Canada’s Entrepreneur

Greg Hemmings is an entrepreneur/filmmaker out of Saint John New Brunswick. His film companies, Hemmings House and Hemmings Films are certified B Corps and have focused their attention on making positive social and environmental change through film storytelling. Their latest TV series is called Race Against The Tide and is currently airing on CBC Thursday nights at 8pm. Entrepreneurs are the backb...

Led out of McGill University, The PIVOT Project is an action research project that uses social media to bring small business owners across Canada together to share their climate action goals, struggles and achievements and shift Canadian perspectives on our country’s green future. We will be interviewing PIVOT participants over the next few months. We love this kind of initiative. In this intervie...

In over 20 years running a Canadian software company, Alykhan Jetha (AJ) has weathered a lot of storms – from the dot-com bust, to 9-11’s blow to business confidence, right up to the sales hit of the Covid-19 pandemic. But the biggest threat he’s ever seen to his business, is how his pipeline for software engineers has utterly dried up. See this recent Financial Post story that quoted AJ at  https...

Caterina Papadakos leads the Technology Banking efforts in Western Canada, building new relationships and managing the bank’s portfolio in the region. She thrives on serving energetic entrepreneurs who are challenging the status quo and disrupting traditional industries, and she’s dedicated to providing them with the strategic capital, advice and connections they need to scale and compete globally...

Chanelle Belliveau's Farm-to-Table NB was a beautiful project built out of her work experience and a growing passion for gathering around the table. With a background in holistic nutrition and culinary nutrition, Chanelle was deeply passionate about making the connection between where our food comes from, and how it got to our plate. This lead her to work on an organic farm, to make that connectio...

Ken LeBlanc has successfully challenged an established industry and selflessly shares his passion for helping others build a business through his activities with organizations such as the Canadian Youth Business Foundation. Ken has been in the business of building his own business since his student days. Now, 20 years later, he has leveraged his drive and vision into the largest real estate market...

Virginie Fisette, pour Tamélo boutique . Nous sommes établis à Montréal. Après mes études en art dramatique au Cégep Marie-Victorin, j'ai complété un certificat en Histoire de l'art à l'UQAM, puis on BAC en communication également à l'UQAM. Je me suis ensuite investi dans la mise en place du projet de centre d'art Le Livart à Montréal, j'y suis restée environ 3 ans à titre de directrice des opérat...

Nicole McLaren is a multi-award-winning Métis entrepreneur from British Columbia and Saskatchewan. Her extensive knowledge of industry supply chains and economic development coupled with a passion for supporting fellow Indigenous entrepreneurs allowed her to transform a small book club into Raven Reads , the world’s first Indigenous subscription box. Through her hard work and ambition, Raven Reads...

Sparked by a paralyzing bike crash in Phuket, Kieran Macleod has joined forces with friends in the blockchain ecosystem to source funds for a Robotic ExoSkeleton. This will allow Kieran to regain a level of functionality you can only imagine: from being stuck in a wheelchair every day and walking 2-3 hours per year, to near-full personal autonomy again! Together, Kieran and his friends' massively...

Joel Taylor, Co-founder of Patient Choice, has been at the forefront of the ever-changing cannabis industry for many years. He helped transition black market cannabis cultivators to the legal market, connecting them to the regulators of Health Canada and British Columbia. Patient Choice is a licensed online medical platform that connects medical cannabis patients, licensed producers and processors...

Alison Taylor is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Jane , an online platform for healthcare practitioners that delivers a unified approach to online booking, charting, scheduling, video services and payments. Alison, who is based in Vancouver, built Jane with her Co-Founder and Co-CEO Trevor Johnston after running her own practice and finding that she needed an all-in-one solution for her practice's ne...

Adam Temple launched the wildly successful Inline Group at just 22 years old, after learning some tough lessons, like losing $300,000 in another venture. Inline Group is a Geotechnical Engineering, Materials Testing, and Surveying company pursuing logistically challenged and remote projects throughout Canada. Adam Temple has lead his company to amazing successes, including doubling its growth init...

Dr. Brown, PhD . has been a business educator for over 40 years, specializing in entrepreneurship. He was the executive director of the International Business & Entrepreneurship Centre at UNB for 4 years and he has served as professor and administrator in higher education, at Cape Breton, University and Crandall University. His time as a professor in the international student space gives our liste...

Tessa May Marr is an entrepreneur at heart and proud to lead a 100 percent virtual social media marketing agency of exceptionally talented and relentless Social Media Managers! Her company, Marr Media Group works with B2B and B2C brands to build custom social strategies, paid social advertising, influencer marketing and fully outsourced social media management. They plug right into each client’s m...

Gabriel Basque believes in everyone’s potential. He quickly understood his mission in life at an early age. Simply put, he is helping others achieve their God-given potential and to share the message of Faith, Hope, and love. Gabriel's greatest passion as an entrepreneur is helping people surpass their limiting belief of what’s possible. Entrepreneurs are the backbone of Canada’s economy. To suppo...

Ritou Maloni is the Co-Founder, President and COO of Pür & Simple , a proudly Canadian-owned breakfast and lunch franchise. Originally founded in Quebec in 2016, Pür & Simple has become one of Canada’s fastest growing breakfast chains with more than 20 locations from the Maritimes to British Columbia. Ritou is driven by a passion for hospitality that has allowed her and her team to successfully re...

Geneviève Provencher est la co-fondatrice et PDG de Jus DOSE . Malgré qu’elle ait grandi bien trop loin de la civilisation, à Rouyn-Noranda, Gen a presque fait le tour du monde. Elle a déjà vécu dans quatre pays différents, a travaillé comme bénévole au Costa Rica et a appris l’anglais en Nouvelle-Zélande. Avec son diplôme en Finances de l’Université McGill en poche, elle a mis à profit sa connais...

The Canadian-based biotech company, Mountain Valley MD is changing the accessibility of vaccines to people around the world. With the mission of "more life, less death" the company is striving to make vaccines widely available to developing nations/ economies and people around the world. This means: Vaccine soluble tablet that rapidly dissolves Does not have to be stored at dramatic high or cold t...

Once upon a time, there was a little girl whose childhood was full of mud pies and leaf soup, snow castles, and swings. The little girl believed very much that anything was possible and spent much of her time imagining worlds filled with magic and mystery. As she grew up, people told her that "life was not a fairy tale" and "in the real world it was different," and she started to believe this was...

A globally active strategist, executive coach, and board advisor, Alex Brueckmann partners with corporate leaders, entrepreneurs, and (small) business owners. He coaches them on designing intentional strategies with measurable impact, and on shaping cohesive teams able to implement strategy faster and more successfully ( http://www.brueckmann.ca/ ) Alex Brueckmann has been in the trenches as a str...

Mathieu Lippé exerce le métier d’artiste depuis plus de vingt ans. Chanteur, conteur, poète, il a fait des spectacles dans de nombreux pays et produit trois albums de chansons (Les Amants de l’Aube 2017). Il a remporté le Festival international de la chanson de Granby en 2011, il a obtenu la médaille d'or aux VIième Jeux de la Francophonie à Beyrouth en 2009 et la deuxième place à la coupe du mond...

An accomplished investor, advisor, and board member, Mike Ward has invested in private companies for nearly a decade. Mike has a proven track record in his ability to invest in companies and help them to scale and execute strategy, having helped companies such as Ripple, Honk, 1080 Payments, Dollar Shave Club, World First, and Elevate Growth Partners, among others. Previously a financial industry...

From her earliest memories of playing dress-up in her mother’s closet, Courtney Watkins has always loved fashion and finding creative ways to showcase her style for less. She got her start in fashion pursuing a degree in Merchandise Marketing in Los Angeles. From working as a celeb stylist to a trend forecaster, she ran and scaled a Saw Mill to start her entrepreneurial journey. She then went on t...

Dr. Jim Feng is a mission-driven serial entrepreneur located out of Markham, Ontario. In 2009, Dr. Feng founded Form & Function: Health which has transformed into one of the first truly integrated health models. Not only does Form & function host a repertoire of integrated health care services, it also created a business model that has been paying high dividends to its investors and franchisees ye...

Edwin Frondozo is Co-founder & CEO of Slingshot VoIP . He is a fellow podcaster and social buzzer, who has built an awesome company on his 100 x goals. He shares his audacious goal of 100xing his tech business within 100 days. Something, he publicly declared on Sept 22, 2020, during a global pandemic. Before the pandemic hit, he was already questioning his decision, whether he should leave his tec...