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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 Columbia based CEO’ operating in the Wearables 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.
Sarah Hill
CEO & Chief Storyteller of Healium dba StoryUp Studios
Sarah Hill is the CEO of Healium and an interactive media tech professional with 25 years building successful platforms. Healium is the world’s first biometrically powered VR/AR channel controlled by the user’s brain and heart rate via their wearables. Hill is a former interactive TV news journalist for the NBC, ABC, & CBS affiliates in Missouri. A national Edward R. Murrow, NAB Service to America, National Sigma Delta Chi, and 12 time mid-America Emmy award-winning storyteller, she spent decades reporting about the world’s negativity and trauma in 5 continents.
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About Healium dba StoryUp Studios: Healium is an augmented and virtual reality channel powered by consumer wearables for the self-management of anxiety and sleep
Marcello Leone
CEO & President of RYU Apparel
Marcello Leone is highly regarded as a visionary in the fashion industry. Recognized as one of North America’s leading retailers operating one of the Canada’s largest and most successful independent specialty stores for over 16 years, Mr. Leone’s entrepreneurial achievements are a result of his strong leadership, strategic vision and ability to raise capital. In 2012 he founded Naturo Group Investments Inc., which owns Trace Blackwater, a rapidly growing private beverage company with distribution in over 2,000 locations. Mr. Leone has been an RYU investor since 2011.
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About BevCanna Enterprises, RYU Apparel: RYU Apparel specializes in developing men’s and women’s performance apparel for the athletic minded consumer.
Bryan Statham
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of LifeBooster
Bryan is the original founder and the CEO of LifeBooster Inc. He provides strategic consulting, including business plan, and sales and marketing strategy development, as well as the scientific insight and vision into the LifeBooster system. With a background in biomedical sciences and sales and marketing, Bryan’s ability to drive the business development of our innovative health and safety solution has been a natural process. He is an outstanding problem solver and natural team leader with the proven ability to deliver quickly in complex environments. By identifying and building high-quality client relationships with Fortune 100 companies, actively sourcing strategic partnerships throughout diverse industries, and conducting high-level market analysis, Bryan’s vision drives LifeBooster to be a leader in wearable technology for the future of occupational health and safety.
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About LifeBooster: Leading connected worker and risk analytics platform for industrial health and safety – ensuring every worker gets home safe every day.
Brian Ballard
CEO and Co-Founder of Upskill
Brian Ballard passion is pioneering new technology developments and catalyzing the evolution of mobile paradigms. As the CEO and Co-Founder of APX Labs, Brian uses his background in national intelligence systems and computer engineering to position APX Labs as a competitive business in mobile application and wearable computing development for military and industrial markets. He previously served as the Chief Technology Officer of Mav6, where he was involved in the development of emerging networking technologies and embedded systems for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance applications in government and the military intelligence. Brian spent more than a decade working as a field operations officer and engineer and for the National Security Agency where he developed cutting edge solutions for the intelligence community. In support of technology policy and decision making, Brian served on the Technology Insight-Gauge, Evaluate, Review (TIGER) committee of the National Academy of Sciences, focusing on modeling and simulation and the impacts of technology decisions on national policy. Brian holds an M.S. and B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and a MBA and Masters of Technology Management from the University of Maryland.
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About Upskill: Upskill provides wearable technology to connect hands-on workers from the factory to the warehouse to the jobsite.
Campbell Macdonald
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of PROXXI
Campbell is an entrepreneur and the CEO Proxxi, a smart sensor that senses and interprets electricity with software. Their first product, Proxxi Band, is targeted at electrical workers. It notifies the user by vibration when they get too close to an electric current. Currently, there are no connected, always-on devices to detect electricity for the 20 million US workers covered by an electrical safety plan Before Proxxi, Campbell co-founded Pathful , an artificial intelligence solution for enterprise marketing. After going through Techstars and raising VC from Foundry Group & Angel List, Pathful was acquired by Mobify in 2015. Previously he co-founded Parking Mobility in 2009, an early mobile-first, social enterprise targeted at disability community. Before setting out his own, he held senior management roles at BuildDirect, Home Depot and Canadian Pacific Railway. Campbell has an MA from Queen’s in game theory and economics.
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About Pathful, PROXXI: PROXXI is a company which manufactures wearable, electrical safety device for industrial workers.
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.
Nicholas Houghton
President & CEO of True North Gems
Mr. Houghton is an Accredited Gemologist and is President and Director at True North Gems Inc., with more than 30 years of international experience in the jewellery manufacturing and gemstone exploration industry. Mr. Houghton held senior management positions at both retail and wholesale gemstone companies before establishing his own operation 1994, Elan Diamonds. In 2000, he directed the merger of Elan Diamond and Canadian Diamond Cutters Ltd. to form Cadiam Investments LTD, becoming President and Director of the Vancouver-based polished gemstone marketing company. In 2004, Mr. Houghton joined True North Gems as Vice President Product Development and Marketing and Director, and was subsequently appointed as President in 2009. Mr. Houghton brings a wealth of expertise in marketing and professional design, and business skills focused on advanced project development and expansion, strategic operations management, and financing.
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About True North Gems: True North Gems is a public junior exploration company.
Lukas-Karim Merhi
Founder & CEO of Tenzr Health
Lukas has four years of startup experience and is well network with VR|AR partners, R&D institutions and government funds. BIT is his second startup.
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About Tenzr Health: Technology-driven Motivation, Guidance, and Certainty for Musculoskeletal Care
Todd Fernley
CEO of Darwins
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About Darwins: Interchangeable, Polarized Sunglasses
