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 Sensor 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.
Tim Angus
President and CEO of AOMS Technologies
Tim Angus is the President and CEO of BRICKEYE (formerly AOMS Technologies).
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About AOMS Technologies, Bell Lap Ventures: AOMS Technologies provides industrial IoT solutions for the mining, construction, and industrial asset industries.

Hamid Alemohammad
Co-Founder & CEO of AOMS Technologies
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About AOMS Technologies, OSPE: AOMS Technologies provides industrial IoT solutions for the mining, construction, and industrial asset industries.
Charles Boulanger
CEO of LeddarTech
A graduate in engineering from Laval University in 1981 with senior management training from the International Center for Research and Studies in Management (CIREM), Charles Boulanger is recognized for his decision making ability in complex and dynamic environments. Over the past 30 years, his leadership allowed him to occupy senior management positions both nationally and internationally in several industrial sectors with companies such as Shell Canada, Irving Oil, GSI Environment and Prolab Technologies. He has been involved in several IPO’s, LBO’s, mergers and acquisitions and complex financings as well as in international joint ventures. Allergic to the status quo, he carries a vision and a business strategy focused on development and growth. He is known for being a creative leader with a strong capacity for analysis and synthesis and an excellent understanding of markets and marketing.
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About LeddarTech: LeddarTech provides environmental sensing platforms for autonomous vehicles and advanced driver assistance systems.
Matt Lowe
Co-founder & CEO of ZeroKey
Matt is a Canadian-born tech entrepreneur who founded ZeroKey, an IIoT hardware startup. Formerly, Matt worked as the head of IT (North American subsidiaries) of Wilo, a major manufacturing company with global revenue of over $2 billion USD. Prior to working at Wilo, Matt operated a successful consultancy focused on product development for major companies in the tech industry. Over the course of a 15+ year career in tech, Matt has contributed to several mega projects including Linux and Arduino. Linux is used by over 2 billion devices worldwide including all Android smartphones, and Arduino is the world-leading hardware prototyping platform. As the original inventor behind ZeroKey, Matt has taken a back-of-the-napkin idea and scaled a successful business around it to the current size of 30 employees. Matt’s original concept for ZeroKey’s technology has now spawned over 22 patents filed across the globe and is active use at 6 of the top 10 global automotive OEM’s.
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About ZeroKey: ZeroKey is a hardware-startup offering IIoT products based on its breakthrough hyper-accurate 3D localization technology, Smart Space.
Ryan Denomme
Founder and CEO of Nicoya Lifesciences
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About Nicoya Lifesciences: Nicoya is a nanotechnology company developing sensor products that will change the world
Faez Ba-Tis
CEO of Sheba Microsystems
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About Sheba Microsystems: Developer of MEMS micro-actuator technology to enable lower power, slimmer, and faster AF and OIS in compact cameras.
Noah Debrincat
Co-Founder & CEO of Zergo
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About Zergo: Zergo is developing a nanotechnology-based in vitro health diagnostic. First application is a urine test for helping people get pregnant.
Hamoun Karami
CEO of Smartbin.io
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About mapgea, Smartbin.io: Automated Indoor Waste & Recycling System
Alex Chen
CEO of QuantWave Technologies
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About QuantWave Technologies: QuantWave was established to pursue the growing demands of intelligent sensing platform for industrial IoT applications.
Mirwais Aktary
Founder, President and CEO of Applied NanoTools
I am the Founder, President and CEO of Applied Nanotools which is an optics and sensors company employing micro and nanofabrication design concepts to develop valued-added products. We work in two strategic domains which are X-ray optics and Silicon Photonic sensors.
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About Applied NanoTools: Applied NanoTools is a company specializing in photonic sensors, fabrication, and optics.

Farshad Mirshafiei
Co-Founder & CEO of Sensequake
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About Sensequake: Sensequake is a well-known develops software, sensor units and provides services based on its proprietary technology.
Hualiang Ni
CEO and Founder of OYMotion Technologies, Inc
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About OYMotion Technologies, Inc: OYMotion develops bio-metric sensors, machine-learning based algorithm for processing bionic signals and gesture control based on EMG.
Hualiang Ni
CEO and Founder of OYMotion Technologies, Inc
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About OYMotion Technologies, Inc: OYMotion develops bio-metric sensors, machine-learning based algorithm for processing bionic signals and gesture control based on EMG.