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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 Wellness 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.
Cherif Habib
Co-Founder & CEO of Dialogue
Cherif Habib is a co-Founder and the CEO at Dialogue. He is also a mentor at Creative Destruction Lab.
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About Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), Dialogue, Kembrel: Dialogue is a healthcare company that provides virtual care treatment and telemedicine for chronic diseases.
Amy Regan Risley
Founder & CEO of Skinfix
Amy Regan’s love of the beauty industry was sparked when she was a child. Her father ran manufacturing for Estée Lauder, and she remembers the day she visited Estée’s office and saw that a woman could create an empire, raise a family, and love makeup – all at the same time. A graduate of Princeton, she learned the beauty ropes at L’Oréal. She later graduated from INSEAD Business School and honed her marketing and retail skills at Coty, Jo Malone, and Space NK.
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About Skinfix: Skinfix is a clean and clinically active skincare brand that promotes optimal skin barrier health.
David Hardy
CEO of Orangetheory Fitness
David Hardy is a Partner at Orangetheory Fitness involved in strategic planning and product development. He is also the President of Franvest Capital Partners, a private investment firm that owns and operates companies with a focus on fitness and healthy living.Current businesses include Orangetheory Fitness, World Health Edmonton, and Fresh Fit Foods. David is actively involved in the fitness industry, having participated in industry roundtables, trade associations, and public speaking. He has led a number of initiatives for the fitness industry, including music licensing and consumer fitness tax credits. David has served on a number of private and not-for-profit boards, including the Fitness Industry Council of Canada (President), the Alberta Economic Development Authority, the Association for Corporate Growth (Past President, Edmonton) and the International Health, Racket and Sports Club Association (IHRSA).
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About Franvest Capital Partners, Orangetheory Fitness: Orangetheory is a science-based group personal training workout broken into intervals of cardiovascular and strength training.
Randy AuCoin
President & CEO of Exact Imaging
Randy AuCoin was most recently Vice President, Quality Assurance and Regulatory Affairs at VisualSonics and was responsible for all quality assurance and control efforts and for directing all regulatory affairs. Randy joined VisualSonics in 2003. He has extensive experience in managing quality assurance and regulatory affairs. Randy has been involved in three previous start up ventures. From 2000 to 2003, Mr. AuCoin was manager of engineering and quality assurance at Dicomit DICOM Information Technologies, and later at Cedara software which acquired Dicomit. He played an integral part in setting up a quality system that met the requirements of FDA cGMP, UL, CE, ISO 9001, and ISO 13485. He ensured ongoing compliance with regulatory and ISO 13485 requirements, as well as continually improving the company’s quality system From 1998 to 2000, he was a Y2K consultant with Ontario Hydro where he focused on identifying and renovating systems that were not Y2K friendly. From 1990 to 1998, Mr. AuCoin was principal engineer at Quinton Electrophysiology Corporation, a cardiac medical device manufacturer, where he designed and developed software and firmware. Mr. AuCoin was an adjunct professor at DeVry Institute of Technology (Toronto) from 1993 to 1994. He holds a diploma in Computer Programming and Systems from DeVry, and continues to take many continuing education programs in the areas of quality management systems, regulatory affairs, and engineering. Mr. AuCoin is named as an inventor on a patent in electro-physiology.
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About Exact Imaging: Exact Imaging is the developer of the ExactVu™ system, the first micro-ultrasound operating at 29 MHz that provides unmatched resolution.
Matt Gray
Founder & CEO of Herb
Matt Gray is the Founder & CEO at Herb.
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About Herb: Herb is a Cannabis website and community that curates and understands cannabis as a medicine and therapeutic herb.
Arlene Lusterio
CEO & Founder of Embrace Health Innovations
Healthcare Architect with 30 years of diverse healthcare experience. Ten years of self-esteem research and development. Restructuring healthcare. Data scientist. CEO and Founder of Embrace Health Innovations Incorporation.
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About Embrace Health Innovations: Health Tech, Self-Esteem Research and Development, Personal & Social Wellness
Ryan Todd
CEO and co-founder of Headversity
Ryan Todd is the CEO and founder of headversity.
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About Headversity: Headversity is a workplace mental health and resilience platform helping workers through mental health issues.
Shea Balish
CEO and Co-Founder of Curv Health
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About Curv Health: Curv is a distributed digital clinic that connects individuals with specialists who use frontier tools to offer better, cost-effective care.
Cameron Howieson
Co-Founder & CEO of Opencare
Co-Founder & CEO at Opencare
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About Opencare: Opencare is transforming the dental industry by creating the first premium dental care network.
Jane Wang
CEO & Co-Founder of Optimity
Founder and CEO of Optimity. Proactive Health Evangelist; Data Science Nerd; Authentic Leader #Anomaly #WonderWoman #Pioneer
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About Optimity: Optimity is a mission-driven technology company that uses evidence-based behavioural science and gamification to improve population health.
Fahar Merchant
President and CEO of Medicenna Therapeutics
Fahar Merchant is a 25-year biotech veteran, a serial entrepreneur and co-founder of Medicenna. Previously he was President and CEO of Protox Therapeutics (TSX.V and TSX; now Sophiris Bio, Nasdaq) where he established a late clinical stage urology company. At Protox he raised more than $70M through multiple PIPEs, including a $35M investment by Warburg Pincus. In 1992 he co-founded IntelliGene Expressions, Inc., a biologics CDMO, and built it to one of the fastest growing companies in Canada. In 2000, by strategic in-licensing, he co-founded Avicenna Medica, Inc., a clinical stage oncology company that was sold a year later to KS Biomedix (LSE) for $90M. Fahar was CTO and Director of KS Biomedix until its acquisition by Xenova (Nasdaq and LSE; now Celtic Pharma). Fahar has closed several transactions valued at more than $300M. He has a PhD in Biochemical Engineering from Western University.
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About Medicenna Therapeutics: Medicenna is a clinical stage, privately held, immuno-oncology company.
Mackenzie Loree
Chief Executive Officer & Director of Camarico Group
Mackenzie Loree has over 15 years experience in the energy industry, both in the private and public markets. Through his career Mackenzie Loree has developed various energy related patents and has been involved in the start up of various oil and gas service entities, exploration companies, real estate holding companies and an investment firm. Most notably, Mackenzie Loree’s development of Loree Holdings Ltd which is a diversified holding company with interests in public ventures, E&P investments, patents, service entities, professional services and real estate holdings.
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About Camarico Group: Camarico Group is a private equity fund management company in Canada.
Alexandra Greenhill
Founder, CEO and CMO of Careteam Technologies
Alexandra is a physician leader turned tech entrepreneur, with a 15+ years track of record massive $100m+ healthcare innovations. Cofounded award-winning tech companies, is an EIR and a TedX speaker, Top 40 under 40, Most Influential Woman in STEM, WXN Most Powerful Woman and received the Queen Elizabeth II Medal of Service.
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About Careteam Technologies, myBestHelper, The Greenhill Group: Careteam Technologies develops a virtual care collaboration and communication platform.
Brie Code
Founder & CEO of TRU LUV
Brie Code is the Founder and CEO at TRU LUV.
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About TRU LUV: TRU LUV is healing our relationship with technology. We make emotionally conscious AI for refuge, resilience and transformation.
Matthew Mazzuca
Co-CEO and President of Tia Health
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About Insig, Tia Health: Tia is a virtual clinic platform which allows patients to access a doctor from anywhere via online video, phone, or IM.
Cristian Villamarin
Founder and CEO of Flipd
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About Flipd: Flipd is the digital wellness company that’s reengineering healthy screen habits.
Roberto Bellini
President & CEO of Bellus Health
Roberto Bellini has served as President and CEO of BELLUS Health since January 1, 2010. Bellini previously oversaw the licensing and partnering activities of BELLUS Health Inc. His experience includes responsibility for the investment and operational activities of Picchio Pharma Inc., a joint venture healthcare investment firm owned by FMRC Family Trust and Power Technology Investment Corporation. Bellini is a sitting member of the Board of Directors of BELLUS Health. He has broad ties in the community and has served on numerous fundraising committees for the following institutions: l’Institut du cancer de Montréal, the Sarah Cook Fund for the Cedars Cancer Institute, l’Institut de Gériatrie, le Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal and la Fondation Quebec Jeunes. Bellini holds a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry from McGill University.
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About Bellus Health: BELLUS Health is focused on developing drugs for rare diseases, starting with conditions that affect the kidneys.
George Barakat
CEO and Co-Founder of Jack Nathan Health
George Barakat currently works as CEO and Co-Founder at Jack Nathan Health Inc. He previously worked at Laila’s Inc. as President and CEO.
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About Jack Nathan Health: Jack Nathan Health is dedicated to bringing patients more convenient access to quality healthcare services within their local communities.
Derek De Leon
Founder and CEO of Well Massage
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About Well Massage: Well Massage is an on-demand massage company and app, dedicated to bringing the healing power of massage to clients’ homes.
Alyssa Atkins
Founder and CEO of Lilia
Alyssa Atkins is the CEO and Founder of Lilia.
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About Lilia: Lilia is a home fertility startup that serves as a egg securing concierge for busy people who want the option of having kids later.
Josh Sookman
CEO of MasterHealth
Building MasterHealth to help millions actualize their health goals. We form strong partnerships with health experts (followed by millions of fans), to offer mobile-first health programs that leverage behaviour change science, psychology, and human connection to help people realize their health goals. We’ve got great investors, and now growing our team! Prior to MasterHealth, Josh has held key roles on the Ritual Leadership Team, Growth and Product Teams, and Expansion Team. He launched Ritual’s first 2 markets, Toronto and Chicago. He created and managed 3 new user acquisition channels that contributed 30%+ of all users acquired by Ritual from 2015-2018, and translated into ~$100M in all-time GMV sales for the business. Before focusing his career on launching and scaling startups, Josh worked in venture capital with the BlackBerry Partners Fund (now Relay Ventures) and RBC Venture Partners. In these roles, he was the Lead Analyst for 10 completed investments including Verafin, Varicent (acquired by IBM), Aepona (acquired by Intel), SocialDeck (acquired by Google), Xobni (acquired by Yahoo!) & Transpera (acquired by Tremor Media). He also assisted portfolio companies with product development. Josh has advised and mentored numerous entrepreneurs, startups and accelerators, and judged competitions for entrepreneurs including the Social eChallenge Competition at Stanford University, the Venture Capital Investment Competition (VCIC) at MIT and Intel Challenge Europe. Josh also helped organize TEDxToronto 2010. Lifelong learner. Loves metabolic conditioning, hiking, wakeboarding, snowboarding, and hockey.
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About MasterHealth: Enabling anyone to learn, take action & stick to health programs from experts they trust.
Darren Piercey
Co-founder & CEO of WellTrack
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About WellTrack: WellTrack provides an on-demand online therapy for stress, anxiety, and depression.
Cindy Gu
Chief Executive Officer of VITALI Wear
Cindy received her formal education in Mechanical Engineering from the University of British Columbia, and has been fortunate enough to have studied Yoga and trained with the best. Her unconventional background combining the external creativity of engineering and the internal search of yoga and meditation led her to become an entrepreneur who defines her own path. As an engineer, yoga instructor and entrepreneur, the biggest problem she’s inspired to solve is the pandemic technology-drunkenness in modern lifestyle. She’s passionate about bridging technology and wellness together. Currently, she’s leading her start-up Vitali Wear to create next-generation of smart clothing for everyday wellbeing. Starting with breathing better, having better posture and becoming more mindful.
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About VITALI Wear: VITALI Wear provides smart Apparels, bridging innovation and wellness through haptic wearable technology.
William Masih
CEO/Founder of Wellin5
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About Wellin5: Wellin5 is a one-stop solution to access online counseling & post-therapy support.
Jordan DePass
Co-Founder and CEO of STUNN Collective
A former professional engineer and project manager, Jordan has always had a passion for innovation, health and wellness. Jordan founded STUNN Collective with his wife, Ash, after years of combatting burn out as he balanced founding previous startups with his corporate job. He realized his true passion lied in his 10+ years of experience using high quality nutrition, mindfulness, and daily routines to perform his best.
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About STUNN Collective: Bringing ‘mindcare’ to skincare through nutritional supplements.
Catherine Winckler
Founder and CEO of Mindful Garden
Catherine Winckler currently works as Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Mindful Garden.
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About Mindful Garden: Mindful Garden develops a behaviour modification platform to de-escalate anxiety and aggression of patients with chronic disease.
Javad Sadeghi
CEO and Co-founder of Physio4D
Javad Sadeghi, a PhD graduate in the area of Computer Graphics and a Post Doctoral Researcher in the area of Information Visualization both from the University of Calgary, leads the business and product development of Physio4D. He has been a co-founder of two start-ups in Iran and Canada with over 5 years of executive experience. The first company that he co-founded is now a major provider of web portals for online businesses in Iran. His second start-up provides a mobile technology for extracting upper-body measurements of the consumers from their photographs for suggesting the best retail fit. Javad has half a dozen papers distributed in distinguished publishers such as Elsevier.
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About Physio4D: Physio4D is a vision-based physical therapy startup that provides a vision-based upfront assessment tool.
Chia Chia Sun
CEO of Damiva
Chia Chia Sun, Founder & CEO of Damiva Inc.
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About Damiva: Damiva provides women at any age with natural femcare and beauty products.
Sami Asikainen
CEO and Co-founder of Carbon Trainer
Sami Asikainen is the CEO and Co-Founder of Carbon Trainer.
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About Carbon Trainer: fitness, hardware, consumer, saas, ai
Eric di Domenico
CEO of Model My Diet
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About Model My Diet: Virtual Model and Weigh Loss Community
Roger Sholanki
Founder and CEO of Book4Time
Roger Sholanki is the Founder and CEO at Book4time Inc.
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About Book4Time: Book4Time is a global leader in wellness and recreation management solutions for the hospitality market.
Quin Sandler
CEO & Founder of Plantiga
Quin has been a serial entrepreneur for over 13 years. His background is rooted in design, both graphic, industrial and web, as well as marketing, sales and product development. Prior to co-founding Plantiga, Quin founded the Principe Design Group, a successful branding and identify company. Before that, Quin founded Keystone Learning, a mobile tutoring company.
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About Plantiga: Plantiga is a human analytics company that offers a solution to predict and track lower body musculoskeletal injuries.
Rodney Hoinkes
CEO of MABLE Care
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About MABLE Care: A platform for Older Adult and Dementia care with support for Big Data Research
Andrea Palmer
CEO & Founder of Awake Labs
As young entrepreneur, Andrea has been awarded BCBusiness 30 Under 30 (2017), Startup Canada’s Young Entrepreneur Award for BC & The North (2016), Next 36 Outstanding Venture Award (2016), and won the Canadian Global Impact Competition (2015).
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About Awake Labs: Awake Labs is building a platform to measure anxiety in real-time to support care for neurological disorders, starting with autism.
Tim Gourlay
Founder & CEO of Fitset
Tim Gourlay is the founder and CEO of Fitset.
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About Fitset: Fitset is a custom pass for people to discover, book, and sweat in studios and facilities across the City.
Kenny Grant
CEO of Viral Foundry
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About Promo, Viral Foundry: Viral Foundry is cooking up new digital products to help you think and feel better.
Jason Frohlich
Founder & CEO of Mentorum Inc.
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About Mentorum Inc.: Mentorum is an advanced web & mobile platform that connects people with the right health & wellness professionals.
