At Best Startup Canada we track over 100,000 Canadian startups and over 500,000 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 British Columbia based CEO’ operating in the Internet of Things space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.ca.
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.
Ryan Peterson
CEO and Co-Founder of Finger Food Studios
Ryan Peterson is the CEO and Co-Founder of Finger Food Advanced Technology Group. He sets the course for the organization with his extraordinary vision, strategic planning, and unshakeable passion. Under Ryan’s leadership as CEO, Finger Food has seen tremendous growth, transforming from a small basement startup to a multi-million dollar company with 180+ employees. Finger Food builds custom technology solutions to solve some of the most complex and challenging problems faced by businesses today in industries including games, retail, oil & gas, education, healthcare, mining and more. The company creates a competitive advantage for its clients by helping them own their technology stack, rather than simply deploying on the same technology platforms as their competitors. In-house expertise in AI, AR/VR, Blockchain, Robotics, and IoT, enables Finger Food to create impactful and elegant cloud, web, mobile, machine and advanced-interface solutions built on top of emerging technologies. Finger Food sees an unprecedented market opportunity. Within 3 years, the cumulative R&D spend of the Global 1,000 will reach USD 1T. A conservative estimate would put the innovation spend of each of these companies at around USD 100MM annually.
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About Finger Food Studios: Finger Food delivers technology-driven business solutions that enable companies to move and innovate faster.
Devesh Bharadwaj
CEO and Founder of Pani Energy
Devesh Bharadwaj is the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Pani Energy.
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About Pani Energy: Pani Energy is a water treatment optimization technology company located in Victoria.
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.
Jake King
Co-founder &CEO of Cmd
Securing Linux things in the cloud. Co-founder & CEO Cmd. Advisor to Eco. Bug bounty aficionado. SecOps Hootsuite in a previous life.
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About Cmd: Cmd allows organizations to intuitively monitor and control user interaction within their Linux environment.
Kevin Collins
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Bit Stew Systems
Kevin has more than 20 years’ experience in architecting and designing world-class technology solutions, both as an entrepreneur and as a corporate executive. Kevin has extensive domain knowledge in the utility sector having assisted BC Hydro in all aspects of its smart grid program from concept through operations. Before founding Bit Stew, Kevin worked for Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers, Navio Systems, a Silicon Valley technology company, and Motorola. As CEO Kevin established the vision and direction for Bit Stew, leads the evolution of the Grid Director platform and acts as chief customer advocate.
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About Bit Stew Systems, Charli AI: Bit Stew Systems is the creator of the platform for Software Defined Operations for the Industrial Internet.
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.
Trevor Burgess
CEO, Co-Founder, Director of VoltSafe Inc.
CEO – VoltSafe Inc.
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About VoltSafe Inc.: Fearless creators, changing how people connect to electricity using magnets. Simply put, we’ve patented a better way to connect to power.
Gonzalo Tudela
CEO of Vandrico
Gonzalo is CEO and co-founder of Vandrico Solutions, an enterprise wearables software company based in Vancouver. With a background in finance and mining operations, Gonzalo is an early champion of the positive impact wearable technology will have on large commercial operations. His insights have been featured in publications such as The Globe and Mail, Entrepreneur Magazine and TechCrunch. He is a TEDx speaker who regularly presents to business leaders across the world. Gonzalo’s expertise has been televised internationally to millions of viewers on the Globo TV network and CBC. Gonzalo currently leads Vandrico in helping large global organizations use wearable technology as a way to overcome safety and operational challenges.
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About Vandrico: VANDRICO TURNS YOUR DATA INTO SAFE PRODUCTIVITY
Mark Proudfoot
Co-Founder and CEO of JustGreet
Mark Proudfoot is co-founder at Course Studio.
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About Course Studio, JustGreet: The cutest greeting card service on the internet.
Valerie Song
Co-Founder & CEO of AVA Technologies
Valerie Song is the CEO & Co-Founder at AVA Technologies.
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About AVA Technologies: Automatically grow year-round herbs, tomatoes, and more
Geoff Mair
CEO of SensorUp
Geoff Mair is a technology and product leader who has driven strategy and innovation initiatives in both startups and large companies. Prior to joining Vanedge Capital as a Principalon the investment team, Geoff was the founder and CTO behind Partnerpedia which was sold to BMC Software in 2013. Geoff has been recognized numerous times for his work in the industry including being selected for Business in Vancouver’s 40 Under 40 Awards and receiving UC Magazine’s Product of the Year award in 2011. Geoff holds a Masters Degree in Journalism from Northwestern University and a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from the University of British Columbia.
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About Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), SensorUp: GeoAI and IoT Platform for Connected Workers
Paul Gill
CEO of Lomiko Metals and Technologies
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About Lomiko Metals and Technologies, Lomiko Metals and Technologies: Lomiko Metals focuses on the exploration and development of minerals for the new green economy such a lithium and graphite.
Jessica Yang
Co-founder & CEO of Tochtech
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About Tochtech: Tochtech is a healthcare technology on a mission to apply innovations for Seniors daily living.
Shaun Connor
CEO of Citismart Solutions
Shaun Connor is responsible for the vision and building CITISMART Solutions Corp into a leading technology integrator with a focus on energy savings and reducing green house gases. Shaun’s experience has also enabled him to identify and integrate the next wave of disruptive change in PoE Led lighting and controls. Shaun’s 20+ years of experience in networking and software is also key to developing key partners in the fields of energy, IoT, and Smart City applications.
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About Citismart Solutions: Citismart Solutions is focused on integrating the latest technologies.
David Sussman
CEO of Plasmatic Technologies Inc.
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About Plasmatic Technologies Inc.: Empowering service providers and their customers to benefit from the Connected Home through whole-home insights and mobile experiences.
Sean Sibbet
CEO of Reality Controls Inc.
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About Reality Controls Inc.: Contract developer of custom software applications for health and security, on IoT, mixed/virtual reality and cloud data platforms.
