solutions that deliver new efficiency and insight.
John Chase
VP of finance and CFO of Power Measurement
John has over 25 years of business and financial experience. He has worked for Amazon.com’s marketplace division, Exchange.com, an early competitor of eBay, and Rounder Records – the world’s largest independent record label. Massachusetts-based Exchange.com was an online marketplace that specialized in niche markets, such as rare books, and eventually purchased Bibliofind.com – one of AbeBooks’ early competitors. Amazon then acquired both Exchange.com and Bibilofind, and John relocated to Amazon’s Seattle headquarters in 1999. John initially served as chief financial executive for Amazon’s fledgling marketplace division before being appointed director of finance, planning and analysis. He also spent two years in AbeBooks’ hometown of Victoria, BC, (2003-2005) with Power Measurement – the energy management technology firm – as its chief financial officer.
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About Power Measurement: Power Measurement is a leading provider of enterprise energy management systems for energy suppliers and consumers worldwide.
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