WINNERS OF CANADIANSME NATIONAL BUSINESS AWARDS 2019
EAMONN GLAVEY
KIRK SIMPSON
ANIL ABROL
President & CEO, CHICC
Co-Founder & CEO, Wave
President & CEO, Eco Guardian
Eamonn Glavey is a dynamic leader that takes a “constant and never-ending” approach to improving his professional and personal life.
Regarding Kirk, Enclosed are three headshot options (you can pick the one that works best with the other featured nominees) and here is Kirk's bio copy:
Before starting his own Company, Eco Guardian in 2004, Anil held several key leadership positions in finance, strategic planning, acquisitions and mergers. Over his 25-year career in various manufacturing industries in Asia, Europe and North America, Anil was recognised as a leader who thinks differently, brings out-ofthe-box solutions and is a firm believer that “successful people don’t do different things, they do things differently”
As President & CEO of CHICC, he sets the vision and strategy for the organization, oversees the day-to-day operations, manages stakeholder relationships, sets governance and establishes KPI’s for performance of all departments. Winner: The Fastest Growing Company – Top 1
In 2010, Kirk Simpson cofounded Wave, and has since guided the company to 400,000 active small businesses registered, 260+ people on the Wave team, and over $100 million in funding raised from investors around the world. Winner: Entrepreneur Of the Year 2019
Winner: Small Business Of the Year – Top 3
BASSEM GHALI Online Marketing Strategist | Philanthropist | Speaker Bassem is a search engine marketing strategist and speaker with more than 15 years of experience managing online marketing strategies for some of Canadian & International corporations including Canadian Tire, VistaPrint, Remax Canada, Egypt Air, Xplornet, Direct Energy and Toronto Star. Demonstrated success in digital marketing has led to speaking engagements at marketing events around the world, and the honour winning the 2015 Entrepreneur of the Year Award, presented by the Canadian Association of Marketing Professionals! Winner: Immigrant Entrepreneur Of the Year
NICK A. IOZZO
COLE DIAMOND CEO, Coinsquare
A Toronto native, Coinsquare CEO Cole Diamond aims to build Coinsquare into a 21st century financial institution that disrupts how the financial services industry operates. He is a serial entrepreneur, now launching his third company, with a proven track record of taking companies from nothing to millions of dollars in monthly revenue. In 12 short months, Cole has led Coinsquare to 150 employees, 300k+ users, and $55M+ in funding, opening Coinsquare up for being in the conversation for Canada’s fastest growing company. Cole speaks on panels and keynotes regularly for the FinTech scene in North America. Winner: Technopreneur Of the Year
President, DPM Energy Inc. The senior leader of our team and President of DPM, Nick has over 30 years of experience working in the utility sector. He spent the first eight years working directly for local utilities, including five years running the design department for an LDC. These initial years not only provided a sound foundation of knowledge on fundamental utility principals but also formed the basis of the strong personal relationships Nick still maintains today with senior managers in the LDC sector. For the past three decades, Nick has focused his efforts on providing services to the utility and the private sector. He has unrivalled experience in managing large-scale development and utility renewal projects. Winner: Best Place to Work Top - 1
ALEX WEBB
Chief Executive Officer, F12.net Inc. Alex Webb is the CEO of F12.net, a Canadian IT services business he founded in 1996. Alex pushed F12 to become, in turn, one of Canada’s first providers of managed hardware-as-a-service, private cloud, and Microsoft Cloud solutions. F12 ranks among North America’s Elite 150 MSPs. F12’s purpose is to take the complexity and risk out of business technology solutions so that leaders can focus on what matters. Alex’s personal mission is to see that hardworking ethical business leaders thrive. Winner: Customer Service Excellence – Top 1
MATTHEW GOULART Founder, Ignite Digital Inc.
Matthew Goulart is the founder of Ignite Digital, a Canadian digital marketing agency. Through Ignite Digital, Goulart works with Fortune 500 companies and advertising agencies from around the world and has helped launch profitable and highly successful digital marketing initiatives for his clients. Winner: Digital & E-Commerce Business of the Year – Top 1
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