Canadian Fintech Awards 2016

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The Digital Finance Institute, Canadian FinTech think tank, presented the 2nd Annual FinTech Awards on November 21, 2016 at the Royal York Hotel in Toronto to celebrate Canadian innovation and thought leadership in FinTech. The Awards honour and recognize FinTechs, innovators, leaders and professional advisors behind Canada’s most successful and up-and-coming FinTech companies and financial institutions.


2016 Awards Chair & Organizing Committee

Expert Advisory Panel Christine Duhaime

Executive Director & Founder Digital Finance Institute, Partner, Duhaime Law

Sue Britton

2016 Awards Chair, Advisor Digital, Finance Institute, CEO & Founder FinTech Growth Syndicate

Gayemarie Brown

CEO & Founder, Wintam Place Consulting Group

Janet Ecker

President & CEO TFSA

Azim Lila

Senior Manager, Digital Strategy & Business, Development, PC Financial

Elizabeth Walford Walford Partners Inc.

Ross Laver

SVP Business Council of Canada

Jim Orlando

Managing Director OMERS Ventures

Simon Chan

Assistant VP, Strategic Initiatives Retail Markets, Manulife

Peter Misek

Partner BDC IT Venture Fund

Janice Diner

Founding Partner & CEO Horizn

Ula Ubani

Chief Ethics Officer BMO Financial Group

Master of Ceremonies Philippe Garneau

BRAND ENGINEERING

President, Executive Creative Director GWP Brand Engineering

Colin Lindsell-Ocio Founder & Consultant OCIO Ltd.

Mike Woollatt

CEO Canadian Venture Capital Association


Judges Panel

Geoffrey Cher

Valerie Fox

Partner Wildeboer Dellelce LLP.

Chief Innovation Consultant The Pivotal Point

Peggy Van de Plassche

Matthew Hobbs

VP Innovation CIBC

Alexander Peh

Head of Market Development & Mobile Pay Pal

Dubie Cunningham VP Innovation Scotiabank

VP Business Development TFSA

Taylor Russell

Director, Canada Opportunity Network

Lina Ismail

Director Business Development FundSERV

Sue Hutchison Group Head Global Payments D+H

Cynthia Stark

Business Development Manager OCE

Nav Kaur

Jacob Jegher

SVP, Banking & Head of Strategy Javelin

Darrell MacMullin

Kris Hansen

Michael O’Loughlin

Tamara Zimmerman

VP Global Digital Strategy Sun Life Financial

Senior Principal Financial Services SAP

Cathy Logue

David Unsworth

Managing Director Stanton Chase

Co-founder Information Venture Partners

Iain Montgomery

Xavier Debane

Engagement Manager Market Gravity

VP Innovation Manulife

Payments Navigator CGI

Craig Haney

Director Innovation Communitech

Dan Latimore

Senior Vice President Banking at Celent

CEO Goldmoney

Adam Nanjee

Head of FinTech & Innovation MaRS

Alex Norman

Richard Rémillard President Remillard Consulting Group

Marianne Bulger

AVP Innovation BDC

Managing Director TechToronto

Jonathan Rezek

Matthieu Cardinal VP Finance Montréal

Director, Innovation York University

Hussam Ayyad

Dr. Alex LaPlante

Vinay Venugopal

National Innovation Team IBM

Director of Startup Services The DMZ

Research Manager Global Risk Institute

Carrie Russell

Independent Consultant & Advisor

Kevin Clark

Vicki Saunders Founder SheEO

John Hillis

Director of Community TechToronto

President & Co-Founder Lendified

Director Marketing Zag Bank

Sarah Howe

Rob Antoniades

Chami Akmeemana

VP IT Strategy R&D Tangerine

Co-founder Information Venture Partners

FinTech Advisor OSC


Academic Institution Most Supportive of FinTech Governance, Thought Leader or Organization of the Year

FinTech Association of Canada

Accelerator, Incubator or Entrepreneurial Network Most Supportive of FinTech


Global Impact in FinTech

Professional Services Firm of the Year Global Impact in FinTech


Investor of the Year

Judge’s Choice Judge’s Choice


Financial Institution Innovator of the Year

FinTech Incumbent of the Year FinTech Startup of the Year


The Canadian FinTech Awards 2016 Nominees Academic Institution Most supportive of Fintech

Munk School of Global Affairs Zone Start-ups (Ryerson Futures, et.al.) Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto

Accelerator, Incubator, Ent. Network FCP Studio MaRS Discovery District Stanley Park Ventures Canadian Lenders Association Communitech DMZ at Ryerson University Tech TO

Financial Institution Innovator of the Year

CIBC Manulife Financial ATB Financial Aviva BMO EQ Bank Conexus Credit Union The Bank of Nova Scotia, Digital Factory

FinTech Incumbent of the Year Securefact Veriday Zafin Ethoca Croesus Interac Association / ACXSYS Mogo Questrade SAP Thinking Capital TouchBistro Wave Accounting

FinTech Startup of the Year Agreement Express Borrowell Cover Dwello Finn.ai FrontFundr Fundthrough Lendified Inc. (Vault Circle Inc.) LowestRates.ca nTrust Outside IQ Overbond Payment Rails Perfiqt Plooto Rentmoola Reportin Sensibill Smarttick Tilt Wealthica Zensurance Crelogix GainX Granify Progressa Sonnet Time is Life (STIL Risk) TIO Networks Vuru Bendigi Tech Inc. ClientDesk CoinPayments Inc FormHero Freshbooks Goldmoney Inc. Grow League Inc. Nanopay Corp. Opportunity Network Payment Source Smoothpay Solsteace Inc Trulioo Wealthsimple Wiser Investments

Global Impact Award

Innotribe at Swift Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Innovate Finance LeEco PayPal Satoshi Nakamoto Uber

Governance Individual or Group of the Year

BCLC (British Columbia Lottery Corp FinTech Association of Canada Lendified Holdings Inc Matt Hobbs TFSA Members of The Muskoka Group

Investor of the Year Ferst Captial Partners BDC IT Venture Fund Difference Capital Gravitas Securities Impression Ventures Peter Misek Portag3 Ventures Omers Ventures Ketty

Professional Services Don and Alex Tapscott LaBarge Weinstein LLP Wildeboer Dellelce LLP Deloitte Digital Architech Blakes Capgemini Market Gravity Osler McCarthy Tetrault LLP


FinTech Partner Sponsorships

Media Sponsor

BRAND ENGINEERING

Community Supporters

FinTech Ecosystem Supporters


Click here to view photos from the evening.

Thank you to all the attendees of the 2016 FinTech Awards. We look forward to seeing you for the 3rd Annual FinTech Awards, October 2017 in Toronto.

Contact Us

Sue Britton

Awards Chair, Advisor sue@digitalfinanceinstitute.org

Christine Duhaime

Founder & Executive Director christine@digitalfinanceinstitute.org

Philippe Garneau

Creative Director, GWP Brand Engineering philippeg@brandengineering.com


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