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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 Web Hosting 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.
Robert Offley
President & CEO of Centrilogic
With more than 20 years of management experience in the IT industry, Robert joined CentriLogic as President and CEO in 2006. Prior to joining the CentriLogic team, Robert was President and CEO of Fusepoint Managed Services, where he expanded the company out of Vancouver to become a national provider of managed services. In the three years Robert was with Fusepoint, he grew the business to achieve sustained 170% year-over-year growth. Before joining Fusepoint, Robert held managerial responsibility at PSINet, one of the first Internet service providers. Robert first joined the company as European Director before being appointed CEO of PSINet’s Canadian operations. Under Robert’s leadership, PSINet Canada became the leading provider of hosting services in Canada. Robert holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Electronic Engineering from Birmingham City University.
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About Centrilogic: Centrilogic provides global enhanced private and public Cloud services to mid-market businesses with complex or unique requirements.
Peter Cassar
CEO of SherWeb
Peter Cassar SherWeb CEO in 1998.
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About SherWeb: SherWeb provides email and collaboration solutions for businesses.
Matthew Cassar
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of SherWeb
Matthew Cassar joined Sherweb as Co-Founder & Co-CEO in 1998.
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About SherWeb: SherWeb provides email and collaboration solutions for businesses.
Peter Allen
President & CEO of DragonWave
Peter Allen brings 21 years of industry experience in Broadband Telecommunications. Prior to joining DragonWave, Peter was founder, President and CEO Innovance Networks. Prior to Innovance, Peter was the Vice-President of Business Development and General Manager of the Optoelectronics organization within Nortel Networks’ Optical Networks division, where he had responsibilities for both the system and component businesses. Peter’s experience in business leadership includes heading up a 5000-employee global operation spanning R&D, manufacturing as well as Sales & Marketing. Peter has extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions and has been involved in numerous multi-billion dollar transactions, as well as establishing business partnerships in North America, Europe and Japan. Peter has also held managerial positions at Ford Motor Company and Rothmans International, and has lived and worked in North America, Europe and Africa.
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About DragonWave: DragonWave Inc. (DragonWave) is a provider of high-capacity Ethernet microwave solutions for Internet protocol (IP) networks. Its
Jonathan Geller
CEO & Founder of Telair Communications Ltd
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About SIPSTACK Inc., Telair Communications Ltd: Canadian provider of hosted PBX solutions
Stephane Bourque
Chief Executive Officer, Founder & President of Incognito Software
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About Incognito Software: Provisioning and Resource Management
Peyman Aleagha
CEO & Founder of WebsiteBox
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About WebsiteBox: Technology firm that offers do-it-all real-estate websites for a one-time $99
Philip Deeley
CEO of Globalgraphics Web Design
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About Globalgraphics Web Design: Globalgraphics Web Design located in Toronto specialize in website design, web development, e-commerce and search marketing.
Rainer Paduch
CEO of Granite Networks
As CTO, Rainer is architecting the SmartFunnel service to support worldwide operations. His past experience includes numerous technology leadership and senior management roles in companies such as Newbridge, Fonorola, Mitel, Systemhouse and Canadian Marconi. Subsequent to that he was founder of iSTAR Internet Inc. He continues to be heavily involved in the domain of web-enabled services as the industry evolves. Rainer is active as a Director or Chair of several other technology companies, and has also served the industry as a venture partner at Novacap, a Montreal-based venture capital firm.
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About Granite Networks, SmartFunnel: Granite Networks is a provider of networking, colocation, managed, and cloud hosting services.
Sylvain Boyer
Co-CEO and CTO of Nuvollo
Sylvain Boyer is a Co-CEO and CTO at Nuvollo.
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About Nuvollo: Nuvollo is an IT company providing secure cloud offering of Enterprise Resource Planning systems.
Mathieu Duperre
CEO and Founder of Edgegap
Mathieu Duperré is the CEO and Founder at Edgegap.
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About Edgegap: Automated hosting platform delivering lowest latency mutliplayer games
John Witte
President and CEO of Carbon60 Networks
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About Carbon60 Networks: Carbon60 manages hybrid cloud solutions for Canadian private and public sector organizations with business critical web-properties.
Jacob Godin
Founder & CEO of Cloud A
Founder & CEO of Cloud A.
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About Cloud A, Cloud Brewery: Launching Canada’s first Public Cloud in 2012 has been a lot fun so far.
Hany Fahim
Founder & CEO of VM Farms
Hany Fahim is the founder and CEO of VM Farms, a 24×7 operations team and cloud hosting provider. With over 15 years of experience in building cloud environments and running scalable applications, Hany runs a team of DevOps focussed System Administrators to provide fully managed Operations-as-a-Service to high-touch customers like Wave Accounting, TribeHR, Tunnel Bear, and many other recognizable Canadian brands.
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About VM Farms: VM Farms helps to create and manage DevOps teams within companies to streamline applications development and IT integration.
Rick Lawrence
CEO of Hosting Nation Data Inc.
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About : Hosting Nation Data is a provides web hosting, reseller hosting, and dedicated servers.
Rick Lawrence
CEO of Hosting Nation Data Inc.
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About : Hosting Nation Data is a provides web hosting, reseller hosting, and dedicated servers.
Afshin Mousavian
CEO & Co-Founder of Daily Challenge
Since 2002, Afshin has been tethered to Social Media and its development, seeking new ways of implementing Web 2.0 for innovative marketing strategies. His creativity, along with his sociable personality, makes him the ideal Social Media Marketing (SMM) evangelist. Currently acting as the CEO at Daily Challenge Afshin is focusing on utilizing the enormous power of Social Media to create products and strategies for sustainable social responsibility initiatives. With an extensive background in web marketing, product development, and management, Afshin has both the vision and the practical experience to lead a startup to its success.
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About Daily Challenge, Demac Media: Daily Challenge is a social networking site focused on mobilizing “Do Gooders” around the planet with challenges.
Ian Evans
President & CEO of E-Tech Computing
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About E-Tech Computing: Specializing in IT solutions for the Not-For-Profit, Regulatory Body and Small Business Markets.
