Canada’s Entrepreneur

L’histoire de Marc-André Campagna (alias Marc), est plutôt normale, enfin, jusqu’à ce qu’on arrive à la partie oxio . D’abord, les bases. Marc est né à Baie-Comeau (si vous ne savez pas où c’est, c’est au nord-est de la ville de Québec —environ 420 km au nord-est), un petit village de 21 000 habitants, et a grandi à Québec. Il a étudié le droit à l’Université Laval, a abandonné ses études et a fon...

After years working in cultures where stress and burnout were seemingly the only way to success, Trish Tutton suffered a shocking loss and things became clear: stress is unavoidable, but it doesn’t have to dictate our lives. As a speaker and mindfulness teacher , Trish has taught the skills to live and work happier to thousands of professionals and has created positive change for her clients to be...

Yuri Elkaim is the founder and CEO of Healthpreneur®️️️ . He is a husband, father of 4 boys, a New York Times bestselling nutrition author, former professional soccer player, and a trusted health expert. I’m a proud Canadian with a passion for travel and experiencing life to the fullest. Over the past 15 years, he's built 2 multiple 7-figure health businesses that have helped more than 500,000 men...

Born on the Ides of March 1966 in Wolfville Nova Scotia, Ross Parks attended High School in the Valley then Loyalist College in Belleville Ontario where he completed his Broadcasting Diploma in 1987. Ross spent 28 years in the broadcast/media field in various positions with Radio, TV, Billboard, Jingle Production, Publications and Transit advertising. His passion since his parents bought his first...

Steven Salz is the co-founder of Rivalry Corp , an internationally-regulated sports betting and media company that was recently listed on the Toronto Venture Stock Exchange. Prior to starting Rivalry, Steven worked in the finance industry; both as an analyst at a boutique investment firm, and in asset management at Scotiabank. Steven also had a brief stint in the defence industry and graduated fro...

Marie-Pier Béland travaille depuis 14 ans en milieu scolaire avec des jeunes du primaire. Ayant œuvré longtemps auprès d’élèves du régulier, elle travaille depuis 5 ans auprès de jeunes ayant un trouble du spectre de l’autisme. Marie-Pier a une bonne capacité d’adaptation aux changements ainsi qu’une approche humaine et empathique. Elle est capable de créer un lien de confiance et d’écoute avec le...

Elle AyoubZadeh is Zvelle Founder and Creative Director. Elle is a bold, ambitious Canadian entrepreneur, and a woman of colour who has founded a local business with a global mission and vision. She has had the grit to persevere in the finance industry as a woman and visible minority, and later dive into the world of entrepreneurship challenging us to rethink how fashion should portray female beau...

Gabriella Gerbasi est Directrice Marketing et Vente USA chez WATERAX depuis presque 8 ans. Gabriella vient tout juste d'être transféré aux Etats-Unis afin de développer le réseau de distribution de l'entreprise dans le marché Américain en préparation au lancement de la MARK-3 Édition Watson, une nouvelle pompe à incendie portative qui va changer la façon de combattre les feux de forêt pour des déc...

Jolene Brewster’s ties to the Rockies really start at her family’s roots in the area. They are among the pioneers of Banff’s hospitality industry hosting tours and hikes throughout the Rockies since the early 1900’s. The lifelong Banff resident seeks the harmony of nature, activity, & community on a daily basis. With an degree in Land Resource Management, the equestrian and former Stampede Queen (...

Terri-Ann Richards ( www.terriannrichards.com ) helps entrepreneurs and leaders realize their full potential by developing the person behind the title. Leadership transformation and true life success begins on the inside first. She is a 16+ year serial entrepreneur, starting in business at just 18 years old. Terri-Ann has built six-figure businesses, bought, sold, and partnered in over 8 companies...

With a lifelong interest in building things and solving problems, Dhruv Sood tried a lot of different work after completing his studies in Finance and Logistics at the University of British Columbia. He worked a variety of jobs, from part-time security guard to equity research associate, but has now found his home as Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Fresh Prep , a meal kit and prepared food delivery servi...

Born and raised in New Brunswick, Canada, Matthew Carpenter-Arevalo graduated with a BA in Spanish and English Literatures from St. Thomas University in 2003. In 2004 he was elected a Rhodes Scholar for the Maritime Provinces in order to obtain a Masters in Philosophy from The University of Oxford. In 2008 he joined Google as a Manager and in 2011 he worked at The World Economic Forum in Geneva, b...

Based in Calgary, Alberta – Annabelle Mastalic officially launched ADM Interiors in May of 2019. With 17 years of experience as a trained nurse, Annabelle transitioned to interior design, leaning into two of her passions, a love for minimalism and a life-long fascination for design. Because of her background, she brings a unique lens in her approach to designing spaces that are both beautiful, but...

Gregory Rozdeba is advisor and co-founder of a Canadian fintech/insurtech startup, Dundas Life . Previously, he served as Director of Sales at another fintech firm where he took the company from no product to raising over $7M+ in funding and building out their sales team. He started budgeting at age 15 and has coached dozens of clients on saving, investing, & smart money tips. In his spare time, G...

A respected entrepreneur and communicator, Paula Worthington is the founder and principal of Worthington PR & Story , a Calgary-based communications agency specializing in public relations, social media and brand strategy. She launched Worthington PR & Story in early 2018. The agency’s current client roster includes a who’s who of Alberta businesses, including Calgary Co-op, ATCO, University of Ca...

Alexandre Turbide , B.Eng, MBA, is the co-founder and CEO of BeatConnect where he coordinates and leads the marketing efforts, strategic planning, resource management, and other administrative tasks pertaining to the business, including orchestrating financing, building networks around the business, and working with the company’s legal counsels. Before becoming an entrepreneur, Alexandre worked as...

Jenelle Sobey is motivated to build a sustainable, competitive and resilient world and believes the tech sector enables and scales those solution to achieve that. Jenelle is a co-founder and CEO at RIDDL , a tool that tracks, manages and measures ESGs, impact investments and quantifies returns. Partner and former Managing Partner of Code + Mortar (norex.ca), an interactive web and invention firm,...

Two decades ago, MarbleMedia forged into the scripted television space, when there was a plethora of Canadian content being produced and acquired, with grants accessible to help further produce and sell Canadian content. "What we learned early on, and it's a simple business practice, but is really to surround ourselves with people that are smarter than us in certain areas." Mark Bishop. "There's s...

Zarina Chopra is a Tao Soul Healer and Transformational Coach for rising female leaders who are ready to clear their karma, connect to the power of their Soul, and manifest like a Queen. As a certified Tao practitioner with the Tao Academy, and certified Theta Healer, Reiki Practitioner & Kambo Practitioner. Zarina combines her intuitive spiritual mentoring with her years of energy work and esoter...

Nabeil Alazzam , is CEO and founder of Forma.ai , a Toronto-based company striving to solve the massively under-appreciated pain point of sales-based compensation. Currently the systems for calculating and awarding sales-based compensation are clunky, unwieldy and often manual, creating a lot of work for operations teams and sales professionals. Nabeil identified that automation could solve this p...

Shone Anstey brings 20 years of experience in building complex technologies and software within search, analytics, and data centre operations. Engaged with cryptocurrency since 2012, Shone has acted as technology lead for an industrial Bitcoin mine and Bitcoin mining pool, and is a Certified Cryptocurrency Investigator. Shone is the CEO and Co-founder of LQwD , the first publicly traded, pure play...

Melanie Chin is the Brand & Community Manager for CIBC SQUARE , Toronto’s new international standard of community, providing an elevated environment for all to thrive through work, wellness and sustainability. Chin leads the marketing, communications, branding and programming direction for the development. Prior to joining Hines and the CIBC SQUARE team, Chin worked at Midway in Houston, TX, a rea...

Serese Selanders ’ journey as a tech entrepreneur has been anything but typical. Serese spent 20 years in the financial services industry, the majority of those years as a senior executive. However, life threw her a curveball when her parents went through major health challenges. Despite having no technical background, she invented ORA, an innovative, wearable personal safety alert device. Two yea...

David Alston is a repeat tech and marketing startup entrepreneur, founder and coach at Marketswell Solutions’ CMO Accelerator program, a former volunteer Entrepreneur in Residence for the New Brunswick Government, cofounder of Brilliant Labs , an advisor to many startups in the Atlantic region, Radian6's former CMO and Salesforce.com's former Marketing Cloud Chief Adoption Officer. David received...

Faye Pang is the Canada Country Manager for Xero , the global small business platform with more than 2.7 million subscribers worldwide that's dedicated to making business beautiful. Faye brings nearly 15 years of experience building businesses from the ground up. Prior to joining Xero , Faye helped launch Uber Freight into the Canadian market. She also helped launch the Uber Eats app in Toronto in...