The Lists
Art Director AGE: 28 COMPANY: Invoke Media "Last year [Woodhouse] art-directed the Seamless food-ordering app that was among Time magazine’s 50 best iPhone apps of 2013" Adam Woodhouse admits that coming to Vancouver two-and-a-half years ago from his home in London, England, wasn’t a career move; like many before him, he met a...
CEO AGE: 29 COMPANY: Medeo Corp. “Surely if we can move a billion dollars around on an iPhone we can share a medical record securely” Ryan Wilson is not a doctor, and he thinks that’s a big advantage for Medeo, a company devoted to transforming the way we interact with our health-care providers.
CEO AGE: 28 COMPANY: PRA Inventory Media Ltd. "The Victoria native is the creator and editor of what’s known to fans as the menswear bible: the bi-annual, glossy Inventory magazine that curates high-end, understated looks for the GQ crowd" MSN Travel deemed Vancouver one of the worst dressed in the world due to our...
Founder and CEO AGE: 28 COMPANY: MetaLab Design Inc. “The best advice was from my dad. He told me that I should just go ahead and hire people because it would force me to make money—and if I didn’t make money, I wouldn’t make pay and the whole company would fail” Andrew Wilkinson...
CEO and Co-founder AGE: 28 COMPANY: Indochino Apparel Inc. “All we’re trying to do is make it easy for guys to get dressed. Men are allowed to be more three-dimensional and there’s kind of a redefined masculinity. I think caring about how you look is starting to come into that” Like a lot...
Co-founder AGE: 28 COMPANY: MetroLeap Media Inc. "Work until your idols become your rivals. Even Drake incorporated it into one of his songs” When BCBusiness reaches Milun Tesovic by phone, he’s walking down a busy street in New York City, on his way to meet a partner at Mesa+, one of several venture funds...
Mayor AGE: 23 COMPANY: Village of Burns Lake "Helping to heal his tiny northern community, stricken with grief, confusion and anger, became the defining challenge of his mayoralty" On Friday, January 20, 2012, an explosion ripped through the Babine Forest Products sawmill east of Burns Lake, killing two mill workers and injuring 19. Mayor...
President and CEO AGE: 27 COMPANY: Naked Inc. “I’d been shooting a documentary in South America and we got stuck in Lima due to logistics. I happened to pick up a pair of underwear that a vendor was selling in a street market and it changed my life” As most entrepreneurs will attest...
President AGE: 29 COMPANY: The Pollard Mining Recruiting Group Ltd. “Don’t worry about your age. Be prepared, know the numbers, know your industry inside out and people won’t see it as a liability that you’re young—they’ll actually be impressed” Headhunting is traditionally an older person’s game because success depends on two things: expertise...
Co-founder AGE: 28 COMPANY: Wantering "Wantering lists more than 1.1 million products catering to a community of 300,000 fashionistas" The near impossibility of comprehensive online fashion searches, due to nuances of industry lingo. Take for example colour: search for a burgundy sweater, and you might get 500,000 hits, but miss out on 300,000 products...