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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 Social Media Marketing 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.
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.
Derrick Fung
CEO of Drop Technologies
Derrick is the CEO of Tunezy Drop is a financial technology company focused on bringing value to millennials. Drop is designed to fit into any lifestyle — anyone can earn rewards, even if they don’t use a credit card. Together, we are helping our members get rewarded everyday. Without adding debt, or charges.
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About Cardify, Drop Technologies: Drop Technologies develops a rewards application to help users earn points when they shop.
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
Tyler McConville
CEO & Co-founder of NAV43
Tyler is obsessed with observing and reverse-engineering the latest algorithms to find out what makes a search engine tick. Having managed marketing and eCommerce programs for complex brands – including Porsche, Porter Airlines, ADP, Aldo Shoes, D2L, and Icon Legacy – with ease, Tyler has become well-respected for his ability to anticipate client needs, and deal with high-risk problems. Ever-fascinated by consumer behaviour and machine learning, Tyler is driven to take NAV43 to new heights, daily.
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About NAV43, Navigate Technologies: NAV43 is a technical digital advertising agency that uses insights, data, and growth strategy to drive the success of your business.
Bryan Gold
Co-founder & CEO of #Paid
Bryan Gold is the Co-founder and CEO of #paid. With offices in New York and Toronto, #paid empowers social media content creators and enables the world to experience their creative storytelling. #paid designs and develops world-class influencer marketing software that makes marketers’ lives easier. Top brands like Toyota, Coca-Cola, and Canon trust the #paid platform to activate creators, deliver inspiring lifestyle content, and measure ROI.
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About #Paid: #Paid is a tech company that operates a creative marketing platform that combines brand and creator collaboration.
Tim Burke
Co-founder and CEO of Affinio
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About Affinio, Tactics Cloud: Affinio is a marketing intelligence platform that leverages the interest graph to understand today’s consumer.
Ali Tajsekandar
Founder & CEO of Wishpond
Ali Tajsekandar is a Founder & CEO at Wishpond.
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About Wishpond: Wishpond is an all-in-one marketing suite that enables users to generate and nurture leads.
Abbas Alidina
Founder/CEO of Crowdbabble
Abbas Alidina is the Founder/CEO at Crowdbabble. He’s responsible for Crowdbabble’s overall vision and product direction. He focuses on making sure Crowdbabble delights customers by keeping things simple. When he’s not dreaming about pie charts, you’ll most likely find him watching or playing basketball!
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About Crowdbabble, WE THE ORIGIN: Twice the insight. Half the time.
Tara Hunt
CEO, Founder of Truly Inc
Tara ‘missrogue’ Hunt is the CEO and founder of Truly Inc. Tara was one of the co-founders of the Coworking movement, co-founded Citizen Agency and Citizen Space, and launched Riya.com in 2006 (now like.com). She is the author of The Whuffie Factor (published in 8 languages) and has spoken at over 100 conferences worldwide. She lives in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and is working on startup Buyosphere.com.
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About Lime Foundry, Travelzoo, Truly Inc: Digital Audience Market Research & Insights
Dan Holowack
Co-Founder & CEO of CrowdRiff
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About CrowdRiff: Crowdriff creates data-smart destinations for brands using custom scoring systems to deliver real-time content to its clients.
Mazdak Rezvani
CEO of Chatkit
For Mazdak, software has always been a passion. In fact, his commercial software development experience goes back to the age of 15! (His first shareware received Windows Sources Magazine’s Shareware of the Month mention) He is currently CEO & Founder of Chatkit, an Artificial Intelligence startup focusing building a conversational marketing platform. Prior to that he was SVP of Engineering, Buyer Cloud at Rubicon Project. He co-founded Chango and was its Chief Technology Officer until it was acquired by Rubicon in 2015. Chango was named Canada’s fastest growing startup by Deloitte in 2014. At Chango he helped create the first fully integrated solution that combines data-driven marketing to instantly deliver campaigns across all digital advertising channels – display, mobile, social, and video. He was also a co-founder of BubbleShare in 2005, a company that was called one of the rising stars of Toronto’s tech scene. My work was instrumental in the growth and ultimate acquisition of the company by Kaboose Inc. in 2007. Kaboose was sold to Disney in 2009. After leaving Kaboose, Mazdak became VP of Engineering at HOT or NOT (part of Avid Life Media). From there he moved on to the social gaming world as VP of Operations at Tall Tree Games, the creator of YoVille (Sold to Zynga) and Fish World.
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About Chango, Chatkit: Chatkit is an AI Conversational Marketing chatbot platform that helps brands create and nurture lasting customer relationships.
Tapajyoti Das
CEO of LeadSift
Tapajyoti Das is a Co-Founder & CEO at LeadSift.
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About LeadSift: LeadSift mines publicly available information to identify signal of intent for B2B sales and marketers.
Zachary Chester
Chief Executive Officer / Cofounder of ShoutExchange
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About ShoutExchange: Connecting brands with influencers on social media platforms. Influencers get free products and money to post about brands they love!
Charlie Fernandez
CEO – CMO – Cofounder of Studio Reverbere
I am : – Kind of an outgoing really friendly guy; – Co-founder of Studio Réverbère and Maple Inside; – Blogger, mentor, public speaker and, above all, great cook; – Helping amazing people to market brilliant ideas; – Born in France, raised in many cultures. I love : – Sharing my business knowledge and personal experiences; – Instagram stories way too much; – Amazingly simple ideas that solve my daily struggles; – Pretending to be networking; – Facebook lookalike audiences <3 I used to be : - Marketing and communications strategic advisor for digital agencies; - Chief Communications Officer of the most important french speaking digital venue in America; - Independent consultant in digital performance for regional SMEs; - Radio columnist for a local station with an incredible team!
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About Maple Inside, Studio Reverbere: We help you grow ($$) via Instagram
Roman Zelvenschi
CEO of RomanZ Media Group
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About RomanZ Media Group: RomanZ Media Group is an interactive digital media agency that provides a full spectrum of digital creation and marketing services.
Hayden Dent
CEO of MyKrd
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About MyKrd: MyKrd is a digital business card app for busy entrepreneurs
Tanguy Lays
CEO of Tylio
Founder at Tylio.
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About Tylio: The affordable solution to increase brand visibility
Jennifer Maloney Adab
Founder & CEO of Brix Media Co.
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About Brix Media Co.: Brix Media Co. is North America’s leading PR & Influencer Marketing Agency focused on social innovation.
Julie Steiner
CEO of Percy 3DMedia
Julie Steiner is the founder and CEO of Percy 3DMedia, a video personalization platform company that encourages people to ‘put yourself in the picture’ through personal 3D visual effects. Percy 3D’s ‘PercyVites’ line of digital party products takes an existing physical product category – licensed personalized kids party invitations – and brings them into the digital world. Also offering a line of adult invitations for a variety of occasions, PercyVites includes digital party administration tools with host and guest dashboards to make invitations easy to manage.
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About Percy 3DMedia: Put your child’s name, photos and custom messages into personalized online video party invitations, eCards and more.
Matt Balshin
Chief Executive Officer of MB Creative
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About MB Creative: We’re an award-winning web design agency in Toronto. MB Creative designs beautiful websites through strategy driven design.
Linden Schwark
Founder and CEO of Vancouver SEO Agency
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About Vancouver SEO Agency: Vancouver SEO Agency is a results orientated company that uses ethical SEO services to dominate the competiton.
Linden Schwark
Founder and CEO of Vancouver SEO Agency
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About Vancouver SEO Agency: Vancouver SEO Agency is a results orientated company that uses ethical SEO services to dominate the competiton.
Olivia Simmons
Co-Founder & CEO of Polylabs Development
Olivia Simmons is Co-Founder & CEO at ConferenceCloud.
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About ConferenceCloud, Polylabs Development: Polylabs Development is a design and development company provides fast and effective service with quality results.
