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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 President operating in the SaaS 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.
Divesh Sisodraker
President, Chief Product Officer of Alida
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About Alida: Alida is a continuous customer insights solution (SaaS) provider.
Laurie Schultz
Founder, President & Chief Executive Officer of ACL Services
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About ACL Services, Allocadia, Boast.AI, The Greater Vancouver Board of Trade, UserZoom: ACL Services is an enterprise governance software powered by data automation for audit, compliance, and risk management.
Shannon Rogers
President & General Counsel of Global Relay
As Global Relay’s President & General Counsel, Shannon provides Global Relay with a unique combination of legal expertise and business acumen, and a talent for developing and executing on business opportunities. She is responsible for Global Relay’s business strategy and business development. Over Global Relay’s history, Shannon has been integral in establishing Global Relay’s strong business relationships and global distribution network. Shannon also directs all aspects of Global Relay’s legal affairs, leads the day-to-day operations of the Legal Team, and oversees the Compliance, Audit & eDiscovery Team, who are charged with customer compliance related to the archiving, monitoring, auditing, eDiscovery, privacy and business continuity requirements of highly regulated industries such as those governed by the SEC, FINRA, Sarbanes-Oxley, FRCP, IIROC (Canada), FCA (UK), and HIPAA. With Global Relay’s international focus, Shannon plays a pivotal role in privacy and international jurisdictional issues related to data protection. Shannon was named Pacific Region Entrepreneur of the Year for 2013 by Ernst & Young in the Business-to-Business Products and Services Category. She was ranked #1 among Canada’s Top Women Entrepreneurs by the Profit W100 in 2011 and #2 in 2012. Shannon was also the recipient of Business in Vancouver`s 2013 Influential Women in Business Award and has been named to the “Top 10 Influential Women in BC Tech” (BC Tech Magazine 2013), “Top 40 Lawyers Under 40” (Lexpert 2006), and the “Forty under 40” (BIV 2007), honoring Vancouver’s top entrepreneurs under age 40. Shannon holds both a common law (LLB) degree and a civil law degree (BCL) from McGill University, and a Bachelor degree in Political Science from University of Victoria. She began her career as a business and securities lawyer at McCarthy Tetrault in Toronto and Borden Ladner Gervais in Vancouver before leaving large law firm practice to join Global Relay as its fourth employee.
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About Global Relay: Global Relay offers compliance messaging and message management, including archiving, audit and e-discovery for the financial sector.
Robert Silzer, Sr.
President of DSG Global
Robert has over 20 years’ experience in the GPS tracking and fleet solutions industries. He is the founder of our subsidiary, DSG TAG Systems Inc. and has served as Chief Executive Officer of DSG TAG Systems since its inception in April 2008. Robert serves as our President, Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Secretary and Treasurer, positions he has held since May 6, 2015. Mr. Silzer has developed multiple new product concepts and successfully introduced these products to market including an electronic handheld bingo gaming device, the handheld GPS golf units and the a Wi-Fi enabled GPS golf business solution for golf. Prior to establishing DSG TAG, Mr. Silzer and his team designed a total golf solution that addressed the growing needs in Golf Course management. Through a series of mergers and acquisitions different companies with diversified hardware and software platforms, he founded GPS Industries in 1996, serving as its CEO, Chairman and Director until 2007.
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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).
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).
Jad Jebara
President & CEO of Hyperview
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About Hyperview: SaaS for IT infrastructure management
Michael Gililland
President, Business Development of AutoHouse Technologies
Mike first started out in the collision repair industry as an auto body technician and subsequently excelled in a variety of repair, insurance, and supply roles prior to founding AutoHouse. His early recognition of the critical role data and analytics would play in the industry has established a foundation from which to build and first mover advantage. Education ACETECH – Growth Strategy Program Certificate, Growth Strategy 2009 – 2010 Graduated from an extensive 2 year CEO mentoring and training program engaging in all aspects of the business operations. The ACETECH Growth Strategy Program (GSP) is a CEO mentoring and training organization that helps achieve higher performance, faster results with less risk. www.acetech.org University of British Columbia Honors Certificate – E-Business Management 2000 – 2001 Graduated with honors. Wilfrid Laurier University Business Administration 1995 – 1996″
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About AutoHouse Technologies: AutoHouse has developed proprietary, revolutionary post-consumer-sales software for this market on a SaaS.
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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