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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 Software 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.
Chris Pavlovski
Founder & CEO of Rumble
Chris Pavlovski is the founder of Cosmic Development and is currently the acting Chief Executive Officer and founder of Rumble.com Chris also founded Cosmic Development; an IT outsourcing and consultancy firm in Canada, Macedonia and Serbia with nearly 100 employees. Prior to Rumble, Chris worked for Microsoft Corporation, a world leader in computer software development and studied at University of Toronto. Chris was also on the Board for Next Giant Leap, a space exploration company competing for the $30 million dollar Google Lunar X Prize. The Next Giant Leap team included space enthusiasts like former NASA astronaut Jeffrey Hoffman. On the institutional front it includes MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and on the corporate front; Sierra Nevada Corporation, Draper Corporation and Aurora Corporation. Chris Pavlovski was selected as a finalist for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year 2010 Awards. He serves on the board of Every Day Child; a non-profit charity organization. He serves on the advisory board of Second Layer; a social commenting application and sits Macedonia 2025’s senior board.
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About Cosmic Development, Rumble: Rumble is an open video management system for publishers and creators.
Albert Lai
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Big Viking Games
Albert Lai is co-founder & CEO at Big Viking Games, his 6th startup to date. Most recently he was co-founder and president at Kontagent, a Facebook-funded viral analytics platform venture. Albert sold his first internet company, the MyDesktop Network while in his teens to JupiterMedia (JUPM) for 7 digits in cash. He was also the founder/CEO of BubbleShare, a photo-sharing company sold to Kaboose (KAB)/Disney in 2007. In his spare time, Albert [_blogs_](http://simplyalbert.blogspot.com) about disruptive simplicity and other random thoughts.
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About Big Viking Games: Big Viking Games provides free-to-play social, mobile, and HTML5 games.
Hanif Joshaghani
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Symend
Hanif is a serial entrepreneur who has raised $150M USD across the 4 companies he has founded and invested in over a dozen startups.
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About Aimsio, Symend: Symend’s digital engagement platform uses behavioral science and data-driven insights to empower customers to resolve past due bills.
Eugene Joseph
Founder, President and CEO of North Side
Eugene leads North Side’s R&D in Natural Language Understanding (NLU). The company’s VerbalAccess enables speech and text-based access to financial services, enabling optimal use at any time from anywhere. VerbalAccess enables transactions through speech or text, fully integrated with contextual help. Ambiguities and missing information are resolved through conversation. North Side originally developed its NLU pipeline and integrated it with 3D graphics to power its Bot Colony video game, available on Steam. Bot Colony is the first game that makes English conversation an integral part of game play. It is loosely based on Eugene’s Bot Colony novel, published in December 2010. North Side is Eugene’s second entrepreneurial venture focused on the human-computer interface. Eugene founded Virtual Prototypes (now Presagis at www.presagis.com ) in 1985, where he invented VAPS, which changed the way industry designs real-time displays used in airplanes, cars, and ground stations. VAPS has become the de facto standard in aerospace for avionics display design and automated generation of validated, flight-qualified display source code. Eugene also initiated the development of flexible flight simulation and war-gaming tools. On April 21, 1999 Eugene was inducted into the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum AW&ST Laureate Hall of Fame as the 1999 Electronics Laureate, for causing a paradigm shift in display development and simulation in aerospace. Virtual Prototypes went public on TSE in July 1999, and was later acquired by CAE. Eugene is interested in the automated visualization of concepts and situations described in a text, using animated 3D and 2D graphics.
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About North Side: Natural English interface replaces GUI’s for mobile and web applications. Speak or type in the same way you’d speak/chat with a person.
Neil Wainwright
Founder and CEO of UpHabit
Neil Wainwright is the Founder and CEO of UpHabit.
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About Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), UpHabit: UpHabit is the relationship management app that you need.
Tyler Proud
Chief Executive Officer of Avesdo Inc.
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About Avesdo Inc.: Avesdo’s SaaS platform modernizes deal and revenue management for real estate developers and homebuilders
Aydin Mirzaee
CEO / Co-Founder of Fellow.app
Aydin Y Mirzaee currently serves Fellow.app as a founding fellow. Prior to this,Aydin spent more than one-year with SurveyMonkey as a general manager of FluidReview.
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About Fellow.app, ReviewRoom: Fellow.app is a top-rated meeting management software built for managers and their teams to power meetings, 1-on-1s, feedback, and goals.
Chris Simair
CEO and Co-founder of SkipTheDishes
Chris Simair is the co-founder and chief executive officer of SkipTheDishes.
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About SkipTheDishes: SkipTheDishes connects hungry people with restaurants and local Food Couriers through our proprietary algorithm-based dispatch system.
Ben Zion Benkhin
Founder & CEO of WOMBO
Ben Zion Benkhin is the Co-Founder and CEO at WOMBO.
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About WOMBO: WOMBO is an AI-powered lip sync app that creates deepfake copies of images lip-syncing to a selection of songs.
Ryan Johnson
President & CEO of Whipcord
Ryan Johnson is a President and CEO at Whipcord. He received a Bachelor’s degree and a Master’s degree in geography from the University of Lethbridge. In 2000 he started a small geomatics company in Lethbridge that, through his leadership, grew to the third largest imaging company in the world – BlackBridge Geomatics. Ryan’s commitment to Lethbridge has continued through his ownership of Whipcord, founded in 2009. He was the founding president of the U of L Graduate Students’ Association and in 2005 was inducted into the U of L “Alumni Honour Society.” In 2005 Ryan was recognized by Alberta Venture Magazine as one of 13 leaders of the next generation and again in 2012 as one of Alberta’s 50 Most Influential people.
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About Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), Inpivota, Verge Ag, Whipcord: Whipcord is a high performance IT services company that specializes in colocation, cloud and disaster recovery.
Chris Schmidt
Co-Founder/CEO of Pluto Ventures
Chris started his first business at the age of ten. After completing a science degree at the University of Manitoba, he decided not to pursue medicine like the rest of his family. Instead, he founded the world’s first Snapchat filter company, Geofilter Studio. Geofilter Studio exploded at an unprecedented rate of 24,000% and grew to 85 employees in the first year. They became the largest filter producer in the world, creating over 100,000 filters that accumulated 5 billion views worldwide. Chris then formed EveryStudio, which housed three different products: Geofilter Studio, EveryStudio AR, and EveryStudio Stickers. EveryStudio AR created augmented reality products, and EveryStudio Stickers created iOS sticker packs. Their sticker packs were viewed over 150 million times in the Apple App Store. In 2019 EveryStudio was acquired. Chris’ sixth business, Pluto Ventures, is a venture-backed artificial intelligence company. When he is not working on his companies, Chris enjoys helping others with their business journey and has presented at over 100 events in the last two and a half years. Chris looks to capitalize on his early successes and continue providing value to others.
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About Pluto Ventures, Schmidt Tree banding: An artificial intelligence startup.
Jeff Shiner
CEO of 1Password
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About 1Password: 1Password is a secure and convenient password manager for documents, credit card information, and addresses.
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.
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About OneLocal: OneLocal helps businesses do more with less by leveraging our powerful easy-to-use marketing automation tools.
Stewart Butterfield
Co-Founder and CEO of Slack
Stewart Butterfield serves as the CEO and Co-Founder at Slack Technologies, Inc. Stewart Butterfield serves as the President of LudiCorp Research and Development Ltd. Stewart Butterfield directed the 11-member design group (creative/visual/UI, production & QA) at Communicate.com, where he acted as design lead or managed teams on millions of dollars worth of projects for companies like HSBC and Sears Travel. He co-founded Flickr at Yahoo! Inc. Stewart Butterfield has served in the W3C’s XForms working group and has been active in many other professional organizations. He has also a long consulting interaction design career, most recently with Telus, the CBC and The Economist. Stewart Butterfield founded the 5K competition, a lo-fi, high-profile design award, which has been featured everywhere from Playboy to Le Monde to USA Today. He serves as a Member of Advisory Board at Wantoo Networks Incorporated. Stewart Butterfield is a frequent speaker on design and technology topics at professional and academic events across Europe and North America. He was recently named to the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences and is a nominating judge in the Webby Awards (for Best Practice). In 2001, he was nominated for a Chrysler Design Award. In 2006, Time magazine’s put him on their list of the 100 most influential people in the world. Stewart Butterfield received a BA (Hons. with Distinction) in philosophy from the University of Victoria, and an MPhil in philosophy from Cambridge University, graduating with a First.
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About Slack: Slack is an enterprise software platform that allows teams and businesses of all sizes to communicate effectively.
Humera Malik
CEO & Founder of Canvass AI
Humera Malik is CEO of Canvass Analytics, where she drives the vision and growth strategy of the company. Internationally, she is one of the leading voices in Artificial Intelligence and how it can help economies, industries and communities to propel growth, accelerate innovation and to revolutionize legacy operational practices. Ms Malik is a recipient of the Women of IoT/M2M award, RBC Women of Influence Entrepreneur of the Year award and was most recently named in the list of Top 10 Hot AI IoT Startups to Watch. She is frequently invited to speak at industry conferences and has been featured in publications such as Bloomberg and Forbes.
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About Canvass AI: Canvass AI is an AI-based platform designed for the Industrial Manufacturers, Oil and Gas Companies
Michael Harris
CEO of BlueCat
Michael has 20 years of senior executive operating experience in the software industry. He has proven hands on experience operating within growth and turn-around situations. He is currently the CEO of BlueCat Networks, the global leader in IP address management software solutions, which enable organizations to securely manage and automate the connection of devices, virtual and cloud environments and applications to the network, anywhere, in real-time. His most recent position prior to BlueCat was of CEO at MKS, where he drove not only the rapid growth of the company, but also led the sale of the company to Parametric Technology Corporation. Beginning his tenure at MKS as COO, he was instrumental in not only turning around the company from operating losses in 2002, but in also redefining the market for engineering change management for companies building software intensive systems. Prior to MKS, Michael was the President of the Industry Specific Applications group of divisions of Geac. In his role there, he helped drive not only the growth in profits of his group, but also developed the leading Real Estate Management system MLXchange as part of Interealty division. Before joining Geac, Michael moved quickly through the management ranks at SunGard, beginning in 1993 as the Manager of Technical Support, and culminating as the Managing Director of Global Services in 1999. Michael has an MBA from York University and a Bachelor of Science from the University of British Columbia.
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About BlueCat, BlueCat: BlueCat builds next-generation IPAM, DNS, and DHCP solutions that connect mobile devices, applications, and the cloud.
Andrew Peek
Co-Founder & CEO of Delphia
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About Delphia: We are building the world’s first AI investment strategy that anyone can improve with their data.
Mahyar Raissi
Co-Founder & CEO of OpenPhone
Mahyar Raissi is a co-founder and CEO at OpenPhone.
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About OpenPhone: OpenPhone offers a phone app that lets users seamlessly get a business phone number without a second phone or a second SIM card.
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.
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About LoginRadius: LoginRadius is a SaaS based CIAM platform offering Customer Registration Services, Profile Data Storage, SSO, and more.
Roger Kirkness
Co-Founder and CEO of Convictional
Roger Kirkness is the co-founder and CEO of Convictional. He is a former senior account executive at Shopify Plus.
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About Convictional: Convictional is a supplier enablement platform that helps enterprise B2C retailers and B2B distributors build and scale digital marketplace.
Neil Balthaser
Founder and CEO of Intellogo Inc.
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About Intellogo Inc.: Big Data for publishing industry: matching authors, publishers and readers with the right content.
Bryn Jones
Co-Founder and CEO of PartnerStack
Bryn Jones is the Co-Founder, CEO at PartnerStack.
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About PartnerStack: PartnerStack enables companies to accelerate growth with partnerships
Mallorie Brodie
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Bridgit
Mallorie holds an Honours degree from the Richard Ivey School of Business, and has almost 10 years of entrepreneurial experience. She holds various entrepreneurial awards, including receiving the top prize at Google Demo Day, being named Techvibes Entrepreneur of the Year, being named to the Forbes Manufacturing & Industry 30 Under 30, being named to the Best Of Canada Forbes Under 30 Innovators list, and being named to the Top 40 Under 40 in Canadian Construction list.
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About Bridgit: Bridgit is workforce intelligence for construction, helping the industry maximize profits and reduce risk by taking a people-first approach.
Daniel Assouline
CEO of Adaware
Daniel Assouline held the position as CEO of Adaware (formerly Lavasoft), a Canadian company that specializes in anti-malware products and that has become a world-renown security software provider, until recently when he became the CEO of Avanquest Canada. In March 2018, Adaware and its group of companies proudly announced a merger with the French company Avanquest and a subsidiary of Claranova to form a strategic partnership and create a new global Internet player. A web entrepreneur at heart, Daniel has co-founded several high-tech ventures since 2001, including: Lulu Software, which offers PDF solutions with SodaPDF software, and UpClick, an ecommerce platform for software vendors, both which are now operating under the Avanquest umbrella. Prior to launching his own businesses, Daniel spent seven years at Dell where he held various positions in sales, marketing and technology during his tenure. For the past ten years, Daniel has acquired and invested in many real-estate ventures, including residential properties and commercial developments in Canada, the United States and Mexico. Daniel holds an MBA from Queen’s University in Canada. As a well-respected Philanthropist, Daniel gives generously to many charitable organizations with his time and support through his ongoing dedication and involvement in the community. He actively volunteers and participates in fund-raising year round for many diverse and worthy causes.
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About Adaware: Adaware is an award-winning security and privacy software provider, empowering users to connect with confidence.
Sheetal Jaitly
Founder & CEO of TribalScale
Sheetal Jaitly is the Founder and CEO at TribalScale, a software design and development company in Toronto. Sheetal is a 13 year veteran of the tech industry. In the late ’90s Sheetal worked in mobile right out of high school where he was part of the Palm Pilot launch with USRobotics in Canada. When Sheetal joined Xtreme Labs, as the Director of Business Development for Media, he quickly expanded the Media vertical for the organization and became a well-known figure within the industry. As Xtreme was acquired by Pivotal Software, he expanded his reach as he took Telecommunications and IoT under his belt. In his current role as CEO of TribalScale, Sheetal is applying his business development skills to quickly scale the young IoT and mobile development company. Outside of his day-to-day role, Sheetal is an avid investor in the technology space as well as a volunteer and member on the BoD for the Ontario Association of Food Banks.
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About TribalScale: TribalScale is a global innovation partner that helps enterprises adapt and thrive in the digital era..
James Jacobs
Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Ziva Dynamics
James Jacobs is the co-founder and co-CEO of Ziva Dynamics.
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About Ziva Dynamics: Ziva Dynamics is a software company that specializes in character creation and human simulation.
Todd Finch
President & CEO of Vizible
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About Vizible: Web Building Template Provider
Dave Lazar
Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Stage Ten
Dave Lazar brings a seasoned, streamlined approach to interactive development and unique perspectives on the future of interactivity, community and commerce. Under his company Lazar Entertainment, he’s produced 10 large-scale interactive platforms and gaming projects since 2005. Highlights include an early innovation of a UGC platform and interactive network, the Facebook civic engagement game Honoured Citizen, social film-viewing platform iFestivus, and now Stage TEN – a web app for creating professional, live and interactive content. For the past 12 years, Dave has been an interactive software producer and consultant for clients like TVO, CBC, History, Frantic Films, and Telefilm Canada.
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About Stage Ten: Stage Ten is the leading maker of browser-based live streaming software, empowering online video creators in 70+ countries globally.
Marzio Pozzuoli
Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder of NuraLogix Corporation
Marzio is a technology entrepreneur and investor. Prior to co-founding NuraLogix Marzio was the founder and CEO of communications networking company RuggedCom Inc. which he started in 2001 in the basement of his home and grew to become a global market leader. Under Marzio’s leadership the company executed a successful IPO in 2007 (TSX:RCM) and was eventually acquired by Siemens Canada in 2012 for $440 Million. “I feel very passionate about this technology and its applications. My goal is to bring this technology to market and revolutionize how certain industries currently do things and along the way build a great company.” In 2013 Marzio was named Entrepreneur-of- the-Year by the Canadian Venture Capital Association.
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About NuraLogix Corporation: At NuraLogix, we use Affective AI to improve the lives of people everywhere.
Travis Ratnam
Co-Founder & CEO of KnowledgeHook
Travis Ratnam is the CEO and co-founder of Knowledgehook, an instructional guidance system that helps students learn more effectively by recommending expert-designed teaching activities based on data collected on each student’s learning needs.
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About KnowledgeHook: Knowledgehook is an Instructional Guidance System (IGS) that uses engaging assessments for students and math teachers.
Catherine Dahl
CEO of Beanworks
Catherine is passionate about business process improvement and leads with a vision of making accounting easier and more enjoyable while increasing efficiency and reducing costs. As a CMA professional, she knows first-hand the challenges with financial management and is dedicated to driving change through innovation. Catherine is a co-founder.
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About Beanworks: Beanworks is an accounts payable automation solution that helps companies eliminate paperwork and reduce invoice processing costs.
Pascal Pilon
Founder and CEO of LANDR
Pilon is a technology executive and entrepreneur that’s been acting as Chairman and CEO of LANDR Audio, a revolutionary audio production technology company, since he invested into the Company as its lead seed investor in 2013. Pilon is also the President of YUL Ventures, an early stage investment fund for technology companies, and the Chairman of Aptovision, the market leader in IP-based for AV signal distribution market. Prior to LANDR, Pilon founded and spent 14 years as CEO of Averna, a global electronic device test equipment vendor, and as CEO of AV&R Aerospace, an intelligent robotics vendor.
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About LANDR, YUL Ventures: LANDR is a company that empowers musicians to create and get heard.
Matthew Reeves
Co-founder and CEO of Together
Matthew Reeves is the founder and CEO of Together.
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About Together: Together Software provides corporate mentor ship management platform.
Alan Smithson
CEO of MetaVRse
Alan’s purpose in life is to inspire and educate future leaders to think and act in a socially, economically and environmentally sustainable way. Alan is the CEO of MetaVRse, a global leader in XR Technology (Virtual, Augmented & Mixed Reality for Print, Retail and eCommerce). MetaVRse is also building the XR Learning Centre and was recently accepted to the Museum of the Future Accelerator in Dubai. Alan is a LinkedIn VR/AR thought leader with millions of views of his articles and videos. He is an Independent Global Advisor on the Business of XR to a select group of the world’s largest companies, chief investment advisors, and ultra high net worth family offices. “Alan is true thought leader in AR / VR / XR – he’s been building useful products in the space for years.” – Justin Smith, Director of Marketing at North, Former Head of VR Marketing at Samsung USA. Alan is a founding member of the VR/AR Association, IEEE Mixed Reality Ethics Committee member, Mentor for a youth entrepreneurship program called ‘The Knowledge Society’ (TKS) and a mentor for Techstars Toronto and is on the SXSW Pitch Advisory Board for XR. Alan is also a TEDx speaker and a judge for the global Auggie Awards. Prior to MetaVRse, Alan invented Emulator, the world’s first touchscreen DJ System; used by Linkin Park, Armin Van Buuren, Microsoft, Sony, Heineken and more.
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About MetaVRse, XR Ignite: The MetaVRse Engine is a universal 3D/XR creation and deployment platform.
William Cherniak
CEO and Founder of Rocket Doctor
Dr. William Cherniak is the CEO and Founder of Rocket Doctor. He is an emergency physician and entrepreneur focused on global public health. Working in systems development, implementation science, and innovative technologies. Lover of all things film, and the power of the media to make a change.
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About Rocket Doctor: Rocket Doctor is a telemedicine marketplace that enables physicians to bring an advanced doctor’s office directly to patients’ homes.
Ryan Peterson
CEO and Co-Founder of Finger Food Studios
Ryan Peterson is the CEO and Co-Founder of Finger Food Advanced Technology Group. He sets the course for the organization with his extraordinary vision, strategic planning, and unshakeable passion. Under Ryan’s leadership as CEO, Finger Food has seen tremendous growth, transforming from a small basement startup to a multi-million dollar company with 180+ employees. Finger Food builds custom technology solutions to solve some of the most complex and challenging problems faced by businesses today in industries including games, retail, oil & gas, education, healthcare, mining and more. The company creates a competitive advantage for its clients by helping them own their technology stack, rather than simply deploying on the same technology platforms as their competitors. In-house expertise in AI, AR/VR, Blockchain, Robotics, and IoT, enables Finger Food to create impactful and elegant cloud, web, mobile, machine and advanced-interface solutions built on top of emerging technologies. Finger Food sees an unprecedented market opportunity. Within 3 years, the cumulative R&D spend of the Global 1,000 will reach USD 1T. A conservative estimate would put the innovation spend of each of these companies at around USD 100MM annually.
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About Finger Food Studios: Finger Food delivers technology-driven business solutions that enable companies to move and innovate faster.
Mark Organ
Founder and CEO of Influitive
Mark Organ is the founder and CEO of Influitive, helping companies mobilize their advocates to produce massive increases in referral leads, reference calls, social media participation and more. Mark first revolutionized B2B marketing as the founding CEO of Eloqua (ELOQ), the world leader in marketing automation software, which was recently acquired for $871M. In between, he was a go-to-market consultant for SaaS companies in North America and Asia. Mark has also helped over a dozen software companies successfully go to market in asymmetrical or disruptive ways as a consultant and entrepreneur. With an M.S. in Neuroscience from Northwestern University and a passion for understanding human psychology, Mark is a dynamic speaker with a unique vision centered not only in business success and technological innovation, but also how and why people think, act and interact the way they do.
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About Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), Game Ventures, Influitive: Influitive helps companies mobilize their advocates to provide more referral leads, reference calls, social media advocacy, product reviews.
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.
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About Ada, Creative Destruction Lab (CDL): Ada is an automated customer experience company that provides chat bots used in customer support.
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.
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About Auvik Networks: Auvik is cloud-based network management.
Dan Adamson
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Armilla AI
A RegTech veteran who founded OutsideIQ, and produced AI-based AML technology deployed globally at many of the world’s largest financial institutions. Graduated from McGill and UC Berkeley. Successful companies sold to Microsoft and Exiger, and several patents focused on AI and search algorithms.
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About Armilla AI, PointChain Technology: Armilla AI is a governance platform that enables algorithmic accountability to drive ethical decisions with transparency.
Michael Litt
Co-Founder and CEO of Vidyard
Michael is the co-founder and CEO of the leading Video Marketing platform.
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About Garage Capital, Vidyard: Vidyard is a video marketing platform, enabling customers to derive information on viewer-behavior for marketing automation systems and CRM.
Kurtis McBride
Co-Founder, CEO of Miovision Technologies
Kurtis McBride is CEO and Co-founding member at Miovision Technologies in 2005.Miovision was incorporated to commercialize research conducted at the University of Waterloo in the area of computer vision. As the CEO, Kurtis has been fortunate to work alongside a team of extremely dedicated, bright people. He has worked alongside numerious parts of the business including, sales management, product management/design and marketing.
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About Miovision Technologies: Miovision Technologies is a Canadian company that uses computer vision and AI to help cities streamline traffic management.
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
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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.
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About MetaBody Fitness, WellnessLiving Systems: WellnessLiving is a revolutionary all-in-one business management SaaS solution for the Health and Wellness Services Industry.
Jamie King
Co-Founder, President and CEO of Verafin
Jamie King’s background in robotics and artificial intelligence is what eventually led him to start Verafin back in 2003 along with two other post-grad electrical engineering students, Brendan Brothers and Raymond Pretty. Being an industry expert, technology innovator, and lifelong learner, Jamie has created a place for Verafin’s fraud detection and anti-money laundering software in the world of financial crime, and he consistently works to help financial institutions protect their customers from fraudulent behavior in new and creative ways.
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About Verafin: Verafin offers a fraud and AML detection platform that helps detect, investigate, and report money laundering and financial fraud.
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.
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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.
Greta Cutulenco
Co-founder & CEO of Acerta Analytics
With a background in anomaly detection and data analytics, Greta Cutulenco has worked for major OEM and Tier1 automotive manufacturers. In 2016 Greta co-founded Acerta, with her colleagues from University of Waterloo. In 2018, Greta won the Female Founders Competition, sponsored by Microsoft M12. She has been named to the Forbes 30-Under-30 list for Manufacturing and was named one of 2019’s Canadians to Watch by Automotive News. Greta is an active member of the board of directors for APMA (Automotive Parts Manufacturing Association).
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About Acerta Analytics: Acerta Analytics is a software company that improves part quality in precision manufacturing through Machine Learning and AI
Ben Sanders
Co-Founder & CEO of Proof
From the BlackBerry, to the Canadarm, to fundamental physics at CERN, as a Waterloo Engineer, Ben has helped contribute to some of Canada’s most advanced technology. Ben has helped co-found two venture-backed tech startups and helped advance policy within 3 government space agencies, 2 divisions of the United Nations, Canadian Urban Institute, and the Yukon and Canadian Governments.
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About Proof: Make Government Better
Swish Goswami
CEO & Founder of Surf
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About AGEX Capital, FaZe Clan, Speakers Spotlight, Surf, The AAT Project (American’s Amazing Teen): Surf provides brands a better way to engage and understand consumers while compensating consumers for their data.
Guillaume Racine
Co-Founder and CEO of Return Magic
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About Return Magic: Return Magic is allows merchants to build loyalty while making shopping more convenient for consumers.
Simon Foster
Founder & CEO of Chatter Research
Simon is CEO & Founder of Chatter Research, an AI powered customer feedback solution. Chatter Research works with Fortune 5000 retailers to provide previously unknown consumer data, by talking to shoppers in a completely new way. Conversational surveys via SMS capture rich quantitative and qualitative data as the customer leaves the store, in real-time. Simon loves solving challenging business problems, often with a mix of new technology, partnerships, and a core insight around consumer behaviour. Prior to founding Chatter Research, Simon was SVP of Digital & Corporate Development at Blue Ant Media, in charge of building a fast growth digital business in the US & Canada. At QuickPlay he launched the first worldwide audio and video podcasting service on BlackBerry, as well as the launch of Sirius XM on mobile in the US. With Chatter Research Simon looks forward to the day when he never has to fill out another online survey.
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About Chatter Research, Framework Foundation, Stackegy: Chatter Research is a real-time customer feedback solution for retail and hospitality.
Probal Lala
Chief Executive Officer of Fluent.ai
Probal is a telecom executive turned serial technology entrepreneur and investor. He has been an active Angel Investor for the past 14 years and has over 30 years of broad Industry leadership experience building high impact organizations and growing bottom line results. He has held a range of diverse senior executive roles including CEO of About Communications, Vice President Sales at Alcatel-Lucent Canada, CEO of AirRoamer Inc., Vice President and General Manager Internet Operations at Bell Canada, General Manager and Chief Technology Officer at Stentor Services Inc. He has served on a number of boards over the past eighteen years including the Canadian Local Number Portability Consortium, Youth In Motion, About Communications, Maple Leaf Angels Corporation, Maple Leaf Angels Capital Corporation, Fluent.ai and Suncayr. He has been actively involved in the creation and participated in a number of standing and adhoc board committees including Nominating, Governance, Compensation and Succession committees and served as Board Chair of several organizations.
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About Fluent.ai: Speech understanding and intent recognition that learns from speech, behavior and context, for embedded voice user interfaces
Jean-Francois Gagne
CEO of Element AI
Jean-Francois Gagne has a new high-tech mission: bringing researchers, entrepreneurs and large organizations together to create singular AI-First strategies. He co-founded startup incubator Element AI with deep learning pioneer Yoshua Bengio and AI researcher Nicolas Chapados. With recent funding from Microsoft Ventures, they’re building their ranks in Montreal, a city that boasts the highest concentration of artificial intelligence researchers in the world. Former CEO of Planora (a company that combined AI, machine learning, operation research and user experience to optimize business processes) and an in-demand speaker at AI conferences, J-F has made his mark in sectors from retail and manufacturing to healthcare and security, lending his expertise in best practices and cutting-edge tech.
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About Element AI, FounderFuel, ServiceNow: Element AI is an artificial intelligence company that gives organizations unparalleled access to cutting-edge technology.
Stephen Sadler
Chairman and CEO of Enghouse Systems
Sadler has served as a director of OpenText since September 1997. From April 2000 to present, Sadler has served as the Chairman and CEO of Enghouse Systems Limited, a publicly traded software engineering company that develops geographic information systems as well as contact center systems. Sadler was previously Chief Financial Officer, President and Chief Executive Officer of GEAC Computer Corporation Ltd. (GEAC). Prior to Sadler’s involvement with GEAC, he held executive positions with Phillips Electronics Limited and Loblaws Companies Limited, and was Chairman of Helix Investments (Canada) Inc. Currently, Sadler is a director of Enghouse Systems Limited. Sadler holds a B.A. Sc. (Honours) in Industrial Engineering and an M.B.A. (Dean’s List) and he is a Chartered Professional Accountant. In the past five years, Sadler also served as a director of Frontline Technologies Inc. (formerly Belzberg Technologies Inc.).
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About Enghouse Systems: Enghouse Systems Limited is a leading global provider of enterprise software solutions serving a variety of distinct vertical markets.
Alok Ahuja
CEO Co-Founder of Trexity
I’ve been working for +14 years in the software technology and e-commerce, and loving every second!! Having been a part of a start up that went public, to being acquired, to building new programs, processes and architecture for the fastest growing tech company on the planet, my heart will always live in this industry. I’ve had +8 years of management experience and at the senior level of building and scaling teams. I’m always looking 10 steps ahead and pride myself on always trying to build for the long term. I’m highly self motivated and enjoy working with other like minded people who share the same passion I do about making meaningful and impactful contributions to our mission.
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About Trexity: Trexity allows users to ship any item within the same day by leveraging its driver community.
Scott Henderson
CEO of Traxxall
Scott is currently Managing Director of Hencor Capital Inc., a Montreal-based investment company focused on communications, business services and aerospace. Before assuming the position of Chairman of TRAXXALL, Scott was the Chief Financial Officer of the Financial Times (London) eventually assuming the role of Chief Operating Officer in January of 2010. In addition to serving as a Board Member of FT and having operational oversight of the company’s finances, Scott’s responsibilities included the integration of acquisitions and the transformation of FT’s business model from print to digital media giving him extensive experience in the stewardship of technology-driven subscription-based business models. Prior to joining the FT, Scott was Deputy Director of Corporate Finance & Strategy at Pearson Plc where he was responsible for overseeing Pearson’s mergers and acquisitions activity in Europe. Scott has also worked in various roles at GE Capital and practiced law at one of Canada’s most prestigious law firms, (Davies). Scott holds an MBA from INSEAD (Fontainebleau) and obtained his B.C.L. & LL.B. from McGill University’s Faculty of Law (Montréal).
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About Traxxall: Traxxall is an award-winning aircraft maintenance tracking.
Adam Keating
CEO and Co-Founder of CoLab Software
Adam is a Mechanical Engineer with a strong passion for advancing technology. His experience includes leading the Paradigm Hyperloop team to a second place finish worldwide, and helping design and build core subsystems for the first ever biology-guided radiotherapy cancer treatment. Adam graduated from Memorial University of Newfoundland in 2017 with the universities most valued academic and leadership awards.
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About CoLab Software, Duxion: CoLab Software develops modern collaboration technologies for the mechanical design industry.
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.
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About TouchBistro: TouchBistro is an iPad-based restaurant point-of-sale system enabling owners to manage reservations and take orders instantly.
Adam Howatson
CEO of OpenText Corporation
Adam Howatson serves as a Chief Marketing Officer at OpenText.
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About OpenText Corporation: OpenText is the leader in Enterprise Information Management (EIM).
Josh Ogden
Co-Founder & CEO of AVSS – Aerial Vehicle Safety Solutions
Josh is a Co-Founders and CEO of AVSS – Aerial Vehicle Safety Solutions Inc. AVSS is a drone safety technology company. The company builds hardware and software product, has offices in New Brunswick and Ontario, and team members and partners across North America and Asia-Pacific. Josh is an entrepreneur and a peer-reviewed published author. Before helping start AVSS, Josh worked as a nomadic consultant and in leadership roles with a diverse group of technology companies. At AVSS, Josh is responsible for leading investor relationships, the growth of the company in export markets, managing research projects, and working alongside partners to ensure the safe introduction of innovative technologies into airspace.
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About AVSS – Aerial Vehicle Safety Solutions: UAV & Air-Taxi Safety Technology
Jay Walder
President & Chief Executive Officer of 8D Technologies
Jay Walder has more than 30 years of international experience in public transportation, including senior roles at three of the world’s largest transit systems. Most recently, Walder was the Chief Executive Officer of the MTR Corporation in Hong Kong. MTR is regarded as one of the world’s leading railway operators, with an integrated approach to rail transport and property. Walder led the company to build on its success in its home base of Hong Kong with a growing portfolio of rail and property related operations in the Mainland of China, Europe and Australia. Previously, Walder was the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) in New York and Managing Director of Finance and Planning at Transport for London (TfL). Walder has also served as a Partner at McKinsey & Company, where he lead the firm’s global infrastructure practice and was a Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. Jay Walder holds a Bachelor of Science from the State University of New York at Binghamton, Harpur College, and a Master in Public Policy from the Kennedy School at Harvard University. Walder has also served as a member of the Executive Board of the International Association of Public Transport (UITP) and as a member of the Executive Committee of the American Public Transit Association. Jay’s favorite place to ride is the Brooklyn Bridge very early in the morning or late at night.
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About 8D Technologies, Motivate, Waltz: 8D is a world leader in the development of the most advanced, intelligent wireless, Machine-to-Machine (M2M), multi-function point of POS.
Ashton Addison
CEO/Founder of EventChain SmartTickets
Ashton has been involved in the blockchain industry since 2013, through the initial rise of Bitcoin price and the lead up to the Ethereum ICO. As the CEO and Founder of EventChain, he pioneered the team through a successful raise in September of 2017. He also advises various other Blockchain companies globally including Syscoin and CoinPayments.net in Canada, Pundi X in Indonesia and SmartMesh in China. Together with EventChain and his associated blockchain projects he has helped raise over $50M cumulatively.
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About EventChain SmartTickets: Eventchain is a Blockchain-powered ticket system that aims to solve problems of the ticketing industry
Jose Rosas
Co-CEO of Bloqs4Good
Inspiring leaders from different industries to use new technologies to be more competitive, facing the challenges of a #ProgrammableEconomy. As well as increasing the development and implementation of projects related to #Blockchain
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About Bloqs4Good: Building TRUST, Within your Sustainable Value Chain, using Decentralized Technologies, from Raw Materials to Consumer.
Alek Mirkovich
CEO and Co-founder of Campayn
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About Campayn: Campayn is an email marketing service used to create, share and track newsletters and marketing emails.
Mary Ann Yule
President & CEO of HP
As the leader of HP Canada Co., Mary Ann Yule’s central focus is delivering innovative technology that makes life better for all consumers, businesses and public sector organizations. In her role, she is responsible for all aspects of HP Inc.’s business and operations in Canada, including its market leading portfolio of printers, personal computers, commercial 3D printing technology, workstations, solutions and services. With over 20 years of leadership experience in the Canadian technology sector, Mary Ann has a proven track record of consistently delivering results with high customer loyalty, particularly in the government, health care and education verticals. At HP, she has executed on the company’s reinvention strategy in Canada, delivered breakthrough market results across the portfolio and solidified HP’s standing as the most environmentally responsible IT company in Canada. She has also committed to leading the industry on diversity and inclusion efforts, which includes reversing the trend of under-representation of women in technology and leadership. Prior to joining HP, Mary Ann served as Vice President and General Manager of CDW Canada, Inc., driving business growth and national brand recognition. Under her leadership, CDW Canada ranked as the top technology solution provider in Canada, one of Canada’s Top 100 Employers, and among the top workplaces for women. She holds a Kellogg-Schulich Executive MBA from the Schulich School of Business in Toronto, attended Ryerson University’s Business program and holds numerous professional accreditations, including Six Sigma Executive Champion. Mary Ann currently serves on the board of directors of the Information Technology Association of Canada (ITAC).
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About HP: HP is a manufacturer and seller of personal computers, printers, computer hardwares, and business solutions.
Deepak Dutt
Founder and CEO of Zighra
Deepak Dutt is the founder and CEO of Zighra, a mobile security startup harnessing crowdsourced user information and implicit authentication techniques to fight fraud. He previously founded Intsyx, an eLearning simulation company which he sold at age 21. For his entrepreneurial innovation, the Ottawa chamber of commerce and the Ottawa business journal honored him with the Top 40 under Forty Award for business excellence. Deepak holds a M.Sc. in computer science from the University of Ottawa. Prior to his latest venture, Deepak worked in various roles in new venture development, R&D, marketing, field support, consulting, and management at Nortel, Siemens, and Newbridge Networks.
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About Zighra: Decentralized AI powered continuous authentication and fraud detection
Jeffrey Puritt
President & Chief Executive Officer of Telus International
Jeffrey Puritt is the President and CEO of TELUS International, a global contact center and IT outsourcing company with more than 25,000 inspired employees serving clients in over 35 languages from delivery centers across North America, Central America, Europe and Asia. Since joining TELUS International in 2005, Jeffrey has delivered remarkable results, earning the company a more than US$1 billion valuation, adding more than 5,000 team members in each of the past two years, and engaging some of the world’s most iconic brands as clients, supporting over 200 million customer interactions annually via voice, email, chat and social media across high-tech, gaming, retail, e-commerce, travel and hospitality, health care, finance, and telecom. Jeffrey was recently named “Executive of the Year”, receiving an esteemed international Stevie Award for his vision and leadership in redefining the global outsourcing industry. He is especially proud of the company and team’s global philanthropy and volunteer efforts that are making a meaningful difference in the communities where they operate.
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About Telus International: TELUS International designs, builds and delivers next-generation digital solutions to enhance the customer experience.
Kwesi Steele
CEO and Founder of Tokeet
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About Tokeet, TradeCafe: Tokeet is a software company focused on the short-term rental industry.
David Lynch
Founder, CEO of Klir
David Lynch is the Founder and CEO at Klir.
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About Klir: Klir is the operating system that gathers, monitors and analyses regulatory compliance data to help water utilities make water safer.
Andrew Casale
President & CEO of Index Exchange
After recognizing the continued growth of digital advertising meant more marketer budgets shifting into an environment that at the time was incredibly costly for agencies to transact, Mr. Casale conceived and drove the evolution of Casale Media, an early ad tech pioneer born in 2001, into Index Exchange. His intent was to meet the desire from the buy side to move the transactional process out of RFPs, and IOs, and into platforms by doubling down on investments in engineering and infrastructure to embrace the coming automated future. A sharp focus on delivering benefits to media companies through mutually beneficial partnerships and integrations with the demand side has resulted in extraordinary growth for the company. He is responsible for providing strategic direction and market vision to his leadership team, as well as hands-on supervision of day-to-day corporate operations. As a respected industry thought leader, Andrew is widely sought-after for this expertise and opinions on programmatic and exchange-traded media, and the growing need to transact with transparency at the forefront of the conversation. Andrew’s bylines and media contributions have appeared in numerous publications, including Adage, AdWeek, AdExchanger and the WSJ.
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About Index Exchange: Index Exchange is an exchange technology, enabling digital publishers and suppliers to sell ad impressions programmatically and in realtime.
Sanjeev Sharma
Co-Founder and CEO Highmark Interactive of Highmark Interactive
Sanjeev Sharma is co-founder of Highmark Interactive, one of Canada’s first digital therapeutics companies. A visionary leader and serial entrepreneur with over 20 years of healthcare experience, Dr. Sharma is driven to disrupt healthcare delivery both in Canada, and globally. He has held senior leadership positions in both Canadian and global corporations, including serving as Global Director of Product Management with Baxter Healthcare. He would go on to be the founding CEO of Wellpoint Health, one of Canada’s largest private Occupational Health and Safety providers. In addition to his work at Highmark Interactive, he is an active investor and entrepreneur, having supported multiple start-ups in the health care, and technology verticals. Dr. Sharma is a founding member of New York based MedPro Investors, and sits on the Board of B-temia Corp; a global leader in Human Augmentation Robotic technology. Dr. Sharma completed medical school at McMaster University, post-graduate medical residency at the University of Toronto, and a Master of Business Administration from Wilfrid Laurier University.
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About Highmark Global, Highmark Health, Highmark Interactive, MedPro Investors: Highmark Interactive is pushing the boundaries of technology and medicine.
Justin Shimoon
Founder and CEO of AffinityClick
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About AffinityClick, Hushed: Affinityclick is the markers of Hushed App, a top grossing IOS and Android app that offers disposable phone numbers in over 40+ countries.
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.
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About SkyHive: SkyHive is an artificial intelligence technology that drives rapid reskilling of workforces and communities across the world.
Wisam Abdulla
Co-Founder & CEO of Hazel
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About Hazel: Hazel’s software gives clarity on where your managers are struggling, and effective growth plans to help develop their skills.
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.
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About Vena Solutions: Vena connects people, existing systems, and data to power finance-led business planning and real-time reporting.
Marc-Antoine Ross
Co-Founder and CEO of StreamingFast
Marc-Antoine Ross is a serial entrepreneur and investor based in Montreal Canada. Marc-Antoine is a leader. He has a passion for building teams and is constantly evaluating those he meets to figure out how they can bring their skills to the multitude of projects that he touches. From there, he figures out what he needs to do to make their talent shine. He is a serial entrepreneur, having started his first company at 21. He has co-founded three successful companies, two of which were acquired by major tech companies and the last one was acquired by Intel. Marc-Antoine is very well known in the tech community, personally advising several startups and mentoring companies through Founder Institute and FounderFuel. He is also an ambassador for United Way and has raised significant donations from the tech community.
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About StreamingFast: StreamingFast, the blockchain API company, helps developers build performant applications by organizing the world’s decentralized data
Matthew Protti
Co-Founder & CEO of BlackSquare
Matthew Protti is Co-Founder & CEO at BlackSquare Inc.
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About BlackSquare: BlackSquare is a global leader in direct to consumer technologies for the alcoholic beverage industry.
Basil Bouraropoulos
Chief Executive Officer of Stradigi AI
Basil Bouraropoulos is the Chief Executive Officer at Stradigi AI.
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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.
Dan DeMers
Chief Executive Officer of Cinchy
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About Cinchy: Cinchy is the Dataware platform that makes integration OBSOLETE
Devesh Bharadwaj
CEO and Founder of Pani Energy
Devesh Bharadwaj is the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Pani Energy.
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About Pani Energy: Pani Energy is a water treatment optimization technology company located in Victoria.
Ben Zifkin
CEO of Hubba
Ben Zifkin is the founder and CEO of Hubba.
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About Hubba: Hubba is a software company that uses a combination of machine learning and personal curation to match brands with buyers.
Sachi Komarasamy
Founder & CEO of Intellizence
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About Intellizence: Intellizence is an AI startup that discovers insights from external unstructured data sources.
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.
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About Landslo: Landslo uses artificial intelligence to turn prospects and leads into sales-ready opportunities.
Tony Lourakis
Founder & CEO of Fleet Complete
Tony Lourakis is the co-founder and CEO of Complete Innovations, one of the fastest growing global technology companies. As CEO, Tony relentlessly drives the company’s vision and inspires the different teams to achieve the ambitious growth goals that have been set, and surpassed, for 14 years in a row. His excellent leadership skills, along with Tony’s in depth knowledge of software design, have been instrumental to the company’s growth and current position as the market leader. Very early in his career, Tony knew he had the makings of an entrepreneur. During his college years Tony founded his first company Canlogic Solutions, a first level systems support house and IT solutions provider. Always a Visionary, in 1998, Tony identified the opportunity to create a software solution for the courier industry. He teamed up with Andrew Merisanu and together they created Courier Complete, the genesis to what is today Complete Innovations. As a direct result of Tony’s leadership, Complete Innovations has not only grown continuously since its inception but it has also ranked year over year in such prestigious lists as Profit 100 and 200, Deloitte Fast500, and Braham 300, among others. Tony holds an honors degree in Computer Science from Seneca College. He has been recognized as one of Canada’s best young entrepreneurs and has been featured in numerous publications.
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About Fleet Complete: A leading global provider of mission-critical fleet, asset and mobile workforce management solutions
Simeon Garratt
Founder, CEO of Spark CRM
Founder at Spark CRM
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About Spark CRM: Spark is simplifying new home sales with smarter software.
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.
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About Integrate.ai, Meta: Integrate.ai is a machine learning startup that provides business insights and streamlines federated learning.
Adrian Schauer
President and CEO of Vortex Connect Inc.
Adrian is a serial technology entrepreneur having built two successful mobile software companies; both achieving leadership positions in their respective markets before being acquired. Adrian is an active Angel Investor and sits on the boards of several companies including fast-growing technology firms like the point-of-care medical device company Chipcare, the SaaS company TrackTik, and the GRC software provider Resolver. Adrian is also the co-founder of the Madiro Fund, a charitable organization created to support innovative solutions to the health problems in low-income countries.
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About AlayaCare, Vortex Connect Inc.: Vortex Connect is a mobile workforce management solutions provider specialized in business-to-employee communications.
Tom Loberto
Chief Executive Officer of Atelka
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About Atelka: Atelka is a customer contact management provider.
Arlene Lusterio
CEO & Founder of Embrace Health Innovations
Healthcare Architect with 30 years of diverse healthcare experience. Ten years of self-esteem research and development. Restructuring healthcare. Data scientist. CEO and Founder of Embrace Health Innovations Incorporation.
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About Embrace Health Innovations: Health Tech, Self-Esteem Research and Development, Personal & Social Wellness
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.
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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.
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About Hostaway: Hostaway offers scalable solutions with award-winning support to fast-growing vacation rental property managers!
Christian Weedbrook
Founder & CEO of Xanadu
Christian has over a decade of industry, government and research experience in quantum computing and quantum cryptography. He holds a PhD in Physics from the University of Queensland and was a postdoc at MIT and the University of Toronto.
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About Xanadu: Xanadu is a photonic quantum computing company that integrates and designs quantum silicon photonic chips.
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.
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About iLobby: ILobby develops software that helps enterprise companies track, manage and monitor visitors, contractors, and employees in their facilities.
Katherine Regnier
CEO & Founder of Coconut Software
Katherine Regnier is the CEO & Founder of Coconut Software.
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About Coconut Software: Coconut Software develops a cloud-based, enterprise level appointment scheduling and visitor management platform.
Adarsh Pallian
CEO of Trippeo
Adarsh Pallian is COO at SoleSavy.
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About SoleSavy, Trippeo: Trippeo Technologies develops a mobile application that automates business expense management process for business travelers.
Derek Luke
CEO, President and Board Member of Muse
As a Business executive operating at C-Level, Derek has more than two decades of experience working for multinationals including Blackberry and Seagate; and Start-ups such as iFire and Ideazon. Derek also held a key leadership role at STDC: a $1.5B non-for-profit Canadian Government Fund with a portfolio of 270+ companies. Derek brings his knowledge of connecting design, development, manufacturing, supply chain, government relations, sales and marketing to the team. Derek has lived in the USA, Canada, UK and Asia and, through his travels, has gained an intimate understanding of global business cultures. He holds a degree in Physics (Hons) from Strathclyde University and a Masters in Applied Statistics from Napier (Edinburgh) University.
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About Muse, Ryerson University: Muse is the maker of brainwave-controlled computing technology and applications that converts brainwaves into digital signals.
Cameron Wallin
CEO of AppBridge
Cameron Wallin is founder and CEO at AppBridge.
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About AppBridge: AppBridge is a application developer and facilitating the transformation of work.
Jack Newton
CEO & Co – Founder of Clio
An experienced business leader, software developer and entrepreneur, Jack provides the strategic vision that has made Clio a leader in legal cloud computing.
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About Athennian, Clio: Clio is a suite of web-based tools that help law firms in practice management and client collaboration.
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.
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About 360insights: 360insightsprovides a SaaS-based platform that enables manufacturers and distributors to manage their incentives programs.
Thomas Rankin
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Dash Hudson
Thomas is the cofounder and CEO of Dash Hudson. The world’s most discerning brands and publishers use Dash Hudson to create and share photos and videos that people care about. Our visual intelligence platform provides a one-stop solution to predict performance, distribute, measure, and enhance engagement across all of your visual marketing channels.
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About Dash Hudson: Visual Marketing Software for the World’s Most Important Brands
Deepak Chopra
Co-Founder & CEO of Clearbridge Mobile
Over the past 15 years, Deepak has become one of the leading experts in the mobile market through various roles including entrepreneur, wireless executive, equity research analyst and investor. In his role as Founder and CEO of Clearbridge Mobile, Deepak leads a world-class mobile team of developers that have created award winning solutions in the media, television, healthcare, and banking industries. In the span of a few years, Clearbridge has emerged as one of the fastest growing mobile app companies by working with startups and Fortune 500 companies like Disney, Dow Jones, NY Times, ABC, USA Today, Wall Street Journal and others. Before founding Clearbridge Mobile, Deepak was a top-rated sell side analyst for over a decade following the technology space. During his analyst career, Deepak was consistently a top ranked analyst according to Brendan Woods and won numerous awards for stock picking and earnings estimates from Starmine. He covered technology verticals including mobile devices, communication equipment, telecom software, PCs, semiconductors and satellite/broadcasting equipment. Deepak was best known for his in-depth coverage of the mobile ecosystem. Deepak is also an active investor in both the public markets and start-up scene.
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About Clearbridge Mobile: Mobile strategy and product development
