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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 Video Streaming 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.
Valentino Arbabi
CEO of Yeplive™ Inc.
Valentino is a born-entrepreneur, and a design-driven futurist who lives the change that he wants to see in the world. He is the visionary behind Yeplive™. Valentino studied medicine in Germany before leaving during his residency to pursue a career in his natural calling: business. An analytical thinker, Valentino created a successful luxury custom home building brand in Toronto Canada, building smart homes in exclusive neighborhoods like Forest Hill and Hoggs Hollow. He generated significant growth in revenue within 6 years. A creative builder by heart, Valentino decided to venture into something bigger and in a different dimension this time, and Yeplive™ was born. The extraordinarily talented team behind Yeplive came together seamlessly and the ball started rolling. Valentino has the ability to see trends ahead of the market, find great talent, and motivate them to shake things up with creative solutions.
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About Yeplive™ Inc.: Discover, Stream and Share Live Video
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.
Spencer Smyl
Founder & CEO of Final Stage Entertainment
Spencer Smyl is the Founder and CEO of Final Stage Entertainment Inc.
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About Final Stage Entertainment: Final Stage Entertainment is a producer, distributor, and channel operator of gaming video content.
John Baker
President and Chief Executive Officer of Captual
John Baker is the President & CEO at D2L.
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About Captual, D2L, The Business Council of canada: Captual offers ePresence, a system that allows organizations to capture rich media presentations for live or on-demand webcasting.
Aram Melkoumov
CEO & Co-Founder of Crowdlinker
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About Crowdlinker, InnovationTO, Livelii, Yumba: Crowdlinker is an end-to-end digital product studio based in Toronto with a relentless focus on our customers.
Jim Rand
CEO & Founder of Synervoz Communications
Jim Rand is the Founder, CEO at Synervoz Communications
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About Kosmi, Switchboard, Synervoz Communications: Synervoz is building the world’s most flexible communications platform.
Todd McCann
CEO & Co-Founder of CamDo Solutions Inc.
Founder of CamDo Solutions Inc.
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About CamDo Solutions Inc.: The Cam-Do Waterproof Enclosures are designed for outdoor use in demanding environments.
Dan McEleney
CEO & Co-Founder of Gfycat
Dan is one of our co-founders and manages operations at Gfycat. He has extensive experience in project management in the technology sector, including medtech company Haemonetics. An avid redditor, Dan noticed the advent of the GIF on reddit in lieu of videos. His frustration with the low-quality, slow-loading GIFs he saw led to the creation of Gfycat. His engagement with the Reddit community led to Gfycat’s viral adoption among redditors, leading to Gfycat’s organic growth to 90 million monthly active users.
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About Gfycat: Gfycat is GIF hosting platform that allows users to create, discover, and share GIFs through their mobile phones and computers.
Gerrit Nagelhout
CEO & Co-Founder of Aterlo Networks
Gerrit has many years of Engineering management experience at Sandvine, including managing the Sandvine Israel development site for more than four years.
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About Aterlo Networks: Aterlo Networks Inc is moving into the Communitech Hub.
Stephane Bourque
Chief Executive Officer, Founder & President of Incognito Software
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About Incognito Software: Provisioning and Resource Management
David MacLaren
Founder & CEO of MediaValet
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About MediaValet: MediaValet stands at the forefront of the enterprise, cloud-based, digital asset management industry.
Terry Mochar
Chief Executive Officer of Worldplay Communications
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About Worldplay Communications: A Disruptive Online Video Platform & Software-as-a-Service Provider
Jeremy Hartmann
CEO of mtion
PhD. Metaverse architect. Virtual reality and blockchain. Honeybadger. Hacker.
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About mtion: mtion is building the metaverse for gamers to stream from and share with others.
