Boardroom Media (CEO News)
At CEO (Boardroom Media) we track over 1,000,000 startups and over 5,000,000 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 Canada based CEO’ operating in the SaaS space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected].
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.
Damir Hot
CEO & Founder of Canalyst
Follow Damir Hot:
About Canalyst: Canalyst is the leading destination for public company data and analysis.
Tyler Proud
Chief Executive Officer of Avesdo Inc.
Follow Tyler Proud:
About Avesdo Inc.: Avesdo’s SaaS platform modernizes deal and revenue management for real estate developers and homebuilders
Edward Yao
CEO/Founder of OneLocal
Edward joined Accenture’s Management Consulting Practice after graduating from the Queens University School of Business. After Accenture, Edward went on to co-found one of Canada’s largest e-commerce companies, managing the daily operations of the business as President, and overseeing it’s growth to 130+ employees.
Follow Edward Yao:
About OneLocal: OneLocal helps businesses do more with less by leveraging our powerful easy-to-use marketing automation tools.
Andrew Waitman
Chief Executive Officer of Assent Compliance
Andrew’s history of helping businesses succeed continues at Assent Compliance. Since becoming CEO, he has been integral to the company’s growth, and helped it earn a spot on the Narwhal List for high-potential companies. Previously, Andrew was CEO of Pythian, overseeing its rise from a small business to one of Canada’s largest and fastest-growing global professional services companies. He also served as Managing Partner at Celtic House Venture Partners during its highest-performing years to date, when one fund produced one of the world’s top ten best venture fund returns ever. Andrew has served on the boards of more than 30 technology companies. He is currently a board member at Assent and Fidus Systems, and sits on Genesys Capital’s advisory board.
Follow Andrew Waitman:
About Assent Compliance: Assent Compliance provides cloud-based SaaS solutions for product compliance, corporate social responsibility, and vendor management.
Rakesh Soni
Co-founder, CEO, & Board Member of LoginRadius
Rakesh is a startup enthusiast, a tech entrepreneur, and an engineer. He is currently working as the Co-founder and CEO of LoginRadius, a SaaS company securing over one billion digital identities worldwide.
Follow Rakesh Soni:
About LoginRadius: LoginRadius is a SaaS based CIAM platform offering Customer Registration Services, Profile Data Storage, SSO, and more.
Bryn Jones
Co-Founder and CEO of PartnerStack
Bryn Jones is the Co-Founder, CEO at PartnerStack.
Follow Bryn Jones:
About PartnerStack: PartnerStack enables companies to accelerate growth with partnerships
Mike Murchison
Co-Founder & CEO of Ada
Mike Murchison is the CEO and Co-Founder of Ada, the leading provider of AI customer support chatbots. Ada provides a simple and powerful authoring environment, cutting edge machine learning, and lightning-fast deployment, automating millions of chat conversations per month for clients such as TELUS, Coinbase, and Shopify. In partnership with Genesys, Ada is helping companies improve their customer experience, dramatically reduce costs, and increase support team productivity.
Follow Mike Murchison:
About Ada, Creative Destruction Lab (CDL): Ada is an automated customer experience company that provides chat bots used in customer support.
Jonah Midanik
Founder and CEO of Limelight Platform
Jonah, Limelight Platform’s founder and CEO, drives the company’s growth and strategic vision to disrupt the live marketing industry. An entrepreneur from an early age, he launched his first company, Casino Media Group, while in high school. The online gaming agency evolved into Immersion Media Group, an experiential marketing agency with millions in annual revenue, servicing Fortune 1000s across North America. Jonah has also held senior marketing roles at Virgin Gaming and Ultimate Gaming. Jonah has a degree in electrical engineering from the University of Western Ontario.
Follow Jonah Midanik:
About Forum Ventures, Limelight Platform: Limelight Platform is a venture-backed company that provides tools to build automated, data-driven live marketing campaigns.
Douglas Murray
CEO of Auvik Networks
Doug Murray is the Chief Executive Officer of Auvik where he drives company strategy, culture, and growth. Murray has over 25 years of network and security industry experience, including two years as the CEO of cloud cyber security company Valtix, as well as seven years as CEO of SDN pioneer Big Switch Networks (acquired by Arista Networks). He previously held leadership positions at Juniper Networks, Sun Microsystems and AT&T, and was a finalist for the EY Entrepreneur of the Year Northern California in 2017. Doug holds a BA in History from Colgate University and an MBA from Johns Hopkins University.
Follow Douglas Murray:
About Auvik Networks: Auvik is cloud-based network management.
Michael Litt
Co-Founder and CEO of Vidyard
Michael is the co-founder and CEO of the leading Video Marketing platform.
Follow Michael Litt:
About Garage Capital, Vidyard: Vidyard is a video marketing platform, enabling customers to derive information on viewer-behavior for marketing automation systems and CRM.
Colin Chartier
CEO & Co-founder of webapp.io
Co-founder & CEO – https://webapp.io Former CTO – https://parsehub.com Triple-major (stats/CS/pure math) from University of Toronto
Follow Colin Chartier:
About webapp.io: webapp.io is a code review automation platform that offers on-demand review environments for full stack web applications.
Len Fridman
Co-Founder, CEO of WellnessLiving Systems
Len Fridman is a fitness business expert and successful entrepreneur. He is the CEO and Co-Founder of WellnessLiving, a leading business management software company tailored for the wellness and fitness sector. Len began his journey back in 2009 when he started a local boot-camp in his neighborhood park that soon grew into multiple locations across the country. He teamed up with businesses across North America to create the MetaBody Yoga and Fitness Pass, with upwards of 60,000 active clients at its peak. In the midst of Len’s success, he realized there was a lack of reliable, cost-effective business management software in the market. And so along with his childhood friend Sasha Davids, the two created WellnessLiving, an all-in-one and easy-to-use software solution to help bootstrap business owners, just like them.
Follow Len Fridman:
About MetaBody Fitness, WellnessLiving Systems: WellnessLiving is a revolutionary all-in-one business management SaaS solution for the Health and Wellness Services Industry.
Dinesh Prasanna Arivalagan
CEO/ Founder of Intelense Inc
Dinesh is a seasoned entrepreneur with a proven track record. Having a strong affinity towards new and advanced technologies he pursued his research. in the field of Computer Vision and Deep Learning. He currently holds multiple patents in the field of Deep Learning, IoT, and networking while leading the Intelense R&D team. Having penned Book & Journals, he is a conceiver of several innovative AI algorithms. Some of his research areas include EEG Signal Analysis, Reinforcement Learning, Generative Adversarial Imputation Networks (GAIN), Video compression technology, network optimization, robotics, and edge computing.Dinesh is also influencing several organizations for improving the application of AI. His passion to build products based on emerging technologies with a constant eye for market trends has helped his organizations to stay ahead of the curve and achieve business goals in a faster yet efficient way.
Follow Dinesh Prasanna Arivalagan:
About Caliber Interconnect Solutions, Intelense Inc: SAAS based AI platform for IoT devices. Anomaly detection and analytics for IoT devices such as cameras, sensors, etc. IoT & AI platform.
Kia Rahmani
CEO & Founder of Optix
Follow Kia Rahmani:
About Optix, Share Desk: The platform for coworking spaces and flexible offices
Alex Barrotti
Founder & CEO of TouchBistro
Alex Barrotti is the Founder of TouchBistro, Inc. and serves as its Chief Executive Officer.Alex Barrotti has been working in the tech industry for over 25 years. He Founded INEX Corporation in 1997 and served as its Chief Executive Officer. Alex Barrotti has expertise and hands-on experience in design, deployment, and reseller channel relations. He was named Founder/Entrepreneur of the Year for 2014 by Best In Biz Awards.
Follow Alex Barrotti:
About TouchBistro: TouchBistro is an iPad-based restaurant point-of-sale system enabling owners to manage reservations and take orders instantly.
Alek Mirkovich
CEO and Co-founder of Campayn
Follow Alek Mirkovich:
About Campayn: Campayn is an email marketing service used to create, share and track newsletters and marketing emails.
Sean Hinton
Founder, CEO of SkyHive
As an experienced global business leader with an MBA from Queen’s University, Sean possesses substantial expertise in skills development and is considered a thought leader on the Future of Work. With the mission of combating poverty and unemployment through the use of exponential technology, Sean strives to set a positive example for other entrepreneurs that a successful business can be built in a way that truly helps people.
Follow Sean Hinton:
About SkyHive: SkyHive is an artificial intelligence technology that drives rapid reskilling of workforces and communities across the world.
Hunter Madeley
CEO of Vena Solutions
Hunter took the helm at Vena in 2019 to continue his track record of leading transformational growth at some of the cloud’s most important companies. Hunter joined Vena from HubSpot, where as chief sales officer he led annual revenue growth from $80 million to $600 million in just five years. His 20-year career also includes sales and growth leadership roles at companies including ADP and Salesforce.com. While an avid soccer fan, coach and player, Hunter’s favorite personal pursuits mostly involve trying to keep up with his two kids.
Follow Hunter Madeley:
About Vena Solutions: Vena connects people, existing systems, and data to power finance-led business planning and real-time reporting.
Basil Bouraropoulos
Chief Executive Officer of Stradigi AI
Basil Bouraropoulos is the Chief Executive Officer at Stradigi AI.
Follow Basil Bouraropoulos:
About Stradigi AI, Stradigi Ventures: Stradigi AI is an AI SaaS company that accelerates time-to-value for data-driven insights across all business functions.
Ben Zifkin
CEO of Hubba
Ben Zifkin is the founder and CEO of Hubba.
Follow Ben Zifkin:
About Hubba: Hubba is a software company that uses a combination of machine learning and personal curation to match brands with buyers.
Jason Gamblen
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Landslo
Jason is a serial entrepreneur with 6 years of founder experience – his last venture was called InnerSpace where he raised $5M in venture capital from Creative Destruction Lab, 500 Startups, MaRS IAF and BDC. He is a global leader in product and sales with a breadth of perspective when it comes to running a technology company, including UX, marketing, and finance. He has been active in the startup ecosystem in Silicon Valley and Toronto for the last 11 years and couldn’t be more thrilled to be innovating in this new asset class with the best talent globally. Jason was one of the first ten employees at Kobo and oversaw Global Ecommerce for Kobo after their $315 Million-exit to Rakuten.
Follow Jason Gamblen:
About Landslo: Landslo uses artificial intelligence to turn prospects and leads into sales-ready opportunities.
Robert Kirstiuk
Co-Founder and CEO of Freshline
Follow Robert Kirstiuk:
About Freshline: Freshline is an eCommerce & fulfillment SaaS software made for perishable food. We work with food suppliers and enable them to sell online.
Steve Irvine
Founder & CEO of Integrate.ai
Steve Irvine is the founder & CEO of Integrate.ai, a leading Artificial Intelligence software company focused on making the interactions between people and businesses more natural and profitable. Prior to founding Integrate.ai, Steve was an executive at Facebook head office in California, most recently as the global head of partnerships for Facebook and Instagram. Steve held other senior leadership roles at Facebook including leading a global strategy team and helping to build Facebook’s presence in Canada as an early member of the Facebook Canada leadership team. Steve is a serial entrepreneur having founded and built two marketing technology companies prior to joining Facebook. Steve is a board member at Polar, a leading branded content technology company and sits on the advisory boards for the Vector Institute, a global leading AI research institute based in Toronto, and the Canadian Centre for Aging and Brain Health Innovation. Steve is an academic all-Canadian graduate from York University.
Follow Steve Irvine:
About Integrate.ai, Meta: Integrate.ai is a machine learning startup that provides business insights and streamlines federated learning.
David Ossip
CEO of Ceridian
David Ossip is Ceridian’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. He is the driving force behind the innovation, vision and leadership at Ceridian, one of the fastest growing Human Capital Management technology companies. In 2012, Ceridian acquired Dayforce, a highly successful cloud company founded by David. As President of Ceridian Dayforce, David began the transformation and renewal of Ceridian with focus on the Dayforce HCM offering. In 2013, David became the CEO of Ceridian and in 2015, Ceridian’s Chairman. David was recently named as one of the top CEOs by Glassdoor, and Ceridian one of the Best Places to Work in 2016. David also serves as Chairman of LifeWorks, an employee engagement company, offering an industry-first mobile Employee Engagement Platform, alongside wellness expertise to more than 15 million users in the US, Canada and the UK. David previously founded Workbrain, where he served as CEO and President. During his tenure at Workbrain, David was recognized with many awards for his leadership, including being named twice to Canada’s Best 50 Managed Companies, the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award, the Arthur Kroeger College Award for Management, as well as a nationally awarded Special Citation for Technology Innovation. He was most recently named a 2015 HRO Today Superstar Provider for demonstrating forward-thinking and transformative actions in the field of HR. David holds a B.A. in Econometrics and Quantitative Economics from the University of Toronto and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Follow David Ossip:
About Ceridian, Creative Destruction Lab (CDL): Ceridian helps organizations maximize their human, financial, and technology resources.
Marcus Rader
Founder & CEO of Hostaway
Founder & CEO at Hostaway.
Follow Marcus Rader:
About Hostaway: Hostaway offers scalable solutions with award-winning support to fast-growing vacation rental property managers!
Ariel Mashiyev
Chairman & CEO of iLobby
Ariel Mashiyev is the CEO of iLobby® Corp, a global leader in the Enterprise Visitor Management space. He is passionate about leveraging technology to bring about automation, and he constantly strives to change the status quo. His innovation and dedication have not only exponentially grown iLobby®’s revenue, but Ariel is a serial entrepreneur who has successfully built up brands that have been acquired by major players in their industries. Ariel has been recognized with awards such as “Young Entrepreneur of the Year” in 2019, and named a “Canadian Entrepreneurship Icon” by StartUp Canada. Ariel gives back to the entrepreneur community through mentorship and Expert Advisor roles, and supports non-profits through the iLobby Cares™ initiative.
Follow Ariel Mashiyev:
About iLobby: ILobby develops software that helps enterprise companies track, manage and monitor visitors, contractors, and employees in their facilities.
Adarsh Pallian
CEO of Trippeo
Adarsh Pallian is COO at SoleSavy.
Follow Adarsh Pallian:
About SoleSavy, Trippeo: Trippeo Technologies develops a mobile application that automates business expense management process for business travelers.
Jason Atkins
CEO of 360insights
Jason founded his first technology company while still attending high school. He has long track record of using his strong entrepreneurial spirit and technology expertise to grow businesses and create new opportunities. Before founding 360 in 2009, he was president and CEO with TMR, a marketing services company. Jason’s business philosophy is grounded in workplace happiness and having a strong commitment to community. To that end, he is also a founder and principal investor in City Flow Project, a localized Durham Region venture capital and tech incubator.
Follow Jason Atkins:
About 360insights: 360insightsprovides a SaaS-based platform that enables manufacturers and distributors to manage their incentives programs.
Claudio Erba
Founder & CEO of Docebo
Follow Claudio Erba:
About Docebo: Docebo is a cloud ‘e-learning as a service’ product that enables companies to deliver, track and certify online training to their staff.
Jason Smith
Co-Founder and CEO of Klue
Sales and marketing centric business guy. Co-founder, investor and/or early employee of four start-ups (two successes, one still grinding, one non-starter). Advisor and consultant to early stage companies. Stint as a VP at Electronic Arts. Has led product development teams, services teams, sales teams and marketing teams ranging in size from a few rockstars to hundreds of employees. Success in attracting/picking/growing talent. Track record of shaping rough ideas/initiatives into successful ventures. Key roles include President, Vision Critical, a global market research software leader, and co-founder of Columbus Group, a digital agency pioneer acquired by TELUS (NYSE: TU). In 2011, at 40, my wife and I hit the reset button, bought 4 round-the-world plane tickets and travelled the world for a year with our kids. Check out the YT video @ youtube.com/onemoresmith. Now incubating two start-ups and and advising early stage companies like Strutta and Mobify.
Follow Jason Smith:
About Klue: Klue is an AI competitive intelligence platform that enables competitor research and delivery of sales battle cards to B2B Sales teams.
Shahram Sean Yousefi
Co-founder, President, CEO, and CHO of MESH AI
Follow Shahram Sean Yousefi:
About MESH AI: MESH AI is the socially intelligent staff scheduling saas for healthcare.
Geoffrey Bourgeois
Co-founder and CEO of HubStor
Co-founder and CEO at HubStor, husband, dad, entrepreneur. Interested in startups, storage technologies, B2B, SaaS, economics, fitness, future.
Follow Geoffrey Bourgeois:
About HubStor: HubStor is a SaaS cloud data platform that unifies backup and archive as a service for enterprises.
Mayukh Gon
Founder & CEO of PerfectCloud.io
Passionate and Driven. Serial entrepreneur. Subject Matter expert in technology infrastructure, including Identity and Access for banks, Insurance companies and Telcos. 7 years of rich startup experience at Vocollect, SmartOps, Paysys, Surepay – all acquired.
Follow Mayukh Gon:
About PerfectCloud.io: PerfectCloud offers cloud-based unified security and privacy solutions for enterprises.
Greg Smith
Co-founder, CEO & Instructor of Thinkific
Greg is passionate about education. His past experiences as a securities lawyer and teacher fuelled his desire to use technology to improve the learning and teaching experience. Greg has taught thousands of students online and in person. His latest addictions are learning new kiteboarding tricks and playing euro boardgames.
Follow Greg Smith:
About Thinkific: Thinkific is a software platform that enables entrepreneurs to create, market, sell, and deliver their own online courses.
Greg Malpass
Chief Executive Officer of Traction on Demand
Greg founded Traction on Demand, a Burnaby-based cloud technology consultancy and software development firm, in 2006. His original intention was to serve a small number of clients by helping them unite their sales and marketing teams; however, Traction has since grown into a nationally-recognized brand with offices and 250+ employees across North America. It is now ranked as one of the continent’s fastest growing technology companies. Greg’s commitment to workplace culture and community has landed Traction on Demand on Canada’s Top 10 Best Places to Work list for the past three years. Additionally, Traction is a current finalist for Deloitte’s Best Managed Companies in Canada. Individually, Greg has been recognized for both his unconventional leadership style and expertise in cloud computing and data. In 2013, Business in Vancouver named him one of the Top Forty Under 40, awarding him once again with CEO of the Year in 2016.
Follow Greg Malpass:
About Traction on Demand: Traction on Demand is North America’s largest dedicated Salesforce consulting firm delivering cross-platform solutions and SaaS products.
Brett Patrontasch
Co-Founder & CEO of Shyft Technologies
Brett Patrontasch is the CEO of Shyft, an app that helps retail and service workers swap shifts and message each other. Shyft is a Techstars Seattle 2016 backed company. Brett Patrontasch is the Founder and Director of Scholars At Your Service, a residential painting business with $2.5M in annual revenue.
Follow Brett Patrontasch:
About Shyft Technologies: Shyft Technologie is a tech company developing mobile apps for coworkers and teams.
Alison Taylor
Co-Founder and Co-CEO of jane.app
Alison Taylor is a co-founder and co-CEO at Jane.App. Prior to this, Alison spent more than 8 years at Canopy Integrated Health as business manager and owner.
Follow Alison Taylor:
About jane.app: Jane is an online platform for health and wellness practitioners that makes it simple to book, chart, schedule, bill and get paid.
Trevor Johnston
Co-Founder and Co-CEO of jane.app
Trevor Johnston is a co-founder and co-CEO at Jane.App, an online platform for health and wellness practitioners.
Follow Trevor Johnston:
About jane.app: Jane is an online platform for health and wellness practitioners that makes it simple to book, chart, schedule, bill and get paid.
Brendan King
CEO of Vendasta
Brendan King, co-founder and CEO of Vendasta Technologies, is the innovative force of the company. Responsible for providing the vision, thought leadership and business strategy, it is Brendan’s ability to focus on the big picture while maintaining quality on the finest details that facilitates Vendasta’s success. Prior to co-founding Vendasta, Brendan proved his worth through many business ventures, including founding two other successful companies, one of which was nationally franchised. He also provided the entrepreneurial force behind Point2 Agent, a real estate software, where he grew its membership to over 165,000 agents and brokers in 85 countries. Brendan and Vendasta are almost synonymous. Both are governed by four core values: drive, innovation, respect and agility. Brendan is extremely passionate about upholding these core values while leading Vendasta down a path of innovation to become the number one provider of essential brand management products.
Follow Brendan King:
About Vendasta: The end-to-end platform for local experts who market, sell, bill, fulfill, and deliver solutions to small- and medium-sized businesses.
Valérie Robitaille
Co-Founder and CEO of XpertSea
Valérie is XpertSea’s Co-Founder and CEO. An entrepreneur with a passion for the ocean, it was her interest in innovation and technology that led to a scientific breakthrough in aquaculture. When Valérie and Cody discovered that shrimp hatcheries had only basic tools to count the number of larvae, an idea was born. Together, they thought about commercial applications for optics and photonics in marine environments. After garnering interest from several companies, they created XpertSea to address the major technology gap that exists in the aquaculture industry. With more mouths to feed and fewer fish in the ocean, Valérie knows XpertSea can have an important impact on the global food supply. She enjoys fishing, American football and French Bulldogs. Valérie holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Marine Biology and Oceanography from the Maine Maritime Institute and pursued a Master of Science degree from the National Institute of Scientific Research.
Follow Valérie Robitaille:
About Unreasonable, XpertSea: XpertSea develops an AI-driven data management platform that delivers real-time insights making aquaculture more efficient and sustainable.
Laurie Schultz
Founder, President & Chief Executive Officer of ACL Services
Follow Laurie Schultz:
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.
Zakir Hemraj
Co-Founder & CEO of Loopio
Zakir started his career as a software developer with Achievers (formerly I Love Rewards) when it was a tiny, bootstrapped business in 2006. He was there for nearly eight years, wearing multiple hats as the company expanded its North American presence. Being exposed to this rapid growth fuelled Zakir’s career. Aside from coding through the night, he also worked as a Sales Engineer and helped lead the expansion of Achievers into Boston and San Francisco. Before leaving to co-found Loopio in 2014, Zakir spent his last two years at Achievers as a Software Development Manager, where he focused on scaling process, technology, and culture. Zakir received a BSc in Computer Engineering from Queen’s University in 2006.
Follow Zakir Hemraj:
About Loopio: Loopio’s RFP Response Software enables enterprises supercharge their process of responding to RFPs, RFIs, and Security Questionnaires
Rodolphe Barrere
Co-founder & CEO of POTLOC
Rodolphe Barrere is a Consumer Research Expert who collaborates everyday with world-class Retailers and Commercial Real Estate Companies. After creating a game whose goal was to predict the death or survival of his neighbourhood’s local businesses, Rodolphe realized how powerful local insights were, and how difficult it was to capture them. This is how in 2014, Rodolphe and his cofounder Louis Delaoustre, came up with the idea of POTLOC: a tech that will change the consumer research game. Four years later, Rodolphe has raised $3M+ with Canadian and international VCs, manages five offices across Europe and North America and is working with the largest retailers (Loblaw, Decathlon, Carrefour) and real-estate companies (Ivanhoé Cambridge, Cadillac Fairview, Simon Property Group). Rodolphe has worked for the LVMH Group in Paris and New-York, holds a trilingual BBA in Marketing and Entrepreneurship from HEC Montreal and is regularly invited as a guest speaker to share his expertise on Consumer Research and Retail.
Follow Rodolphe Barrere:
About Epic Foundation, Fast Company Executive Board, Forbes, Monk.ai, POTLOC, Simplyk: Potloc is a hybrid software and services research platform that uses social networks for geo-targeted consumer surveys.
Bill Wilson
Co-Founder and CEO of SalesRight
A software engineer by trade, Bill has been building products and teams for over twenty years. With his intentions now set solely on SalesRight, he looks to create a software that all SaaS businesses can benefit from. Other than that, he’s an avid runner who you’ll see running to and from friend and family gatherings on a nightly basis.
Follow Bill Wilson:
About SalesRight: SalesRight helps SaaS sales teams close deals faster through Interactive Live Quotes.
Ken Harris
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Plusgrade
Ken Harris is the Founder & CEO at Plusgrade.
Follow Ken Harris:
About Plusgrade: The market leading provider of upgrade solutions, a key segment of the fast-growing ancillary revenue and merchandising sector
Cameron Barrett
Chief Executive Officer of Field Safe Solutions
Cameron Barrett is the Chief Executive Officer at Field Safe Solutions. He has an MBA from Heriot-Watt University, an MSc (Law) from Abraham Lincoln University, and an ICD.D from Rotman School of Management.
Follow Cameron Barrett:
About Field Safe Solutions: Field Safe Solutions develops a safety application to connect workers, improve safety, optimize operations, and lower costs.
Ivan Levchenko
CEO of iGMS
Follow Ivan Levchenko:
About iGMS: iGMS is an all-in-one vacation rental management software for Airbnb/Booking.com/VRBO/HA management companies and property managers
James Riley
CEO of Lightspark
Follow James Riley:
About Lightspark: Lightspark is software company that provides SaaS based engagement, e-commerce and rebate management tools to make energy efficiency easier.
Sam Pillar
Founder & CEO of Jobber
Follow Sam Pillar:
About Jobber: Jobber is a business management platform for small home service businesses.
Kristine Steuart
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Allocadia
As CEO and Co-Founder, Kristine Steuart leads the Allocadia team in realizing their vision of a world where marketers make every dollar count. To rally behind their mission, Kristine is focused on building a world-class team and a culture of radical transformation + we’re in it together. Kristine Steuart and her twin sister Katherine Berry co-founded Allocadia in 2010 after experiencing first-hand the difficulty in gaining insights into marketing investments and measuring marketing performance. Kristine has led Allocadia from a bootstrapped start up with a handful of customers to a global organization with hundreds of enterprise customers worldwide who manage billions of dollars in marketing spend in Allocadia, $30m in venture funding, and partnerships with marketing cloud leaders like Oracle, IBM and Marketo. With a radically better way to plan, budget and optimize their marketing investments, Allocadia’s enterprise software is helping propel marketers on a journey they have embarked upon: leading in their companies by driving real business impact. Kristine is a speaker at local and global events, and writes a CMO Leading in Change blog series. Kristine was named among the Top Forty Under 40 by Business in Vancouver, the Top 10 Women in Tech to Watch in 2015 by inc. magazine, and one of BC’s top 35 most influential women in business. Allocadia has also received recognition as one of the Top 100 Tech Companies in BC and was awarded the 2015 Gartner Cool Vendor for CRM Marketing Applications.
Follow Kristine Steuart:
About Allocadia, BC Tech Association: Allocadia empowers marketers to run marketing more effectively by providing them with greater control over their marketing investments.
Peter Evans
Co-Founder & CEO of ExpertFile
Peter has 20 years experience in software, Internet services, online media and telecommunications. An accomplished corporate speaker on strategy and marketing,he also has extensive experience as a producer of tradeshows and conferences. In 2002, he founded Riverdale Partners, a strategy and marketing consultancy serving clients throughout North America in the media and technology sector. Since then, he has worked with many senior leadership teams with notable success including DoubleClick (Acquired by Google); Cognovision (Acquired by Intel); Digital Connexxions (Acquired by InfoUSA); Truition (Acquired by CDC Software) and XPLANE Corporation (acquired by Dacchis Group). Prior to his consulting careeer, Peter served as a CMO in a number of early-stage startups such as Platespin and FloNetwork (acquired by DoubleClick). Prior to this he founded the media research practice at MediaLinx LLP, which built Sympatico (Canada’s leading online service and Internet ISP). Peter also has considerable experience in the events industry both as an investor and trade show producer and advisor to a number of industry and trade associations. His association volunteer experience includes his work as a Director of the Toronto Venture Group (TVG), a non-profit association where he served as Marketing Chair for 5 years. At TVG he assisted with marketing for a variety of programs including Canada’s largest conference dedicated to bridging the gap between entrepreneurs and capital sources in Canada. Peter is a frequent keynote speaker and panelist at technology and marketing events. He has addressed conferences throughout North America and Europe such as COMDEX Las Vegas, Internet World, Kauffman Foundation Charite Entrepreneurship Summit (Berlin), Software Industry & Information Association (SIIA), Boston Consulting Group E-Commerce Forum, The Association for Advancement of Relationship Marketing (AARM), and Direct Marketing Days (DMDNY) in New York and the PriceWaterHouseCoopers Emerging Software CEO conference. Peter currently serves as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EiR) with the MaRS Advisory Services Group in Toronto. He holds an MBA degree from Queen’s University and is currently completing the Certificate Program in Strategic Planning & Innovation at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Follow Peter Evans:
About ExpertFile: Enterprise SaaS content marketing platform + the world’s largest curated expert marketplace featuring leading authorities on 30,000+ topics
Ian Jeffrey
Co-Founder & CEO of Breathe Life
Ian is a native Montrealer, foodie, die hards Habs fan and Vice President of Product Marketing at PasswordBox, the most trusted online identity manager. A seasoned entrepreneur, Ian has built businesses both in Silicon Valley and Montreal, and has venture capitalist experience as the founding General Manager of FounderFuel, the first Canadian mentor-driven startup accelerator. In 2006 he helped launch Radar, the first mobile photo-sharing social network, later acquired by Shutterfly. At Shutterfly Ian was Director of Marketing of the mobile and social team and launched Wink, a mobile app that lets users create photobooth-style prints directly from their iPhone. Ian started his career in 2002 as half of the two-man team behind Nomad, Canada’s first Street Intelligence Agency and was also Co-Founder and CEO of Tistik, a Montreal-based events company.
Follow Ian Jeffrey:
About Breathe Life: The digital distribution platform for life insurance carriers
Aaron Glazer
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Taplytics
Aaron Glazer is Co-Founder of Taplytics Most recently, he was a strategy consultant at ZS Associates. A graduate of the MBA program at the Rotman School of Management, Aaron majored in Corporate Strategy. Prior to completing his MBA, Aaron worked as a management consultant at Accenture. Aaron also co-founded an online startup where he oversaw the development of several online and mobile products.
Follow Aaron Glazer:
About ERGO Capital, Taplytics: Taplytics is the only single application for both enterprise marketers and engineers to own the entire customer experience.
Dan Zitting
Managing Director & CEO of Diligent
Follow Dan Zitting:
About Diligent: Diligent is the largest GRC SaaS provider, with 1M users, across 23,000 organizations, valued at $7B+ and $500 million+ in revenue.
Yves Poiré
CEO and Co-Founder of Optable
Yves Poiré is the Co-founder and CEO of Optable.
Follow Yves Poiré:
About Optable: Optable is a SaaS data connectivity platform that uses cryptography to enable decentralized, secure data collaboration.
Omar Salaymeh
Chief Executive Officer of Bonfire Interactive
Omar Salaymeh is the Chief Executive Officer at Bonfire Interactive.
Follow Omar Salaymeh:
About Bonfire Interactive: Bonfire is the leading next-generation competitive bidding and RFx platform.
Parth Khanna
Co-Founder and CEO of ACTO
Parth Khanna is the Co-Founder and CEO at ACTO.
Follow Parth Khanna:
About ACTO: ACTO is an Omnichannel Education platform for life sciences companies.
Henry Bee
CEO and Co-Founder of CoPilot AI
CEO, Co-founder. Ex-Broadrige and quantitative finance firm CSS Analytics, spent 10 years building financial advisor products.
Follow Henry Bee:
About CoPilot AI, WealthBar: CoPilot AI is a SaaS company that uses A.I. and rich social data to connect businesses with customers in a whole new way.
Nish Patel
CEO of ConceptShare
Nish’s favorite question is WHY. He’ll constantly ask customers, partners and the ConceptShare team. In the process we discover the real problems we need to solve for our customers. On the weekends you’ll find him watching the Food Network and asking himself, “Why am I eating a PB&J sandwich?”
Follow Nish Patel:
About ConceptShare: ConceptShare offers marketing and creative services teams with online proofing and project management solutions, and analytics.
Jamie Shulman
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Hubdoc
Jamie spends far too much time scanning, emailing and organizing his documents. At home and at work. One of his dreams in life is to build an elegant application that will stop the pain. That’s why he founded Hubdoc. Jamie is a recovering lawyer and a repeat entrepreneur. He started Sparkroom with the other Jamie. He studied at Brown University and has a JD/MBA from the University of Toronto.
Follow Jamie Shulman:
About Hubdoc: Your key financial docs in one place. Automatically.
Yves Boudreau
CEO & Co-Founder of Alongside
Founder at Alongside
Follow Yves Boudreau:
About AllOnboard, Alongside, Career Beacon: Alongside humanizes the online hiring experience by improving the way job seekers and employers discover each other.
Daniel Domachowski
Co-Founder & CEO of Circus
CoFounder/CEO @CircusHR – Cutting the HR headache for film & TV. #CanadianScreenAward nominated Producer (#HelloDestroyer, #TIFF16).
Follow Daniel Domachowski:
About Circus: Powering studios, behind the scenes.
Mike Allan
President & CEO of Routeique
Mike has been building and running successful technology companies since he was a wee lad. Now a little older and wiser, he’s figured out how to surround himself with great people and get out of their way.
Follow Mike Allan:
About Routeique: Routeique is a logistics and supply chain company that aligns partners to enable data and product to flow and improve profitability.
Noah Dolgoy
Co-Founder & CEO of Tread
Follow Noah Dolgoy:
About Tread: Tread is a platform for managing construction equipment services, providing realtime insights to construction companies and fleets.
Pierce Ujjainwalla
Co-Founder & CEO of Knak
Follow Pierce Ujjainwalla:
About Knak: The World First Email & Landing Page Creation Platform for Enterprise Marketers
Sylvain Boily
Co-Founder & CEO of Wazo
Follow Sylvain Boily:
About Wazo: Building the future of open communication. #UCaaS #CPaaS
Marlina Kinnersley
Co-Founder and CEO of Fortay.ai
Marlina Kinnersley is the co-founder and CEO of Fortay.ai and the co-founder of CULTURE LABx. Prior to co-founding CULTURE LABx, Marlina founded Kiinzel. She holds a bachelor’s degree in marketing from Thompson Rivers University.
Follow Marlina Kinnersley:
About Fortay.ai: Fortay is a team success platform that helps innovative companies build diverse values-aligned teams and healthy, inclusive workplaces.
Clinton Robinson
CEO of Lane
Follow Clinton Robinson:
About Lane: Lane is the world’s leading workplace experience platform.
Dominique Beaupre
CEO & Founder of Aliud
Dominique Beaupre is the Founder and CEO of Aliud.
Follow Dominique Beaupre:
About Aliud, Edmonton Regional Innovation Network, Edmonton Regional Innovation Network: Aliud is a SaaS service connecting independent sellers and buyers for personal commerce trough social-ecommerce services.
Ryan Austin
Founder & CEO of Synapse
Follow Ryan Austin:
About Synapse: Synapse increases the productivity of L&D teams
Caitlin MacGregor
Co-Founder & CEO of Plum.io
Caitlin MacGregor has always been passionate about identifying people’s potential. That’s why, after building two businesses for other people, she founded Plum. Plum quantifies human potential through the power of Industrial/Organizational Psychology and AI, creating agile enterprises and successful employees by matching people to jobs where they thrive. Caitlin is particularly passionate about supporting women to reach their full potential; she’s a regular speaker at women entrepreneur events and a champion of #movethedial, an initiative dedicated to increasing the leadership of women in tech. Caitlin was selected by Springboard Enterprises NYC as one of the top 10 businesses led by women.
Follow Caitlin MacGregor:
About Plum.io: Plum equips enterprise organizations with the right data and technology to hire, develop, and deploy their talent.
Kelly Cherniwchan
CEO & Founder of Chata
Kelly Cherniwchan is Founder & CEO of chata.ai. He was also a Co-Founder & COO at Circle Cardiovascular Imaging.
Follow Kelly Cherniwchan:
About Chata: Chata’s easy-to-use analytics allows businesses to make in-the-moment and short-term decisions based on data, not intuition.
Ali Tajsekandar
Founder & CEO of Wishpond
Ali Tajsekandar is a Founder & CEO at Wishpond.
Follow Ali Tajsekandar:
About Wishpond: Wishpond is an all-in-one marketing suite that enables users to generate and nurture leads.
Charles Lavigne
Co-founder, CEO of LlamaZOO Interactive
Follow Charles Lavigne:
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.
Yoav Schwartz
CEO, Founder of Uberflip
Yoav is the founder and CEO at Uberflip and is responsible for driving the mission, vision, and goals of the company. He also spends considerable time working with his development team to continuously improve customer experience in order to delight and surprise Uberflip’s customers. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from The University of Western Ontario. Yoav has accumulated a decade’s worth of experience working in multiple businesses from commercial flooring to web applications, with focuses in marketing, design and product development. In addition, to his daily leadership role at Uberflip, Yoav serves as an advisor to Betterez (www.betterez.com), another technology start-up in the GTA.
Follow Yoav Schwartz:
About Uberflip: Create engaging content destinations for all of your marketing programs with Uberflip.
Hossein Rahnama
Founder & CEO of Flybits
Hossein Rahnama is a recognized figure in ubiquitous computing and is the founder and chief executive officer of Flybits, a context-as-a-service company, with offices in Toronto and Palo Alto. His research explores artificial intelligence, mobile human-computer interaction and the effective design of contextual services. Rahnama has written 30 publications and received 10 patents in ubiquitous computing. He is currently serving on the board of Canadian Science Publishing (CSP), was a council member of The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), and is a visiting scholar at the Human Dynamics Group at MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, Mass.
Follow Hossein Rahnama:
About Flybits, MIT Media Lab, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), Ryerson University: The leading digital experience platform for the financial sector, delivering personalized experiences to individuals at scale.
Abbas Alidina
Founder/CEO of Crowdbabble
Abbas Alidina is the Founder/CEO at Crowdbabble. He’s responsible for Crowdbabble’s overall vision and product direction. He focuses on making sure Crowdbabble delights customers by keeping things simple. When he’s not dreaming about pie charts, you’ll most likely find him watching or playing basketball!
Follow Abbas Alidina:
About Crowdbabble, WE THE ORIGIN: Twice the insight. Half the time.
Jeff Fedor
Chief Executive Officer of Backbone PLM
Follow Jeff Fedor:
About Backbone PLM, Demeure: Backbone is a product development platform that empowers brands to make products smarter, faster, and at scale.
Charles Assaf
Co-Founder & CEO of Novisto
Charles Assaf is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Novisto.
Follow Charles Assaf:
About Novisto: Novisto is a SaaS platform for environmental, social, governance data, management, and reporting.
Mohammad Nezarati
Founder & CEO of Esna Technologies
Mohammad Nezarati leads the UC applications group, including audio conferencing and messaging solutions for Avaya. Prior to joining Avaya, Mohammad founded Esna Technologies in 1989 to deliver innovative communications and collaboration solutions to enterprise customers, which was acquired by Avaya in May 2015. He served as both CEO and Chief Technologist for Esna, and was the primary architect and developer of the company’s first award-winning UC solution, Officelinx. Mohammad has more than 25 years of leadership experience and has been honored with the Canadian CTI Pioneer award for his experience in the messaging and communications industry.
Follow Mohammad Nezarati:
About Avaya, Esna Technologies: Real-time communication and collaboration software provider
Vince Cifani
Founder and CEO of Joyride
Vince Cifani is the Founder and CEO at Joyride.
Follow Vince Cifani:
About Joyride: Joyride is the world’s leading micromobility platform.
Reza Alaghehband
CEO of Envio Systems
Follow Reza Alaghehband:
About Envio Systems: Envio Systems develops cloud-based building technologies for existing commercial buildings.
Riccardo Badalone
CEO of C2RO
Riccardo Badalone is one of the Co-Founders of Diablo and has served as a director since the company’s inception in 2003. Mr. Badalone has served as Chief Executive Officer since 2007 and previously served as Chief Technology Officer of the company. In his previous role at Nortel Networks, Riccardo was pivotal in delivering one of the world’s most advanced Serializer/Deserializer (SerDes) technologies for switching and framer applications. He was involved in backplane protocol engineering and developed phase align algorithms for backplane and optical link SerDes macros. Riccardo was also manager of the OEM Hardware design group at Matrox Graphics Inc., where he and his team designed and supported multiple generations of desktop motherboard platforms for all the major PC OEMs including HP, Dell, Compaq, Siemens, and Fujitsu. Riccardo holds a Bachelor Degree in Electrical Engineering from Concordia University, where he specialized in Microwave and Optical Theory.
Follow Riccardo Badalone:
About C2RO, Maple MicroSystems: Privacy-aware video analytics using proprietary edge-cloud AI for Physical Retail, Mall, Smart City and Enterprise Market.
Dr. Ian Knowles
Co-Founder & CEO of Chillwall AI
Follow Dr. Ian Knowles:
About Algonquin College, Chillwall AI: Disruptive New Desire Prediction AI. Deep Learning Personality AI Concierge predicting your customers desires and interests.
Michael Campanelli
Co-Founder & CEO of Chillwall AI
Follow Michael Campanelli:
About Chillwall AI: Disruptive New Desire Prediction AI. Deep Learning Personality AI Concierge predicting your customers desires and interests.
Mark Masongsong
CEO & Co-Founder of UrbanLogiq
Mark Masongsong was a political and government staffer for over a decade, including as an advisor to two Ministers of Health in British Columbia. He bring detailed experience in understanding the priorities of government and working with government planners. He earned his pilot’s license at the age of 17, and has served as a director to international development and environmental charities, and was awarded a Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal in 2003. BA, Simon Fraser University
Follow Mark Masongsong:
About UrbanLogiq: UrbanLogiq provides a data analytics platform that makes city planning faster, cheaper, and more accurate.
Serge Salager
CEO of Visualping
Serge began his career in marketing at Procter & Gamble in Europe, He then joined Nestle’s $1.5 billion corporate VC firm after completing his MBA at Harvard Business School. He moved to Vancouver in 2012 to become the CEO of a small TSX listed tech company. In 2013, Serge took this company private and, after its sale in 2015, he founded two tech start-ups in Vancouver: Retarget Links and Visualping.
Follow Serge Salager:
About Visualping: Automated website change alerts for consumers and enterprise with more than 1.5 million personal and business users in all verticals.
Paul Jackson
Founder & CEO of Method:CRM
Follow Paul Jackson:
About Method:CRM: Method builds a platform that delivers mass-personalization for small and medium sized businesses.
Clayton Brown
CEO and Founder of Keycafe
Clayton’s inspiration for Keycafe came when he had key exchange struggles as an Airbnb host. He observed a simple solution while living in a European walkup for several years – residents dropped their key with the downstairs cafe to get them to friends and family. Clayton is responsible for Keycafe’s vision, strategy and growth. Prior to Keycafe, Clayton worked as a principal at a family office in Vancouver and as a consultant at McKinsey & Company. He has over $2 billion in private equity and new venture transaction experience. During his university training, Clayton studied Symbolic Systems and won awards for software and algorithm design. He earned his MBA, BS, and BA from Stanford University.
Follow Clayton Brown:
About Keycafe: Keycafe provides global consumer and enterprise SaaS software and IoT key exchange systems for intelligent property access management.
Ahmet Yurekli
CEO & Co-Founder of TeamGram
Follow Ahmet Yurekli:
About TeamGram: Salestech for construction industry suppliers
Michael Stephenson
Founder, CEO & Chief Happiness Officer of PayrollHero
Follow Michael Stephenson:
About addy invest, OutsourcingThingsDone.com, PayrollHero: PayrollHero is a startup aimed at streamlining payroll and time and attendance tracking for iOS devices.
Lindsey Goodchild
Co-Founder & CEO of Nudge
Ms. Lindsey Goodchild is the Founder of Greenguage Inc and serves as its Chief Executive Officer. Ms. Goodchild serves as Chief Executive Officer at Greengage Mobile. She is a consultant with Lura Consulting in Toronto. Ms. Goodchild has been involved in writing many government sustainability plans, and helped to develop Canada’s first regional sustainable tourism strategy for the counties of Grey, Bruce and Simcoe. She is passionate about helping companies improve their triple bottom line, and proving that companies can achieve both environmental and social benefits while lowering operating costs and improving their business. She is the first graduate from Ryerson’s new post-graduate certificate program in sustainability, where she focused on sustainable approaches for tourism
Follow Lindsey Goodchild:
About Nudge: Nudge is a communications platform that empowers deskless employees and drives better outcomes for your business.
Michael Lieberman
Founder & CEO of Trialfire
Michael is a serial entrepreneur who loves technology and business. He often says he has a masters degree in eating.
Follow Michael Lieberman:
About Trialfire: Empowering marketers to invest the right levels of spend, in the right mix of channels, to drive optimal results.
Audrey Charles
Founder and CEO of @Assist
Audrey Charles is founder and CEO at @Assist.
Follow Audrey Charles:
About @Assist: @Assist is a cloud-based property management and accounting solution for small to large businesses.
Abhi Rampal
Founder & CEO of Solid State AI
Follow Abhi Rampal:
About Solid State AI: Solid State AI is building a SaaS platform for process and equipment engineers in complex manufacturing industries.
Fil Marinkovic
CEO of Vectio Technologies
Follow Fil Marinkovic:
About Vectio Technologies: Simple software for running small trucking companies.
Garry Brownrigg
Founder & CEO of QuickSilk
Garry Brownrigg is an accomplished high technology entrepreneur and executive. Prior to launching Quicksilk Garry was co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Ottawa-based e-Learning start-up Learning-Portal.com, which was subsequently sold to Calian Technology (TSX: CTY) in 2000. While at Learning-Portal.com Garry and his team architected, developed and deployed a strategic global Learning Management System (LMS) that supported learners in 14 different countries. Concurrent with his responsibilities at Learning-portal.com, Garry also acted as the Chief Operating Officer (COO) for Productivity Point International (Ottawa) and COO & General Manager for Productivity Point International (Canada). Garry holds a Bachelor’s of Arts degree (D.I.S.) in Business Administration & Law from Carleton University and a Master’s of Science Degree (M.S.) in Instructional and Performance Technology from Boise State University.
Follow Garry Brownrigg:
About QuickSilk: QuickSilk is a growing Software as a Service (SaaS) Content Management System (CMS) company with a disruptive proprietary technology.
Marcus Charalambous
Chief Executive Officer of Expression
Marcus is the founder & CEO of Backbone, one of Canada’s leading web development companies, and EXPRESSION, an innovative cloud-based web development platform that empowers coders and creators to deliver amazing digital experiences. He believes the power to utilize and communicate through the web should be accessible to everyone and that each digital experience should build strong relationships. He can often be found discussing his experiences in web dev and building cloud-ready infrastructure.
Follow Marcus Charalambous:
About Expression: XPR is developer platform that lets you build anything online and works as your digital OS to connect the digital world for your customers
David Kosmayer
Founder and CEO of Bookmark
Follow David Kosmayer:
About Bookmark, Futurpreneur: The world’s first and fastest Ai-powered website builder and eCommerce solution.
Luis Romero
Founder & CEO of Equisoft
Luis Romero is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at EquiSoft since November 1994. An IT visionary with broad expertise in the pension and financial industry, Luis founded EquiSoft Inc. in 1994 and has been the architect of its direction and expansion ever since. Mission-focused and strategic, Luis drives and upholds EquiSoft’s vision. The firm’s core values are reflected in his stated mission: value creation. The process of adding value to client projects assures that the team’s creative spark does not wane. Luis holds a Bachelor’s Degree (University of Montreal) in Actuarial Studies as well as a Certificate in Computer Science.
Follow Luis Romero:
About Equisoft: Equisoft is a global provider of advanced insurance and investment digital solutions.
Reg Cheramy
Founder / CEO of Stormboard
Reg is an inventor/entrepreneur based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Follow Reg Cheramy:
About Book That Bet, Oneclap, Stormboard, Zigtag: Stormboard is a visual collaboration tool that provides an innovative digital workspace.
