Boardroom Media (CEO News)
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 Development 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.
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.
Johann Starke
President & CEO of FCV Interactive
John Starke is the President & CEO of FCV, a full-service digital advertising agency with offices in Toronto and Vancouver. Before FCV, John was Director of Business Development at Expedia. Prior to Expedia, he worked with several organizations and was a consultant with Accenture. In addition to his role at FCV, John serves as a director at BC Assessment, an independent, provincial Crown corporation, and is an MBA mentor at the University of British Columbia. John holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance and Computer Information Systems from the University of Colorado and is a member of the Entrepreneurs’ Organization. In 2010,he was recognized in Vancouver’s Top 40 Under Forty, and his leadership and philanthropic endeavours earned FCV a 2010 Community Leadership Award from the British Columbia Technology Industry Association.
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About FCV Interactive, FCV Interactive: User-focused transformation agency
Jean-François Coté
CEO, President & co-founder of Sharethrough
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About Sharethrough, Sharethrough USA: Sharethrough merged with District M in February 2021
Mike Stern
Founder/CEO of Connected
Founder/CEO at Connected Lab
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About Connected: Product development for ambitious brands. One of Canada’s Top Small & Medium Employers.
Pierre Fournier
CEO & Founder of Hexoskin (Carré Technologies)
Pierre Fournier is a Founder & CEO at Hexoskin.
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About Hexoskin (Carré Technologies): Hexoskin develops smart clothing with the ability to deliver predictive health analytics for health, fitness, and wellness.
Connor Hicks
Founder and CEO of Suborbital
Founder and CEO of Suborbital Software System with a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science at Carleton University.
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About Suborbital: Suborbital leverages Atmo to create web services in an entirely new way, taking advantage of cloud native WebAssembly’s capabilities.
Arnold Leung
CEO and founder of Appnovation
Arnold Leung is the Founder at Appnovation.
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About Appnovation: Appnovation is a global Digital Solutions and Managed Services provider, delivering strategy, app development and enterprise integrations.
Mike Grouchy
CEO of Pagecloud
Mike hails from St. John’s, Newfoundland. As a teenager, he ran one of the largest Metallica fan sites, something he has been trying to live down ever since. Mike often contributes to open source projects and is one of the curators for Pycoders Weekly, a weekly newsletter about Python.
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About Pagecloud: Pagecloud makes it easy for creators and businesses to build beautiful, high-performing websites.
Ian McLeod
CEO of Envenio
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About Envenio, Juul Labs: Envenio was incorporated in response to a significant shift in computer hardware design toward low-cost, powerful computing architectures.
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.
Ricardo Alencastre
CEO of Share IT
I’ve been helping brands with their digital transformation and e-commerce strategy. Currently living between Canada and Portugal, I’ve been actively working within software, web, and mobile development, since 1999. With a solid background in digital strategy and marketing, I’m a regular speaker in technology and digital marketing events since 2009. With international experience, I’ve been developing business, managing teams, and projects in different countries across Europe and North America.
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About Alencastre.net, Brandability, Share IT: Where innovation, marketing, and technology come together.
Dmitry Gritsenko
Founder and CEO of Master Of Code
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About Master Of Code, Presentain: Master Of Code is a software development company that specializes in building enterprise-grade chat and voice solutions.
Jonathan Geller
CEO & Founder of Telair Communications Ltd
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About SIPSTACK Inc., Telair Communications Ltd: Canadian provider of hosted PBX solutions
Paul Bulgakov
Chief Executive Officer of Axamit
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About Axamit: Axamit is the leading provider of software development and consulting services.
Lawrence Sinclair
CEO of East Agile
Born in London, England, raised and educated in Canada, lived in Fiji and Sri Lanka as a child, worked in financial services and technology in the US, last at Morgan Stanley in New York. First moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1995. Set up East Agile to help build new ventures using Silicon Valley best practices. Started East Agile’s office in Vietnam in 2007 where he now spends much of his time each year. Lawrence W. Sinclair holds a B.A. and M.A. in economics from Queen’s University at Kingston, and from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. He started his career as an economist at the Canadian Department of Finance — the Canadian equivalent of the US Treasury Department. He also worked in an economics and statistics capacity at the central Bank of Canada and at Statistics Canada. Internet technology credentials include helping to build the business case for online banking at Wells Fargo Bank in the 1990s, analytics roles at eToys and Intuit, and clickstream analytics roles at Morgan Stanley Online. More recently under his guidance East Agile has helped more than seventy Internet technology ventures over the last seven years, including well known names Twitter, Indiegogo, and Rocket Fuel.
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About : Software Engineering and Consulting
Heather Payne
Founder and CEO of Juno College of Technology
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About HackerYou, Juno College of Technology: Juno College of Technology provides a comprehensive and accelerated training for students.
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.
William Richards
Founder & CEO of EasyRedir
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About Deap Solutions, EasyRedir: Easily manage URL redirects for business.
Conan Reis
Founder/CEO and Chief Mad Computer Scientist of Agog Labs
SkookumScript creator Conan Reis is a 22-year video game industry veteran (including United Front Games, EA Blackbox, LucasArts, Electronic Arts Canada), a world leader in the design and implementation of video game programming languages, and a noted professional mad computer scientist. He specializes in the gameplay and artificial intelligence aspects of game development, and creates 3D world editors, the guts of game engines and other development tools. His programming languages include the distributed language “Ergo” (developed in 1995, funded in part by a $105K grant from the BC Innovation Council) and “ChewieScript” (developed in 2001 as the successor to the LucasArts’ legendary SCUMM scripting language). Conan founded Agog Labs in 2004 to create SkookumScript—after initial development, United Front Games licensed SkookumScript to serve as the backbone of their award-winning open-world games Sleeping Dogs (2012) and Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition (2014), and the massively multiplayer Triad Wars (2015). Conan has shipped products for Microsoft Windows, Xbox 360 & Xbox One, Sony PlayStation 2, 3 & 4, Nintendo Wii & GameCube, and Sega Genesis. When the credits roll at the end of movies about science running amok, Conan’s friends often point an accusing finger at him and predict that one of his creations will someday destroy the world… or save it?
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About Agog Labs: The proud purveyors of SkookumScript, the superpowered real-time scripting language and tool suite that was made for video games.
Dragan Marjanovic
CEO of ShoutCMS
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About ShoutCMS: ShoutCMS is a revolutionary platform for website and eCommerce development.
John Zarei
Chief Executive Officer of Point Alliance
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About IAMCP International, Point Alliance: Point Alliance provides business solutions to organizations via custom development services and web strategy and design services.
Jonathan Moquin
CEO of Globalia
Jonathan Moquin is CEO at Globalia.
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About Balustr., Globalia: Globalia is a organization that specializes in e-commerce, mobile applications, and web strategy.
Mike Anderson
Chief Executive Officer of YGen Development
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About YGen Development: YGen Development is a software development company that specializes in website, mobile app and desktop development.
Olena Tkhorovska
CEO & Co-founder of Pieoneers
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About Pieoneers: Award-winning web & mobile development company in Vancouver, BC that delivered 50+ web applications, iOS apps, Android apps with seamless UI
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.
Niall Conway
CEO / Lead UX Consultant of GOCITY Mobile Inc.
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About GOCITY Mobile Inc.: GOCITY.io is a digital strategy agency specializing in customer centric product design.
Mike Agerbo
CEO of Blink
As one of Canada’s most well-known technology figures, Mike is an award-winning television producer and veteran TV personality. You can watch him weekly on his GetConnectedTV show on The Business News Network, AMI, CityTV and CHECKTV across the country. His weekly appearances as GlobalBC’s tech expert, reach hundreds of thousands of British Columbians. He can also be heard every Saturday on CKNW AM 980 radio show and the Corus Radio Network throughout Canada. Mike is a successful tech entrepreneur, having founded three successful tech and media companies over the past 20 years, including Chalk Media (sold to Blackberry in 2006) and currently Blink Media, a leading Canadian digital creative agency.
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About Blink: Blink is a creative agency providing social campaigns and digital content.
Paul Vincent
CEO of Neuranet
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About Neuranet: Neuranet helps organisations create amazing digital experiences efficiently.
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.
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.
Wolf Maul
CEO of Semandra Inc.
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About Semandra Inc.: Semandra Inc. is a web development company specializing in small business websites, custom web applications, and online communications.
