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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 Publishing 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.
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.
Allen Lau
Co-Founder and CEO of Wattpad
As CEO and co-founder of Wattpad, Allen Lau leads the company’s efforts to transform the way people around the world discover and share stories. Prior to Wattpad, Allen was the co-founder of FeedM8, a mobile advertising company that was acquired in 2008. In 2001, he co-founded Tira Wireless where he helped leading brands optimize content for mobile delivery. Allen received his Bachelor and Master degrees from the University of Toronto’s Electrical Engineering program.
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About Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), Two Small Fish Ventures, Wattpad: Wattpad is a digital entertainment company providing an online social storytelling platform for original stories.
Matthew Watson
Chief Executive Officer and Chair of STN Video
Matthew Watson is the Chair and CEO of SendtoNews Video, the leading sports video distribution platform in North America. Matthew graduated from UBC Law School and began his professional career as a corporate lawyer in the Vancouver office of Canada’s largest law firm. Matthew Watson made his first investment and founded an ISP called Seaside which he subsequently sold to a large public company. Matthew then joined the executive team of a client, ACD Systems, helping to take them public and then running the operations, business and corporate development as they went from start up to world leader in digital imaging management software. In 2003 Matthew Watson moved to Carmanah Technologies as COO helping guide them from small marine lighting company to world leader in Solar LED lighting and a public company. Matthew was the first investor and CEO of Armorlogic which was acquired by Alert Logic. Matthew Watson is now Chair and CEO of SendtoNews, North American’s largest sports video platform serving over 700mm video views a month to over 40 million unique viewers.
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About STN Video: STN Video is an Online Video Platform delivering content, technology and monetization to over 1800 publishers
Alexander Kroogman
Co-founder and CEO of PressReader
Alex is co-founder and CEO of PressReader, the world’s largest digital newspaper and magazine platform. Essentially ‘Netflix for news,’ PressReader allows users unlimited reading of more than 7,000 newspapers and magazines from around the world, including The Washington Post, The Globe & Mail, The Guardian, Bloomberg Businessweek, Vogue, GQ, Rolling Stone – you name it. Alex has been at the helm of the company since co-founding it in 1999, scaling PressReader’s technology, infrastructure, people and partnerships. He currently leads the more than 500 people working at PressReader’s offices around the world, and is heavily focused on defining and executing a strategy that will allow PressReader to continue its recent rapid growth. Alex has a razor-sharp business acumen, and has guided PressReader to achieving and maintaining profitability for the last 12 years — a rarity in the media industry.
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About PressReader, PressReader: PressReader offers unlimited digital access to over 7,000 newspapers and magazines from all over the world.
Nikolay Malyarov
CCO and CEO of PressReader
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About PressReader: PressReader offers unlimited digital access to over 7,000 newspapers and magazines from all over the world.
Michael MacMillan
Co-Founder & CEO of Blue Ant Media
Michael MacMillan co-founded Atlantis Films Limited in 1978. In its early years, Atlantis was primarily a film and television production house, winning an Oscar in 1984 for its short film Boys and Girls and an Emmy in 1992 for Lost in the Barrens, amongst other awards. In 1993 Atlantis became a broadcaster with the launch of its first network, Life Network. In 1998 Atlantis acquired Alliance Communications in a reverse takeover and the company became Alliance Atlantis Communications. Under Michael’s continued leadership, as Chairman and CEO, the company operated 13 Canadian television networks including HGTV Canada, Showcase Television, History Television and Food Network. The company also distributed and produced movies and television programs including the hit series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. In 2007, Michael retired from Alliance Atlantis after selling the company to Canwest Communications and Goldman Sachs. In 2007 Michael co-founded Samara which is a think tank that works to strengthen political engagement in Canada through innovative research and educational programs. Its work focuses on three areas: political leadership, the participation of citizens in public life and public affairs journalism. Michael is the Chair of Samara. Michael is a co-founder and co-owner of Closson Chase which is a vineyard and winery in Prince Edward Country, Ontario. It makes Chardonnay and Pinot Noir wines. In 2011, Michael co-founded and is CEO of Blue Ant Media, a Canadian media company. Blue Ant has an ownership interest in seven Canadian specialty television channels, as well as digital media properties and magazines. Michael has volunteered with numerous community and industry organizations over many years and is currently involved with Open Roof Festival, Human Rights Watch, Trent University, Civix and the Toronto East General Hospital, amongst other organizations.
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About Blue Ant Media: Blue Ant Media operates specialty channels and magazines such as Travel+Escape, Bite TV and AUX T.
Al Zikovitz
CEO, Cottage Life of Blue Ant Media
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About Blue Ant Media: Blue Ant Media operates specialty channels and magazines such as Travel+Escape, Bite TV and AUX T.
Paul Kostoff
Founder & CEO of MediResource
Paul Kostoff is the Chief Executive Officer at MediResource Inc. since June 1996. Previously, Paul served in the sales and marketing department at Merck & Co. Paul earned his B.Sc. degree in Microbiology and Immunology from Western University in 1988.
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About MediResource: MediResource has been a leader in the online application of consumer health care information and digital tools since 1996.
Jesse S. Moeinifar
Founder & CEO of Viafoura
A serial entrepreneur with previous successes spanning a range of industries such as real estate, digital media and software. Assembling teams of smart individuals passionate about solving challenging problems is what Jesse attributes his successes to. Jesse is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Viafoura, an Audience Development Platform powering 600+ prominent international media sites, including Hearst Media, Tribune, CBS and CBC. Jesse is known to always being available, a commitment which clients have expressed appreciation for publicly. His passion for helping his clients achieve success is captured by a quote that the Viafoura team lives by daily. “We accomplish success by making our clients successful. We treat our clients as partners. That’s the Viafoura way.” Jesse is also an accomplished high altitude mountaineer. He holds a 100% success record on 12 of the world’s most challenging summits. He has yet to be defeated, and will feed off of this when he takes on Mount Everest.
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About Viafoura: Viafoura sparks thriving conversations across 600 media brands worldwide, unlocking the power of digital communities.
Terry McBride
CEO of Nettwerk Music Group
Terry McBride is the current CEO and one of three founders of the Nettwerk Music Group, which includes Nettwerk Productions (Canada’s largest independent record label), Nettwerk Management (artist and producer management), Nettwerk One (publishing), and Artwerks (graphic and fashion design). Founded in McBride’s apartment in 1984, Nettwerk has corporate offices in Vancouver, Boston, Los Angeles, Nashville, New York, Hamburg and London. Since its inception, Nettwerk has released over 500 different albums and sold over 150 million albums worldwide. In the past few years McBride has spoke at dozens of international conferences about advances in digital technology, intellectual property rights and the future of music distribution. In 2008, McBride co-authored a paper for the British University of Westminster’s “Musictank” entitled Meet the Millennials. In 2004, McBride stepped onto a yoga mat for the first time by way of recommendation from a friend, and it wasn’t long before he realized that yoga offered him more than just a flexible body and mind. Acting on this realization, McBride along with his friend and yoga instructor, Lara Kozan, launched a chain of wellness centers called YYoga. It’s McBride’s vision for YYoga Studios to evolve into social third spaces, focusing on health and wellness for the body, mind, spirit and the community. McBride’s latest endeavor combines his two principle passions in the re-launch of Nutone Music. Encompassing music from the realm of devotional chant, world beat and beyond, Nutone is dedicated to the development of a new genre within today’s musical landscape. McBride explains, “Nutone’s mission is to seek out what we feel is the best music that fits into the modern day Yoga studio, various wellness practices and everyday enjoyment of music. With many descriptions from World music to Chant to New Age to Mantra music, Nutone will demystify and clarify for listeners a brand that will be consistent in delivering quality albums.” At the 2003 Juno Awards Terry received the Walt Grealis Special Achievement Award, recognizing an outstanding individual who has contributed to the growth and advancement of the Canadian music industry. Terry has also twice been awarded the Pollstar Industry Award for Personal Manager of the year for his work with Sarah McLachlan (1997) and Avril Lavigne / Coldplay (2002).
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About Nettwerk Music Group: Nettwerk Music Group provides synchronization, co-writer, and other publishing activities for North American artists and writers.
Courtney Rye
Founder and CEO of ElectricBikeReview.com
Born in Colorado, attended school at CU Boulder, Cleantech Institute in San Jose, and continuing studies at Stanford University. Worked at Hewlett Packard, Accenture, Google, RetailMeNot, eHealthInsurance.com. Sold CarStations.com and Cleantech Authority.com Currently resides in Vancouver, Canada.
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About ElectricBikeReview.com: Exploring the world of ebikes. We create videos, pictures, and run a forum that educates, connects, and inspires!
Hainsley Guthrie
Co-Founder and CEO of Veühub
Hainsley Guthrie is the CEO and co-founder of Veühub, an online platform that provides video content and programmatic monetization solutions. In addition, Hainsley also founded Whirl Click. Hainsley Guthrie holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Ryerson University.
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About Veühub: Veühub is a online platform that delivers video content and programmatic monetization solutions.
Christopher Reid
CEO and Founder of Sortable
When Chris graduated from Electrical engineering 11 years ago he went knee deep into the world of entrepreurship, Sortable is his 3rd and most ambitious startup. Chris can’t help but have an interest in most everything, from UX design and NLP algorithms to yoga and solo sailing. A high rank geek and Sortable’s outspoken and lovable provocateur who for the life of him can’t stand to accept things as the way they are.
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About Sortable: Sortable’s ad technology works intelligently behind the scenes to optimize ad impressions so clients can focus on creating great content.
David Kosmayer
Founder and CEO of Bookmark
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About Bookmark, Futurpreneur: The world’s first and fastest Ai-powered website builder and eCommerce solution.
Fouad El-Masri
CEO of Vertical City
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About Vertical City: Vertical City is a digital ad-tech company focused on elevator advertising.
Damian Cristiani
CEO of Contobox
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About Contobox: Contobox is a platform for delivering high-impact user engagements and transforming them into first party actionable data.
Jon Voigt
CEO, Co-founder of Agility CMS
I’m the CEO and Co-Founder of Agility CMS, a Headless Content Management System with a content first approach to digital content distribution. We focus on bringing flexibility and ease of use to the world of app and website development or any other digital destination. I’m also a husband, father and big believer that the key to our success is our ability to adapt and change as this world unfolds. It is the ability to be Agile that allows us to be ready for the fast paced environment that we all live in. I run a podcast called Agile Living, An Entrepreneurs Journey that focused on because able to handle this changing work and I’m building a community of digital leaders who define their success by being able to adapt and keep up with the fast pace of the world today.
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About Agility CMS: Agility CMS is a Headless CMS focused on JAMStack solutions. Build faster, build easier.
Dave Datars
CEO of TruCentric Inc.
Dave Datars is CEO at TruCentric
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About TruCentric Inc.: Trucentric brings the power of personalization to content marketers and web publishers.
Fady Kamal
CEO of Center Of Digital Excellence CODE Inc
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About Center Of Digital Excellence CODE Inc: Our primary focus is advising individuals & organizations on how to adopt and improve performance in the digital age
Andy Buyting
Founder and CEO of Tulip Media Group
Andy’s thought leadership journey started when he published his first business book in 2007 and started publishing his first magazines in 2009. Since that time, he has leveraged his integrated approach to print, digital and interactive marketing strategies to establish himself as a thought leader in content marketing and brand positioning. Andy’s 2nd book, How to Win Clients & Influence People, is now in its 2nd edition and is an International Bestseller on Amazon. Through his company; Tulip Media Group, his team empowers others so they can achieve greater business results through an Easy and Effective content marketing strategy. Andy is also a TEDx speaker.
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About Tulip Media Group: Results-Driven Digital & Print Marketing Strategies.
Craig Rennick
CEO – Founder of Ampifii
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About Ampifii: Run efficient paid amplification campaigns with our hybrid amping solution.
Craig Rennick
CEO – Founder of Ampifii
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About Ampifii: Run efficient paid amplification campaigns with our hybrid amping solution.
