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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 Partner operating in the Financial Services space. If you think a Partner 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.
Harry Yeh
Managing Partner of Binary Financial
Harry is a Managing Partner at Binary Financial. Binary Financial LLC is an Investment management company focused on providing superior returns for its clients and partners in the crypto currency space. Harry is a Serial Entrepreneur with an engineering background, and has over 15 years experience in the Technology and Business Field. Harry has been the CTO and Co-Founder for a few startups as well as running a technology consulting company. He has managed and developed technology solutions for organizations between 5 to 200 Million in revenue and worked at Fortune 50, 100, 500 companies, Hedge funds, Internet Startups and dotcoms. Harry also has years of experience trading stocks, options and currencies.
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About Binary Financial: Binary Financial LLC is an Investment management company focused on providing superior returns in the digital asset space.
Eric Bukovinsky
Partner of Yaletown Partners
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About CTO.ai, Finn AI, Sokanu, Yaletown Partners: Yaletown Partners specializes in investing in emerging-growth technology companies such as software, data, and device technologies.
Hannes Blum
Venture Partner of Acton Capital
Hannes Blum is Venture Partner North America for Munich-based VC investor Acton Capital. Hannes holds a Masters degree in Business and Engineering from the University of Karlsruhe and a PhD in business from the Otto Beisheim School of Management (WHU) in Germany. Hannes started his career with the Boston Consulting Group in strategy consulting. He then co-founded JustBooks in 1999 and became President and CEO at AbeBooks Inc – the world’s largest marketplace for new, used, rare and out-of-print books and a top 100 Internet Retailer – following the acquisition of JustBooks by AbeBooks in October 2001. During his tenure at AbeBooks, three companies have been acquired under his leadership. Hannes has won various industry awards, including being named Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst & Young for the Consumer Category in the Pacific Region. He’s an active Angel Investor in several tech-enabled business models (including Victoria, BC-based CERTN and Indochino Inc.) and serves on several Boards of Directors in Canada and the US.
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About Acton Capital, Creative Destruction Lab (CDL): Acton Capital is a leading growth venture capital investor in tech-enabled business models, headquartered in Munich, Germany.
Richard Osborn
Managing Partner of Recap Health Ventures
Richard Is the Managing Partner of RecapHealth Ventures. Richard founded RecapHealth to help drive scale innovation and social impact in public and private health care organizations in Canada and beyond. Prior to founding RecapHealth Richard was a partner in an international mid market private equity firm; a co-founder of a technology focused venture capital firm operating in Canada and Silicon Valley and earlier in his career managed venture capital investments for two Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) funds. Over his career Richard has led investments in more than 30 companies in transactions representing over $500 Million in invested capital. In addition Richard has been a software entrepreneur and more recently led turnarounds in two health focused companies as interim President and COO. Richard is a frequent speaker on financial innovation and has been named one of Vancouver’s Top 40 under 40. He is the founder of one of Canada’s first social impact funds, BC Social Venture Partners (www.bcsvp.com), acts as advisor to an international micro-finance fund, a leading US health incubator and a number of private and public health initiatives. Richard has business degrees from UBC and Queens University.
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About Recap Health Ventures: Recaphealth Ventures Is A Unique Investment Fund Delivering Financial And Social Impact By Investing In Global Health Care Innovation.
Susan Martyn
Partner, Canadian Immigration Law of PwC
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About PwC: PricewaterhouseCoopers is an accounting firm that provides tax, HR, transactions, performance improvement, and crisis management services.
Lance Tracey
Founding Partner of Full Stack
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About Full Stack: Full Stack is a capital investment firm that connects with budding entrepreneurs.
Min Kuang
Founding Partner & Chief Executive Officer of Roadman Investments
Min Kuang is the Founding Partner and Chief Executive Officer of Urban Select Capital Partners Corp.. Ms. Kuang has over 20 years’ experience in managing public companies, mergers and acquisitions, business development, and investment management. Ms. Kuang is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Asia Select Asset Management Inc. in Canada and the Chief Executive Officer of Asia Select Investment Fund Inc., a private equity firm established in April 2007, where she is responsible for equity investments, mergers and acquisition transactions, and taking companies public. From 2001 to 2007, Ms. Kuang founded Orient Ventures Ltd., a Vancouver-based investment and financial advisory firm which is engaged in mergers and acquisition transactions in China and Canada. She has been involved in a wide range of technology M&A, joint ventures, and other strategic alliance transactions for media , consumer, resource, medical device, and healthcare companies in China and, Canada. Ms. Kuang received an M.B.A. from Lawrence Technology University in Michigan and a B.A. degree from China.
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About Roadman Investments: Roadman Investments is an investment issuer that focuses on investing growth capital in private and public companies.
Michael Matrick
Managing Partner of Performance Analytics Corporation
With a career spanning 20 years in the technology area, Michael has worked for some of the largest software companies in the world in senior business developments positions. Michael also co-founded a software start-up company that was acquired by Microsoft in 2008 and he led the company through a successful acquisition process. On a personal level, Michael enjoys spending quality time with his family and friends. He is also involved in early stage technology companies, sitting on various boards and providing guidance to their executive leadership teams.
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About Performance Analytics Corporation: Performance Analytics Corporation is a technology and services company .
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