National Business
Awards 2019
The journey of celebrating business success in Canada started with the support from Cisco, Lenovo and RBC
Co-Founder & CEO, Wave
CEO of BroadbandTV Corp
CEO, Pliteq Inc.
President & CEO, ShipperBee & Danby Appliances
Jim currently heads multi-national appliance company Danby Appliances and ShipperBee, a disruptor shipping company that is helping businesses reduce their carbon footprint, and is a firm believer in mentorship in business as well as in life. When settling refugee families, Jim moved from privately sponsoring as an individual, to making his company the first business in Canada to become a Sponsorship Agreement Holder.
Forty years ago, Jim started his entrepreneurial journey, distributing out of the trunk of his car while a student at the University of Waterloo in 1979. That company became Connect Tech, an embedded computing company, which still exists today, and EMJ Data Systems, which Jim sold to Synnex in 2004 and as CEO of Synnex, grew that company from sales of $800 million to $2 billion in just five years.
CEO, Cargo Country Group
CEO & Head of Client Strategy, Green Lotus
Borrowell is a proudly Canadian company with a single goal in mind: to help people make great decisions about credit.
This is why we were the first in Canada to offer free credit scores and reports from our partner, Equifax, Canada’s largest credit bureau.
We wanted to do more, so we created Canada’s first AI-powered Credit Coach, Molly, who shares personalized tips that may help you understand and improve your credit. We also developed our recommendation engine that analyzes your unique credit profile to make personalized financial product recommendations.
Over a million Canadians have joined Borrowell and trust us to help them make great decisions about credit and achieve their financial goals.
Utility engineers specializing in line-based power system engineering and illumination design projects.
DPM Energy provides a full range of power system engineering solutions to meet the needs of municipalities, utilities and the developer market.
Leaders in outdoor lighting design. Our custom lighting projects are attracting a lot of attention.
A team building the first people platform designed for managers. They believe that managers are the single most important reason why an employee shows up and tries, every single day. That’s why they are building a tool that will help them coach, communicate and collaborate better with their team.
To build better workplaces by empowering managers with the tools they need to lead their teams.
Laipac Technology, Inc, was founded in 1999 by Canadian entrepreneurs Maria C. Pacini and Diego Lai. The vision of Laipac was simple, even at its founding – provide peace of mind to customers by crafting the absolute best, most reliable, and easiest-to-use locator devices on the market.
Today, Laipac Technology has become an industry leader in the field of Internet of Things (IoT) products and services. But the vision hasn’t changed. At Laipac Technology, we build with the customer in mind – above all else.
CHICC is Canada’s preferred rental & home improvement financing company. Whether you are a homeowner or business partner, we pride ourselves on our personalized service and customer support. Providing capital solutions that work for your business
Today, Laipac Technology has become an industry leader in the field of Internet of Things (IoT) products and services. But the vision hasn’t changed. At Laipac Technology, we build with the customer in mind – above all else.
Since our inception in 2017, the Peninsula Canada family has grown from a few people to a much larger group; however, our commitment to providing exceptional service has remained the same.
Simply put, we provide small businesses with an alternative to an in-house human resources team. Peninsula started as a small business and our mission is to help other small businesses achieve their version of success!
Alexio’s founders have deep roots in the healthcare technology field. Since the 1990s, they have been a part of transitioning the industry from paper to digital patient records.
They applied their experience helping healthcare practitioners optimize, and show how dentists could use digital record-keeping to enhance heir practice with regards to diagnostics, treatment planning and payment.
The digital marketing platform for construction businesses . It is like a one stop shop for all the services that contractors need.
So far they have about 10,000 contractors registered. In addition they have about 9,000 contractors and 2,000 homeowners in their marketing platform.
Back in 2011, sMedia founders recognized one of the biggest problems in automotive advertising: Everyone is guessing.
Marketing teams run ad campaigns based on vanity metrics, attracting costly unqualified traffic. They don’t know where their engaged customers are, how to spot and reach them, and how much they need to spend in order to do so. Meanwhile, General Managers become lost in unactionable reports trying to justify high ad spend.
sMedia team believed that there’s a better way to acquire customers for dealerships, and it was backed with data.
Whether you are buying your first home or looking to leverage the equity in your existing home, Canadian Mortgages Inc. (CMI) can help you obtain the financing you need at a rate you can afford.
Our team of certified Toronto mortgage brokers works with the nation’s top lenders to find the ideal financing solution for you. Our partnerships with these lenders give us access to excellent rates for a variety of mortgage products.
Eco Guardian started with a simple idea: How can we help reduce the number of plastic bags we all use? From that thought came the product line that started our company; Reusable Bags. Every one bag we sold had the potential to, and did, replace thousands of plastic bags and over the course of a few years, we saw the industry begin to prefer reusable over single-use plastic bags.
We’re committed to protecting the environment by offering products that are organic or eco-friendly in nature. We are dedicated to providing consumers, food service companies, commercial and institutional customers with safe, trusted, durable and beautiful compostable foodservice and tableware solutions of the highest quality.
Green Lotus also provide SEO Tools designed to help small and medium business owners to get a handle on their SEO activities, and can scale up to meet the needs of savvy internet marketers who manage multiple websites on a daily bases, and want save time. Green Lotus Tools, with their simple yet insightful dashboards, are SEO-driven insights and competitive research for the most productive SEO beginner and marketing guru alike.
The Simply Group has become Canada’s fastest growing home energy servicing company through deep operational expertise, exclusive industry relationships and a diversified investment portfolio.
We have a genuine belief that our employees are our greatest asset and are a key reason why customers lease their units or partner with us. What makes us different from other HVAC companies is the pride we have in working for the Simply Group and our passion for being the absolute best we can be.
Our Senior Management Team consists of the people who lead and spearhead the vision for Simply Group to provide clients with the very best personal approach and the best tech service experiences in North America. We have an exclusive network of 150+ HVAC dealers and 100+ new home builders.
Our businesses are diversified across home energy, business services, utility services and consumer lending, allowing us to reduce risk while still maximizing economies of scale.
