At COO (Boardroom Media) we track over 1,000,000 startups and over 5,000,000 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 COO’ operating in the FinTech space. If you think a COO’ 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.
Erik Svenson
Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer of Blockstream
Erik is responsible for operations, budgeting, managing growth, investor relations, financial systems and product strategy. His past experience includes 10 years in the finance industry and nearly another 10 years as a co-founder, consultant, and employee of multiple start-ups.Prior to joining Blockstream, Erik co-founded Dan’s Plan, a health technology company, and he consulted for dozens of early-stage companies on fundraising, strategy, and operations. Erik holds a degree from Stanford University and is a former CFA charterholder. He’s also a little league coach, amateur DJ and Quantified Selfer.
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About Blockstream: Blockstream provides Bitcoin and blockchain technology solution for financial markets.
Karim Ben-Jaafar
President and COO of Beanworks
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About Beanworks: Beanworks is an accounts payable automation solution that helps companies eliminate paperwork and reduce invoice processing costs.
Vlad Tasevski
Chief Operating Officer and Head of Product of Purpose Investments
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About Purpose Investments: Purpose Investments is committed to enabling all investors to have access to great investment products at reasonable fees.
Andrew King
Chief Operating Officer of Verafin
Andrew joined Verafin in 2003 and immediately focused on training and implementing new customers on Verafin’s system. He quickly became experienced in fraud and money laundering detection and understood the Canadian and US regulatory environments inside and out. His focus and dedication has played an instrumental role in Verafin’s reputation for providing superior customer service.
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About Verafin: Verafin offers a fraud and AML detection platform that helps detect, investigate, and report money laundering and financial fraud.
Justin Adler
Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer of NorthOne
Justin leads operations and strategy with a particular focus the intersection of growth and product at NorthOne. He started NorthOne because he believes in making economic mobility more accessible to today’s entrepreneurs. Prior to NorthOne Justin was part of the foundational team at Frank & Oak where he helped them grow from zero to hundreds of thousands of customers. Justin also spent time leading product at SourceKnowledge where he created AdTech solutions used by brands like Trivago, SAP, BMO, Remax and MachineZone. His work has been featured in TechCrunch, Fast Company, VentureBeat, AdAge, and at SXSW Interactive.
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About NorthOne, SourceKnowledge: NorthOne is a financial technology company that provides banking services for businesses.
Suresh Bhat
Co-Founder, COO of Vouchr
Suresh Bhat is the Co-founder, and COO of Vouchr.
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About Vouchr: Vouchr has created an engagement platform focused on the consumer payment experience and digital transactions.
Casper Wong
Chief Operating Officer & General Manager of Financeit
Casper is a co-founder and the COO of Financeit. Financeit facilitates better commerce by allowing businesses to offer fair and transparent payments plans to their customers anywhere. Since launching in early 2011, Financeit has signed up thousands of merchant Partners that process billions in sales per year through the platform. As COO, Casper has worn many different hats over the years and has been instrumental in scaling the business. Prior to this, Casper was with goeasy, where he was responsible for business development and launching their lending business – easyfinancial. Casper joined easyhome after working in investment banking on the Mergers & Acquisitions team at BMO Capital Markets. Casper also sits on the boards of ZayZoon and Dwello.
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About Dwello, Financeit: Financeit simplifies complex sales transactions for businesses and their customers.
Eva Wong
Co-Founder & COO of Borrowell
Eva has 15 years’ experience in the business and not-for-profit sectors, both in Canada and abroad. She has worked at Oliver Wyman, Maple Leaf Foods and the United Nations Development Programme. She is co-founder of Toronto Homecoming and serves on the board of The Scott Mission. She graduated from Queen’s School of Business and Harvard University. Eva loves lemon squares, food blogs, and baking projects with her kids.
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About Borrowell, Toronto Homecoming: Borrowell offers free credit scores, education, and weekly credit monitoring, as well as innovative financial digital tools.
Frédérick Lavoie
Co- Founder & COO of Flinks
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About Flinks, Tervene: Flinks is the financial data layer powering the internet. Flinks delivers tools for financial innovation to businesses—big and small.
Danny Chazonoff
Chief Operating Officer of Paysafe
COO at Paysafe.
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About Paysafe: Paysafe is a global payments provider offering a range of payments solutions for businesses and consumers.
Robert M. Aziz
Chief Operating Officer of Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System
Bob Aziz is OMERS Chief Operating Officer. In this role, Bob oversees the connectivity, relationships and resourcing required for the success of our global operations. Bob has additional responsibilities that involve leading and supporting the partnerships integral to our investing success. Prior to this, for 10 years Bob was with Oxford Properties Group, the real estate arm of OMERS where he held the position of Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Counsel, and was a member of the Oxford Senior Executive team. Before joining Oxford, Bob was President of Great Gulf Homes and held senior roles at TD Bank Financial Group. Earlier in his career, Bob was a Partner at Torys LLP and Davies Ward Phillips Vineberg LLP. Bob sits on the Boards of The Beer Store and Woodbine Entertainment Group. He is also a committed fundraiser on behalf of several charities, having served on the boards of the Hospital for Sick Children Foundation and the Lighthouse for Grieving Children. Bob received his Bachelor of Laws (Honours) from the University of Western Ontario. He and his family reside in Toronto, Ontario.
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About Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System, Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System: We manage a diversified global portfolio of stocks and bonds as well as real estate, infrastructure and private equity investments.
Anant Tailor
COO and Co-Founder of Dream Payments
Anant Tailor serves as the Chief Operating Officer and Co-Founder at Dream Payments Corp.
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About Dream Payments: Dream Payments is a fintech platform that enables merchants to sell everywhere using mobile devices.
Daniel Barton
COO of Billi
Dan is a born problem solver who has built successful businesses across multiple industries from real estate to media to finance. Dan is now fuelling his passion with Billi by cultivating an experience that helps people rethink their relationship with money.
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About Billi, Liift, Pretio Interactive: A new, easy way to track bills, manage finances, and enjoy your money
Carlos Medeiros
Co-Founder, COO and Head of Data of Homewise
Carlos is a believer that every person is capable of making a relevant contribution and that diversity fosters innovation. Demonstrates profound commitment to help children live better lives. He lives in Toronto with his wife, two children, and Mira (the dog)
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About Homewise: Homewise uses machine learning to match and secure clients with their best tailored mortgage options from over 30 banks and lenders.
Paul Mennega
Chief Operating Officer of Goldmoney
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About Goldmoney: Goldmoney is a financial services group that combines the unique attributes of gold with technology-driven innovation.
Philipp Postrehovsky
Co-Founder & COO of RentMoola
Philipp co-founded RentMoola, one of North America’s leading fintech companies that is changing the landscape of paying rent all over the world. Solving the age-old problem that paying and collecting rent is a major hassle, RentMoola is an online global payment network that allows tenants and owners to pay rent and other payments by credit card, debit card, RM Direct Debit™ or RM Cash™ while earning rewards. It was recently voted as Canada’s best online business and was recognized as BC’s next crop of $1 billion anchor tech companies. Philipp is also an award winning marketer and a former brand leader for Mogo Technologies and Vancity. He has been involved in the Vancouver tech scene for over a decade and was part of the committee that brought the first Startup Weekend to Vancouver. He is also the founder of Grind For Kids, a program which has raised nearly $1 million for BC Children’s Hospital Foundation.
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About Canadian Lenders Association, VoPay, Warranty Life, Zūm Rails: Pay rent with credit card, debit card & more. Get access to exclusive MoolaPerks!
Natalie Cartwright
Co-Founder, Board Member & Chief Operating Officer of Finn AI
Natalie Cartwright is a co-founder, board member, and chief operating officer at Finn AI.
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About Finn AI: Finn AI provides AI-powered conversational banking technology for personal banking and finance.
Paul Safi
Co-Founder, COO & Head, Research & Development of Reable
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About Reable: ReAble is company that builds apps and tools for people with special needs to help them better integrate into society.
Kalle Radage
COO, CFO, Directors, and Co-Founder of Neptune Digital Assets
Kalle Radage is the COO, CFO, Directors, and Co-Founder at Neptune Digital Assets.
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About Autozen Technologies, Comm100, Neptune Digital Assets: Neptune Digital Assets is a publicly traded company that manages cryptocurrency assets, Bitcoin mining, DeFi, and blockchain nodes.
Thomas Battle
Chief Operating Officer of Flahmingo
My passion in life and work is helping organizations, people, groups and causes get to the next step. I help accomplish this by creating organization when there is none, delivering successful projects and by truly understanding how communication leads to more effective organizations. I especially love doing this with startups. I love the challenging work, sense of urgency and the amazing people. Specialities: Project Management, Project Management Body of Knowledge, Technology, Communication, Organization, Startups, Innovation, Growing Startup Ecosystems, Grant Writing
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About Flahmingo, The Accelerator: Flahmingo is an investment app for retail investors to begin investing commission-free using fractional shares starting at $1.
Jyothi Korem
Chief Operating Officer of BuyProperly
Jyothi Rani Korem is the Chief Operating Officer of BuyProperly. She has a master’s degree in Industrial Engineering at the National Institute of Industrial Engineering.
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About BuyProperly: BuyProperly is an AI driven online exchange for fractional real estate investments.
Izabella Gabowicz
Chief Operating Officer of Sensibill
Izabella has 15 years of experience in the delivery of transformative IT solutions across all stages of the system development lifecycle and all levels of application maturity. She started her career with IBM Canada as a developer and business analyst of enterprise solutions in Financial Services, Travel & Tourism and Telecommunications. Marrying her business and technical experiences, she emerged as a seasoned Project Manager and Business Solution Architect in the Communications Sector of IBM, where she was awarded a patent.
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About Sensibill: Sensibill makes SKU-level data actionable, equipping financial institutions with insights to help their customers.
Kiki Plytas
COO of Merrco Payments
A seasoned and experienced payment industry professional. A business savvy management professional with a career reflecting strong leadership qualifications coupled with ‘hands-on’ management experience. Superior track record for delivering large-scale, mission critical projects and initiatives on time and in budget.
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About Merrco Payments: Merrco is helps businesses thrive by bringing seamless, secure payment solutions company.
Pheak Meas
COO of Katipult
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About Katipult: White-label software infrastructure for private placements and crowdfunding. US, Europe, Asia, Africa.
Pheak Meas
COO of Katipult
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About Katipult: White-label software infrastructure for private placements and crowdfunding. US, Europe, Asia, Africa.
Steeve Michaud
VP & COO of Equisoft
Steeve Michaud is the Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at EquiSoft since 2004. Steeve brings with him over 20 years of management experience in the service industry and is well known for his irresistible energy and his great adaptability. One of Steeve’s many responsibilities is to bridge the global operations and strategic allocations and drive superior performance to position EquiSoft as to achieve global success. Before assuming his current position, he was responsible for business development and operations of a Canadian consulting company. Steeve holds a Master’s degree from the Université de Montréal.
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About Equisoft: Equisoft is a global provider of advanced insurance and investment digital solutions.
Steeve Michaud
VP & COO of Equisoft
Steeve Michaud is the Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at EquiSoft since 2004. Steeve brings with him over 20 years of management experience in the service industry and is well known for his irresistible energy and his great adaptability. One of Steeve’s many responsibilities is to bridge the global operations and strategic allocations and drive superior performance to position EquiSoft as to achieve global success. Before assuming his current position, he was responsible for business development and operations of a Canadian consulting company. Steeve holds a Master’s degree from the Université de Montréal.
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About Equisoft: Equisoft is a global provider of advanced insurance and investment digital solutions.
Jordan Anderson
Chief Operating Officer of Bitbuy
Jordan Anderson is the Chief Operating Officer at BItbuy.
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About Bitbuy: Bitbuy operates as a cryptocurrency trading platform.
Jeff Kielbratowski
Co-Founder & COO of Harbr
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About Harbr, TMAS Ventures LP: Accelerating payments in construction.
Jean-Olivier Bouchard
COO and Co-founder of Lexop
Jean-Olivier Bouchard has a creative mind and good understanding of every moving part of a business makes him a critical contributor in terms of strategy and business direction.
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About Lexop: Removing friction from collections by offering the most customer-centric software-as-a-service to world-class companies.
Leeroy Beeby
Co-Founder & COO of Level
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About Level: Fintech for SMB contractors
Bruce Stamm
COO of Mobi724 Global Solutions
In his role as Chief Operating Officer, Bruce is responsible for all Product Management, Research & Development, Project Management, Customer Support and I.T functions for the company. In both large enterprise and start-up environments, Bruce has a successful track record of implementation of “best practices” in the design, test and delivery of cutting edge software products across a variety of industries: aerospace (CAE), software development platforms (IBM Rational); mobile streaming and messaging (Vantrix) and video games (Babel Media).
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About Mobi724 Global Solutions: MOBI724 Global Solutions is a fintech leader in digital incentives and payment solutions.
Enio Lazzer
COO & CFO of Espresso Capital
Enio brings over 20 years experience in finance, capital markets, operations and technology. Prior roles include divisional CFO/COO and Managing Director of CIBC World Markets, where he also served as Head of Prime Brokerage and Trading Services, and Vice President & CFO of The Northern Trust Company, Canada, where he was part of an executive team that established the first foreign owned trust company in Canada, successfully growing it to over $40 billion of assets under management.
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About Espresso Capital: Espresso Capital offers lines of credit and term loans to enable entrepreneurs to grow their businesses.
Mike Monty
Chief Operating Officer of Hyperwallet
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About Hyperwallet: Hyperwallet provides growing organizations with a frictionless, transparent, and reliable way to send payments almost anywhere in the world.
Philippe Rouanet
Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of d1g1t
Philippe Rouanet joined d1g1t Inc. as Co-Founder and COO in 2016.
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About d1g1t: d1g1t is a digital wealth management platform powered by analytics that offers advanced, transparent portfolio management services.
Gabriela De Luca
COO of Round Pegs
Gabriela De Luca is the culture and operations lead at Round Pegs.
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About Round Pegs: We build web or mobile apps in a couple of weeks by architecting the idea to leverage pre-built building blocks.