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 Board Member operating in the Mobile space. If you think a Board Member 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.
Mark Godsy
Board Member of MOJIO
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About : Scalable, secure and hardware-agnostic, Mojio is the platform and SaaS provider of choice to build and scale connected mobility services.
Dejan Mirkovic
CEO, Co-founder & Board Member of Goose Insurance Services
Dejan is no stranger to leading a flock into unknown territory. As the founder of Cityfone™ Telecommunications (Canada’s first independent mobile virtual network operator), Dejan successfully launched their wireless brands, leading Rogers Wireless. Most recently, he was VP of Corporate Development at airG™ Wireless, a global mobile-first social entertainment platform serving over 100 million consumers worldwide. As a co-founder and board member of Square One Insurance Services, Dejan has easily migrated all his boundless industry expertise and insight to Goose. And like all of our flock, Dejan loves to travel. He’s been to 40 countries across 4 continents. His favourite spot to date is the Australian Gold Coast for its stellar beaches, climate and sumptuous seafood.
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About Goose Insurance Services, Square One Insurance: Mobile First B2C Insurance Platform
Shawn Stapleton
Founder, Board Member & CTO of Dali Wireless
Shawn is a luminary in wireless communications. He is currently a Professor Emeritus at the School of Engineering Science at Simon Fraser University. Shawn founded PulseWave RF, TRL Microwave Technology and Seron Technologies. He has acted as an external partner for Hewlett Packard and later Agilent Technologies where he developed the majority of the ADS software design guides and the ADS Digital Predistorter Connected Solution. In addition, he delivered seminars on Digital Predistortion of Power Amplifiers around the globe. Shawn has held positions at Scientific Atlanta, GigaOptix (iTerra Communications), and Canadian Astronautics Limited. Shawn received his B.Eng, M.Eng. and Ph.D. from Carleton/Ottawa University. He has over 200 international patents, and has published approximately 200 scholarly publications in the areas of RFICs, Digital Signal Processing, Mobile Communications and Power Amplifications.
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About Dali Wireless: Dali Wireless designs and develops software configurable radio systems for broadband applications.
Shawn Stapleton
Founder, Board Member & CTO of Dali Wireless
Shawn is a luminary in wireless communications. He is currently a Professor Emeritus at the School of Engineering Science at Simon Fraser University. Shawn founded PulseWave RF, TRL Microwave Technology and Seron Technologies. He has acted as an external partner for Hewlett Packard and later Agilent Technologies where he developed the majority of the ADS software design guides and the ADS Digital Predistorter Connected Solution. In addition, he delivered seminars on Digital Predistortion of Power Amplifiers around the globe. Shawn has held positions at Scientific Atlanta, GigaOptix (iTerra Communications), and Canadian Astronautics Limited. Shawn received his B.Eng, M.Eng. and Ph.D. from Carleton/Ottawa University. He has over 200 international patents, and has published approximately 200 scholarly publications in the areas of RFICs, Digital Signal Processing, Mobile Communications and Power Amplifications.
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About Dali Wireless: Dali Wireless designs and develops software configurable radio systems for broadband applications.
Natalie Cartwright
Co-Founder, Board Member & Chief Operating Officer of Finn AI
Natalie Cartwright is a co-founder, board member, and chief operating officer at Finn AI.
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About Finn AI: Finn AI provides AI-powered conversational banking technology for personal banking and finance.
Tony Lam
Board Member of Playnomics
Tony Lam is a senior executive with over 18 years of experience in the high tech sector. At Electronic Arts, he was the COO of a large (300+ staff) product development business unit and was also Senior Director of the studio’s central development team focused on providing game art, game engineering, and central technologies to a wide range of products. He followed his time at EA with a position at Microsoft Game Studios where he was Director of Operations for the Vancouver studio and was responsible for growing a new business unit from the ground up. His 16+ years of experience in video game development has provided Tony with the opportunity to work with studios around the world while performing a diverse range of roles in Executive Leadership, Technology Management, Software Engineering, and Quality Assurance. Prior to joining Vanedge Capital, he served as the COO for Reinvent, Inc., a worldwide leader in direct navigation traffic with an inventory of over 200,000 domain names where he led the incubation and development of Internet properties and projects in social networking, daily deals, e-commerce, Internet marketing, and big data. He currently sits on the Board of Trustees for the B.C. Sports Hall of Fame and prior to its acquisition by Unity, served on the board of Playnomics. Tony holds a BSc. in Computer Science and an MBA.
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About : Playnomics is a predictive analytics and messaging platform helping mobile apps and free-to-play games to earn from players.
Michael Ainsworth
Board Member of SmartFleet
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About : Mobile Fleet & Workforce Management
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