At Bleeding.Technology we track over 100,000 web 3.0, NFT, DeFi & crypto 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 Canada based CEO’ operating in the Cryptocurrency 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.
Alex Alexandrov
Chairman & CEO of CoinPayments
Alex Alexandrov is extremely well-versed in financial markets, and a pioneer in crypto-currency. Mr. Alexandrov was a technical Forex and Options trader and EA developer for MT4 platform. He then chose to venture into direct sales before branching out on his own to successfully develop and manage coincable.com, an online bitcoin mining hardware supply store that was based out of Vancouver. Alex brings over 15 years of combined experience in IT and business management to his latest venture as the owner and CEO of Coinpayments.net, a premium Bitcoin, Litecoin, Etherium and other alternative crypto-currency payment processor. Coinpayments’ services are trusted by over 600,000 vendors across 182 countries.
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About CoinPayments: CoinPayments is a cloud wallet solution and a payment gateway for merchants that integrates a checkout system for numerous cryptocurrencies.
Aaron Shames
CEO of 1COIN Assets
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About 1COIN Assets, 1pbx Solutions, Fibernetics CLEC: Blockchain tool development specializing in cross-network transactions.
Alex Wick
Founder/CEO of Cascadia Carbon
Alex Wick is a forester, data scientist and visionary, working at the intersection of climate change, carbon, cryptography, and coding. Living a conscious, low-carbon lifestyle since 2009.
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About Cascadia Carbon, Woodstock Chai: Building CODEX: A carbon-neutral blockchain cryptocurrency for carbon offset generation and storage
Michael Gord
Co-Founder & CEO of GDA Capital
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About GDA Capital, Metaverse Group, MLG Blockchain Consulting: GDA Capital is a global firm that provides vertically integrated fin-tech services to institutions and disruptive technology companies.
Ryan Breen
Founder & CEO of Alkemi
Ryan Breen is the CEO and Founder of Alkemi. As a web and data technology engineer with over 15 years of experience in multi-system integration working with real-time data and content optimization. Ryan’s forte is developing complex, enterprise-scale, and data-driven platforms.
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About Alkemi: Alkemi Network provides a solution that equitably incentivizes various stakeholders to collaborate by putting their coins to work.
Steven Parker
CEO of Crypterium
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About Crypterium: Crypterium mobile app allows instant payments in cryptocurrency. Whatever you can do with your money, you can now do with your crypto.
Darren Franceschini
Co-Founder & CEO of Blockchain Technologies Consulting
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About Blockchain Technologies Consulting: Blockchain Technologies Consulting provides information and opinions in the field of cryptocurrency and blockchain tecnhology.
George Bordianu
Founder, CEO of Balance
George Bordianu is the founder and CEO of Balance.
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About Balance, Felix Health: Balance is the safest way to custody, trade, and manage digital assets.
Michael Gokturk
CEO of Einstein Exchange
Payments, digital currency and law.
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About Einstein Exchange: Digital currency exchange
Adam O’Brien
Founder, Chief Executive Officer, Director and President of Bitcoin Well
Adam O’Brien is the Founder, Chief Executive Officer, Director and President of Bitcoin Well.
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About Bitcoin Well: Bitcoin Well is a bitcoin ATM company headquartered in Edmonton
Andrei Poliakov
CEO and Co-Founder of Coinberry
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About Coinberry: Coinberry is the fastest growing FINTRAC-registered cryptocurrency trading platform in Canada, with 0% withdrawal and funding fees.
Yavar Mirza
Founder and CEO of JPEGs Digital Holdings
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About CrazyChairsNFT, JPEGs Digital Holdings, Mirza Canada, UMMAH1, Zaeem Mirza: We just right-click “and save image as” your NFTs!
Jim Seto
Chief Executive Officer of ePIC Blockchain Inc.
Jim Seto is CEO at ePIC Blockchain Technologies.
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About Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), ePIC Blockchain Inc.: Blockchain Semiconductors and Systems for Cryptocurrency and Enterprise Applications
Ton Bi
Founder & CEO of NVO
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About NVO: NVO are building a secure and fast decentralized exchange and wallet.
Nicolas Cloutier
Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder of Kryptopy
Since 1998, Nicolas is a serial-entrepreneur on a non-stop start-up binge. From the video game industry to e-commerce, Nicolas was and is currently an advisor on many different projects. He is the former owner of Perfica3 an e-commerce agency who did realize an annual growth of more than 200% per year between 2009 and 2012. Amongst other thing he did pioneer the mobile video game industry between 1998 and 2003 and invented new concepts to cut costs and make web servers more affordable for the web hosting industry (2004-2006). Since 2013, Nicolas developed a strong interest for the world of cryptocurrencies, facial recognition and artificial intelligence for the purpose of improving human to human interactions. It did grow to a passion and led to the founding of Kryptopy with Cody McBryan in 2017. Nicolas is dedicated full-time to this new venture.
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About Kryptopy: Cryptocurrency related social network who wants to bring cryptocurrency mainstream.
Emma Todd
CEO of MMH Blockchain Group
Emma is the CEO of MMH Blockchain Group and is an innovative, extremely motivated senior marketing professional with over 15 years in financial services strategy and marketing, having worked with some of the world’s largest financial institutions including JP Morgan Chase, HSBC, Bank of America, CIBC and RBC Royal Bank. Emma’s company focuses on Strategy, Marketing, and events primarily for Blockchain companies. She has participated in several crowdfunding and ICOs well as the very first Initial Bounty Offer (IBO), is an Advisory Board member of The Blockchain Association of Canada, an event host of the world’s largest Bitcoin and Blockchain meetup, and is also known for her involvement on the board of ColliderX which is a Blockchain and AI/Machine Learning research and development organization.
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About MMH Blockchain Group: MMH Group is a one stop shop for Strategy, Marketing, PR and Events for Blockchain Technology.
Francis Pouliot
Chief Executive Officer of Bull Bitcoin
Francis Pouliot and David Bradley founded Bull Bitcoin in December 2018, since which Francis has been serving as its chief executive officer.
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About Bull Bitcoin: Bull Bitcoin provides bitcoin services for users in Canada.
Maxime Villemure
Co-founder, President and CEO of Sharebee
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About Sharebee: Sharebee is a web and mobile peer-to-peer platform that connects people with spare space with people who need storage or parking solutions.
Mark Beylin
CEO of The Bounties Network
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About The Bounties Network: A protocol for creating bounties on any task, paying in any token on Ethereum.
Tracy Leparulo
Founder & CEO of Untraceable
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About Untraceable: Untraceable is the first event management and marketing agency within the blockchain and cryptocurrency community in Canada.
Brent Lane
Chief Executive Officer / Founder of HeyAuto
Brent Lane’s entire life has been rooted in hard work and innovation. After studying business and entrepreneurship with a double major in marketing and accounting, Brent began applying his knack for problem-solving to start and sell successful businesses across multiple different fields. Brent’s versatility speaks to how skilled he is at managing cohesive relationships between different departments and viewing strategies from every angle. His rich experience as an entrepreneur and seemingly effortless method of bringing concepts to life is what makes him an outstanding leader and innovator. Currently, Brent’s guidance is contributing to the ongoing success of Vivid Theory and its newest product, HeyAuto.
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About HeyAuto: Pure SAAS platform to facilitate modern day car buyers and sellers to dealership customers.
Tony Cai
Co-Founder and CEO of Atomic Loans
Tony Cai is the Co-Founder and CEO at Atomic.Finance.
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About Atomic Loans: Protocol for bitcoin and crypto-backed loans on your terms, without middlemen.
Ahmad Hassan
Founder & CEO of GorillaDiamond
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About GorillaDiamond: Gorilla Diamond Inc. launched their deflationary token with a reflection rate of 6%.
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