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 Blockchain 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.
Ameer Rosic
Cofounder and CEO of BlockGeeks
Ameer Rosic is a serial entrepreneur, marketing expert, philosophy junkie investor and a Blockchain evangelist as the CEO of Blockgeeks Inc. Ameer is also a speaker and has spoken about blockchain at Mars and Western University, as well as a respected voice in the blockchain field who has appeared as a speaker on sites like VentureBeat, Huffington Post, TheNextWeb and Engadget.
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About BlockGeeks: BlockGeeks provides smart contract audits, white paper audits, and educational training for enterprise clients.
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.
Regan McGee
CEO & Chairman of Nobul
Mr. Regan McGee is the Founder and CEO of Nobul and brings 20 years of experience running complex organizations and empowering his employees to achieve outstanding success. Prior to conceiving and founding Nobul, Mr. McGee served as President of McGee Capital, sourcing and structuring global real estate investment opportunities for clients and has held senior roles at Brookfield Asset Management, Sotheby’s International Real Estate Canada, BMO, and Dundee. Mr. McGee is an Economist and Chartered Investment Manager by training. He is a licensed Real Estate Broker and is a member of the Canadian Real Estate Association, the Ontario Real Estate Association, and the Toronto Real Estate Board. Mr. McGee also holds an ICD.D designation from the Institute of Corporate Directors, as well as a Chartered Investment Manager (CIM) designation, from the Canadian Securities Institute. He obtained his B.A in Economics from Queen’s University. Mr. McGee passionately gives back to his community as he currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors at Daily Bread Food Bank. Prior to building nobul, McGee served as President of McGee Capital for ten years, sourcing and structuring global real estate investment opportunities for clients. In order to facilitate business, McGee obtained his real estate license and structured large-scale investment and development transactions at Sotheby’s International Real Estate Canada at Dundee Corporation, and Royal LePage, Johnston and Daniel Division at Brookfield Asset Management. McGee is a member of the Ontario Real Estate Association and Business Broker of Record.
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About Nobul: The world’s only technology-driven real estate marketplace where every agent, from every brokerage, can compete for consumer’s business.
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.
Alexia Hefti
CEO of EGovern
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About EGovern: EGovern offers comprehensive digital transformation solutions to Governments.
Ashton Addison
CEO/Founder of EventChain SmartTickets
Ashton has been involved in the blockchain industry since 2013, through the initial rise of Bitcoin price and the lead up to the Ethereum ICO. As the CEO and Founder of EventChain, he pioneered the team through a successful raise in September of 2017. He also advises various other Blockchain companies globally including Syscoin and CoinPayments.net in Canada, Pundi X in Indonesia and SmartMesh in China. Together with EventChain and his associated blockchain projects he has helped raise over $50M cumulatively.
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About EventChain SmartTickets: Eventchain is a Blockchain-powered ticket system that aims to solve problems of the ticketing industry
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.
Jose Rosas
Co-CEO of Bloqs4Good
Inspiring leaders from different industries to use new technologies to be more competitive, facing the challenges of a #ProgrammableEconomy. As well as increasing the development and implementation of projects related to #Blockchain
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About Bloqs4Good: Building TRUST, Within your Sustainable Value Chain, using Decentralized Technologies, from Raw Materials to Consumer.
Marc-Antoine Ross
Co-Founder and CEO of StreamingFast
Marc-Antoine Ross is a serial entrepreneur and investor based in Montreal Canada. Marc-Antoine is a leader. He has a passion for building teams and is constantly evaluating those he meets to figure out how they can bring their skills to the multitude of projects that he touches. From there, he figures out what he needs to do to make their talent shine. He is a serial entrepreneur, having started his first company at 21. He has co-founded three successful companies, two of which were acquired by major tech companies and the last one was acquired by Intel. Marc-Antoine is very well known in the tech community, personally advising several startups and mentoring companies through Founder Institute and FounderFuel. He is also an ambassador for United Way and has raised significant donations from the tech community.
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About StreamingFast: StreamingFast, the blockchain API company, helps developers build performant applications by organizing the world’s decentralized data
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.
Hussein Hallak
CEO of Next Decentrum Technologies Inc
Founder and CEO of Next Decentrum, a blockchain company focused on helping museums, galleries, and leading artists create, manage, and promote NFT art and digital collectibles. In 2006, I launched CreativeArab, the world’s first and largest marketplace for Middle Eastern art focused on connecting artists across the Arab world with a global audience (acquired). Then I launched The Content People in 2010, an award-winning content marketing agency with clients that included Virgin Mobile, Pfizer, and Starbucks. In 2016 I joined Launch as General Manager. Launch is one of North America’s top tech hubs and startup incubators. We helped over 6500+ founders and 500+ startups raise over $1 billion. In 2019 I joined 3 tier logic as VP of Products & Strategy, I worked with some of the world’s most valuable brands including Universal Studios, P&G, and Kimberly Clark. I write and speak about startups, blockchain, and NFTs, and advise several blockchain and tech startups including Ami Pro, Gigr, Mobile Art School, Fintrux, Majik Bus, Traction Health, Cloud Nine, and Peace Geeks. Recognized in 2019 as one of 30 Vancouver tech thought-leaders and influencers to follow. Featured in Forbes, BBC, BetaKit, Entrepreneur, DailyHive, Notable, and CBC. When not building products, I enjoy writing, reading, and engaging in meaningful conversations over good coffee. My favourite pastimes are playing chess with my kids, binging on good drama and science fiction, drawing, and learning new guitar licks, sometimes all at the same time 🙂
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About Next Decentrum Technologies Inc: Next Decentrum enables access, empowers users, and unleashes an ever-evolving future through collaboration.
Jason Matthison
CEO of Ledger Labs
Jason is a seasoned entrepreneur and early-stage business architect. He has eighteen years of highly diversified corporate and entrepreneurial investment and business building experience as a founder and executive leader of five companies
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About Ledger Labs: Ledger Labs is a blockchain services firm.
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
Ian Klassen
Chief Executive Officer of eXeBlock Technology Corp.
Klassen has 25 years of experience in public company management, public relations, government affairs and entrepreneurialism. He is the President of a North American mineral exploration company and sits on the Board of Directors of several private and public companies.
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About eXeBlock Technology Corp.: eXeBlock Technology Corp. is a developer, blockchain decentralized applications (DApps).
Peter Kieltyka
Co-Founder & CEO of Horizon Blockchain Games
Peter Kieltyka is a Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Horizon Blockchain Games.
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About Crowdreel, Horizon Blockchain Games: Horizon Blockchain Games is driving Web3 adoption by making blockchain easy, fun and powerful for users and developers.
Matthew Unger
CEO & Founder of iComply Investor Services Inc.
Matthew Unger is Founder & CEO of iComply.
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About iComply Investor Services Inc.: iComply Investor Services (iComply) is an award-winning software company focused on reducing regulatory friction in financial markets.
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.
Natalie Ochrym
CEO and Co-Founder of Evoke Capital
Natalie Ochrym is the CEO and Co-Founder of Evoke Capital. She is the former Global Chief Compliance Officer of Sun Life Financial Inc, former General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer of Sun Life Financial Asia, Hong Kong. Natalie Ochrym is an accomplished executive with over 20 years of international law, compliance, governance, and transactional experience. Has an experience in leading law, compliance, and HR functions in leading financial institutions. Compliance advisor to token issuers, principals, and foundations.
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About Evoke Capital: Evoke Capital issues tokenized and traditional securities through its dealer relationship and online platform technology.
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.
Vijai Karthigesu
Founder, CEO of Swarmio Media
Vijai is an innovator, entrepreneur and visionary IT executive who has been helping organizations to create unique and ahead-of-the-curve technologies and IT strategies to adapt, change and lead major market transitions, and achieve sustainable competitive advantage. Vijai is the Founder of Nudpam Inc., and Co-Founder of Cloud Dynamics Inc. and SpectraVoice. Vijai also held senior technology leadership positions in multi- billion dollar Public and Private sector companies in Canada, including Bell/Shaw, Rogers and eHealth. He holds an Electrical Engineering degree from the University of Waterloo and an MBA from Wilfrid Laurier University. Vijai has also been a speaker at major technological events and has espoused the need for technology to be human focused in the emerging Internet of Things (IOT) era.
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About Swarmio Media: Ubique Networks is an innovative technology company delivering a network intelligence and optimization platform
Ali Pourdad
Chief Executive Officer of Quantfury
Ali Pourdad joined Quantfury as Chief Executive Officer in 2021.
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About Pourdad Capital Partners, Quantfury: Quantfury is a blockchain fintech company located in Tortola.
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.
Mike Allan
President & CEO of Routeique
Mike has been building and running successful technology companies since he was a wee lad. Now a little older and wiser, he’s figured out how to surround himself with great people and get out of their way.
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About Routeique: Routeique is a logistics and supply chain company that aligns partners to enable data and product to flow and improve profitability.
Jon Gillham
CEO & Founder of Adbank
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About Adbank: Adbank is a revolutionary ad platform with total transparency of payments between advertisers and publishers.
Gary Boddington
Co-Founder & CEO of Sports Technology Group
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About Sports Technology Group: STG offers professional blockchain services and an athlete management application enabled by blockchain technology.
Oleg Gutsol
CEO/Founder of Consensus
Oleg Gutsol is a Canadian software developer and entrepreneur. Currently, his professional focus is on machine learning and artificial intelligence. He is a founder of Consensus, a system of collective governance power by artificial intelligence. Previously he was, a co-founder and CEO of 500px, a photography social network, and a content licensing marketplace for photographers. Beside building businesses and writing software, Oleg is an advisor to Founder Institute, an angel investor and an Ironman triathlete. Also, he helps young companies start and scale through O2 Ventures (http://o2.ventures)
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About Consensus, O2 Ventures: Consensus is a decentralized artificial intelligence network for collective governance
Alice Man
Founder & CEO of Coinbask
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About Coinbask: Coinbask is a decentralized platform to trade baskets of tokenized digital assets.
Eric Huang
CEO of BlockCAT Technologies
Eric Huang is a software engineer who’s been writing code for over ten years. He is a twice published author in the field of embedded systems, and was recognized by Forbes for his knack for communicating technical ideas in ways that anybody can understand. He most recently held a position as the Project Lead and Senior Software Engineer on the IonDB project, and continues to contribute back to his local community by teaching introduction to programming at the Vernon Community School.
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About BlockCAT Technologies: BlockCAT lets anyone create, manage, and deploy smart contracts on the Ethereum blockchain — no programming required.
Vandana Taxali
Founder & CEO of Artcryption
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About Artcryption: Artcryption is Protect your art assets on the blockchain.
Drew Gamble
CEO & Co-Founder of Fetch Auto
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About Fetch Auto: Fetch Auto is a platform where Canadians can buy, sell and finance private sale vehicles.
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.
Blues Qin
CEO of Yesbit Technology LTD.
Early Bitcoin investor(2013.01). Victim of Mt.Gox. Experienced Chief Executive Officer with a demonstrated history of working in the computer software industry. Skilled in Oracle Database, PHP, Java, and Blockchain. Obtained Undergraduate and Master Degree in Computer Science at the top Chinese Computer Science University, Beihang University. Strong business development professional graduated from MBA program at Wilfrid Laurier University. Started a blockchain company called Yesbit in Waterloo in 2015, moved to Toronto in 2017. Yesbit owns blockchain funds and a bitcoin mining field. It also provides a decentralized platform to invest in stocks and index using crypto currency. In addition, it’s in charge of the operation of an OTC crypto trading platform. The goal of Yesbit is to focus on blockchain development and deploy the technology into real-life products and applications
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About Yesbit Technology LTD.: Yesbit Technology is a blockchain technology company that offers instant VIP financial services for clients with transparency and security.
Andrew Yang
Co-founder and CEO of Authenticiti
Andrew Yang is the Co-founder and CEO of Authenticit
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About Authenticiti: Authenticiti Platform is a service layer built on blockchain technology to enable the secure hand-off of physical & digital assets.
Scott Rankine
Co-Founder and CEO, Director of NXM LABS INC.
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About NXM LABS INC.: NXM Labs is an autonomous security and data integrity software developer.
Jag Basrai
Co-Founder, President and Co-CEO of Bred Token
Jag Basrai is the Co-founder and Co-CEO of BRED. He loves to work with smart innovative individuals growing ideas from a vision to reality. A Serial Entrepreneur, Tech Enthusiast, Crypto Investor/Trader/Miner, and passionate about real estate. Excited about cloud products, automation, governance and transparency. As always latest and greatest cutting-edge technology solutions!!
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About Bred Token: Bred provides a flexible approach to liquidity for assets with a partial or full disposition need.
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.
Ari Brojde
Founder & CEO of Estateably
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About Estateably: Estateably is an estate settlement platform that allows professionals to expedite the settlement process while ensuring compliance.
DH Kim
CEO of Finhaven
DH leverages his extensive experience in finance to disrupt the capital markets with blockchain technology. Finhaven Technology is leading the industry with the development of a blockchain-powered securities issuance platform and exchange
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About Finhaven: Finhaven is building an investment banking platform supporting the issuance, investment, and trading of digital securities.
Andre Ledoux
Co Founder & CEO of VOISE
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About VOISE: VOISE a blockchain powered anonymous decentralized platform with personalized token based on Ethereum’s.
Nelson Lin
Founder & CEO of FintruX Network
Nelson pioneered online credit adjudication for the asset-based finance and leasing industry in Canada as mentioned in the book ‘Unstoppable’ published 2014 by Beth Parker and endorsed by the Canadian Finance and Leasing Association (CFLA). He has over thirty years of experience delivering numerous custom enterprise applications to global organizations such as J.P. Morgan, AT&T Capital, etc
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About FintruX Network, Robocoder Corporation: Smart Business and Financial Solutions Built On The Blockchain.
Mukul Pal
Founder & CEO of AlphaBlock
Mukul Pal is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at AlphaBlock.
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About AlphaBlock: AlphaBlock is an AI company that builds automated investment portfolios to beat the market.
Jefferson Gardner
CEO & Co-Founder of InBridge
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About InBridge: InBridge is an agriculture, manufacturing and clean energy.
Arsalan Saleem
Co-Founder and CEO of IT Solution24x7
Arsalan Saleem is serial entrepreneur and skilled techy who has become a growth catalyst for disrupting enterprises for the past few years. He stays busy with his team hustling and developing award-winning apps and grows them by streamlining their sales funnel which has generated 67% ROI with 34% cost mostly leveraging AWS, Nix, and Microsoft technologies. Like every successful entrepreneur, he also has a vision, named “Masology” which is bolting towards denting financial, automotive, agriculture, and tech industries. At age 25, he has already orchestrated top-rated agency, ITSolution24x7, which provide cutting-edge IT solutions to North America, Middle East, & Asia. Along with that, he has also kickstarted Timelogger.io and Smartlybiz.com which is serving thousands of companies and SMEs in providing breakthrough values to their customers. Arsalan is in love with fin-tech! He is looking for VCs to support him to deploy block-chain solutions which will provide seamless money transfer globally, he believes that blockchain is indeed web 3.0. He always says: “You can only quit, when you die!!” His Few Achievements: # ITSolution24x7.com: A fast-growing company developing software solutions and mobile apps # Timelogger.io: Time tracking software for companies and enterprises # Smartlybiz.com: A hybrid app where vendors can share discounted deals # Vacabound.com: One-stop-shop for frequent travelers to book cheap airline tickets
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About IT Solution24x7: ITSolution24x7 helps clients build powerful mobile apps and software solutions for their unique business needs.
Elizabeth Priestman
CEO & Director of International Deal Gateway
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About International Deal Gateway: Deal Gateway is a private online global deal community exclusively for exceptional entrepreneurs, investors and Family Offices.
Andrew Browne
Co-Founder and CEO of TikTiks
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About TikTiks: TikTiks is a transparent secondary ticket market for live entertainment events across North America.
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