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 Columbia 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.
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
Rahul Singh
CEO, Partner of Anant Corporation
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About Anant Corporation, Appleseed Portal: Business Platforms, SaaS, Cloud
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.
Brian Lacey
Chief Executive Officer of Mobomo
Brian Lacey was named CEO of Mobomo in April of 2015, since the company has grown around 50% in revenue and 50% in employee growth each year. Under his leadership he has led Mobomo to being named to the Inc. 5000 fastest growing companies (2015,2016), Best Places to Work (2016), Webby Award (2016), Muse Creative Award(2016), DCA Live Media(2016), Top website and mobile developer by Clutch (2015, 2016). Brian serves as a thought leader in the industry recently being named as an industry chair to Advanced Technology Academic Research Center. He received a double B.A. in Economics and Psychology from Claremont McKenna College.
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About Mobomo: Mobomo designs applications for Apple iPhone, Google Android, Palm Pre, RIM Blackberry, Windows Mobile, and Symbian OS.
Heather Dahl
CEO of Indicio.tech
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About CynjaTech, Indicio.tech, OECD: Indicio develops decentralized identity software, hosting and networks.
Kristian Bouw
Cofounder, Chief Scientist & CEO of NotionTheory
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About Cravety, NotionTheory, PrimroseVR, The VR/AR Association: NotionTheory is a boutique development & design agency based in Washington D.C.
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.
Kerry Gunther
Owner & CEO of nclud
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About nclud: nclud provides web-based strategy, design, and development solutions for its clients.
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.
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
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.
Branden Hall
CEO & Maker of Automata Studios
Branden is a software developer, entrepreneur, maker, artist, and father living the Washington, DC area. He’s the co-founder and CEO of Automata Studios, a software development company that combines creativity and code to create superlative user experiences for clients including Microsoft, NPR, and NASA. In his spare time he builds big, strange interactive light sculptures that he drags all over the world and is the leader of the Maker Club at his son’s elementary school.
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About Automata Studios: Automata Studios A Creative Technology studio.
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.
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.
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.
